• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.192-199
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• 1997

우리나라의 가스소비량은 매년 크게 증가하고 있다. 본고에서는 국내에서 발생한 가스사고를 분석하고 배관건전성 평가방안 및 안전성 확보방안에 대하여 국내외 분석자료들을 정리하고 그 내용을 검토하였다. 국내 가스사고 자료는 배관손상뿐 아니라 각종가스 사고가 포함된 광범위한 데이터 자료이다. 국내 가스배관이 대부분 매설된 지 얼마안된 상태로서 손상사례가 드물어 매설배관에 대한 손상사례 자료의 체계적인 수집 및 분석이 아직 이루어지지 못하고 있다. 본 보에서 제시하는 데이터는 천연가스뿐 아니라 LPG나 일반가스까지 포함된 자료들로서 앞서 제시한 외국의 데이터와 직접적인 비교는 어려운 상황이다. 또한 가스배관 건전성 확보는 매우 중요한 사항이지만 이에 대한 체계적인 연구가 국내에선 상당히 미흡한 실정이다. 본보에서는 미국의 사례를 중심으로 배관 손상시 원인규명 방법과 손상 억제방안 및 배관손상 조기감지 체계 등에 관하여 설명하도록 한다.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Fire Investigation
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 2007

가스보일러의 확대 보급으로 2006년도 932만대가 주택, 상가 및 산업현장 등에 보급되어 생활의 편리성이 높아지고 있으나 가스보일러의 설치불량, 관리소홀 및 제품의 노후 등으로 사고가 끊이지 않고 발생하고 있다. 가스보일러가 연소 중에 발생하는 배기가스가 실내에 유출되어 최근 5년간 30건의 사고로 사상자가 92명이 발생하는 등 1건의 사고로 3명이상의 높은 인명 피해를 나타냈다. 본 연구에서는 가스보일러의 사고통계분석과 2건의 사고사례를 분석한 결과 가스보일러의 제품의 안전성 향상과 실내에 배기가스가 누출되었을 때 신속히 검지할 수 있는 경보시스템의 방안이 필요할 것으로 보인다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.4 no.2 s.10
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• pp.46-51
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• 2000

It is required that fuel gas accidents should be managed carefully along with the increase of fuel gas consumption. Factors to cause accidents were investigated through a systematic analysis of gas accidents during recent 4 years, which could be applied to prepare countermeasures to reduce gas accidents. The thawing season is found to be weak to gas accidents, showing a slightly higher rate of accident occurring than average. During this term although the number of LPG accident is similar to that of yearly average, countermeasures are required for LPG facilities since the portion of accident is large; in detail, user's carelessness, defective facility, or instrument failure are major causes. The number of city gas accident facility is larger than that of yearly average; particularly, defective facilities, third-party work, and appliance failure are major causes. As a result, countermeasures have been suggested for the accident of large portion or above yearly average.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.56-63
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• 2008

We have garnered 3,593 data of gas [Natural Gas (NG) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)] accidents reported for 16 years from 1991, and then analyzed the accidents according to their types and causes based on the classified database. According to the results the gas leak has been the most common accident followed by the explosion and then fire accidents. The most frequent accident-occurring locations for fire, explosion and leak are recognized around the valve, hose and pipeline, respectively. In addition, we have applied the Poisson analysis to predict the most-likely probabilities of fire, explosion and release in the upcoming 5 years. From this research we have assured the successive database updating will highly improve the anticipating-probability accuracy and thus it will play a key role as a significant safety-securing guideline against the gas disasters.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.4 no.3 s.11
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

It is required that gas accidents should be managed carefully as the consumption of fuel gas increases and high pressure gas process becomes more complex, which may cause a catastrophic accident. Factors to cause accidents were investigated through a systematic analysis of gas accidents between 1995 and 1998, which could be applied to prepare countermeasures to reduce gas accidents. As a result, it was suggested that the effective countermeasures to gas accidents should be kept applied, while new countermeasures were suggested in the field of increasing or not-decreasing number of accident. Totally 2,027 of accidents were reported during this term, and were found to decrease by about $12\%$ every year from 1996. The number of fuel gas such as LPG and city gas accident took up $96\%$, and most of accidents occurred at end-user's facility such as residential house and restaurant business. According to the kind of gas and facility, trend of accident by cause varies, while dominant causes are defective installation, appliance failure, or user's carelessness. Intentional accidents by fuel gas was excluded in this study because of its occurring mechanism and will be analyzed further elsewhere, although it took up $15\%$ and increased by $38\%$ every year.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.60-66
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• 2014

In this study, the overseas failure frequency data of the high-pressure gas pipeline were investigated to apply QRA of high-pressure gas pipeline. The typical overseas failure frequency data of high-pressure gas pipeline are DOT of United States, EGIG of Europe, and UKOPA of United Kingdom (UK). Comparative analysis of these data was shown that EGIG data was suitable for the situation in Korea. In order to apply QRA of high-pressure gas pipeline, non-linear regression analysis using the failure frequency data in the report of EGIG 8th was performed. In the future, intensive researches are required for the external interference because about 50% of the failure frequency of all incidents is the external interference, and for combining of domestic and overseas data.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.4 no.4 s.12
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• pp.65-70
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• 2000

We develop the database program for accident cause analysis which can help to increase domestic safety custom and prevent recurrence of gas accident and analyze accidents easily The program developed in this study consists of two parts. one part uses accident case database applied if than rule, so it finds root causes by inference of some input values. The other uses Root Cause Analysis Map which divided human errors and equipment difficulties and so we get general root cause by reply some proper questions.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.20 no.1 s.61
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• pp.6-14
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• 2006

The data of city gas accidents has been collected and analysed for not only predictions of the fire and explosion accidents but also the criteria of societal risk. The accidents of the recent 11 years have been broken up into such 3 groups roughly as "release", "explosion", "fire" d 16 groups in detail. Owing to the Poisson probability distribution functions, 'careless work-explosion-pipeline' and 'joint loosening & erosion-release-pipeline' items respectively have turned out to record the lowest and most frequency among the recent 11-years accidents. And thus the proper counteractions must be carried out. In order to assess the societal risks tendency of the fatal gas accidents and set the more obvious safety policies up, the D. O. Hogon equation and the regression method has been used to range the acceptable range in the F-N curve of the cumulative casualties. The further works requires setting up successive database on the fire and explosion accidents systematically to obtain reliable analyses. Also the standard codification will be demanded.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Fire Investigation
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.59-65
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• 2008

Among the various cases of fire accident, gas accident which is roost essential have a lot of forms and causes. The quantity consumed of gas is increasing because of increment of gas-using families and variations of gas machinery. The quantity consumed of gas in 2007 was 35078 tons and the average rate of increasement was 9.4%. The amount of gas accident was on the peak at 1995 when 557 accidents occurred in a year. In 2007, 123 gas accidents was occurred and the average rate of diminution was 11.5%. Accidents by LP gas took 80% of the whole accident and city gas and high pressure gas took 20%. In case of LP gas, accidents were usually occurred because of lack of blocking after the removal of gas machinery and moveable butane burner. Especially, the accidents cause by carelessness of a provider is increasing. Gas accidents which generate damage of human life and property, are caused by users' carelessness, providers' carelessness, inferiority of structure and old products. In this thesis, We will classify the gas accidents. Furthermore through the classification of accidents by forms, causes and regions, this thesis going to be a reference to understand and prevent the accidents.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.89-100
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• 2004

Nowadays, the gas utilities have been increasing constantly due to the expansion of the urban areas. Using computerized information database, the gas companies have developed a gas management system in order to maintain the current status. However, this system can only give basic functions of the maintenance and management of the gas facilities and it has no proper utilities to provide information against accidents from gas leaks. Therefore, a gas accident management system has been developed in this study. Through primary and secondary pipe searching algorithm realtime based management system was devised against gas leaks to propose proper actions. In addition, supporting decision making has been enabled providing estimated maximum amount of gas leaks. Furthermore, all the residential units could be identified thereby minimizing damages through early warning. This system can be expected to contribute to enhance the efficiency of the gas management not to mention of protecting human lives and properties of the nation.