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A Study on the Trends and Development Plans for the trainee who completed BOSIET course -Focusing on the STCW and OPITO Safety Training- (해양플랜트 기초안전교육에 참여하는 교육생의 동향 분석 및 개선 방안에 대한 연구 -STCW 협약교육과 OPITO 교육 중심-)

  • WOO, Young-Jin;LEE, Chang-Hee
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.938-947
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    • 2015
  • As many offshore plants are built domestically, many workers get various jobs in the offshore plants directly or indirectly. But workers(including seaman and non-seaman) still have hard time to getting the job in offshore plants because they still rely on personal contacts and limitation of adaptable positions. Now people who want to work at offshore plants have to get safety training under the regulation and request of IMO/STCW and OPITO. Recently OPITO reinforced offshore safety training and discussed the mutual agreement between IMO/STCW and OPITO. Therefore this study searched legal standards for offshore plant work and the trend of offshore safety training. Base on a survey among domestic delegates who completed BOSIET course from 2010, we now understand the actual situations in finding an effective way on how to advance domestic workers in the offshore plant industry.

HIGH COOLING WATER TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON DESIGN AND OPERATIONAL SAFETY OF NPPS IN THE GULF REGION

  • Kim, Byung Koo;Jeong, Yong Hoon
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.45 no.7
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    • pp.961-968
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    • 2013
  • The Arabian Gulf region has one of the highest ocean temperatures, reaching above 35 degrees and ambient temperatures over 50 degrees in the summer. Two nuclear power plants (NPP) are being introduced in the region for the first time, one at Bushehr (1,000 MWe PWR plant from Russia), and a much larger one at Barakah (4X1,400 MWe PWR from Korea). Both plants take seawater from the Gulf for condenser cooling, having to modify the secondary/tertiary side cooling systems design by increasing the heat transfer surface area from the country of origin. This paper analyses the secondary side of a typical PWR plant operating under the Rankine cycle with a simplified thermal-hydraulic model. Parametric study of ocean cooling temperatures is conducted to estimate thermal efficiency variations and its associated design changes for the secondary side. Operational safety is reviewed to deliver rated power output with acceptable safety margins in line with technical specifications, mainly in the auxiliary systems together with the cooling water temperature. Impact on the Gulf seawater as the ultimate heat sink is considered negligible, affecting only the adjacent water near the NPP site, when compared to the solar radiation on the sea surface.

Multi-unit Level 1 probabilistic safety assessment: Approaches and their application to a six-unit nuclear power plant site

  • Kim, Dong-San;Han, Sang Hoon;Park, Jin Hee;Lim, Ho-Gon;Kim, Jung Han
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.50 no.8
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    • pp.1217-1233
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    • 2018
  • Following a surge of interest in multi-unit risk in the last few years, many recent studies have suggested methods for multi-unit probabilistic safety assessment (MUPSA) and addressed several related aspects. Most of the existing studies though focused on two-unit nuclear power plant (NPP) sites or used rather simplified probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) models to demonstrate the proposed approaches. When considering an NPP site with three or more units, some approaches are inapplicable or yield very conservative results. Since the number of such sites is increasing, there is a strong need to develop and validate practical approaches to the related MUPSA. This article provides several detailed approaches that are applicable to multi-unit Level 1 PSA for sites with up to six or more reactor units. To validate the approaches, a multi-unit Level 1 PSA model is developed and the site core damage frequency is estimated for each of four representative multi-unit initiators, as well as for the case of a simultaneous occurrence of independent single-unit initiators in multiple units. For this purpose, an NPP site with six identical OPR-1000 units is considered, with full-scale Level 1 PSA models for a specific OPR-1000 plant used as the base single-unit models.

A Simulation Study on Plant Layout for Increasing Productivity (설비 Layout에 의한 생산성 향상을 위한 시뮬레이션 연구)

  • Lee, Seong-Gyu;Yang, Kwang-Mo;Yun, Jun-Seop;Gang, Gyeong-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.505-510
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    • 2005
  • The manufacturing industries which played a major role in the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Korea in the late 20th century had considerable difficulties changing their manufacturing conditions from producer-oriented conditions to customer-oriented ones according to market changes. In this study, increase plant efficiency because grafts together modular system to plant layout and analyzes Work In Process(WIP) between product's cycle time and each process, family efficient plan wishes to choose opposite bank. Simulation approach used for presented methodology The effect will not gain the results for other reasons the inherent conditions of companies, people, and culture which have been hitherto described, but will be expected to help the direction for a new Lay-out production system to reflect on the native conditions rather than fixed technological means and methods in way of an analysis of fundamental problems which small and medium companies in Korea face.

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Cs-137 distribution around Kori Nuclear Power Plant

  • Lee, H.;Kang, H.S.;Choi, H.J.;Yu, D.H.;Lim, K.M.;Choi, Y.H.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.349-351
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    • 2003
  • To ensure the safety of the currently operating nuclear power plant, the Periodic Safety Review program has been conducted. In PSR program, the cumulative behavior of the radionuclide that might be released from the power plant is addressed. The Cs-137 in soil around Kori nuclear power plant was investigated. The soil sample was analyzed and compared with the reference area. The model calculation explained the depth profile of Cs-137.

Safety Analysis on the Tritium Release Accidents

  • Yang, Hee joong
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.96-107
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    • 1991
  • At the design stage of a plant, the plausible causes and pathways of release of hazardous materials are not clearly known. Thus there exist large amount of uncertainties on the consequences resulting from the operation of a fusion plant. In order to better handle such uncertain circumstances, we utilize the Probabilistic Risk Assessment(PRA) for the safety analyses on fusion power plant. In this paper, we concentrate on the tritium release accident. We develop a simple model that describes the process and flow of tritium, by which we figure out the locations of tritium inventory and their vulnerability. We construct event tree models that lead to various levels of tritium release from abnormal initiating events. Branch parameters on the event tree are assessed from the fault tree analysis. Based on the event tree models we construct influence diagram models which are more useful for the parameter updating and analysis. We briefly discuss the parameter updating scheme, and finally develop the methodology to obtain the predictive distribution of consequences resulting from the operating a fusion power plant. We also discuss the way to utilize the results of testing on sub-systems to reduce the uncertain ties on over all system.

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Case Analysis of Risk Assessment for Steel and Iron Works (제철 사업장 위험성평가 사례 분석)

  • Hong, Sung-Man;Park, Peom;Kim, Kwang-Hyoun;Sun, Su-Bin
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.209-221
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    • 2009
  • In the steel industry, steel is manufactured and processed to produce a variety of steel products. The industry provides fundamental materials to the whole range of industries including car, ship, electric appliance and construction industries, so that it is very important as an infrastructure industry. The steel manufacture process involves aerial work, many danger factors caused by the treatment with hazardous gases including BFG and COG and by high pressure gases including H2, O2, N2 and LPG. It requires the management over the large area because many workers work in a plant. The potential dangers in the steel plant were identified and the effect of the danger assessment was verified through the analysis of the danger assessment for the steel plant. The allowed degree of danger was lowered after the improvement through the danger assessment in the plant where the case studies were conducted, which indicates that the danger assessment is highly effective.

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Data Transporting between Dynamic Model and Display Model of Power Plant Simulator (발전소 시뮬레이터의 다이나믹 모델과 디스플레이 모델간 데이터전송)

  • 김동욱
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 1998.03a
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    • pp.86-90
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    • 1998
  • The safety and reliability of nuclear power plant operations relies heavily on the plant operators ability to respond to various emergency situations. It has become standard industry practice to utilize simulators to improve the safety and reliability of nuclear power plants operations. The simulators built for Younggwang#3,4, which is the basic model of the Korean Nuclear Power Plant design, has been developed precisely for this purpose. Dynamic Model and Display Model are developed under US3(UNIX Simulation Software Support System) environment in simulator for Younggwang#3,4. Since these two models are developed under each own operating system, it is necessary to develop a method for transporting data between these two systems. This paper descirves communication environment between Dynamic Model and Display Model, and addresses a file generation method for the Display Model, which will be necessary for designing MMI of MCR(Main Control Room) in the furture.

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A Study on Design of Production System Using Multiple Characteristics Robust Design in Uncertain Environment (불확실한 환경에서의 다특성치 강건설계를 이용한 생산시스템 설계에 관한 연구)

  • 양광모;서장훈;박진홍;강경식
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.61-65
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    • 2004
  • As technique that can contribute in quality improvement in design process to overcome shortcoming of traditional quality control, call design or development department quality control activity that is achieved to reduce gun damage shuddering at circle minimizing change or side effect of product performance as off-line quality control. This paper discuss optimal process design of investment projects expansion and replacement investment on each line or individual in the production. Generally optimal plant design has add to a few method by Subsidiary means with use a especial method. And then in this paper, a Robust design is presented, which may be effective to the processes appraisal or improvement. We propose that should make a optimal plant design model for reducing field failure rate to assign by real data on different factors in plant system. Using this model, robust design of taguchi method used in this comprehensive method for reducing field failure rate in plant system.

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A Study on the Reliability Evaluation of Start-up Power Supply in Fossil Power Plant by Minimal Cut-Set Method (최소 컷셋법에 의한 화력발전소 기동전원의 신뢰도 예측에 관한 연구)

  • Choe, Gyu-Sik
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.358-364
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    • 1999
  • The auxiliary transformers or start-up/stand-by transformer(s) are installed against the start-up and shut-down of generator and emergency status in fossil power plant. The on-site power supply configuration using these transformers must be determined, considering configuration requirements, site characteristics, reliability and availability severely because it is remarkably important for safety and ecfonomy of plant. The auxiliary or start-up/stand-by power supply configuration has been determined considering only safety requirements and construction cost until now in Korea. This paper presents general theorems for the reliability estimation and proposes 2-unit based 4 alternatives for the start-up power supply stystem of 500㎿ standardized fossil power plant. The reliability and unavailability of equipment, system and configuration are determined using minimal cut-set methodology. The optimized plan of 4 alternatives is determined based on this ultimate reliability and unavailability.

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