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A Study on the Analysis of Safety Standard and Evaluation of Safety Performance for the 5 Nm3 /hr Class Alkaline Water Electrolysis System (5 Nm3 /hr급 알카라인 수전해 시스템 안전기준 분석 및 안전성능 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Hye;Lee, Eun-Kyung;Kim, Min-Woo;Oh, Gun-Woo;Lee, Jung-Woon;Kim, Woo-Seop
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.65-75
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    • 2018
  • The wind energy produced at night is being discarded because of the excess power generated at night compared to daytime. To solve this problem, In this study, we analyzed the evaluation contents for evaluation of domestic and overseas water electrolysis systems and drew contents for safety performance contents test of the water electrolysis system based on the evaluation contents. The test contents produced the efficiency measurement test, the hydrogen generated pressure test, and the hydrogen purity test. And the safety performance evaluation of the alkaline water electrolysis system of $5Nm^3/hr$ was performed based on the results. As a result, the hydrogen generation was calculated as $5.10Nm^3/hr$ and the stack efficiency was $4.97kWh/Nm^3$. The purity of the hydrogen generated was 99.993% and it was confirmed that it produced high purity hydrogen. I think will help us assess and build safety performance of water electrolysis systems in the future.

A Study on Establishing Target Reliability Levels for Flammable Gas Transmission Pipelines (가연성가스 수송배관에 대한 목표 신뢰도 수준 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jin-Han;Jo, Young-Do;Moon, Jong-Sam
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.52-58
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    • 2018
  • In reliability based design and assessment (RBDA) methodology, reliability targets are used to ensure that safety levels are met relevant limit states in the stage of design and maintenance. The target reliability for flammable gas pipelines have not been developed yet in Korea. Instead of the reliability targets, the tolerable criteria for risk measures such as societal and individual risk have been applied in pipeline risk management. This paper introduces the procedures to develop the target reliability using tolerable risk criteria for societal and individual risk which can be enforced for high pressure natural gas pipelines in quantitative risk assessment. In addition, we propose the target reliability for natural gas and hydrogen gas transmission pipelines by the procedures.

A Method to Prevent CO Poisoning from Instantaneous Water Heaters (순간 가스온수기의 CO 중독사고 예방에 관한 연구)

  • Ahan, Jeong-Jin;Yeo, Chang-Hoon;Jo, Young-Do
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.26-30
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    • 2011
  • Instantaneous water heater being not properly installed and not adequately maintained may produce fatal accidents due to carbon monoxide poisoning and suffocation. Insufficient supply of air into the gas appliance for complete burning of the fuel or blocking the outlet of the combustion gas could be a cause to increase carbon monoxide concentration in the exhaust gas of the gas appliance. In this work, the experiments are done with a collected instantaneous water heater using in domestic and the concentration of oxygen near the gas appliance and carbon monoxide in exhaust gas are observed to investigate the risk of instantaneous water heater. The concentration of oxygen near the gas appliance is reduced until 17.7% for the ratio of the ventilation area and floor area being 3.5%. If the outlet of combustion gas is blocked, the carbon monoxide concentration is steeply increasing more than 4,000ppm. Therefore, periodic checking the outlet of combustion gas is more important than vent area to reduce the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Evaluation of Performance and Service Life of Low Pressure LPG Regulators for Home Use (가정용 LP가스 저압조정기의 성능 및 수명 평가)

  • Kim Young-Gyu;Cho Seok-Beom;Kim Pil-Jong
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.15 no.1 s.45
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents the evaluation of LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) regulators for home use. For the evaluation, several properties of the regulators were experimentally analyzed, such as the operation of safety device, the adjusting and lock-up pressure, the adjusting spring and the diaphragm, with respect to the used time of the regulators. Experimental results showed that the initial operation performance of regulators were degraded with increase of the service time and also showed that the degradation of the performance and material property could become serious after six-year-use of the regulator.

A Study of Risk Analysis for Underground-parking of Gas Vehicle (가스 자동차의 지하 주차 시 위험성 분석)

  • Rhie, Kwang-Won;Kim, Tae-Hun;Oh, Dong-Seok;Oh, Young-Dal;Seo, Doo-Hyoun;Shin, Soo-Il
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2012
  • We studied the risk analysis of fire and explosion caused by gas leak in underground-parking of gas vehicle. However, an entrance regulation of gas vehicles (H2/LPG/CNG etc.) to underground garages has not been enacted in Korea. Incase, a gas explodes in an underground parking garage placed in overcrowded residential area, such as an apartment, the scale of the damage would cause tremendous disaster. Faults of vehicle parts and management problems were evaluated by using the Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), which is a qualitative analysis method. The range of the damaged area by the explosion and the damage scale by the explosion pressure were analyzed by using the process hazard analysis software tool (PHAST). The study is expected to facilitate enactment of the regulation for the underground parking to restrict the gas vehicle.

On the Leakage Safety Analysis of Membrane LNG Storage Tank With Thermal Resistance Effects (열저항 효과를 고려한 멤브레인식 LNG 저장탱크의 누설 안전성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim C.K.;Cho S.H.;Suh H.S.;Hong S.H.;Lee S.R.;Kim Y.G.;Kwon B.K.
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.8 no.4 s.25
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, the FE analysis has been presented for the leakage safety of the membrane LNG storage tank based on the thermal resistance effects between the insulation panel and prestressed concrete structure. The FEM calculated results show that the leakage safety of plywood and polyurethane materials does not guarantee any more due to a strength failure of the insulation structure. But the PC structure of outer tank may delay leaked LNG of 10 days even though the inner tank and insulation structure are simultaneously failed. This means that the membrane LNG storage tank may be safe because of the stiffness of the outer tank.

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