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A Comparative Study on the Method of Consequence Estimation for Release of Toxicant Substances (독성물질 누출의 강도 산정 방법에 관한 비교 연구)

  • 김윤화;백종배;고재욱
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 1994
  • Two methods, the numerical method of CPQRA and the manual method of IAEA, were used to estimate the effect distance from release and dispersion of toxic materials. The Gaussian plume model which has a weather stability class D with wind velocity of 5m/s was applied to calculate dispersion of toxic materials. Also, probit function were employed to evaluate the human fatality as a result of exposure to toxic gases. Furthermore, concentration of toxic materials corresponding to LC$_{50}$ for 30 min could be determined by setting Pr as 5.0 and solving the probit function. Calculations were conducted by employing chlorine and ammonia as toxic materials because they are not only most commonly used In chemical plants but also very harmful to humans. Calculated results by employing toxic materials indicated that the effect distance from the CPQRA method was between the minimum and maximum distance from the method proposed by IAEA.A.

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Determination of safe levels and toxic levels for feed hazardous materials in broiler chickens: a review

  • Jong Hyuk Kim
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.65 no.3
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    • pp.490-510
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    • 2023
  • Feed safety is needed to produce and provide safe animal feeds for consumers, animals, and the environment. Although feed safety regulations have been set for each country, there is a lack of clear feed safety regulations for each livestock. Feed safety regulations are mainly focused on heavy metals, mycotoxins, and pesticides. Each country has different safe levels of hazardous materials in diets. Safe levels of hazardous materials in diets are mostly set for mixed diets of general livestock. Although there is a difference in the metabolism of toxic materials among animals, the safe level of feed is not specific for individual animals. Therefore, standardized animal testing methods and toxicity studies for each animal are needed to determine the correct safe and toxic levels of hazardous materials in diets. If this goal is achieved, it will be possible to improve livestock productivity, health, and product safety by establishing appropriate feed safety regulations. It will also provide an opportunity to secure consumer confidence in feed and livestock products. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a scientific feed safety evaluation system suitable for each country's environment. The chance of outbreaks of new hazardous materials is increasing. Thus, to set up appropriate toxic levels or safe levels in feed, various toxicity methods have been used to determine toxic levels of hazardous materials for humans and animals. Appropriate toxic testing methods should be developed and used to accurately set up and identify toxicity and safe levels in food and feed.

A Searching Service of Toxic and Contraindicating Information of Medicinal Materials in Traditional Korean Medicine (한약 독성 금기 정보 검색 서비스)

  • Kim, Sang-Kyun;Jang, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Jin-Hyun;Kim, Chu;Yea, Sang-Jun;Song, Mi-Young
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : Our study aims to help users take the medicinal materials in a desirable manner by providing toxic and contraindicating information, based on the ontology of medicinal materials in traditional Korean medicine (TKM). Methods : The toxic and contraindicating data are extracted for 160 medicinal materials from 67 books published in Korea and China. The extracted data are linked to the medicinal material in the ontology, respectively. Results : We in this paper construct an ontology for toxic and contraindicating data of medicinal materials in traditional Korean medicine (TKM), extending our conventional ontology. Based on the ontology, we devised a web-based searching tool that enables users to share the toxic and contraindicating information of medicinal materials. Conclusions : The contents in our ontology are facts based on the books, while the addition of clinical knowledge may elaborate the ontology. Moreover, the addition of easy explanations for terminologies in our ontology is required to help users which are not familiar to TKM.

Occurrence quantity comparison of the toxic gases of the railway car's gangway materials using a Smoke Density-Chamber (철도차량용 통로연결막 재료별 독성성분의 발생량 비교)

  • Lee, Eun-Kyoung;Lee, Duck-Hee;Jung, Woo-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1533-1539
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    • 2007
  • It is mainly due to the toxic gases, produced from the material combustion, threatens human body in case of urban railway car like subway which passes through underground tunnel. In the field of railway industry, fire accidents was not frequent but occurs in each country and, the causes was investigated. The advanced country established the test standard (e.g., BS, EN) to measure the toxic gases quantitatively and, have applied to enhance the fire safety of railway car. We must also follow the procedures to use gangway material for railway car as stated the Safety regulation for the urban railway car. In this study, various gangway materials(silicon, synthtic rubber, soaltapulin) are used to investigate element of toxic gases when the fire occurs. The amount of toxic gases measured from the ISO 5659 chamber using cone heater was measured and compared the results for each materials.

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A Study on the Fire Safety Management measures from during a fire toxic gases generated (Focus to Co gas measures) (화재시 생성된 유독가스로부터의 소방 안전관리 방안 연구(Co 가스 대책을 중심으로))

  • Kim, Byeong-Seok;Jang, Byeong-Jip;Choe, Man-Cheol
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2011
  • Recently developed a variety of architectural interior decoration according hwadoeme type of toxic gases generated during fire also are becoming diversified, resulting in fatal casualties occurred in the trend is also being increased. During a fire, toxic gas that is generated varies depending on the combustible material occurs. However, all combustible materials, including carbon, incomplete combustion of carbon monoxide which is generated in the most common toxic gases can be seen as one. Accordingly, in this study of organic solids that are generated in case of fire toxic gases, and briefly discuss the characteristics of the risks and, by far the most common Co gas for measures to prevent human casualties, seolbijeok, the temperature dependence, divided into four aspects of administrative daechaekdeung explained.

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The Experimental Study on the Toxic Gases Released from the Floor Finishing Materials in Entertainment Service Industry Buildings (다중이용시설 바닥마감재의 연소가스 독성평가에 관한 실험 연구)

  • 강성동;이창우;현성호;윤명오
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.14-21
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    • 2002
  • The several floor finishing materials that widely used in entertainment service industry buildings were evaluated according to the method of NES 713. Also, toxic gases of floor finishing materials in combustion without air flow rate were checked as concentration of fire gases variation according to time using gas analyzer. We had estimated the smoke hazard of floor finishing materials in fire. As results of gas analyses using the method of NES 713, toxic index of samples was estimated range of 2~9.7. Therefore, a large amount of toxic gases will release from a floor finishing materials fire and connoted great smoke hazard in fire.

A Study on the ways to minimize Casualties through a consideration of the CO gas generated during combustion (연소시 생성된 CO가스의 고찰을 통한 인명피해 최소화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Man-Chul;Kim, Byung-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.133-140
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    • 2013
  • Recently developed a variety of architectural interior decoration according hwadoeme type of toxic gases generated during fire also are becoming diversified, resulting in fatal casualties occurred in the trend is also being increased. During a fire, toxic gas that is generated varies depending on the combustible material occurs. However, all combustible materials, including carbon, incomplete combustion of carbon monoxide which is generated in the most common toxic gases can be seen as one. Accordingly, in this study of organic solids that are generated in case of fire toxic gases, and briefly discuss the characteristics of the risks and, by far the most common Co gas for measures to prevent human casualties, seolbijeok, the temperature dependence, divided into four aspects of administrative daechaekdeung explained.

A Study on the Individual and Societal Risk Estimation for the Use and Storage Facility with Toxic Materials (독성물질 사용.저장시설에 대한 개인적 위험성 산정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, S.B.;Kim, Y.H.;Lee, C.;Um, S.I.;Ko, J.W.;Baek, J.B.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 1997
  • These days leakage incidents of toxic materials cause serious effects on the nearby residents as well as the workers around the accidents accompanying massive material losses and human damages through widening influential areas. The risk measure through adequate quantitative analysis as well as the qualitative analysis of the leakage incidents of toxic materials becomes an urgent issue. The damage of the leakage incident on the surrounding area of the dangerous toxic material facilities was calculated quantitatively by adopting several models in this research. First, the calculations of the leakage velocity from the factories were performed by using source model for the assessment of the influential area, and the damages on the nearly residents were calculated by using the dispersion model and the effort model. The probability of the Incidents was computed based on "The manual for classification and priorization of major incidents" published by IAEA( International Atomic Energy Agency ). Above calculated damage area and incident probability were further adopted in this study to induce the individual and societal risk, quantitatively. The calculated data of the real Incident of the toxic material leakage showed reasonable agreements to the actual damage of the incidents, which showed a validity of this study. The result of this study might be a helpful measure for predicting damages and preparing safety systems for similar kinds of incidents.incidents.

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Development of Ti-based Bulk Metallic Glasses with Non-toxic Elements (인체에 유해하지 않은 원소를 사용한 Ti 계 벌크 비정질 합금 개발)

  • Lee, Chul-Kyu;Yi, Seong-Hoon
    • Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.177-180
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    • 2012
  • Ti-based bulk metallic glasses with high glass forming ability were developed through a systematic alloy design technique. The main alloy design strategy was the selection of alloying elements that may not be toxic in the human body. The $Ti_{45.0}Cu_{40.1}Zr_{12.7}Si_{2.2}$ alloy could be cast into an amorphous rod with the diameter of 3 mm by a suction casting technique using Cu mold. The compressive strength of the amorphous rod was measured as 1826 MPa. Since the Ti-based amorphous alloys consist of non-toxic elements, they can be widely used as bio-materials and eco-materials with unique and beneficial properties.

Synthesis and Characterization of Calcium Derivative Combined with High-Surface-Area Activated Carbon Composites for Fine Toxic Gas Removal

  • Areerob, Yonrapach;Nguyen, Dinh Cung Tien;Dowla, Biswas Md Rokon;Kim, Hyuk;Cha, Je-Woo;Oh, Won-Chun
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.55 no.5
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    • pp.473-479
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    • 2018
  • Highly toxic gases such as hydrogen sulfide ($H_2S$), carbon dioxide ($CO_2$), and ammonia ($NH_3$) are generated by both nature and human activities and affect human health. In this research, activated carbon combined with $Ca(OH)_2$ and $CaCO_3$ (AC-CO and AC-CC, respectively) were fabricated and applied in absorbing toxic gases from air pollutants. Activated charcoal powder was compressed in the form of pellets and used in the designated conditions. The optimum operating conditions and material properties, such as adsorption capacity, effect of weight ratio of the mixture, and hardness, have been investigated after combining with the calcium derivative. The good performance exhibited in this study suggests that this material is expected to be an effective and economically viable adsorbent for $NH_3$, $CO_2$, and $H_2S$ removal from the air system.