An LPG filling station incident in Korea has been studied. The direct cause of the incident was concluded to be faulty joining of the couplings of the hoses during the butane unloading process from a tank lorry into an underground storage tank. The faulty connection of a hose to the tank lorry resulted in a massive leak of gas followed by catastrophic explosions. The leaking source was verified...

Environmental studies of motor vehicles typically focus on air pollution or noise, but ignore water pollution. In this paper, we examine some of the impacts of motor vehicle transportation on non-point source and on groundwater pollution. Our estimates of the present value of costs for cleaning up leaking underground storage tanks and for controlling highway runoff for major arterials range fro...

The heavy water condensation problem has led to safety concern for the workers and electrical facilities in underground pumped storage power station. As current dehumidification scheme, heat humidity load are all removed through air conditioning unit, which high energy consumption low efficiency. a large amount of moisture comes from external fresh air, this study, we set system ventilation tun...

Energy security is a multidimensional and multifaceted concept, therefore defining it complex problem. It requires the consideration of wide set factors from fields economics, geology, ecology geopolitics, all which have an influence on energy or lack thereof. The article focuses natural gas, very specific fuel in European context. most “politicized” source energy, as consequence its growing im...

It is possible to accelerate the dissolution of CO2 injected into deep aquifers by pumping brine from regions where it is undersaturated into regions occupied by CO2. For a horizontally confined reservoir geometry, we find that it is possible to dissolve most of the injected CO2 within a few hundred years at an energy cost that is less than 20% of the cost of compressing the CO2 to reservoir co...