• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.756-761
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• 2012

Natural gas is converted in to LNG by chilling and liquefying the gas to the temperature of $-162^{\circ}C$, when liquefied, the volume of natural gas is reduced to 1/600 of its standard volume. This gives LNG the advantage in transportation. In this study, the effects of the pressure drop of refrigerant and natural gas in the LNG heat exchanger of cryogenic cascade refrigeration cycle were investigated and then the design criteria for the pressure drop of refrigerant and natural gas of the LNG heat exchanger were proposed. The pressure drop of the cascade liquefaction cycle was investigated and simulated using HYSYS software. The simulation results showed that the pressure drop in the LNG heat exchanger is set to 50 kPa considering the increase in the compressor work and COP of cryogenic cascade liquefaction cycle.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.686-686
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• 2009

가스하이드레이트는 수소결합을 하는 물분자의 고체상 격자(Lattice)내에 포집되어 들어가는 기체분자로 구성된 결정화합물로서 외형적인 형태는 얼음과 거의 유사하다. 천연가스 하이드레이트 기술의 최대장점으로는 액화천연가스(LNG)는 초저온인 $-162^{\circ}C$의 저장조건이 필요하지만 천연가스하이드레이트(NGH)기술은 비교적 온화한 조건인 $-15^{\circ}C$에서 천연가스를 고체상태로 저장/이용할 수 있다는 것이다. 천연가스를 $-162^{\circ}C$에서 액화시킨 LNG상태로 생산, 수송, 저장하는 경우보다 고체상태인 NGH(Natural Gas Hydrate)로 만들어서 생산, 수송, 저장할 경우 천연가스의 생산, 수송, 저장, 재가스화 등의 일련의 공정과 비교해볼 때 LNG방법보다 약 24%이상의 경비를 절감을 할 수 있다고 보고되어지고 있다. 따라서, 천연가스의 수송 및 저장기술에서의 탁월한 경제성으로 인해 선진국에서는 가스하이드레이트에 대한 활발한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 특히 일본은 5Ton/Day용량의 NGH 생산플랜트를 건설하여 시운전 중에 있다. NGH기술의 주요 활용분야는 대용량의 가스매장량을 요구하여 LNG공정기술을 적용할 수 없는 중소형가스전 또는 한계가스전에 경제적으로 적용하는 해양수송분야와 천연가스 공급망이 갖춰져 있지 못한 지역에 NGH Pellet형태로 수송/재기화하여 활용하는 내륙운송이 분야가 있다. 국내에서는 지식경제부 국책과제인 ETI(Energy Technology Innovation)사업을 시작으로 국가경쟁력 제고 차원에서 이러한 기술의 기반구촉 및 실증화 사업이 진행되고 있다. 주요 내용으로는 NGH Process Flow, Overall NGH Process concept diagram, NGH Carrier outline, NGH Land Transportation chain 등이 포함되어 있다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 1995

1992년 9월 현재 전 세계적으로 운전 중(건설포함)인 액화 및 인수기지의 LNG 저장탱크는 지상식-이중벽 금속 탱크, 지상식-맴브레인 PC 탱크, 지상식-자립식 내부탱크/PC 외부탱크, 피드식-RC(Reinforced Concrete) 보강둑 탱크, 피트식-이중벽 금속탱크, 피트식-자립식 내부탱크/PC 외부탱크 및 지하식 탱크의 7가지 유형으로 나 타낼 수 있다. 또한 액화천연가스를 저장하는 내부탱크 소재에 따라 9%Ni강 및 MEMBRANE(SUS304) 형식으로 대별할 수 있다. MEMBRANE 저장탱크 형식의 핵심기술인 MEMBRANE은 -162.deg.C의 LNG에 의한 열수축팽창에 견딜 수 있도록 스테인레스강판 (SUS304)을 사용하여 기하학적으로 특이한 주름진 형상을 갖도록 설계되었으며 주름 형상에 따라 프랑스의 테크니가즈(Technigaz), 일본의 가와사끼(Kawasaki). 미쓰비시 (Mitsubishi), 이시가와지마하리마(Ishikawajima-Harima)사의 멤브레인과 세계에서 3번째로 한국가스공사 연구개발원이 개발한 링디식 멤브레인으로 구별할 수 있다. 본 해설에서는 국내의 전국 천연가스 공급사업계획 및 건설현황을 검토하고 최근 전 세계적으로 널리 사용되고 있는 액화천연가스 저장탱크의 종류를 용량별, 년도별로 분석하여 전세계의 액화천연가스 저장탱크에 관해 소개 하겠다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.8 no.2 s.23
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• pp.48-53
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• 2004

Korea Gas Corporation(KOGAS) is a Liquified Natural Gas(LNG) supplier through out the Korea. LNG, which is imported wholly from foreign countries, is compressed 1/600 for easy transportation and is stored in a liquid state in the storage tanks at Incheon, Pyeongtaek and Tongyeong. At LNG receiving terminals, LNG is vaporized to natural gas before supplying to City Gas Consumer or Power Plant. The secondary pump is a equipment which compress LNG from $10 kgf/cm^2$ to $70 kgf/cm^2$. The secondary pump at Tongyeong LNG receiving terminal is consisted of two pumps in one underground PIT, and is connected to supporting structures. It is therefore expected that there is a vibration problem with the pump and was found that high level vibration was occurred in a low frequency band(5${\~}$10Hz). In this paper, the vibration of secondary pump was analyzed, and the main cause of vibration was found out.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.22-28
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• 2013

The heat transfer characteristics of LNG(Liquefied Natural Gas) vaporizer on the ship was performed by numerical simulation to get the optimum NG(Natural Gas) generating condition. The glycol-water was used for heating in LNG vaporizer, and the cooling water of main engine was used as heating souse for glycol-water. This cooling water temperature increases again after recirculating from the main engine, and then it can be used to heat the glycol-water. The numerical analysis results has good agreement with the experimental results by liquid nitrogen for validation. So CFD technique was used to simulate the heat transfer characteristics of LNG vaporizer on the ship. The numerical results show that the operation condition of LNG vaporizer shows NG temperature of $6^{\circ}C$ in the outlet of LNG vaporizer, and the mass flow rates of LNG and glycol-water were showed 0.111 kg/s and 1.805 kg/s, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.30-39
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• 2021

Natural gas is globally emerging as an important energy source for environmental, political and regional reasons. In Korea, natural gas imported from oversea natural gas resources as a LNG, it is increased for an applications as a fuel and feedstock which replace the coal and nuclear energy. Because it is relied on the import market in Korea, it is very important to analyze the security for supply. Therefore, this study suggested a method for reducing supply risk and for providing stable supply and demand through risk analysis of Korea's import structure. In order to reduce the supply risk, the concentration of importing countries should be lowered and it is necessary to lower the proportion of countries with relatively low GSSI and increase the imports from Russia. Finally increasing the number of importing countries or maintaining friendly relations with countries where the supply is stable could give us the positive impact in terms of total GSSI.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.918-922
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• 2015

As international environmental regulations for pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions discharged from ships are being reinforced, it is drawing attention to use LNG as ship fuel. This paper compares the explosion risk potential in the LNG fuel gas supply systems of two types used in marine LNG fuelled vessels. By selecting 8500 TEU class container ships as target, LNG storage tank was designed and pressure conditions were assumed for the use of each fuel supply type. The leak hole sizes were divided into three categories, and the leak frequencies for each category were estimated. The sizes of the representative leak holes and release rates were estimated. The release rate and the leak frequency showed an inverse relationship. The pump type fuel gas supply system showed high leak frequency, and the pressure type fuel gas supply system showed high release rate. Computational fluid dynamics simulation was applied to perform a comparative analysis of the explosion risk potential of each fuel supply system.

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.251-256
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• 2006

LNG 냉열 활용에 대한 관심은 유가의 고공행진과 더불어 고조되고 있다. 본 연구는 생산기지 내에서 LNG 냉열의 이용현황 및 활용 가능량에 대한 분석을 토대로 LNG를 사용하는 6대 냉열사업에 대한 타당성 연구를 수행하였다 하절기 생산기지 내에서 냉열의 활용 가능량은 전체 냉열량의 30%로 LNG kg당 약 60kcal 정도로 매우 적다. 또한 생산기지 내에서 천연가스 송출량이 시간대별로 크게 차이가 발생되기 때문에 실질적으로 활용 가능한 양은 이것보다 적은 것으로 나타났다. 6대 냉열사업은 공기액화분리, 냉열발전, 저온분쇄, 액화탄산 및 드라이아이스, 냉동 및 냉장창고, 지역냉방사업이고, 사업화 가능성에 대한 타당성 연구를 수행하였다. 본 결과 전체 냉열사업의 투자비 회수기간이 15년 이상 상회하는 것으로 나타났다. 현시점에서 냉열사업 자체의 외국기술 의존도 때문에 막대한 초기투자비가 필요하고, 생산품의 부가가치가 낮으며 기존 시장에서 경쟁력을 확보하기가 어려운 것으로 평가되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.269-274
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• 2009

Recently, the construction of Liquefied Natural Gas Carriers(LNGC) is being promoted larger and larger depending on long voyage. In 1950 years, $5,000m^3$ class of LNGC had been changed to $71,500m^3$ class in 1973. and to $210,000-266,000m^3$ class in 2007. Especially, the system of main engines and cargo control, Re-liquefaction of natural gases have become possible in LNGC. This research deals with the LNG projects, world markets of energy and developing tendency of liquefied natural gas carriers.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.787-813
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• 2009

Because of global warming, the thawing of the Arctic ice cap is slowly accelerating. That is the hot issue nowadays. According to the each country's climate change policy, it is boom in the world to lessen the consuming of the fossil fuel those are oil, coal and natural gas. But on the contrary the thawing of the Arctic ice cap is the chance to make the natural gas producing unit cost lower. The purpose of this paper is to search the Arctic policy of each country under the contradictory relationship between promoting the climate change policy and exploiting the natural gas on the Arctic. Specially, there are huge natural gas reserves in Russia on the Arctic region, Russia's exploiting the natural gas on the Arctic will affect on the natural gas supply-demand balance of world natural gas market strongly in the future. Therefore it needs to prepare the future energy alternative policy for Korea's energy security. Russia has Yamal Peninsular where is abundant on natural gas reserver, and she can supply natural gas by LNG ship all over the world via the Arctic route. This means that the structure of world natural gas market be changed gradually. It will be possible in 2030~2040. And such a change is very important because new natural gas trading type can do it through not only overcoming the geological restriction but also shifting the main trading type from PNG(Pipeline Natural Gas) to LNG(Liquified Natural Gas). Therefore it is necessary that we should let this be a good lesson to ourselves through the government action of other countries (China, Japan) those also have no sovereignty over the Arctic as Korea.