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A Quantitative Assessment on a Tension of Securing Rope to evade Marine Accidents caused by Improper Cargo-Securing

  • Kim, Young-Du
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.297-302
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    • 2015
  • To prevent cargo accidents by repeated loads, a continuous monitoring for securing rope or additional safety measures are needed, but most of prevention measures have been conducted only by operator's own experience not a quantitative assessment. Hence, the Load-Displacement curve and approximation formula of securing rope were drawn in this research for a quantitative assessment and simplified measurement on a tension of securing rope using a tensiometer. Moreover, a com parison was conducted between m easuring tension and calculated tension on securing rope with portable tensiometer, 'Load-Displacement' approximation formula. The calculated tension of securing rope is obtained 153.3kfg using the formula and that result has not much difference with initial tension 150.0kgf. Lastly, an analysis of the characteristics of various ropes was suggested to enhance the reliability about quantitative assessment of securing rope's tension through further research.

Diagnosis of Scoping and Type of Review on the Marine Environmental Impact Assessment for Ocean Energy Development Project (해양에너지개발사업 환경영향평가 검토유형 및 중점평가사항 진단)

  • Lee, Dae In;Kim, Gui Young;Tac, Dae Ho;Yi, Yong Min;Choi, Jin Hyu;Kim, Hye Jin;Lee, Ji Hye;Yoon, Sung Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.179-188
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    • 2015
  • This study reviewed the type of the project and developmental plan related to ocean energy development in the coastal land boundaries and the ocean, and suggested the efficient scoping method through the diagnosis of the key items of environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the coastal area. The major projects are the construction of tidal power plant, tidal current power plant, and offshore wind power plant in the public water, and also those are the construction of solar power plants in the coastal land boundaries. While the project plans on a large scale such as the construction of tidal power plant, it is important to consider both property of usefulness of the designated areas and harmony analysis with marine space availability based on the adequacy of the site selection and relevance of plan with the master plan for reclamation and strategic environmental assessment (SEA). And also it needs to be considered the careful checkup on the EIA checklist referring to the type of project, effective post-monitoring, and suggestion of mitigating methods to minimize the environmental impacts during the stage of actual environmental impact assessment. Introduction of a system of integrated marine environmental impact assessment should be considered for reasonable and effective manage to developmental projects on the marine spatial area.

AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF OIL SPILLS WITH LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUE FROM REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY

  • Konstantinos, Karantzalos;Demetre, Argialas
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.126-129
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    • 2006
  • The marine environment is under considerable threat from intentional or accidental oil spills, ballast water discharged, dredging and infilling for coastal development, and uncontrolled sewage and industrial wastewater discharges. Monitoring spills and illegal oil discharges is an important component in ensuring compliance with marine protection legislation and general protection of the coastal environments. For the monitoring task an image processing system is needed that can efficiently perform the detection and the tracking of oil spills and in this direction a significant amount of research work has taken place mainly with the use of radar (SAR) remote sensing data. In this paper the level set image segmentation technique was tested for the detection of oil spills. Level set allow the evolving curve to change topology (break and merge) and therefore boundaries of particularly intricate shapes can be extracted. Experimental results demonstrated that the level set segmentation can be used for the efficient detection and monitoring of oil spills, since the method coped with abrupt shape’s deformations and splits.

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Monitoring of the sea (Tonhe) Pollution with the use of biological samples from the stranded cetaceans and crab

  • Shimada, Akinori;Sawada, Masumi;Morita, Takehito;Hamada, Fumihiko;Furuta, Shinpei
    • Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Health Society Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 2002
  • There have been few reports on the survey of pathological findings of cetaceans stranded on the coast of Japan. This is partly because of lack of the procedures and/or network of systemic sampling of fresh tissues for the pathological study of stranded marine mammals. In contrast, there are a numbers of reports on the cause of illness and death in wild, free-living cetaceans examined in other countries; the commonest cause of death was parasitic and bacterial pneumonia except for entanglement in fishing gear. Anthracosis, lung and hilar lymph nodes polluted by suspended particulate matter in the air, has been recently found in some cetaceans stranded on the coast of Japan. In addition to the data from the chemical analysis of tissues, scientific data obtained from pathological study of stranded marine mammals would be also one of the useful base for the assessment of global environment. Usefulness of metallothionein in the hepatopancreas of crabs as a biomarker of marine pollution monitoring was also discussed in this study.

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Monitoring of Malachite Green in Freshwater Fish using LC-MS/MS (LC-MS/MS를 이용한 담수 어류 중 말라카이트 그린 분석)

  • Choi, Hee-jin;Yuk, Dong-Hyun;Park, Young-Ae;Jung, Bo-Kyeng;Hong, Mi-Sun;Yoon, Yong-Tae;Yi, Hye-Jin;Kim, Youn-Cheon;Park, Sung-Kyu;Kim, Moo-Sang;Jung, Kweon
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2016
  • Malachite green was measured in 200 freshwater fish collected from local markets in Seoul using HPLC-DAD and LC-MS/MS. LC-MS/MS method was validated by linearity, accuracy, precision and limits of detection and quantification according to the CODEX's recommendation and HPLC-DAD method was applied according to the Food Code. Malachite green levels above the quantification limit of the LC-MS/MS were determined 18.5% (37) but just 1 fish was shown to contain malachite green by HPLC-DAD. Of 83 domestic fish, 21 fish were detected malachite green (25.3%). Of 117 fish from China, just 16 fish were detected malachite green (13.4%). In detection rate by species carp (35.0%), Crucian carp (30.4%), cat fish (28.0%), Korean bull head (23.8%), snake head (20.0%), eel (10.5%) and loach (7.8%) were in order. Especially, fish collected at summer were shown to contain malachite green frequently; the detection rate was 54.8%.

Molecular Parameters for Assessing Marine Biotoxicity: Gene Expressions of Rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli) Exposed to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

  • Woo, Seon-Ock;Yum, Seung-Shic;Park, Hong-Seog;Jung, Jee-Hyun;Lee, Suk-Chan;Kim, So-Jung;Lee, Taek-Kyun
    • Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.267-272
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    • 2007
  • Environmental and anthropogenic changes affect the health and stability of marine ecosystem. In this study we aimed to identify molecular biomarkers for ecotoxicological pollutants risk assessment in the rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli). We designed primers based on conserved sequences by multiple alignments of target genes from related species, and cloned the partial cDNAs of cytochrome P450 (CYP1A1), glutathione S-transferase (GST), metallothionein (MT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), ubiquitin (UB), vitellogenin (VTG) and $\beta$-actin by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from S. schlegeli. Northern blot results indicated that these six genes expressions were significantly induced by benzo[a]pyrene (BaP, 1 ${\mu}M$) and that the level of each of their transcripts increased in BaP-exposed rockfish in a time-dependent manner. This study suggests that transcriptional changes in these six genes may be used for monitoring environmental exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

A Study on the Direction of Promoting Self-Reliant Islands Using Ocean Energy (해양에너지를 활용한 에너지 자립 섬 구축방안)

  • Lee, Woong Kyu
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2023
  • This study examines the policy direction for energy self-reliant islands using marine energy. In other words, it was suggested that the environmental characteristics of the ocean should be considered by conducting a strategic marine environmental impact assessment when establishing an energy-independent island project plan. It was also suggested to proceed with preemptive site selection. In particular, it was emphasized that continuous monitoring of the marine environment should be carried out during the construction and operation of the marine energy development project. In addition, I emphasized the need to seek ways to expand marine environmental impact data and to actively participate and support the residents of the island, which is important in promoting self-reliant islands using ocean energy. This can be said to have a high probability of success when the government-led smart grid project group and KEPCO collaborate with each other. The results of the study analyzed through literature review are as follows. First, active participation and support for initiatives led by residents are needed. second,. KEPCO must collaborate with specialized public institutions such as the Smart Grid Project Group. Third, a strategic marine environment impact assessment should be introduced. Fourth, continuous marine environmental impact investigations should be conducted.

Characteristics of Marine Debris collected from the Coastline of Sandbar in the Nakdong River Estuary (낙동강 하구 사주 해안에서 수거한 쓰레기 종류 및 분포량 추정)

  • Lee, Y.B.;Park, S.;Ryu, C.R.;Kim, H.T.;Yoon, H.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.148-154
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    • 2007
  • This study investigated the spatial distribution of the marine debris in Jinudo in the Nakdong river estuary. Types of marine debris in Jinudo are analyzed through sampling around some portion of its sandbar shoreline. The present study and its main results are summarized as follow: 1) Monitoring system, for evaluating the volume of marine debris, was established in the coastal region of $50\;m\;{\times}\;50\;m\;(=0.002\;km^2)$ over the southern part of Jinudo. All the marine debris of conceivable form are collected and their amount was also estimated. 2) During the $1^{st}$ collection in May 2007, the total weight of the marine debris was 1,110 kg in this site, which means the density of marine debris around the shoreline is $444\;ton/km^2$. After one month later, the collected marine debris was 23.75 kg and so we have the average density of $9.5\;ton/km^2$. From these results, it is suggested that the marine debris of 316.67kg was being accumulated per day over unit area($1\;km^2$). 3) The most frequent marine debris collected during monitoring campaigns was wooden material amounting to 85.86% of the whole collection; the rest were fishing gears such as nets and buoys(5.13%), household waste(2.34%), glass(0.94%) and metals(0.27%).

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