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A Study on the Construction of Coastal VTS in Mokpo Coastal Waters (목포연안에서의 연안VTS설치에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Beom-Sik;Jong, Jae-Yong;Gug, Seung-Gi;Kim, Se-Won;Park, Jin-Soo
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.261-268
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    • 2002
  • At recently, Oil spill accident of large size oiler that happen domestic and outside the country is occured to social impact us as well as economical damage in sea environment. Also, because spread extent of pollution accident is reaching harbor, bay and close water areas, as necessity that traffic control ships are sea place. VTS is changing to concept that control space is magnified gradually. Our country is operated to 14 harbors which is control center. But abroad is operating coastal VTS that do main waterway and coastals to authority dimension. Therefore, necessity that traffic density of ship manages high coastals and ship traffic of waterway to our country is risen. This paper is execute sea traffic survey at Mokop sea areas and sea casualty occurs. It proposal that coastal VTS center field of most suitable and position of radar site.

Evaluating the Economic Damages to Anglers of the Marine Recreational Charter due to the Herbei Spirit Vessel Oil Spill (허베이 스피리트호의 기름유출에 따른 바다유어낚시어선 이용객의 경제적 손실평가연구)

  • Pyo, Heedong
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.289-302
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    • 2014
  • This paper aims to evaluate the indirect economic damages to anglers of the marine recreational charter caused by marine pollution associated with the Herbei Spirit vessel, which spilled 12,547 kl of crude oil in Taean coastal areas in December 2007. In order to evaluate the indirect cost to anglers of the charter fishing, consumer surplus for charter fishing is estimated using a Poisson model (PM), a negative binomial model (NBM), a truncated Poisson model (TPM), and a truncated negative binomial model (TNBM), which account for the characteristics of count data (non-negative discrete data), for individual travel cost method (ITCM). Because of over-dispersion problem in PM and TPM, NBM and TNBM are considered to be more appropriate statistically. All parameters such as income, fishing careers, travel cost and catch that are estimated are statistically significant and theoretically valid. Based on TNBM results, consumer surplus per trip and per person was estimated to be 277 thousand won, total consumer surplus per person and per year about 2.3 million won, and the marginal effect of consumer surplus on % changes in catch rate is about 33 thousand won. The consumer surplus was converted into total indirect economic damages for aggregation which are evaluated to be 125 billion won, reflecting the number of anglers and damage rate.

Innovative Technology for Removal of Dispersants used in Oil Spill Remediation Using the Magnetic Separation (자성 분리를 이용한 해상 유류오염제어에 사용되는 유화제를 제거하는 새로운 기술에 대한 연구)

  • Chun, Chan-Lan;Park, Jae-Woo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.679-688
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    • 2000
  • Dispersants, which are used to break water-in-oil emulsions and to remediate oil-spills, are another water pollutants. In this study, magnetic separation technology was applied to remove dispersants from the sea. Magnetite and maghemite were used as magnetic sorbents and SDDBS, an anionic surfactant and Triton X-100, a nonionic surfactant, were employed as dispersants. Batch experiments were undertaken to study the sorption capacity and sorption equilibrium, and water-bath experiments were conducted to simulate the real situation and to describe the recovery of magnetic particles by the permanent magnet or electromagnet. Maghemite has rather constant removal efficiency for dispersants, regardless of surfactant species. On the other hand, removal efficiency by magnetite is higher for anionic surfactant than maghemite and is higher in distilled water than in seawater which contains more ions. The sorption of dispersants to magnetite is explained by electrostatic attraction and that of maghemite is described not only by electrostatic attraction, but also by structural characteristics that provide high sorption ability and surface condition. Water bath experimental results showed that recovery efficiency of magnetic particle after sorption for dispersants is nearly 100%. It is suggested that this magnetic separation technology is an effective way of dispersant removal because of short operating time, high sorption capacity, and high recovery efficiency of sorbents.

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A Study on the compensation regime and response cost for oil pollution in Korea and advanced country (선진국과 우리나라의 유류오염 방제비용 및 피해보상제도에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Du-Ho;Im, Taek-Soo;Na, Eun-Young;Kim, Han-Gyu
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.175-179
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    • 2006
  • With the rapid development of oil and chemical industry in the late 20C, massive transportation of oil by oil tanker vessel has grown and it caused the big oil pollution accidents. When oil spill from the oil tanker, damages reach into the astronomical figures in economically and damages affect wide area and many people with break the balance of ecosystem. Recently in Korea, the oil pollution accidents has occurred frequently as growing of oil consumption and it caused large-scale damages to the victim. Oil pollution in Korean offshore takes not only korean fishermen from their life ground and break the ecosystem but it takes too much time and money to recover. To minimize oil pollution damages, it is necessary to make pre-caution effort as a ship owner and relevant government bodies should endeavor to prevent from more damages. But once oil pollution accidents occurs in territorial sea, compensation for victim fishermen is very important. But it is true that compensation is not paid to victim smoothly. So this study aims at the problems of oil pollution compensation to the Korean victim and find the best way to get reasonable compensation.

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Regional Variations in Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas Growth and the Number of Larvae Occurrence and Spat Settlement along the West Coast, Korea (서해 지역별 굴 Crassostrea gigas 성장 특성, 유생 출현량 및 채묘율)

  • Lim, Hyun Jeong;Back, Sang Ho;Lim, Mae Soon;Choi, Eun Hee;Kim, Su Kyoung
    • The Korean Journal of Malacology
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.259-267
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    • 2012
  • Due to the oil spill incident in December 2007, every facility of oyster culture was removed in western coast especially in Taean and Seosan. To restore oyster resources in Taean and Seosan, we brought oyster seeds from southern area and monitored their growth. In addition we monitored the culture environment throughout the year, and observed the number of oyster larvae and attached spats on collectors during summer. The factors of water environment were appropriate for oyster culture in both study area. The growth of shell height was larger in Uihang-ri, Taean than Jungwang-ri, Seosan. Spawning was more intensive in a short time in Jungwang-ri, Seosan than Uihang-ri, Taean. The number of oyster larvae and spats of collectors were much more in Jungwang-ri, Seosan than Uihang-ri, Taean. This study showed that transplantation of healthy oyster seeds from southern area can be a way of restoration of oyster resources in western coast. In addition, systematic approaches are necessary by building a better understanding of regional characteristics to restore and enlarge the oyster culture farms in western coast. In summary Uihang-ri, Taean will be appropriate for cultivation farms and Jungwang-ri, Seosan for seedling grounds to increase oyster culture productivity.

A Proposition on Reasonable Termination Procedure in Remaining-oil Recovery Work from a Sunken Tanker in Korean Territory (국내 침몰유조선 잔존유 회수작업의 합리적 종료절차 제안)

  • Kang, Kwang-Gu;Shim, Yoo-Taek;Kang, Sin-Young
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.379-384
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    • 2014
  • In case of sunken tankers, remaining-oil recovery operation should be conducted due to possible oil spill accident. However, the deep sea operation make difficulties in checking the completion of remaining oil recovery process, therefore the work termination procedure is very important. In this paper, a reasonable work termination procedure through the comparison and analysis of two cases(Youil No.1 and Osung No.3, Kyung-Shin) which were performed in different method, using disparate equipment. By investigating previously applied methods and techniques, work speed, safety and expenses were compared. The proposed ending procedure of the remaining-oil recovery project is to recover the remaining oil from each cargo tanks and to clean up such tanks whilst an independent surveyor proceeds to a confirmation procedure whereby said surveyor checks out whether any remaining oil exists by putting a stick in each cleaned up tanks and opening up the hatch cover of the tanks or the top place of the tanks to confirm the cleanness of oil. Such procedure shall be done through discussion by the ordering party, contractor and the independent surveyor all together with a flexible application.

Ocean Disaster Detection System(OD2S) using Geostationary Ocean Color Imager(GOCI) (천리안해양관측위성을 활용한 해양 재난 검출 시스템)

  • Yang, Hyun;Ryu, Jeung-Mi;Han, Hee-Jeong;Ryu, Joo-Hyung;Park, Young-Je
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.11 no.sup
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    • pp.177-189
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    • 2012
  • We developed the ocean disaster detection system(OD2S) which copes with the occurrences of ocean disasters (e. g. the red and green tide, the oil spill, the typhoon, and the sea ice) by converging and integrating the ocean color remote sensing using the satellite and the information technology exploiting the mass data processing and the pattern recognitions. This system which is based on the cosine similarity detects the ocean disasters in real time. The existing ocean color sensors which are operated in the polar orbit platforms cannot conduct the real time observation of ocean environments because they support the low temporal resolutions of one observation a day. However, geostationary ocean color imager(GOCI), the first geostationary ocean color sensor in the world, produces the ocean color images(e. g. the chlorophyll, the colored dissolved organic matter(CDOM), and the total suspended solid(TSS)), with high temporal resolutions of hourly intervals up to eight observations a day. The evaluation demonstrated that the OD2S can detect the excessive concentration of chlorophyll, CDOM, and TSS. Based on these results, it is expected that OD2S detects the ocean disasters in real time.

Strategies for Advancement of response management system on marine pollution (해양오염 방제체제의 선진화 방안)

  • Kim Dae Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.3-24
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    • 2000
  • The provability of major oil spill acidents around Korean coast is very high due to increase of sea traffic and decrease of quality of ships crews and increase of the old-ship. The Strategies of establishment of a advanced response management system against this mass pollution incident are as follows;. 1. Development of Regional Contingency Plan, which is scientifically illuminated, in order to implement the National Contingency Plan efficiently. 2. Early completion of a national response capability twenty thousand tons. 3. To strengthen training and exorcise specialized in the field of marine pollution response. 4. Establishment of a system of response cooperation among neighbor countries by promoting the NOWPAP tasks etc. The response policy in the 21th century should be concentrated to promote a practicle response capability through response operation scientifically specialized and internationalized by establishing the advanced response system early.

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Correction of Drifter Data Using Recurrent Neural Networks (순환신경망을 이용한 뜰개의 관측 데이터 보정)

  • Kim, Gyoung-Do;Kim, Yong-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.15-21
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    • 2018
  • The ocean drifter is a device for observing the ocean weather by floating off the sea surface. The data observed through the drifter is utilized in the ocean weather prediction and oil spill. Observed data may contain incorrect or missing data at the time of observation, and accuracy may be lowered when we use the data. In this paper, we propose a data correction model using recurrent neural networks. We corrected data collected from 7 drifters in 2015 and 8 drifters in 2016, and conducted experiments of drifter moving prediction to reflect the correction results. Experimental results showed that observed data are corrected by 13.9% and improved the performance of the prediction model by 1.4%.

Conceptual Design of Mechanical System for Recovery of Seabed-Deposited Hazardous and Noxious Substances Based on Performance Requirements (해저침적 HNS 회수용 기계장치의 성능요건 기반 개념설계)

  • Hwang, Ho-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.689-697
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    • 2020
  • Hazardous and noxious substances (HNS) may cause maritime incidents during marine transportation, which are liable to lead to a large amount of spillage or discharge into the sea. The damage to the marine environment caused by the HNS spill or discharge is known to be much greater than the damage caused by oil spill. Particularly dangerous is HNS, which is deposited or buried in the seabed, as it can damage the organisms that live on, in, and near the bottom of the sea, the so-called "benthos," forming the benthic ecosystem. Therefore, it is vital that the HNS deposited on the seabed be recovered. In order to do so, procedures and equipment are required for accurate detection, stabilization treatment, and recovery of HNS in subsea sediment. Thus, when developing a mechanical recovery system, the performance requirements should be selected using performance indices, and the conceptual design of the mechanical recovery system should be based on performance requirements decided upon and selected in advance. Therefore, this study was conducted to arrive at a conceptual design for a mechanical recovery system for the recovery of HNS deposited on the seabed. In the design of the system, based on the fundamental scenario, the method of suction foundation with the function of self enclosing was adopted for recovering the HNS sediment in the subsea sediment. The mechanical recovery system comprises the suction foundation, pollution prevention, a pump system, control system, monitoring device, location information device, transfer device, and tanks. This conceptual design is expected to be reflected and used in the basic design of the components and shapes of the mechanical recovery system.