Fire Science and Engineering (한국화재소방학회논문지)

Korean Institute of Fire Science and Engineering (한국화재소방학회)
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Study on the Fire Safety Estimation for a Pilot LNG Storage Tank

PILOT LNG저장탱크의 화재안전성 평가에 관한 연구

  • 고재선 (서울시립대학교 화학공학과) ;
  • 김효 (서울시립대학교 화학공학과)
  • Published : 2004.09.01
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Abstract

Quantitative safety analysis through a fault tree method has been conducted for a fire broken out over the spilling LNG from a pilot LNG tank, which may have 4 types of scenarios causing potentially risky results. When we consider LNG release from venting pipelines as a first event, any specific radius of Low Flammable Limit(LFL) has not been built up. The second case of LNG outflow from the rupture of storage tank which will be the severest has been analyzed and the results revealed various diffusion areas to the leaking times even with the same amount of LNG release. As a third case LNG leakage from the inlet/outlet pipelines was taken into consider. The results showed no significant differences of LFL radii between the two spilling times of 10 and 60 minutes. Hence, we have known the most affecting factor on the third scenario is an initial amount of LNG release. Finally, the extent of LFL was calculated when LNG pipelines around the dike area were damaged. In addition, consequence analysis has been also performed to acquire the heat radiation and flame magnitude for each case.

Pilot LNG Tank에서 LNG가 누출되어 화재가 발생할 경우의 정량적 안전성 평가를 고장수목법을 이용하여 4가지 형태의 주요 시나리오를 도출하고 이에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 첫째 방출관에서 누출할 경우에 특정 Low Flammable Limit(LFL)반경은 형성하지 않았으며, 둘째는 탱크파손으로 인한 LNG 유출이라는 최악의 시나리오 분석을 수행하였고, 그 결과를 살펴보면 총 누출량이 같더라도 시간에 따라 여러 가지 확산범위가 나타남을 확인할 수 있었다. 셋째는 inlet/outlet파이프의 손상으로 인한 누출로 10달과 타분 두 경우에 대해 분석하였으나, 각각의 경우 LFL의 반경은 큰 차이를 보이지 않았다. 따라서, 이와 같은 LNG누출 사고의 경우 초기 방출량의 크기가 확산의 주요 인자임을 알 수 있었다. 넷째는 방류둑에서 LNG배관이 파손될 경우 LFL의 크기를 산출하였다. 한편 복사열 및 불꽃의 크기에 대한 피해결과 분석을 동시에 수행하였다.

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