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Development of Safety Assessment for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle (수소연료전지 자동차 안전성 평가기술 개발)

  • Yong, Gee Joong;Lee, Kwang Bum
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.500-508
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    • 2014
  • In the ongoing debates over the need to identify new sources of energy and to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. Hydrogen has emerged as one of the most promising alternatives due to its emissions from the vehicle being virtually zero. The governments have identified the development of regulations and standards as one of the key requirements for commercialization of HFCV. Regulations and standards will help overcome technological barriers to commercialization. The development of Global Technical Regulation (GTR) for HFCV occurred under the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations. Development of a technique for safety assessment of HFCV include four tasks, research for regulation system and policy, hydrogen safety, vehicle operation safety and protection against high-voltage. The objective is to establish a technique for safety assessment and amend safety standards for HFCV and consequently reflect research results to vehicle management policy. We devised safety standards and evaluation techniques with regard to high-pressure gas and high voltage of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. KMVSS for HFCV was amended to June 10, 2014. including the results of the safety assessment technology for high-voltage and hydrogen characteristics.

Study of Explanatory Power of Deterministic Risk Assessment's Probability through Uncertainty Intervals in Probabilistic Risk Assessment (고장률의 불확실구간을 고려한 빈도구간과 결정론적 빈도의 설명력 연구)

  • Man Hyeong Han;Young Woo Chon;Yong Woo Hwang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2024
  • Accurately assessing and managing risks in any endeavor is crucial. Risk assessment in engineering translates the abstract concept of risk into actionable strategies for systematic risk management. However, risk validation is met with significant skepticism, particularly concerning the uncertainty of probability. This study aims to address the aforementioned uncertainty in a multitude of ways. Firstly, instead of relying on deterministic probability, it acknowledges uncertainty and presents a probabilistic interval. Secondly, considering the uncertainty interval highlighted in OREDA, it delineates the bounds of the probabilistic interval. Lastly, it investigates how much explanatory power deterministic probability has within the defined probabilistic interval. By utilizing fault tree analysis (FTA) and integrating confidence intervals, a probabilistic risk assessment was conducted to scrutinize the explanatory power of deterministic probability. In this context, explanatory power signifies the proportion of probability within the probabilistic risk assessment interval that lies below the deterministic probability. Research results reveal that at a 90% confidence interval, the explanatory power of deterministic probability decreases to 73%. Additionally, it was confirmed that explanatory power reached 100% only with a probability application 36.9 times higher.

A Study On Operational Architecture Development Method for Railway System Safety Assessment (철도 안전성 평가를 위한 운용 아키텍처 개발 방안 연구)

  • Jang, Jae-Deuck;Park, Young-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2008
  • Recently, Architecture Frameworks are used to develop Information Management System (IMS). This paper describes an operational architecture development method for railway system safety assessment. using DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture framework). The need of IMS is increasing to perform safety assessment task effectively and efficiently as safety-critical system like railway System. It is necessary that operational architecture based IMS requirements generated fir safety assessment. ARP(Aerospace Recommended Practice)4761 are referred to develop safety assessment operational architecture applicable to railway system. Firstly, schema and template was developed to perform the operational architecture development process using a commercial CASysE(Computer-Aided Systems engineering) tool, CORE. Not only the operational architecture allows building flexible IMS, but also helps business process solving.

A Study on the Damage Safety Assessment in Ship Design Stage (선박설계단계에서 손상안전성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Kon;Choi, Jin;Park, Beom-Jin;Kang, Hee-Jin;Lim, Seok-Nam
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.343-350
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    • 2009
  • Recently ship safety regulations are being reinforced to improve maritime safety and to prevent maritime pollution by International Maritime Organization. It means that the regulation is becoming more proactive rather than reactive. In the mean time, design philosophy is also moving from rule based design to performance and simulation based design. In this paper, a study on practical application of the damage safety assessment system is carried out. The damage stability and the survivability of a cargo ship that was designed based on current regulation is investigated using performance based design tools in order to improve the safety of the design and verify the performance of the developed damage safety assessment system. To do this, damage scenarios is established and the characteristics and geometry the cargo ship is modeled. A new design alternative is proposed with small change in the internal arrangement based on safety evaluation results of the current design.

Development of Laboratory hazard discovery and management techniques (연구실 유해인자 발굴 및 관리기법 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hyung-Kyu;Lee, In-Bok;Sin, Young-Te;Moon, Jin-Young;Lee, Ik-Mo
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.81-90
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    • 2016
  • Research and development activities have been actively conducted at universities, research institutions and research laboratories which belong to corporations. Because of blooming research and development activities in various fields, safety accidents in the laboratories happen consistently. The government office established Act on the establishment of safe laboratory environment to decrease safety accident rates and make environment of laboratories better, and it is effective slowly. However, in the case of laboratory safety management of the laboratory where various research and development activities are carried out. So it is difficult to closely monitor them. Even though safety inspections and periodic inspections is regularly conducted, these are focused on facilities and environment. According to a study of Dea-deok science town safety council, accidents in laboratories of 73% have arisen out of careless actions. Therefore, it is important for researchers to know to potential harmful factors in research. there is necessary to make a system to prevent laboratory accidents. The purpose of this study is that the researchers discovered potential hazard factors in laboratories. For that, foreign laboratory safety management systems has applied to domestic laboratories. Four laboratories in targeted institution has been selected to apply the appropriate personal protection equipments, job safety assessment and standard operating procedures. And I found the limitations of the process according to the excavations harmful factors in the research process. To overcome these limitations, Suggest a laboratory safety management system. This study discovered current laboratory safety system limitations and provides alternatives so that effective safety management can be achieved.

Application of Information-theoretic Measure (Entropy) to Safety Assessment in Manufacturing Processes

  • Choi, Gi-Heung
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2005
  • Design of manufacturing process, in general, facilitates the creation of new process that may potentially harm the workers. Design of safety-guaranteed manufacturing process is, therefore, very important since it determines the ultimate outcomes of manufacturing activities involving safety of workers. This study discusses application of information-theoretic measure (entropy) to safety assessment of manufacturing processes. The idea is based on the general principles of design and their applications. Some examples are given.

Product elements for the safety assessment (안전성 평가를 위한 제품요소)

  • Park, Ji-Yong;Cho, Am
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.239-245
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    • 2008
  • In this study has investigated and considered product planning methods at the existing product design process and being used the safety evaluation methods at the product planning stage, and has deduced the 16 safety evaluation elements to have to be considered for executing the safety evaluation at the product planning stage. When the safety evaluation is executed from the product planning stage, more safe products will be designed.

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Evaluation of analytical methods for several metals and fluoride by certified reference materials (인증표준물질을 이용한 중금속류와 플루오르화물 전처리방법 비교 연구)

  • Jeon, Tae Wan;Chung, David;Shin, Sun Kyoung;Choi, Hun Geun;Chung, Young Hee
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.172-180
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    • 2006
  • This study was performed to establish new methods for hazardous substances and to develop an analytical method in specified wastes for preventing the environmental pollution caused by hazardous wastes. Therefore, the trends of international management, regulatory criteria, and items of hazardous wastes in various countries were investigated. Based on this study, target priority of new hazardous substances in specified wastes was established. An analytical method was developed using the waste standard reference materials of sludge, oil, bottom ash, etc., which contain the new hazardous substances (Ba, Be, Cr(VI), F, Ni, Sb, Se, and V). A total of 37 waste samples from the representative facilities, which are emitting new hazardous substances, were analyzed.

Initiating Event Selection and Analysis for Probabilistic Safety Assessment of Korea Research Reactor (국내 연구용원자로 PSA 수행을 위한 초기사건 선정 및 빈도 분석)

  • Lee, Yoon-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.101-110
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    • 2021
  • This paper presents the results of an initiating event analysis as part of a Level 1 probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) for at-power internal events for the Korea Research Reactor (KRR). The PSA methodology is widely used to quantitatively assess the safety of research reactors (RRs) in the domestic nuclear industry. Initiating event frequencies are required to conduct a PSA, and they considerably affect the PSA results. Because there is no domestic database for domestic trip events, the safety of RRs is usually assessed using foreign databases. In this paper, operating experience data from the KRR for trip events were collected and analyzed in order to determine the frequency of specific initiating events. These frequencies were calculated using two approaches according to the event characteristics and data availability: (1) based on KRR operating experience or (2) using generic data.

A Study on the Development of Quantitative Assessment Criteria of Level Safety and Health, Environment (안전보건환경 수준의 정량적 평가기법 구축에 관한연구)

  • Lim, Jae Chang;Jeong, Hyun Wook;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2014
  • In this study, based on the international standard the quantitative assessment model for the level of safety, health and environment was developed. As a result of applying this model, the company(workplace) which has established improvement plan based on quantitative assessment of short-term and long-term requirements, and implemented it was acquired more higher level of safety, health and environment by more than the existing ones.