• 제목/요약/키워드: Fire & Explosion

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Autoignition of Urethane Foam to be Used as the Insulator of the Household Refrigerator

  • Choi, Jae Wook;Mok, Yun Soo
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • 제1권1호
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    • pp.47-51
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    • 2002

  • This study was performed by measuring the minimum ignition temperature of polyurethane form recovered from the recycling process of the end-of-life home appliances. The critical ignition temperature of polyurethane form was lower as the size of the sample vessel was increased, and that of polyurethane form using cyclopentane as the forming agent was relatively lower than the polyurethane form using CFC and the combustion of cyclopentane-polyurethane form occurred fiercely. It is considered that the recycling process of end-of-life home appliances using cyclopentane-polyurethane form as the insulator would require a special fire and dust explosion prevention measures since there exists a high potential hazard of fire and dust explosion during crushing and storage processes.

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The Influence of Pressure, Temperature, and Addition of CO2 on the Explosion Risk of Propylene used in Industrial Processes

  • Choi, Yu-Jung;Choi, Jae-Wook
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • 제58권4호
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    • pp.610-617
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    • 2020

  • In process installations, chemicals operate at high temperature and high pressure. Propylene is used as a basic raw material for manufacturing synthetic materials in the petrochemical industry; However, it is a flammable substance and explosive in the gaseous state. Thus, caution is needed when handling propylene. To prevent explosions, an inert gas, carbon dioxide, was used and the changes in the extent of explosion due to changes in pressure and oxygen concentration at 25 ℃, 100 ℃, and 200 ℃ were measured. At constant temperature, the increase in explosive pressure and the rates of the explosive pressure were observed to rise as the pressure was augmented. Moreover, as the oxygen concentration decreased, the maximum explosive pressure decreased. At 25 ℃ and oxygen concentration of 21%, as the pressure increased from 1.0 barg to 2.5 bar, the gas deflagration index (Kg) increased significantly from 4.71 barg·m/s to 18.83 barg·m/s.

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LPG 기화기의 화재.폭발사고 예측모델개발에 관한 연구 (Study on Fire.Explosion Accidents Prediction Model Development of LPG Vaporizer)

  • 고재선
    • 한국가스학회지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.28-36
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    • 2010

  • 본 연구에서는 1995년부터 2006년까지 12년간 발생한 3,593건의 가스사고사례를 수집하여 데이터베이스를 구축하였으며, 이를 근거로 LPG 기화기사고의 발생건수를 형태 및 원인별로 분석하였다. 분석결과를 살펴보면 사고의 형태로는 파열, 누출, 폭발, 화재 순으로 발생하는 것으로 나타났으며, 기화기 가스사고 중 세부원인을 분석한 결과 가장 많이 발생한 원인으로는 액유출방지장치의 결함에 의한 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 Poisson분석법을 적용하여 향후 5년 이내에 LPG 기화기와 관련된 화재, 폭발, 누출, 파열에 대한 가장 가능성이 높은 발생확률을 예측하였다. 그 결과 사고의 발생횟수가 3번 이하로 발생하는 항목으로는 LPG-Vaporizer-Fire으로 나타났으며, 5번 이하는 LPG-Vaporizer -Products Faults-Check Floater, 10번 이하는 LPG-Vaporizer-Products Faults로 분석되었다. 향후 본 연구에서 구축한 국내사고 Database를 매년 지속적으로 보완 개정을 하면 국내 가스사고 예측에 대한 보다 신뢰성 있는 정보를 제공해 줄 수 있어 효과적인 가스안전관리 대책수립에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

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