• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.114-117
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• 2024

A lithium-ion battery is a rechargeable battery that uses the reversible reduction of lithium ions to store energy and is the predominant battery type in many industrial and consumer electronics. The lithium-ion batteries are essential to ensure they operate safely. We conducted an exposure assessment five days after a fire in a battery-testing facility. We assessed some of the potentially hazardous materials after a lithium-ion battery fire.We sampled total suspended particles, hydrogen fluoride, and lithium with real-time monitoring of particulate matter (PM) 1, 2.5, and 10 micrometers (㎛). The area sampling results indicated that primary potential hazardous materials such as dust, hydrogen fluoride, and lithium were below the recommended limits suggested by the Korean Ministry of Labor and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Threshold Limit Values. Based on our assessment, workers were allowed to return to work.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.448-449
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• 2012

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.1159-1164
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• 2012

A new colorimetric sensors containing thiourea (1-(4-nitrophenyl)-3-quinolin-6-ylthiourea; 1) and urea(1-(4-nitrophenyl)-3-quinolin-6-ylurea; 2) moieties for fluoride were designed and synthesized. These simple receptors were characterized their stoichiometry, and investigates the mechanism of their selectivity as anion receptors. The addition of tetrabutylammonium fluoride salts to the solution of receptors caused a dramatically and clearly observable color changes from colorless to yellow. To examine their application as anion receptors by UV-vis and $^1H$ NMR spectroscopy results revealed their higher selectivity for fluoride ion than other anions. The receptors and fluoride ion formed a 1:1 stoichiometry complex through strong hydrogen bonding interactions in the first step, followed by a process of deprotonation in presence of an excess of $F^-$ in DMSO solvent.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제68권2호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2024

The halide-acetylene anions, X^--HCCH (X = F, Cl, and Br) have been studied by using several different ab initio and DFT methods to determine structures, hydrogen-bond energies, vibrational frequencies of the anion complexes. Although the halide-acetylene complexes all have linear equilibrium structures, it is found that the fluoride complex is characterized with distinctively different structure and interactions compared to those of the chloride and bromide complexes. The performance of various density functionals on describing ionic hydrogen-bonded complexes is assessed by examining statistical deviations with respect to high level ab initio CCSD(T) results as reference. The density functionals employed in the present work show considerably varying degrees of performance depending on the properties computed. The performances of each density functional on geometrical parameters related with the hydrogen bond, hydrogen-bond energies, and scaled harmonic frequencies of the anion complexes are examined and discussed based on the statistical deviations.

• 한국위험물학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2014

Acidic chemicals like sulfuric acid, nitric acid and hydrogen chloride take up 37% of the total chemical accidents which took place for the past 10 years. When an acidic chemical leak happens, fume is generated, diffusing into the air, which might cause serious damage to health of local residents and the environment. However, we have only little reference data for production and using of acidic chemicals. In this study, we investigated characteristics of production and using for acidic chemicals with high accident frequency. As a results, domestic chemical accidents were categorized according to chemical types and production, using, and handling characteristics of acidic chemicals were identified. Sulfuric acid was handled in the largest amount, followed in the order of hydrogen chloride, nitric acid, acrylic acid, and hydrogen fluoride. Sulfuric acid is used in the industry of manufacturing composite fertilizer and mainly used for manufacturing fertilizer. Hydrogen chloride is used in the industry of manufacturing basic chemicals for petrochemical family and mainly used for pH regulator. It is expected that this results could be used as preliminary data for making decisions on facilities required intensive management in order to prevent chemical accidents and prepare countermeasures against such accidents.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.334-342
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• 2005

200-300 nm 직경을 지닌 폴리비닐리덴 플루오라이드 초극세 섬유를 전기방사법으로 제조하였다. 이들을 불응화시킨 후, $800-1800^{\circ}C$ 온도에서 탄화시켜 PVdF 계 탄소나노 섬유를 제조하여 구조 및 기공분석을 하였다. 이들은 20-30 nm 크기의 탄소입자로 이루어져 있으며 탄소나노입자는 1 nm이하의 슬릿형 나노기공을 지니고 있었다. 탄화온도가 증가함에 따라 비표면적은 $1500^{\circ}C$에서 $414\;m^2/g$로 감소하였으나, $1800^{\circ}C$에서는 $1300\;m^2/g$로 급격히 다시 증가하였으며 1 nm 이하의 나노기공만을 지닌 탄소섬유가 얻어졌다. 비표면적 및 기공특성과 수소저장특성을 관계를 조사하기 위하여 Magnetic Syspension Balance(MSB)를 사용한 중량법으로 평가한 이들의 수소저장능은 0.04-0.4wt%이었다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.14-20
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• 2015

A Large Eddy Simulation(LES) was performed for the prediction of unsteady dispersion behavior of hydrogen fluoride (HF). The HF leakage accident occurred at the Gumi fourth industrial complex was numerically investigated using the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) based on the LES. The accident area was modeled three-dimensionally and time-varying boundary conditions for wind were adopted in the simulation for considering the realistic accident conditions. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallel computation technique was used to reduce the computational time. As a result, it was found that the present LES simulation could predict the unsteady dispersion features of HF near the accident area effectively. The dispersion behaviors of the leaked HF was much affected by the unsteady wind direction. The LES could predict the time variation of the HF concentration reasonably and give an useful information for the risk analysis while the prediction with the time-averaging concept of HF concentration had a limitation for the amount of HF concentration at specific location point. It was identified that the LES is very useful to predict the dispersion characteristics of hazardous chemicals.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.582-585
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• 2016

ALOHA, PHAST 등의 사고영향평가 프로그램들을 활용하여 전기 전자 등의 산업 분야에서 많이 쓰이며 인체에 유독한 HF 가 누출되는 사고의 발생 시 대피해야 하는 초기 이격거리에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 다양한 공정조건과 상태로 저장되어 있는 HF의 사고시나리오를 간단하게 정의하기는 어렵지만 화학물질안전원의 지침대로 10분 내 총 저장량 누출을 최악의 시나리오, 결속된 배관의 일부 파열을 대안의 시나리오로 하여 비상상황을 가정하였다. 그로부터 사고모델링의 시작인 누출속도 산정을 한 후 보수적으로 확산모델링을 적용하여 밤과 낮의 대표적인 기상상태에 따라 일반적인 대피거리로 권고되는 ERPG-2 농도가 도달하는 끝점거리를 구하여 현장에서 신속하게 쓸 수 있는 간단한 그래프와 같은 형태로 제시하였다. 이는 유사시를 대비한 사전적인 성격의 그래프로 화학물질 누출사고 시 신속한 비상대응계획을 수립하는 데 도움이 될 것이다.

• 한국도시환경학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.495-502
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 AERMOD 대기확산 모델을 이용하여 제주도에서 유해화학물질 중 불화수소의 소규모 유출사고 영향 범위를 산정하여 보다 빠르고 정확한 대응시스템을 확보하고자 하였다. 분석결과 영향범위는 권역별로 서귀포소방서, 동부소방서, 제주소방서, 서부소방서 순으로 넓게 나타났으며, 계절별로는 여름, 봄, 가을, 겨울 순으로 넓게 나타났다. 기상인자(풍속, 기온) 간의 상관성은 풍속이 0.998로 높은 양(+)의 상관성을 보인반면, 기온과는 -0.463으로 음(-)의 상관성을 보였다. 선형회귀분석을 통해 불화수소 누출사고 시 풍속에 따른 영향범위(m) = 13.922WS(풍속) - 5.195의 1차 방정식을 얻을 수 있었으며, 신뢰도($R^2$)가 0.995로 매우 높게 나타났다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.328-333
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• 2023

This study experimentally verified the etch rate of the SiO₂ sacrificial layer etching process with a single etch hole using vapor-phase hydrogen fluoride (VHF) etching. To fabricate small-sized polysilicon etch holes, both circular and triangular pattern masks were employed. Etch holes were fabricated in the polysilicon thin film on the SiO₂ sacrificial layer, and VHF etching was performed to release the polysilicon thin film. The lateral etch rate was measured for varying etch hole sizes and sacrificial layer thicknesses. Based on the measured results, we obtained an approximate equation for the etch rate as a function of the etch hole size and sacrificial layer thickness. The etch rates obtained in this study can be utilized to minimize structural damage caused by incomplete or excessive etching in sacrificial layer processes. In addition, the results of this study provide insights for optimizing sacrificial layer etching and properly designing the size and spacing of the etch holes. In the future, further research will be conducted to explore the formation of structures using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes to simultaneously seal etch hole and prevent adhesion owing to polysilicon film vibration.