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Receives a document screening exemption from LG Chem' by winning 'Gold Prize' in LG Chem Olympiad
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Receives a document screening exemption from LG Chem' by winning 'Gold Prize' in LG Chem Olympiad
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PKNU student won 'gold prize' in LG Chem Olympiad

- Kim Ji-Woo, Park Seong-Hoon from the Dept. of Safety Engineering … received a KRW 6 million prize

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Park Seong-Hoon (Left), Kim Ji-Woo Photo Lee Sung-Jae (PR Team)


The team of 3rd grader Kim Ji-Woo and Park Seong-Hoon (advisory Prof. Lee Chang-Joon), who are attending the Department of Safety Engineering at Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo), won the gold prize in the '1st LG Chem - Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers Petrochemicals Olympiad'.

    

The team from Pukyong National University won the gold prize with a prize of 3 million won per person in this competition where a total of 1,692 college students majoring in chemical engineering grouped in 647 teams participated to suggest solutions to problems facing the chemical industry in areas such as process safety, enhanced productivity, environment/energy.

    

The Pukyong National University team received the highest score in the process safety section by presenting an excellent way to reduce the damage caused by chemical storage tank leaks in this competition.

    

The team was recognized for its excellent calibre by suggesting a plan that supplements the existing technology to mitigate the damage caused by chemical storage tank leaks such as a method for early recognition of leaks by applying RFID, which used to be applied only to piping, to tanks, a method to install a firewall optimized for the location and standard in a fire-resistant building, a location and materials for water spray curtains, and PFS foam glass as a fire mitigating material.

    

In addition, they presented a solution that applied chemical safety engineering and industrial psychology approaches to minimize the occurrence of problems when transporting flammable liquid chemicals, received good evaluation from the judges.

    

With this award, Pukyong National University students will receive an award certificate and prize money, as well as an exemption from document screening when applying for a job at LG Chem. <Pukyong Today>