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Korean Society of Ocean Engineers (한국해양공학회)
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FTA of Leakage Path in Subsea X-mas Tree System

해저 유정 제어 시스템에서의 누수 경로 FTA 분석

  • Yoo, Won-Woo (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Min-Sun (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Yang, Young-Soon (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering And Research Institute of Marine Systems Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Ruy, Won-Sun (Department of Ocean System Engineering, Jeju National University) ;
  • Jang, Beom-Seon (Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • 유원우 (서울대학교 조선해양공학과) ;
  • 박민선 (서울대학교 조선해양공학과) ;
  • 양영순 (서울대학교 조선해양공학과 및 해양시스템공학 연구소) ;
  • 류원선 (제주대학교 해양시스템공학과) ;
  • 장범선 (서울대학교 조선해양공학과)
  • Received : 2012.11.29
  • Accepted : 2013.06.14
  • Published : 2013.06.30
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Abstract

The growing need for energy (oil and gas) has led to offshore resource development. As a reflection of this trend, there have been many advances in the technologies used for the subsea production systems that make offshore resource development possible. As the technologies for subsea production systems continue to grow, a subsea X-mas tree, the core equipment in a subsea production system, is required to have more functions than before. Generally, these complex functions lead to a change in its configuration. Therefore, this paper investigates a change in a subsea X-mas tree system to enhance system understanding, and conducts a leakage path analysis of a subsea X-mas tree system. Utilizing the recent configuration of the subsea X-mas tree, an identification of the leakage path and a quantitative risk analysis for the leakage using an FTA (fault tree analysis) are conducted.

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