KR20160055607A - Apparatus for preventing gas leakage accident and control method thereof - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
- F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
- F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
- F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
- F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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The present invention relates to an apparatus for preventing a gas leakage accident and a control method thereof, and more particularly, to a gas leakage accident prevention apparatus and method for minimizing a gas leakage volume by minimizing a gas rolling volume when a vessel is leaking gas.
Generally, ships are equipped with various facilities that meet the purpose of the ship, so that in the space where each device is installed, an enclosed space is formed which is isolated from the area where dangerous gas can occur or other parts of the hull.
For example, an area where the dangerous gas may be generated or an enclosed space may be an engine room, a pump room, and the like. A gas leak detector is installed to inform workers in the ship.
The gas leak detector includes an oxygen sensor for detecting the concentration of oxygen when a fire occurs in a hazardous gas generating area or an enclosed space, or a detector for detecting the leakage of a flammable gas or a hazardous gas such as carbon dioxide.
In addition, a monitoring unit receiving a signal detected from a gas leak detector is installed in a vessel provided in the vessel, and the operator can monitor the monitoring unit and quickly respond to a dangerous situation that may occur in the vessel.
For example, Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2 described below disclose a technique for momenting gas leakage from a ship.
On the other hand, since a large number of valves and devices are installed in a space where combustible gas is used, such as a compressor room for supplying fuel to the engine, the possibility of gas leakage is very high. In a cramped space, There is a high probability that the same serious leakage scenario will occur.
If the leak rate is sufficiently larger than the ventilation rate even if the ventilation operates normally in the event of a gas leakage accident, the gas may be filled in the space within a few seconds as shown in FIG. 1 have.
FIG. 1 is a graph showing an analysis result of gas cloud volume accumulated in a room when a gas leakage accident occurs.
Fig. 1 shows the calculation of the volume of the gas clouds accumulated in the room when methane gas leakage of about 25 kg / s was generated when the volume of the room was about 3000 m3 and the ventilation of 32 ACPH was performed, by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis Graph.
In Fig. 1, the gas leakage lasts for about 37 seconds, and two peaks P1 and P2 appear because the gas leakage rate is considerably larger than the air ventilation rate.
Here, the initial peak P1 occurs as the gas concentration in the chamber becomes too thick at the initial stage of leaking, exceeds the limit of the combustible concentration, and the second peak P2 has a gas concentration exceeding the limit interval. And then returning to the flammable section.
Thus, gas accumulated inside the room can lead to serious secondary accidents such as gas explosion.
However, the conventional gas leakage monitoring apparatuses including Patent Documents 1 and 2 have a configuration for inspecting gas leakage using a gas leakage tester, and there is no description of a method for reducing the risk of accidents when gas leakage occurs .
Therefore, it is necessary to develop a technology that can minimize the risk of secondary accident caused by gas leakage by limiting the amount of gas that can accumulate in a space where gas leakage occurs.
An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for detecting a gas leak in a space in which a device using a combustible gas is installed, And a control method thereof.
In order to accomplish the above object, a gas leakage accident prevention device according to the present invention includes a sensing part installed in an installation space in which a combustible gas using equipment is installed and detecting whether gas leakage occurs, A gas supply unit for supplying expanded gas compressed and stored in the expansion member to expand the gas to limit the maximum amount of gas to be supplied to the expansion unit, And a control unit for controlling the display unit.
And the inflator is an inert gas.
The hunger sensing unit includes at least one gas leakage sensor installed at a position where the combustible gas can be detected according to the characteristics of the combustible gas that is leaked.
When the plurality of gas leakage sensors are provided, gas leakage is detected in the same or different manner.
Wherein the gas supply unit includes a tank in which the inflator is compressed and stored at a high pressure, a connection pipe connecting the tank and the expansion member, and a valve installed on the tank or the connection pipe and operated in accordance with the control signal. do.
The control unit may include a memory for storing a preset printing threshold value to determine whether a gas leakage occurs using the sensing signal sensed by the sensing unit.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for controlling a gas leakage accident prevention apparatus, comprising the steps of: (a) detecting a leaked gas in an installation space in which a combustible gas using equipment is installed using a sensing unit; (b) determining whether gas leakage has occurred using the sensing signal detected in the step (a); and (c) if it is determined that the gas leakage occurs, And expanding the inflating member by supplying inflating gas to the inflating member installed in the inflating member, thereby limiting the space where the leaked combustible gas is accumulated.
In the step (a), the leaked gas is detected by using at least one gas leakage sensor installed at different positions according to the characteristics of the combustible gas in the installation space.
In the step (b), the gas leakage amount of the sensing signal sensed in the step (a) is compared with a predetermined printing limit value, and if the gas leakage amount is equal to or greater than the printing limit value, the gas leakage state is determined.
And the inflator is an inert gas.
As described above, according to the gas leakage accident prevention device and the control method thereof according to the present invention, the expansion member is installed in the installation space provided with the equipment using the combustible gas, and the inert gas is supplied to the expansion member when the gas leakage occurs, It is possible to limit the space in which the combustible gas can be accumulated in the installation space.
Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the accident caused by the gas leakage by reducing the maximum amount of the combustible gas accumulated in the installation space of a constant volume.
FIG. 1 is a graph showing an analysis result of gas cloud volume accumulated in a room when a gas leakage accident occurs,
2 is a block diagram of a gas leakage accident prevention device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
Figs. 3 and 4 are diagrams showing an operation state of the gas leakage accident prevention apparatus shown in Fig. 2,
5 is a flow chart for explaining steps of controlling a gas leakage accident prevention apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a gas leakage accident prevention apparatus and a control method thereof according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2 is a block diagram of a gas leakage accident prevention device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 2, the gas leakage
For example, Figs. 3 and 4 are operational state diagrams of the gas leakage accident prevention device shown in Fig. 2. Fig.
FIG. 3 shows a state in which a gas leakage accident prevention device is installed before a gas leakage occurs, and FIG. 4 shows a state in which the expansion member is expanded when a gas leakage occurs.
The combustible gas has characteristics such as hydrogen, methane, ethane, and propane that when mixed with oxygen or air and ignited, it burns by emitting light and heat.
However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention is not limited to this, but may be applied to a case in which an ignitable substance, which is ignited by itself, is easily ignited, or ignites in contact with water and generates a combustible gas It should be noted that it may be applied to the installation space of equipment using various hazardous gases or hazardous materials.
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the combustible
A ventilation device (not shown) is provided in the installation space in preparation for gas leakage.
The
The
That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the
The
As shown in FIG. 3, the
On the other hand, in the present embodiment, when the gas supplied to the
The inert gas may be nitrogen (N 2 ), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), argon (Ar), neon (Ne), helium (Ne) or the like.
The
To this end, the
The
For example, when the signal sensed by the
As described above, according to the present invention, an expansion member is provided in an installation space provided with equipment for using a combustible gas, and an inert gas is supplied to the expansion member when the gas leakage occurs, thereby expanding the space in which the combustible gas can be accumulated in the installation space Can be limited.
Accordingly, the present invention can prevent the accident caused by the gas leakage by reducing the maximum amount of the combustible gas accumulated in the installation space of a certain volume.
Next, referring to FIG. 5, a method of controlling a gas leakage accident prevention apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating steps of controlling a gas leakage accident prevention apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
First, in the initial installation work, the operator installs the
In step S10 of FIG. 5, the
In step S12, the
At this time, the
If it is determined in step S12 that no gas leakage has occurred, the
On the other hand, if it is determined in the step S12 that the gas leakage occurs, the
Then, the valve of the
Thus, as the
As described above, the present invention can reduce the maximum amount of combustible gas accumulated by limiting the space in which the combustible gas is accumulated when the gas leakage occurs in the space where the combustible gas using equipment is installed.
Accordingly, the present invention can prevent an accident caused by a gas leak, thereby minimizing damage.
Although the invention made by the present inventors has been described concretely with reference to the above embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and it goes without saying that various changes can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.
That is, in the above-described embodiment, it is described that the gas leakage is prevented by installing in the space where the equipment using the combustible gas such as the compressor room is installed, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
For example, the present invention can be modified not only to ignite combustible gas but also to prevent gas leakage accidents which are applied throughout the industry using hazardous or dangerous substances such as inflammable substances.
The present invention is applied to a technique for preventing an accident caused by a gas leak by limiting the space where leaked gas is accumulated in a gas leakage accident, thereby reducing the maximum amount of combustible gas that is settled.
10: Gas leakage prevention device
11: Flammable gas equipment
12: Flammable gas piping
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An expansion member that expands to limit the maximum amount of gas accumulated in the installation space when gas leakage occurs,
A gas supply part for supplying expanded gas compressed and stored in the expansion member to expand the gas;
And a control unit for determining whether or not a gas leakage occurs based on the detection signal of the sensing unit and controlling driving of the gas supply unit.
Wherein the inflator is an inert gas.
Wherein the hysteresis detecting unit includes at least one gas leakage sensor installed at a position where the combustible gas can be detected according to the characteristics of the combustible gas that is leaked.
Wherein the gas leakage sensor detects the gas leakage in the same way or in different ways when a plurality of the gas leakage sensors are provided.
A tank in which the inflating gas is compressed and stored at a high pressure,
A connection pipe connecting the tank and the expansion member, and
And a valve installed on the tank or the connection pipe to open and close in accordance with the control signal.
Wherein the control unit includes a memory for storing a preset printing threshold value to determine whether a gas leakage occurs using the sensing signal detected by the sensing unit.
(b) determining whether gas leakage has occurred using the sensing signal sensed in the step (a); and
(c) if it is determined in the step (b) that the gas leakage occurs, driving the gas supply unit to supply inflation gas to the inflation member installed in the installation space to inflate the inflation member
And the space in which the leaked combustible gas is accumulated is limited.
Wherein the step (a) comprises detecting at least one gas leakage sensor installed at different positions according to the characteristics of the combustible gas in the installation space. .
Wherein the step (b) comprises comparing a gas leakage amount of the sensing signal detected in the step (a) with a preset printing limit value, and if the gas leakage amount is equal to or greater than the flammability threshold value, Control method of leak accident prevention device.
Wherein the inflation gas is an inert gas.
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