연구실 소개
 화학물질 공정안전 연구실은 2012 년 구미 ‘불산’사고뿐 아니라 최근 잇따르고 있는 화학물질과 관련된 모든 사고에 대한
피해 예측 및 예방을 연구하는 곳입니다.
 화학 공정안전이란 독성/인화성 화학물질의 누출에서부터 그의 확산, 인체에 미치는 독성, 그리고 화재와 폭발에 이르기까지
인명피해 및 재산손실을 예방하고 완화하는 모든 기법에 대한 총망라입니다.

 특히 이 연구실에서는 유출된 화학물질의 대기 확산 모델링과 화재/폭발 모델링 기법과 함께 유용하게 쓰일 수 있는
정량적 위험성 평가 (Quantitative Risk Analysis) 의 발전에 중점을 두면서 아울러 폭발한계성시험 및 난연재 평가측정 등
기본적인 안전에 대한 실험도 수행하고 있습니다.

 Chemical Process Safety Lab (CPSL)

Chemicals play an essential role in this high-technology world and they are getting more complex and various.
Chemical plants or semiconductor production facilities contain a large variety of hazards. 
These chemical hazards include fire and explosion hazards, reactivity hazards,
and toxic hazards. The potential always exists for an accident of catastrophic proportions.
Despite substantial safety programs by the chemical industry, incidents keep occurring.

The goal of Chemical Process Safety engineering is to find major causes and effects of disasters which can be prevented and to analyze risks in a systematical way. 
Chemical process safety engineering focuses on preventing releases of any substance defined as a "highly hazardous chemicals".
One of its major analytic tool is Process Safety Management (PSM) which is referred to a set of inter-related approaches to manage hazards associated with the chemical process industries and is intended to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents resulting from releases of chemicals and other energy sources.

In this laboratory, we especially work on;

- Process Safety Management (PSM)
- Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA)
- Hand-on experiment for LFL (Lower Flammability Limit) using ASTM 681 apparatus
- Hand-on experiment for Fire retardant using mass-loss calorimeter
- Dispersion modeling using Effects9, Phast (multicomponent option)
- Develop a Vapor Cloud Explosion (VCE) model for facility siting
- Consequence Modeling with incorporating various Fire and Explosion scenarios into Risk Mapping
- Develop an algorithm to achieve a global optimality in solving facility layout problems
- Develop JET fire modeling study for hydrogen release
- Perform CFD simulation (Fluent,CFX,FLACS) to study the dispersion of toxic, flammable gas release and mitigations