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Risk Assessment for Marine Pilot Occupational Accidents using Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis

  • Camliyurt, Gokhan;Choi, Sea-Am;Kim, So-Ra;Guzel, Ahmet Turgut;Park, Young-Soo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.46 no.5
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    • pp.400-408
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    • 2022
  • Maritime transportation is one of the most complicated and hazardous business fileds. Maritime accidents still occur despite several precautions since maritime is exposed to natural factors more than any other industries. In this harsh environment as a part of their job, marine pilots often embark/disembark to/ from vessels and confront life-endangering personal accidents. In the maritime field, several risk assessments are applied. However, all of them could not evaluate occupational accident risk for maritime pilot specifically. This paper performs specific risk analysis using the bow-tie method based on past accident records. This paper aims to qualify root causes and quantify root causes by importance level according to occurrence probability. As a result of analysis, occupational accident occurrence probability is found to be 14%, indicating that accident occurrence rate is significantly high. Hence, the probability of root causes triggering accidents and accident occurrence probability can be ascertained so that preventive measurements can be implemented. Besides theoretical achievement, this paper provides safety awareness to marine pilots, Marine Pilot Organizations, and ship crew who play a key role during marine pilots' transfer.

Applications of Diverse Data Combinations in Subsurface Characterization using D-optimality Based Pilot Point Methods (DBM)

  • Jung, Yong;Mahinthakumar, G.
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2013
  • Many cases of strategically designed groundwater remediation have lack of information of hydraulic conductivity or permeability, which can render remediation methods inefficient. Many studies have been carried out to minimize this shortcoming by determining detailed hydraulic information either through direct or indirect measurements. One popular method for hydraulic characterization is the pilot point method (PPM), where the hydraulic property is estimated at a small number of strategically selected points using secondary measurements such as hydraulic head or tracer concentration. This paper adopted a D-optimality based pilot point method (DBM) developed previously for hydraulic head measurements and extended it to include both hydraulic head and tracer measurements. Based on different combinations of trials, our analysis showed that DBM performs well when hydraulic head is used for pilot point selection and both hydraulic head and tracer measurements are used for determining the conductivity values.

Superimposed Pilot Aided Multiuser Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Uplinks

  • Yang, Qinghai;Kwak, Kyung-Sup
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.688-691
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    • 2006
  • This letter addresses the superimposed pilot aided multiuser channel estimation for the uplinks of multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems. To mitigate the embedded-data effects on the performance of channel estimation, a novel combining algorithm is proposed. Optimal pilot symbols are developed with respect to the least square channel estimate's mean square error. The averaged sum-capacity lower bound is derived and simulated. Simulation results show that on a low signal-to-noise ratio regime, our proposed scheme achieves better performance and higher capacity than the conventional pilot aided approach.

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An Improvement of Eligibility Requirements for a Pilot License by the Question Investigation (전문가 그룹별 설문조사에 따른 도선사면허 자격요건의 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Myong-Sok;Jeong, Jung-Sik
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.207-214
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to propose appropriate requirements to obtain a pilot's license in order to improve the safety of pilotage related to a survey of experts involved with pilotage. The survey has been conducted by experts from stakeholders in various fields. To suggest requirements for the license, a hypothesis test has been conducted. It turns out that onboard experience with higher gross tonnage is eligible for pilot. Secondly, it is required to have onboard experience of more than one year as a captain, within 5 years from the date that the individual takes the pilot's written test, with 5 years onboard experience as a captain. Lastly, if personality and aptitude tests are added to the requirements to obtain a pilot's license, the safety of pilotage will increase rapidly.

Recycling Technology of Waste Product in Electro Galvanizing Line of Steel Company

  • Lee, Jae-Young;Lee, H. H.;Kim, D. Y.;J. G. Sohn
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.281-285
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    • 2001
  • This technology Provides an economical Production of high value added goods applicable to electro chemicals by recycling of waste products in EGL(Electro Galvanizing Line). The waste products produced in EGL contain potassium chloride (KCI), nickel and zinc. Highly pure KCI and Zinc Chloride which are raw material of electro plating, can be produced by the development of the recycling process. The scope of this study ranges from laboratory experiments to pilot test in plant. We have developed the whole process of recycling technology such as purification method of waste products, fabrication methods of electro chemicals, basic design of plant, pilot scale production and evaluation of pilot goods, Developed electro chemicals were pure enough to satisfy the specification of steel company.

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Extended Pilot-Based Coding for Lossless Bit Rate Reduction of MPEG Surround

  • Pang, Hee-Suk;Lim, Jae-Hyun;Oh, Hyen-O
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.103-106
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    • 2007
  • Pilot-based coding (PBC), which is used for lossless bit rate reduction of audio coding, has been recently proposed for MPEG Surround. We propose extended PBC for further lossless bit rate reduction of MPEG Surround. Extended PBC selects the number of pilots depending on the parameter band number and the type of spatial parameter. It then encodes the pilots and the relevant difference data. Experiments show that extended PBC is more effective than the original PBC, especially for high bit rate modes, with a negligible complexity increase on the decoder side.

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Investigation of Influence of Pulse-periodical Laser Radiation Power on Stability of Liquid-metal Contacts between Powder Particles during Selective Laser Sintering

  • Beljavin, K.E.;Minko, D.V.;Bykov, R.P.;Kuznechik, O.O.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Conference
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    • 2006.09a
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    • pp.518-519
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    • 2006
  • A connection between pulse-periodical laser radiation power and stability of liquid-metal contacts between powder particles during selective laser sintering (SLS) is determined based on analysis solving the problem of stability of liquid column in the gravity and capillary forces field. On the grounds of obtained relationships the optimization of pulse-periodical laser radiation power and SLS-process duration is realized, that allows to produce voluminous powder porous materials with pre-determined physical and mechanical properties and surface geometry. Results of metallographic investigations of powder porous materials of titanium powder produced with technological regimes calculated by means of obtained relationships are given in the work

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A Study on the Legal Application for Sport Pilot Certificate in Korea (스포츠조종사 자격증명의 국내 적용에 대한 연구)

  • Noh, Yo-Sup;Kim, Young-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.43-60
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    • 2005
  • In september 2004, a new pilot certificate scheme referred to as Sport Pilot Certificate was declared official and standardized in the US. The designation of Light-sport aircraft and the details of the relevant pilot certificate policy was announced out of the perception that a new regulation is required to be applied whereby the limitations on the manufacturing process enhancements and current aviation rules are considered the triggering factors. US Federal Aviation Regulation retains a comprehensive range of airworthiness certificates and aircrafts are managed systematically in accordance with FAR 21, 103. The airworthiness are further segregated into sub categories, which allows differentiated management. Korean Aviation Law classify aircraft into five different categories and powered air vehicle that weighs more than 150kg(19liters fuel capacity) for one seat, 225kg for two seats(38liters fuel capacity) while the systems that fall under a specific mass threshold level are known as ultralight vehicle. The research discusses the policy of the sport pilot certificate and the light-sport aircraft ratings announced official by the Federal Aviation Administration in an intuitive fashion with the analysis of the operations providing the evidence as to the viability of adopting the policy in local grounds. Based on the findings, the report discusses the case for introducing the light-sport aircraft and make recommendation on a strategy of applying the policy in Korea with respect to the pilot certificates, safety agenda, and the written test for the pilot certificate, and operating efficiency.

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