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A Study of the Distance between a Tank and a Dike Considering a Leakage Velocity at an Opening Hole in case of a Leakage Accident (누출사고 시 저장탱크 위험물 누출속도를 고려한 탱크와 방유제 사이 간격에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jae Yeol;Kim, Dong Hyun;Ban, Soon Hee;Lee, Chang Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2018
  • Chemical accidents generated during maintenance, repair, and normal operation, such as dispersion, fire, and explosions, can cause massive losses like a 2012 hydro fluorine leak in Gumi, South Korea. Since this accident, many researches have studied physical mitigation systems. However, due to the lack of potential costs and time, it is really hard for many companies to install mitigation systems without prior knowledge. Thus, the efficacy of mitigation system should be evaluated. This study assesses a dike design considering the fluid velocity at an open hole when a leakage accident occurs. It is assumed that leakage materials follow a free fall motion. Throughout case studies, a current KOSHA guide for a dike design was evaluated and new guidelines handling various conditions were proposed.

A numerical study of the flow field in the IRWST of KNGR (차세대원자로 재장전수조내의 유동장에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Kang Hyung Seok;Kim Hwan Yeol;Yoon Juhyeon;Bae Yoon Yeong;Park Jong Kyun
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.205-212
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    • 1999
  • Safety Depressurization System of the Korean Next Generation Reactor prevents the Reactor Coolant System from over-pressurization by discharging the coolant with high pressure and temperature into the In-containment Refueling Water Storage Tank(IRWST) during an accident. If temperature in the IRWST rises above the temperature limit of $200\;^{\circ}F$ due to the discharged coolant, an unstable steam condensation may occur and cause large load on the IRWST wall. To investigate whether this condition can be reached or not for the design basis accident, the flow and temperature distributions of water in the IRWST wire calculated by using CFX 4.2 computer code. The results show that the local water temperature does not exceeds the temperature limit within the transient time of 5 seconds.

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A Study on the Preventive Method of Accident by Streaming Electrification in UHV Transformer (UHV변압기에서 유동대전에 의한 사고 방지에 관한 연구)

  • 박재윤;고희석
    • The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.6 no.5
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    • pp.38-44
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    • 1992
  • In this paper, electrification pipe modeled on the oil path that insulating oil flow in the high power transformer is manufactured in order to prevent the accident cause from streaming electrification generated when insulating off flow at a solid-liquid interface, and the streaming current is measured and analyzed according to the shape of oil path in electrification pipe. From the result of this study, the streaming current increases linearly with increasing of a oil velocity and it increases at lower temperature and decreases at higher temperature than [$46^{\circ}C$]. The smoother the flow of insulating oil is the more the streaming current decreases.

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A Study on the Analysis of Causes for Fatal Accident in Construction Works (건설공사의 중대재해 원인분석에 관한 연구)

  • 박종근
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.122-133
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    • 1997
  • Various types of fatal accidents are increasing in Korean construction work site. Simply repeated and conventional accidents as well as new types of potential hazards which are caused by large-scaled work, complexity and negligence of temporary structures in construction are increasing, so that analysis of fundamental causes are necessary to control the construction accidents. In this study 739 fatal accidents are informally classified by the types of work and work process. The classified items which are based on ANSI Z 16.2, are modified adapted to the construction fields and are given code numbers and are analyzed by the data-base program. The exact causes of various types of accidents are analyzed by the accident types, agencies and hazardous conditions and through the Cross-tabulation method in order to find out the cause between relevant accidents.

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Analysis Method on the Free Drop Impact Condition of Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipping Casks (자유낙하충격조건에 있는 사용후핵연료 운반용기의 충격해석방법 연구)

  • 이재형;이영신;류충현;나재연
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.766-771
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    • 2001
  • The package used to transport radioactive materials, which is called by cask, must be safe under normal and hypothetical accident conditions. These requirements for the cask design must be verified through test or finite element analysis. Since the cost for FE analysis is less than one for test. the verification by FE analysis is mainly used. But due to the complexity of mechanical behaviors. the results depends on how users apply the codes and it can cause severe errors during analysis. In this paper, finite element analysis is carried out for the 9 meters free drop and the puncture condition of the hypothetical accident conditions using LS-DYNA3D and ABAQUS/Explicit. We have investigated the analyzing technique for the free drop impact test of the cask and found several vulnerable cases to errors. The analyzed results were compared with each other. We have suggested a reliable and relatively simple analysis technique for the drop test of spent nuclear fuel casks.

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A Study on the Safety Improvement of Mixed Acid Storage Facility through the Accident Investigation Applicated by RCA (혼산 저장설비 사고의 근본원인 분석을 통한 안전성 향상방안)

  • Kwon, Nam-Ho;Kim, Dong-Joon
    • Korean Journal of Hazardous Materials
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2018
  • Mixed acid is very reactive and highly corrosive. it has been causing many accidents in a electronic industry, a steel industry, and a chemical industry. Therefore, it is required that the high safety level for the acid storage facilities. In this study, we investigated the accident causes for resent leak accidents with Root Cause Analysis (RCA). The root causes analysed by RCA were categorized as nine divisions by the their characteristics. Furthermore, each nine divisions causes was applied to the PDCA model which are using at OHSAS 18001. It is suggested that the nine division with the root causes can be the essential items for the development of the safety management manual. It is helpful to the safety improvement of the acid storage facility.

A consideration on obstacle detector at level crossing using by ultrasonic sensor (초음파 센서를 이용한 건널목 지장물 검지장치에 관한 고찰)

  • Cho, B.K.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.286-288
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    • 2003
  • Accidents at level crossing where railways and roads cross cause many casualties because of collision of cars etc and it also has a risk of the 2nd accident of trains. it is the most vulnerable point in the railway safety. Fundamental solution for accidents at level crossing is making the crossings cubic. but it can't be easily progressed because of environmental and financial difficulties. every kind of anti-accident measures are being strived for. one of the strived results is level crossing obstacle detector which automatically detects obstacles like defected cars etc in the middle of level crossing and transmits the information of obstacles to the approaching train. However present level crossing obstacle auto detector needs high expenses to be installed and has difficulties that lenses of beam transmitter, beam receiver should be cleaned in snowing winter. this document reviews level crossing obstacle auto detector using ultrasonic sensor to measure these difficulties.

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The study of the efficiency augmentation model under Urban system - a point Taegu subway fire accident probelm and countermeasure - (대구지하철 화재사고를 통한 도시철도의 효율성 증대 모형에 관한 연구)

  • Jung Ye-Seoung
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.239-250
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    • 2003
  • It explained the cause and a process of Taegu subway fire accident in this report. Will reach and to lead it analyzed the structure and actual proof problem which it follows in Urban construction and the operation of Korea. The Urban is operated efficiently to be respected, it demands a security division order to become fixed the culture which it uses, it intercepts the misfortune due to the human being the setup for with the destroyer it is possible. This report will become the place help which reappraises all systems against the construction and the operation of the Urban system.

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Verification of Automobile Collision Accident Reconstruction Using Qualitative Reasoning (정성적 추론을 이용한 자동차 충돌 사고 재구성의 검증)

  • 김현경;명한나;한인환
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 1999
  • Reconstruction of collision accidents is to analyze the cause of accidents and collision behavior using available information from vehicle accident circumstances. This paper introduces a collision reconstruction system which is developed to be applicable to traffic accident reconstruction. Our System combines both quantitative and qualitative collision models so as to compensate for weaknesses in each with strengths of each other. I It provides accurate predictions and causal explanations of the collision behavior. During r reverse analysis of collision. qualitative simulation is used to verify a hypothesis and to detect any conflict in early stage of reconstruction. It is implemented and applied to real car-to-car collision accidents. The test results verify the reliabilities of our techniques.

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Basic Study on Safety Accident Prevention System Development Using Wearable Device (웨어러블 장치를 이용한 건설사고 예방 시스템 개발 기초 연구)

  • Ryu, Han-Guk;Kang, Jin-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2018.11a
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    • pp.55-56
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    • 2018
  • In order to reduce the risk of accidents, we proposed a construction safety management system combined with wearable device and LoRa (Low-Range Wireless Network) communication method to apply the usefulness of Internet (IoT) technology which means "everything connected". to construction safety management Management system. The proposed wearable safety device is a device that relays information exchange between wearable safety device and safety management server by LoRa wireless communication method. The safety management server can store workers bio-data and perform big data analysis. If a risk factor is determined from the analysis result, a warning is sent to the wearable safety device and the manager's application. The goal of this system is to prevent construction workers from entering the dangerous area that is not suitable for work, and to prevent safety accidents caused by human cause by detecting abnormal condition during work.

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