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Consideration on Design and Management of Flexible Hose through the Case Study of Chlorine Leak (염소 누출 사고사례연구를 통한 Flexible hose 설계 및 관리 방안 고찰)

  • Park, Suyoul;Yim, Ji-pyo
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.57 no.3
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    • pp.351-357
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    • 2019
  • This research was performed to propose domestic standard for design and management of flexible hose by analyzing chlorine leak caused by breakage of the hose in Ulsan, 2018. The leak had multiple causes but this paper focuses on analyzing the cause of breakage of flexible hose, the direct cause. According to the analysis, flexible hose that the company of the accident used for chlorine transfer was inappropriate in several aspects including material and wall thickness. And even pressure test had been conducted below operating pressure. Upon investigation on five companies that handle chlorine in Ulsan, four companies were using inappropriate flexible hose for chlorine transfer. Since there is no domestic standard for the design of flexible hose for chlorine transfer at present, it is hard to examine its design adequacy. Design standard of flexible hose used in chlorine transfer that is applicable domestically is proposed based on this research. It will contribute to the reduction in risk of breakage of the hose if the proposed standard could be applied in design and examination of flexible hose.

Prevention of Soil Contamination from Underground Storage Facilities of Petroleum Product and Hazardous Chemical Compounds (유류 및 유해화학물질 저장시설에서의 토양오염 방지대책)

  • 배우근;홍종철;정진욱;김종호
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.40-47
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    • 2002
  • The practices of the construction and management of the petroleum and hazardous chemical compound storage facilities in Korea were investigated extensively, and the problems were identified. The advanced technologies in the U.S.A were comparatively studied. Considering the effectiveness of leak prevention and applicability, the following measures were suggested. To prevent corrosion of a tank, a clad tank, an interior lining tank, or a double-wall tank were thought to be the most cost effective. For piping. use of non-metalic materials was suggested. A catchment basin seemed to be effective for preventing spills. For monitoring of leaks, constructions of more than one of detection systems, such as an automatic leak detection device. a vapor detection system, a groundwater monitoring system, or a double-wall monitoring system, were recommended.

In vitro Study of the Antagonistic Effect of Low-dose Liquiritigenin on Gemcitabine-induced Capillary Leak Syndrome in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma via Inhibiting ROS-Mediated Signalling Pathways

  • Wu, Wei;Xia, Qing;Luo, Rui-Jie;Lin, Zi-Qi;Xue, Ping
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.4369-4376
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    • 2015
  • Background: To investigate in-vitro antagonistic effect of low-dose liquiritigenin on gemcitabine-induced capillary leak syndrome (CLS) in pancreatic adenocarcinoma via inhibiting reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated signalling pathways. Materials and Methods: Human pancreatic adenocarcinoma Panc-1 cells and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were pre-treated using low-dose liquiritigenin for 24 h, then added into gemcitabine and incubated for 48 h. Cell viability, apoptosis rate and ROS levels of Panc-1 cells and HUVECs were respectively detected through methylthiazolyldiphenyl-tetrazoliumbromide (MTT) and flow cytometry. For HUVECs, transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) and transcellular and paracellular leak were measured using transwell assays, then poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP-1) and metal matrix proteinase-9 (MMP9) activity were assayed via kits, mRNA expressions of p53 and Rac-1 were determined through quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR); The expressions of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and PARP-1 were measured via western blotting. Results: Low-dose liquiritigenin exerted no effect on gemcitabine-induced changes of cell viability, apoptosis rate and ROS levels in Panc-1 cells, but for HUVECs, liquiritigenin ($3{\mu}M$) could remarkably elevate gemcitabine-induced decrease of cell viability, transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER), pro-MMP9 level and expression of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 (p<0.01). Meanwhile, it could also significantly decrease gemcitabine-induced increase of transcellular and paracellular leak, ROS level, PARP-1 activity, Act-MMP9 level, mRNA expressions of p53 and Rac-1, expression of PARP-1 and apoptosis rate (p<0.01). Conclusions: Low-dose liquiritigenin exerts an antagonistic effect on gemcitabine-induced leak across HUVECs via inhibiting ROS-mediated signalling pathways, but without affecting gemcitabine-induced Panc-1 cell apoptosis. Therefore, low-dose liquiritigenin might be beneficial to prevent the occurrence of gemcitabine-induced CLS in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

A Study on the Improvement of Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals Handling in the Workplace (유해화학물질 취급작업장의 안전관리 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Gyeong-Sam;Baik, Eun-Sun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.12-19
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    • 2014
  • Workplaces handling hazardous chemicals are scattered, because of old-aging facilities are have been operating for more than 20 years, there is still has the risk of an accident. Advanced countries including the UN and strengthen regulation of chemicals, but the frequent leak accidents have become a big issue socially. In the case of subsequent domestic accidental chemical accident, the government and related departments for the overall prevention, preparedness, response system has been checked and improved. In this study, improvements of the related system and the plan of safety management for on the prevention of accidents and the initial response were suggested throughout the analysis of problems on the actual condition of safety management and such as standard of the related systems for handling, management for occurring the main cause of the leak and chemical accidents from hazardous chemicals handling in the workplace.

Impact Range Comparative Analysis of BLEVE by Gas Leakage According to LPG Main Components (LPG 주성분에 따른 누출 폭발 피해 영향범위 비교분석)

  • Soo-Hee Lim;Su-Yeon Son;Ha-Sung Kong
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2024
  • The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the impact range of explosion damage due to gas leaks at LPG filling stations, focusing on propane and butane, which are components of vehicle LPG. The scenarios were designed based on the explosion incident at an LPG filling station in Gangwon-do, where an actual gas leak accident occurred, resulting in Scenario I and Scenario II. The ALOHA program, developed by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was used as the tool to analyze the impact range of the explosion damage for both substances. The results of the study indicated that, under identical conditions, propane had a wider impact range of damage than butane. This is presumed to be due to the greater explosion energy of propane, attributable to its physicochemical properties. Therefore, when preparing for LPG leak accidents, measures for propane need to be prioritized. As safety measures for propane, two suggestions were made to minimize human casualties. First, from a preventive perspective, it is suggested to educate workers about propane. Second, from the perspective of response measures and damage minimization, it is suggested to thoroughly prepare emergency evacuation and rescue plans, evacuation routes, designated shelters, and emergency response teams. This study compares and analyzes the impact range of radiative heat damage based on LPG components. However, hazardous accidents are critically influenced by the type of leaking substance, the form of the leak, and meteorological factors affecting the diffusion pattern of the substance. Therefore, for future research, it is proposed to model various leakage scenarios for the same substance to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment.

Pulmonary Air Leak in the Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (신생아 호흡 장애 증후군에서 폐외공기누출의 임상적 고찰)

  • 우석정
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.38-42
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    • 1999
  • Background: In neonatal respiratory distress syndrome patients, various types of pulmonary air leak contributes to elevate morbity and mortality. Although early surgical interventions can provide better results in several cases, whole clinical outcomes are poor. This study was designed to investigate the clinical aspects of pulmonary air leak in the neonatal respiratory distress syndrome patients and major contributing factors to mortality. Material and Method : We retrospectively evaluated 48 cases of pulmonary air leak in the neonatal respiratory distress syndrome patients from September 1994 to May 1997. Result: There were 15 cases of primary and 33 cases of secondary pulmonary air leakages. The prominent manifestations were pure interstitial emphysema in 19 cases(39.9%) and combined pneumothorax in 19 cases(39.9%). In clinical aspects, normal birth weight was dominant(83.4%), the onset occurred within 24 hours was in 28 cases(58.8%). The pulmonary diseases were meconium aspiration syndrome(25.2%) and hyaline membrane disease(33.2%). The overall hospital mortality was 25.2%, and the majority were hyaline membrane diseases. Conclusion: Although the overral mortality rate of these diseases were high, more detailed studies about immediate treatement, perinatal prevention, intensive care to geriatric problems were needed individually to improve outcomes.

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An Algorithm for Detecting Leak of Defaced Confidential Information Based on SVDD (SVDD 기반 중요문서 변조 유출 탐지 알고리즘)

  • Ghil, Ji-Ho;Nam, Ki-Hyo;Kang, Hyung-Seok;Kim, Seong-In
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.105-111
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    • 2010
  • This paper proposes the algorithm which addresses the problem of detecting leak of defaced confidential documents from original confidential document. Generally, a confidential document is defaced into various forms by insiders and then they are trying to leak these defaced documents to outside. Traditional algorithms detecting leak of documents have low accuracy because they are based on similarity of two documents, which do not reflect various forms of defaced documents in detection. In order to overcome this problem, this paper proposes a novel v-SVDD algorithm which is based on SVDD, the novelty detection algorithm. The result of experiment shows that there is significant improvement m the accuracy of the v-SVDD in comparison with the traditional algorithms.

Research on digital evidence-based countermeasure depending on the type of small and medium-sized enterprises technology leakage accident (중소기업 기술유출사고 유형에 따른 디지털증거기반 대응방안 연구)

  • Jaeyun Wang;Hangbae Chang
    • Journal of Platform Technology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.67-76
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    • 2024
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises play a fundamental role in the foundation of our country's industry and economy, and most technological innovations occur in small and medium-sized enterprises rather than large corporations. Technology development and innovation are the only way for small and medium-sized enterprises to survive in a fiercely competitive environment, so they focus on it, but interest and investment in technology protection tend to be stingy. As a result, industrial technology leakage accidents occur frequently, and it is difficult to meet improvement measures. When a leak occurs, digital evidence is required to prove criminal activity, but problems such as digital evidence being damaged or deleted due to management loopholes often occur. Therefore, through this study, we aim to design a digital evidence-based countermeasure depending on the type of technology leak accident. We will classify the types of technology leak incidents that actually occurred and study ways to secure digital evidence in the security environment of small and medium-sized businesses that operate internal information leak prevention solutions.

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Improvement Plan for Prevention Regulations to Improve Hazardous Material Safety Management

  • Seongju Oh;Jaewook Lee;Hasung Kong
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.346-357
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest improvement plans for prevention regulations by reflecting the toxicity, fire and explosion effects of hazardous materials factories and surrounding areas using an off-site consequence assessment program. Regarding the effects of the hydrogen cyanide leak accident, which is the 1st petroleum of the 4th class flammable liquid, Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres (ALOHA) program was used to compare and analyze the extent of damage effects for toxicity, overpressure, and radiation. As a result, the toxicity was analyzed to exceed 5km in the area with Acute exposure guideline level (AEGL)-2 concentration or higher, the overpressure was 103m in the range of 1 psi or more, and the radiant heat was analyzed to be 724m in the range of 2kw/m2 or more. Toxicity and radiation affected the area outside the hazardous material storage area, but the overpressure was limited to the inside of the hazardous material storage area. Therefore, we propose to improve the safety management of hazardous materials by conducting a risk assessment for hazardous materials and reflecting the results in internal and external emergency response plans to prepare prevention regulations.

A Monitoring Tool for Personal Information Leakage Prevention in Network Packets (네트워크 패킷 내 개인정보 유출 방지를 위한 모니터링 도구 개발)

  • Ju, Tea Kyung;Hong, Chong Min;Shin, Weon
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.2 no.11
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    • pp.489-494
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    • 2013
  • Personal information has been transmitted in a variety of services of Internet environment, but individual users do not know what information is sent. In this paper, we aim to develop a monitoring tool that continuously monitors personal sensitive information in network packets and informs the user whether or not to leak. So we implement a monitoring tool of personal information and analyze the experiment results. In addition, we introduce a prevention of confidential information in company and a leakage prevention of medical information, for applications that take direct advantage. The results of this study, by contributing to prevent leakage of personal information, can help reduce cyber threats variously targeting personal information of users.