• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.28-33
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• 2018

Currently, the government has been expanding the supply of semi-low-pressure in order to solve the problems of unsupplied area of city gas and to secure the economical efficiency of small supplied area. It is mainly supplied from the central storage tank to each household by buried piping. It is necessary to provide such a shutoff valve that can block the excess flow gas due to pipeline leak or rupture when piping is damaged by other construction. For this study, System CFD code named Flownex has been used and a component corresponding to the actual EFV was developed. We compared Flownex results with experimental data to verify the accuracy of Flownex and confirmed the error rate to be around 2%. In this study, pipeline network modeling was done by selecting the LPG supply pipeline in a village and installed the component of the EFV at each junction. We selected the longest pipeline from the main pipeline and set scenarios so that the excess flow occurs by that the pipeline is ruptured before entering the household. The excess flow occurs by the pipeline rupture and the EFV is closed. At this time, we analyzed backflow effects to the other pipeline by closing EFV.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.7 no.1 s.18
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• pp.10-18
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• 2003

Consequence model has been suggested to evaluate consequence of city gas accident considering actual situation. Through event tree analysis(ETA), probable accidents were summarized and listed. Then release rate was calculated both sonic and subsonic conditions. Among city gas accidents, fire damage is the dominant one and mainly discussed; fatality, burning injury, and damage to building were estimated using the consequence model suggested. With an appropriate conditions, calculating total cost by accident was suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.45-52
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• 2018

In this study, 398 city gas pipe systems installed on the bridges were surveyed and analyzed classified characteristics about the ages, length, and remote isolation devices installed or not. As a result of analysis, 43.0% pipes have been used more than 20 years and 89.4% do not have remote cut-off devices, so this study suggest safety management ways for the issues. Chosen 76 pipes were researched stress strain characteristics by CAESAR-II which is a specialized program for stress analysis. And, when a loop is installed on the bridge pipe, effect on code stress by the location and size of the loop was performed. This study can help to improve safety level by revising criteria of new installation, inspection and diagnostic.

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.183-187
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• 2003

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.38-46
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• 2024

The city gas pipeline network is characterized by being widely distributed and hierarchically connected in a complex manner over a wide area. In order to monitor the status of the widely distributed network pressures with high precision, Multi-block PCA(MBPCA) is recommended. However, while MBPCA has excellent performance in identifying faulty sensors as the number of sensors increases, the fault detection performance deteriorates, and also there is a problem that the model needs to be updated entirely even if minor changes occur. In this study, we developed fault detectability index and fault identificability index to determine the effectiveness of MBPCA application block by block. Based on these indices, we distinguished MBPCA and PCA blocks and developed a fault detection and diagnostic system for the city gas pipeline network of Haean Energy Co., Ltd., and were able to solve the problems that arise when there are many sensors.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.624-627
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• 2003

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.3 no.2 s.7
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• pp.43-52
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• 1999

An experimental chamber was fabricated to observe the gas diffusion behavior of leak gas from underground city-gas pipeline. It was made of acryl so that feeding of gas and the measuring points of the gas could be varied in each experiment. The MOS sensors were used to measure the concentrations of leak gas. The soil media such as the Jumunjin standard sand and the granite weathered soil were used to measure the gas diffusion and the change of leak gas concentrations was measured with time for various gas flow rate. As the distance between the leak point of gas and the measuring point of MOS sensor decreases, or the leak rate increases, the detection time of gas at a measuring points decreases and the gas concentration increases quickly and the concentration of the gas at steady state also increases. As the density of granite weathered soil is higher than that of Jumunjin standard sand for compaction, the detection time of leak gas in the granite weathered soil was longer than that in the Jumunjin standard soil. The leak gas concentrations in the granite weathered soil were lower than those in the Jumunjin standard sand at the beginning of gas leaking from a pipe, but inverse phenomenon was occured at steady state.

• 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 the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.75-80
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• 2008

According to the Integrated Notice on City Gas Safety Management Standards, materials for bedding and foundation which are around the pipe should be sands or fine grade soil without large particle that is more than 19 mm size. However, sands are mostly used at gas pipeline construction sites and this causes a shortage of sands and an increase of construction costs. It even causes the disruption of natural environment. In order to improve the standards of backfill material, we have researched regulations in other countries and investigated the pipeline construction sites to survey the present state of backfilling. We also have studied what the bedding and foundation materials affect on buried gas pipelines. Lastly, we have suggested suitable materials for bedding and foundation besides sands. We are sure this paper help the government amend the Notice about backfill materials.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.485-486
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• 2009

도시가스 배관에서 노출배관 위험요소에 대한 모니터링이 필요하나 현재는 인위적으로 사람에 의해 확인하거나 유선 기반의 감시 시스템이 존재한다. 이에 대한 제반 비용을 감소시키면서 무선 기반의 감시 인프라를 구축하기 위해 본 연구에서는 노출배관의 위험요소 중에서 가장 중용한 응력과 진동을 측정하고 CDMA 방식을 이용하여 모니터링 시스템에 전달해주는 시스템을 구축하며 실제 환경에서 시험환경(Test-bed)을 조성하여 대상 시설 및 설치 환경에 따라 최적화된 기기 및 인프라를 구축하는 것을 본 연구에서 기밸반된 도시가스 안전 유비쿼터스 인프라에 통합시키는 것을 목적으로 한다.