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Publication history: Received August 21, 2013
Accepted November 20, 2013

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Design and implementation of an integrated safety management system for compressed natural gas stations using ubiquitous sensor network

Jae Mo Yang Byung Seok Ko Chulhwan Park Byungtae Yoo¹ Dongil Shin² Jae Wook Ko^†

Department of Chemical Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 447-1, Wolgye-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-701, Korea ¹National Disaster Management Institute, 136, Mapo-ro, Seoul 121-719, Korea ²Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do 449-728, Korea

jwko@kw.ac.kr

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, March 2014, 31(3), 393-401(9), 10.1007/s11814-013-0246-x

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Abstract

To increase awareness of safety in facilities where hazards may exist, operators, managers, and executive officers on the site should be able to monitor such facilities. However, most compressed natural gas (CNG) service stations in Korea use only local-mode monitoring, with only on-site operators to monitor the facility. To complement this local-mode monitoring, an online safety management system called Ubiquitous-gas safety management system (U-GSMS) was developed. The U-GSMS consists largely of software and hardware. The software consists of systems that can manage safety and operations, while the hardware consists of sensors installed in the gas facility and wireless communication systems using a ubiquitous sensor network (USN) technology that facilitates communication between sensors as well as between sensors and other devices. As these systems are web-based, on-site operators as well as_x000D_ managers and executive officers at the headquarters can more effectively and efficiently perform monitoring and safety management.

Keywords

Safety Management System Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) Emergency Response Quantitative Management Assessment (QMA)

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