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The Assessment of Water Pollution Accident on Dam Watershed using GIS (GIS에 의한 댐 유역 수질오염사고 평가)

  • Myeong, Gwang Hyeun;Jeong, Jong Chul
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.489-496
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    • 2011
  • The water pollution such as oil spill from stream and river because of car accidents have been frequent cases in the watershed of Dam. However we don't have any simulation methods about flow modeling on the watershed and stream tree. In this study aims to analyze water pollution accidents area on impact range for ANDONG-Dam. The focused watershed and the risk range of path analysis model was designed by GIS database. The frequency of transportation accidents which may occur from road accidents in the level of quantitative and qualitative analysis to map flow analysis using ArcHydro Model and Open Geospatial Consortium(OGC) API. and the path way from the accident point to the reservoir stayed on the path was simulated. The area of risk accessment index was displayed with cell and grid of dam area.

A Study on the Management of Engine Coolant in Small Fishing Vessels (소형선박 운용자의 냉각수 관리에 관한 고찰)

  • KIM, Young-Un
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.1734-1744
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    • 2015
  • Majority of marine accidents that occur on fishing vessels are engine accidents. This comprises more than 26 % of the total annual fishing vessel marine accident cases. Large numbers of engine accidents happen in the cooling water system, which are mostly caused by negligence on regular check-up and repair. Notably, small-sized ships have higher engine accidents occurrence rate compared to medium-and large-sized ships. Based on the Report of the Korea Ship Safety Technology Authority, engine accident cases reached 3,032 out of the total 3,081 cases. This study researches on the differences between the small-sized ship pilot, an operator of a vessel engine of less than 200 tons, and a 6th level marine engineer, in terms of the relationship between management forms and what causes the marine accidents in association with the cooling water system. It also studies and analyzes the differences in frequency of the accident occurrence between the two groups. ${\chi}^2$ qualification was imposed through the SPSS statistical analysis program and it got qualified at the significance level of 5%. The research shall be utilized as one of the base line data for the reduction of marine accidents.

Nuclear reactor vessel water level prediction during severe accidents using deep neural networks

  • Koo, Young Do;An, Ye Ji;Kim, Chang-Hwoi;Na, Man Gyun
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.3
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    • pp.723-730
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    • 2019
  • Acquiring instrumentation signals generated from nuclear power plants (NPPs) is essential to maintain nuclear reactor integrity or to mitigate an abnormal state under normal operating conditions or severe accident circumstances. However, various safety-critical instrumentation signals from NPPs cannot be accurately measured on account of instrument degradation or failure under severe accident circumstances. Reactor vessel (RV) water level, which is an accident monitoring variable directly related to reactor cooling and prevention of core exposure, was predicted by applying a few signals to deep neural networks (DNNs) during severe accidents in NPPs. Signal data were obtained by simulating the postulated loss-of-coolant accidents at hot- and cold-legs, and steam generator tube rupture using modular accident analysis program code as actual NPP accidents rarely happen. To optimize the DNN model for RV water level prediction, a genetic algorithm was used to select the numbers of hidden layers and nodes. The proposed DNN model had a small root mean square error for RV water level prediction, and performed better than the cascaded fuzzy neural network model of the previous study. Consequently, the DNN model is considered to perform well enough to provide supporting information on the RV water level to operators.

A Study on the Development of the Water-Bulwark System for Early Suppression in the Event of Fire in Highway Tunnel (고속도로 터널 내 화재발생 시 초기 진압용 화재진압시스템(Water-Bulwark System) 개발 연구)

  • Chung-Hyun, Baek
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2022
  • In general, fire accidents in tunnels are sufficiently preventable, but the damage is very large. Therefore, the number of highway traffic accidents is high in spring when spring fatigue occurs and the traffic volume for maple travel increases. In particular, when analyzing the cause of death of people killed in fire accidents in tunnels, it is analyzed that most of them are suffocated by smoke. Therefore, in this study, it can be said that it is meaningful to make a social contribution to reduce the number of traffic accident deaths by establishing an efficient fire suppression system for fire accidents in tunnels.

Analysis of articles on water quality accidents in the water distribution networks using big data topic modelling and sentiment analysis (빅데이터 토픽모델링과 감성분석을 활용한 물공급과정에서의 수질사고 기사 분석)

  • Hong, Sung-Jin;Yoo, Do-Guen
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.55 no.spc1
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    • pp.1235-1249
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    • 2022
  • This study applied the web crawling technique for extracting big data news on water quality accidents in the water supply system and presented the algorithm in a procedural way to obtain accurate water quality accident news. In addition, in the case of a large-scale water quality accident, development patterns such as accident recognition, accident spread, accident response, and accident resolution appear according to the occurrence of an accident. That is, the analysis of the development of water quality accidents through key keywords and sentiment analysis for each stage was carried out in detail based on case studies, and the meanings were analyzed and derived. The proposed methodology was applied to the larval accident period of Incheon Metropolitan City in 2020 and analyzed. As a result, in a situation where the disclosure of information that directly affects consumers, such as water quality accidents, is restricted, the tone of news articles and media reports about water quality accidents with long-term damage in the event of an accident and the degree of consumer pride clearly change over time. could check This suggests the need to prepare consumer-centered policies to increase consumer positivity, although rapid restoration of facilities is very important for the development of water quality accidents from the supplier's point of view.

Cause Analysis and Improvement Suggestion for Flood Accident in Dorimcheon - Focused on the Tripping and Isolation Accidents (도림천에서 발생한 고립 및 실족사고의 원인분석을 통한 개선방안 도출에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyung-Su;Jeon, Jong-Hyeong;Kim, Tai-Hoon;Kim, Hyunju
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.25-36
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    • 2021
  • This study analyzed the causes of flood accidents, such as isolation and lost footing accidents in Dorimcheon, to provide legal and institutional improvements. For cause analysis, Field Investigation, Stakeholder Interview, Report, manual, Law et al. Review, Analysis of water level change characteristics, automatic alarm issuance standard level analysis, and evacuation time according to river control were evaluated. Dorimcheon has the characteristics of a typical urban river, which is disadvantageous in terms of water control. In addition, the risk of flood accidents is high because the section where fatal accidents occur forms sharply curved channels. Tripping and isolation accidents occur in the floodplain watch and evacuation stage, which is the stage before the flood watch and warning is issued. Because floodplain evacuation is issued only when the water level rises to the floodplain, an immediate response according to the rainfall forecast is essential. Furthermore, considering that the rate of water level rise is up to 2.62 cm/min in Sillimgyo 3 and Gwanakdorimgyo, sufficient evacuation time is not secured after the floodplain watch is issued. Considering that fatal accidents occurred 0.46 m below the standard water level for the flood watch, complete control is very important, such as blocking the entry of rivers to prevent accidents. Based on these results, four improvement measures were suggested, and it is expected to contribute to the prevention of Tripping and Isolation Accidents occurring in rivers.

A Study on safety enhancement of Medium and small boilers (중소형 보일러의 안전성 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dae-Ryong;Lee, Keun-Oh
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.294-301
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    • 2013
  • The accidents related to boilers are caused by defects with high risk which can lead to the explosion of the equipment. The number of boiler accidents from 1979 to 2006 is 100 andthe casualties totaled 379, and the scale of accidents has been growing larger every year. The analysis has found that the number of accidents caused by carelessness in management is 59, 72% of total 82 cases and 18by low level of water. The analysis of accidents in foreign countries showed a similar result. From the past till today most of the accidents have been resulted from bad handlingand maintenance. The analysis of accidents for the inspected boilers also showed that the major cause of the accidents was bad handling and maintenance of automatic controllers, safety devices, etc. And in the large-scale explosive accidents, the number one cause of them was the low level of water.

Analysis of Domestic Water Pollution Accident and Response Management (국내 수질오염사고 현황 분석과 대응 체계)

  • Lee, Jae-Kyun;Kim, Tae-O;Jung, Yong-Jun
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.529-534
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    • 2013
  • Domestic water pollution accidents and response management were analysed on the basis of collected data from the latest 5 years. Although average 66.7 number of accidents were happened every year, no damages of human life were reported yet. According to the data collected, the accidents were occurred at Han river, Nakdong river, Keum river, Youngsang river and other rivers, where the percentages were 25.4%, 20.3%, 12%, 8% and 29.7%, respectively. Main reasons were blamed for negligent management, mixed influences, natural phenomenon and traffic accident. Response activities were performed in the case of the oil leak, the fish death caused by water environment, the spill of chemicals. From the diagnosis of water pollution accidents, it is recommended that the legistration of all control centers for their roles and duties was made in case of the big accidents as well as the small/middle accidents.

Establishment of Methodology for Estimating an Emergency Water (국내 비상용수 확보량 산정 방법론에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Tae-Kuk;Chae, Seon-Ha;Kim, Seong-Su;Seo, In-Seok;Kim, Jeong-Hyun;Park, No-Suk
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.361-372
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    • 2012
  • In order to establish the methodology for estimating an emergency drinking water supply in Korea, overseas cases and accidents history of cutting off water supply were investigated, and questionnaire was conducted. Investigating accidents history of cutting off water supply in Korea, actual cutting off times of most cases were less than 13hours. Also, cases related with water quality and facility failure have been not enough to derive useful information for estimating an emergency water. From the results of questionnaire and cross-tabulation analysis, about 1,066 lpcd(liter per capita${\cdot}$day) as an emergency water and 14 days as tolerable outages time could be estimated. The results of water quality simulation could tell us that it might take 5-16 days for pollutant matter to travel from 15 contamination points to source water intake point in the selected reservoir(D-dam). This travel time was in good accordance with the estimated tolerable outage time, 14days.

Hydraulic Adequacy of Connection Pipes in Water Supply Systems for Contingencies (비상시 용수공급을 위한 상수도 연계관로의 수리적 적정성 평가)

  • Han, Wanseob;Jung, Kwansoo;Kim, Juhwan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.679-687
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    • 2013
  • Although stable and safe drinking water supply to the customers is a basic function of multi-regional water supply systems in Korea, most systems have their vulnerabilities in emergency time due to the branch-type. Application of connections from the other water supply system can provide a solutions for these tentative problems. This paper describes reduction planning of water supply accidents that can minimize a service interruption to customers in multi-regional water supply system by connecting pipe lines between local water supply systems in Mokpo city areas. The result of this study shows that Juam dam multi-regional water supply systems can cover all of the water shortage in southern parts of Jeonnam multi-regional water supply systems by transmitting water through connected pipes between local networks. This can be effective to supply water interactively in various contingencies, when a pipe line accident occurs in southern area of Jeonnam multi-regional water supply systems. On the contrary, southern area of Jeonnam multi-regional water supply systems can cover 99.5 %($62,500m^3/day$) of the water shortage of Juam dam multi-regional water supply systems when service interruptions caused by various pipe accidents occur in the system.