• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.102-109
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• 2023

In realizing a hydrogen society, it is important to secure the safety of the hydrogen refueling station, which is the facility where consumers can easily meet hydrogen. The hydrogen refueling station consists of compressed gas facilities that store high-pressure hydrogen, and there is a risk that the high-pressure compressed gas facility will rupture due to a fire explosion due to hydrogen leakage in the facility or the influence of surrounding fires. Accordingly, the Korea Gas Safety Corporation is making every effort to find out risk factors from the installation stage, reflect them in the design, and secure safety through legal inspection. In this study, a TNT explosion demonstration test using a protection wall was conducted to confirm the safety effect of the protection wall installed at the hydrogen refueling station, and the empirical test results were compared and verified using FLACS-CFD, a CFD program. As a result of the empirical test and CFD analysis, it was confirmed that the effect of reducing the explosion over-pressure at the rear end of the protection wall decreased from 50% to up to 90% depending on the location, but the effect decreased when it exceeded a certain distance. The results of the empirical test and computer analysis for verifying the safety of the protection wall will be used in proposals for optimizing the protection wall standards in the future.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.58 no.4
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• pp.573-580
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• 2020

Hydrogen emerged as a sustainable transport energy source. To increase hydrogen utilization, hydrogen refueling stations must be available in many places. However, this requires large-scale financial investment. This paper proposed a methodology for selecting the optimal location to maximize the use of hydrogen charging stations. The location of gas stations and natural gas charging stations, which are competing energy sources, was first considered, and the expected charging demand of hydrogen cars was calculated by further reflecting data such as population, number of registered vehicles, etc. Using k-medoids clustering, one of the machine learning techniques, the optimal location of hydrogen charging stations to meet demand was calculated. The applicability of the proposed method was illustrated in a numerical case of Seoul. Data-based methods, such as this methodology, could contribute to constructing efficient hydrogen economic systems by increasing the speed of hydrogen distribution in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.85-91
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• 2021

In January 2019, the Korean government announced the 「Hydrogen Economy Activation Roadmap」 to be a world-class leading country in Hydrogen economy. Korea has established a strategy that can lead the hydrogen economy with its strong points of 'hydrogen car' and 'fuel cell'. As a part of that, a target of supplying hydrogen vehicle charging stations to 310 by 2022 and 1,200 by 2040 was established. In line with this, Korea Gas Safety Corporation will operate a pre-consulting system of hydrogen vehicle charging station in February 2021 to solve in advance construction delays due to various on-site problems according to safety standards during the construction stage to build a hydrogen refueling station with a sense of speed. This paper is to find out about the pre-consulting system and to analyze its effects.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.70-77
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• 2023

In response to climate change, each country is proposing a goal to reduce greenhouse gases in its energy supply and demand plan, and the use of hydrogen gas is a topic that is always prioritized as an energy resource for implementation. A popular way to use this hydrogen gas is the use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and expansion of hydrogen charging stations is essential for using these hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. However, there are several limitations to the expansion of hydrogen refueling stations, the most representative of which is resident acceptance. Most of the hydrogen charging stations currently built in Korea are located in the outskirts with low population density, so the inconvenience to hydrogen fuel cell vehicle users has not been resolved, and as a result, there has been no progress in the spread of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. In this paper, we analyzed the consequences of accident damage to determine the risks of constructing a hydrogen charging station on a railroad site frequently used by citizens. The target hydrogen charging station site was a railroad depot in Busan, and there are trains, national highways, and commercial facilities around this site. Assuming the worst-case scenario, we would like to consider the safety of the hydrogen refueling station site by analyzing the area affected by the accident and its consequence.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.232-239
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• 2022

This study performed qualitative and quantitative risk assessment of equipment for evaluating the protocol of hydrogen refueling stations and suggested measures to improve safety. Hazard and operability study was performed for qualitative risk assessment, and Hy-KoRAM was used for quantitative risk assessment. Through a qualitative risk assessment, additional ventilation devices were installed, simultaneous venting of the storage container was prohibited, and the number of repeated refilling of the evaluation equipment was identified to manage the number of fillings of the container. Through quantitative risk assessment, the area around the device was set as a restricted area when evaluating the station, and measures were suggested to reduce the frequency of accidents.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.279-286
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• 2017

Korea government decides to build one hundred hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) until 2020 and tries to disseminate HRS and boosts HRS market in korea. Naepo HRS in chungnam province has been operated for last one full year of 2016 and recorded 2,520 times full charge for the hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles and total 6,016 kg hydrogen fueling for the 25 units of hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles. Raw fuel of hydrogen from tube trailer measured by pressure, converting into weight of hydrogen and shows 19.6% surplus with final charged weight by dispenser. This result is caused measuring errors. Measured charged errors between dispenser and Mass flow meter was determined 13.13%.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.92-97
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• 2021

In accordance with the revision of the Enforcement Regulations of the High-Pressure Gas Safety Management Act in February 2021, from August 27, 2021, the operation status of safety devices such as gas leak detection and alarm devices, emergency shut-off devices and flame detectors installed at hydrogen vehicle charging stations can be monitored in real time. It is transmitted and operated by the computer system managed by Korea Gas Safety Corporations. We intend to share the results of statistical analysis of abnormal signals that have occurred along with the results of the monitoring system construction so that they can be used for the safety management of hydrogen refueling stations, and to seek future safety management directions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.28-33
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• 2022

In this study, we analyze the flow characteristics according to the internal shape of a 700bar hydrogen charging gun for hydrogen electric vehicles. When charging hydrogen, it receives a high-pressure charging pressure. At this time, we analyze the flow characteristics according to the shape of the nozzle and find the shape of the nozzle that minimizes energy loss. Ultimately, the optimal design of the nozzle was obtained by comparing the pressure difference between the inlet pressure and outlet pressure under a fixed mass flow condition.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.163-169
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• 2019

This study is a research to compare efficiency of new cooling system (chiller, pre-cooler) to that of the conventional system at the hydrogen refueling station (HRS). This study includes contents for thermodynamic comparison of cooling system for HRS and comparison of pros and cons of its components. So It is to establish design concept of cooling system of HRS supplying with fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV). HRS is charging high pressure H2 (700 bar) to FCEV. However cooling system is need to prevent temperature rise in tank. This cooling system consists of pre-cooler and chiller system.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2009

수소에너지의 무궁한 가능성 때문에 관련 기술은 미래 국가 경쟁력을 좌우할 것이며, 이러한 수소에너지의 핵심으로 수소제조공정 및 수소스테이션 관련 기술은 국가연료전지 시장을 비롯한 수소연료전지자동차 산업 전반에 커다란 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상되고 있다. 그러므로 세계 각국은 수소에너지를 미래에너지원으로 개발하기 위하여 대규모로 기술개발 및 실증연구를 실시하고 있으며, 주로 수소연료전지자동차 개발과 아울러 수소스테이션 개발에 대한 인프라 구축에 대해 이루어지고 있다. 국내에서도 국가주도로 수소스테이션 건설이 이루어지고 있으며, 본 연구에서는 수소연료전지자동차를 이용하여 수소인프라와의 모니터링에 대한 현황에 대해 논의하고자 한다.