• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.13-19
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• 1996

An estimation methodology, based on statistics and numerical method, has been developed for estimating the upper explosive limits(UEL) of paraffinic and olefinic hydrocarbon compounds. With proposed method, the UEL has been calculated for 24 paraffinic and 10 olefinic hydrocarbon compounds. The estimated the UEL agree with the experimental values within a few percent. A comparisond with four other methods avaiable in the literature are also presented. It is hoped eventually that this method will permit estimation of the UEL with improved accuracy and broader application for other compounds.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.56-65
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• 2014

Contamination of explosive compounds in the soils of military shooting range may pose risks to human and ecosystems. As shooting ranges are located at remote places, active remediation processes with hardwares and equipments are less practical to implement than natural solutions such as bioremediaton. In this study, a series of experiments was conducted to select a suitable carbon source and to optimize dosing rate for the enhanced bioremediation of explosive compounds in surface soils and sediments of shooting ranges with indigenous microorganisms activated by external carbon source. Treatability study using slurry phase reactors showed that the presence of indigenous microbial community capable of explosive compounds degradation in the shooting range soils, and starch was a more effective carbon source than glucose and acetic acid in the removal of TNT. However, at higher starch/soil ratio, i.e., 2.0, the acute toxicity of the liquid phase increased possibly due to transformation products of TNT. RDX degradation by indigenous microorganisms was also stimulated by the addition of starch but the acute toxicity of the liquid phase decreased with the increase of starch/soil ratio. Taken together, the optimum range of starch/soil ratio for the degradation of explosive compounds without significant increase in acute toxicity was found to be 0.2 of starch/soil.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2017

Six soil subsampling methods were evaluated with explosive compounds-contaminated soils to quantify the variance associated with each method. The methods include modified grab sampling, simplified ripple splitting, fractional shoveling, coning & quatering, degenerate fractional shoveling, and rolling & quatering. All the methods resulted in significantly lower CV (coefficient of variation) of 1~5%, compared to common grab sampling that gave 8~98% of CV, possibly due to the reduction of grouping and segregation errors described by Gy sampling theory. Among the methods, simplified ripple splitting tends to result in lower explosive compounds concentrations, while the rolling & quatering gave the opposite result. Fractional shoveling method showed the least variance and the highest reproducibility in the analysis.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2011

Cyclonite is a white powder and is very explosive. It can cause seizures (a problem of the nervous system) in human and animals when large amounts are inhaled or eaten. Research papers for workers exposure assesment of the cyclonite are very a few in the world. A field study was conducted at explosive compounds and bomb manufacturing companies to evaluate workers exposure to cyclonite. The airborne average concentration of cyclonite in explosive compounds manufacturing company was $4.10{\mu}g/m^3$(range: ND - $59.92{\mu}g/m^3$), and that of cyclonite in bomb manufacturing company was $31.49{\mu}g/m^3$(range: ND - $291.41{\mu}g/m^3$). Package process and assembly process in both companies were considered the high potential of exposure to cyclonite. Even though all airborne concentrations of cyclonite were lower than occupational exposure standard (MOEL: $500{\mu}g/m^3$), exposure to cyclonite can also occur through dermal contact during manufacture, handling, and clean-up of cyclonite. So control measures for protecting skin absorption of cyclonite were needed for preventing adverse health effect by cyclonite exposure.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2009

환경 시료 (토양 및 수질)내 화약물질을 신속하고 간편하게 검출할 수 있다면, 현장조사에서 오염도 조사를 위한 스키리닝 단계로 이용하여 불필요한 시료의 갯수와 고가의 실험실 정량분석비용을 줄일 수 있다. 상용 EXPRAY$^{(R)}$ Explosives Field Detection Kit(EXPRAY)를 이용하여 14종의 화약물질을 대상으로 화약물질 표준용액에 대한 최저검출농도를 결정 하고 및 준정량화 가능성을 확인하기 위한 실험을 실시하였다. 실험결과 EXPRAY는 14종의 화약물질 중에서, TNT, RDX, HMX, Tetryl및 TNB등 5종의 화약물질을 검출할 수 있었다. Nitramine계열인 HMX와 RDX에 대한 최저검출농도는 모두 14ng/mm$^2$이었다 EXPRAY는 nitroaromatic계열에는 더욱 민감하게 반응하여, Tetryl, TNB및 TNT에 대한 단위면적당(mm$^2$)최저 검출량이 각각 3ng, 3ng및 0.3ng이었다. 실험이 통제되는 조건에서 화약물질 표준용액에 EXPRAY를 적용하였을 경우에는 발색 강도의 비교를 통해 10배 단위의 준정량화가 가능하였다. 그러나 오염토양으로 실험한 경우에는 화약물질의 존재여부 및 종류만을 확인할 수 있었다. EXPRAY Explosives Detection Kit$^{(R)}$가 화약물질을 검출할 수 있는 경제적이고 민감한 방법이지만, 현장시료의 스크리닝 단계에만 적용할 수 있는 방법이다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.17-29
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• 2014

경기도 ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$지역 군 사격장에서 환경으로 유출되는 화약물질 현장저감시설의 설계 자료 확보를 위해 토양오염조사를 실시하였다. 설계에 필요한 자료는 (i) 주 오염 화약물질 종류 파악, (ii) 배출/이동 경로, (iii) 토양 입경별 화약물질 농도조사 및 침강특성이다. 현장 조사 및 분석결과, TNT와 RDX가 사격장 토양에서의 주 오염물질이지만, 군 훈련 종류와 사격장 지형에 따라 오염도는 변화하였다. 화약물질은 표토이외의 심토와 인근 개울에서도 검출되어, 피탄지에서 하천으로의 유출이 있음을 확인하였다. 피탄지에 화약물질 농도가 높은 hot spot이 다수 존재하였으나, 전반적으로 오염농도가 20 mg/kg을 넘지는 않았다. 피탄지 토양 내 점토 함량은 대조군 12 %에 비해 현저히 낮은 5 % 미만이며, 이는 사격으로 인해 식피가 제거되어 강우 시 토사의 표면유출이 증가하였기 때문이라 판단된다. 토양 입경별 화약물질 분포 분석 결과, 토양 입경 0.075 mm 미만의 세립토에는 화약물질 총량의 약 10 % 이하만이 존재하였다. 침강관 실험결과, 유출수 내 액상으로 유출되는 화약물질량이 고상에 있는 화약물질량보다 많았다. 그러므로 사격장에서 표면 유출되는 강수 내 입자상 물질을 간단한 침전지로 처리하고, 다음으로 정화식물을 식재한 인공습지로 액상 내 화약물질을 처리하는 방안이 자립적이며 지속적으로 유지 가능한 녹색 정화방법이 될 것이다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.82-93
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• 2014

A starch ball was devised to conveniently supply carbon source to indigenous microorganisms and to enhance biotransformation of explosive compounds(TNT and RDX) in the sediments of settling basins installed in military shooting ranges. To identify optimum dose/sediment ratio for degradation of explosives in the basin, a series of bench scale settling basin experiments were performed for 30 days while monitoring supernatant pH, DO, concentrations of nitrite, nitrate, sulfate, explosive compounds, and acute toxicity measured by bacterial luminescence. Addition of starch ball induced changes in oxidation conditions from oxic to anoxic in the benthic zone of the basin, which resulted in subsequent reductive degradation of both TNT and RDX in the liquid and solid phase of basin. However, fermentation products of excess starch, acetic acid and formic acid, caused acute toxicity in the liquid phase. The optimum ratio of starch ball/sediment for explosive compounds degradation by inducing changes in bio-geochemical environments without increase in acute toxicity, was found to be 0.009~0.017.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.93-100
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• 1999

By using literature data, the empirical equations have been derived which describe the interrelationships of explosion and other related properties of n-alcohols. The properties which have been correlated data are : lower and upper explosive limits, heats of combustion, carbon numbers. Also, the new equation for predicting the temperature dependence of lower explosive limits(LEL) of n-alcohols on the basis of explosive limits, heats of combustion, flame propagation theory and mathematical method is proposed. The values calculated by the proposed equations were a good agreement with literature data within a few percent. From a given explosive properties. by using the proposed equations, it is possible to predict the other properties. It is hoped eventually that this method will permit the estimation of the explosive properties of alcohol with improved accuracy and the broader application for other compounds.

• 한국산업안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국안전학회 2002년도 추계 학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.291-296
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• 2002

Flammable compounds are indispensible in domestic as well as in industrial fields as fuel, solvent and raw materials. The fire and explosion properties necessary for safe storage, transport, process design and operation of handling flammable substances are lower explosive limits(LEL), upper explosive limits(UEL), flash point, fire point, AIT(auto ignition temperature), MIE(minimum ignition energy), MOC(minimum oxygen concentration) and heats of combustion.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2001

Explosive limit is one of the major physical properties used to determine the fire and explosion hazards of the flammable substances. Explosive limits are used to classify flammable liquids according to their relative flammability. Such a classification is important for the safe handling of flammable liquids which constitute the solvent mixtures. Explosive limits of all compounds and solvent mixtures can be calculated with the appropriate use of the fundamental laws of Raoult, Dalton, Le Chatelier and activity coefficient models. In this paper, Raoult,s law and van Laar equation(activity coefficient model) are shown to be applicable for the prediction of the explosive limits in the flammable ethylacetate-toluene system. The values calculated by the proposed equations were a good agreement with literature data within a given percent. From a given results, by the use of the proposed equations, it is possible to predict explosive limits of the other flammable mixtures. It is hoped eventually that this method will permit the estimation of the explosive Properties of flammable mixtures with improved accuracy and the broader application for other flammable stances.