Development, validation and implementation of multiple radioactive particle tracking technique

Mehul S. Vesvikar; Thaar M. Aljuwaya; Mahmoud M. Taha; Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan

Nuclear Engineering and Technology (Nov 2023)

Development, validation and implementation of multiple radioactive particle tracking technique

Mehul S. Vesvikar,
Thaar M. Aljuwaya,
Mahmoud M. Taha,
Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan

Affiliations

Mehul S. Vesvikar: BIOMATH, Dept of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium; Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Campus Box 1198, 1 Brookings Drive, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63130-4899, USA
Thaar M. Aljuwaya: Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), Rolla, MO, 65409, USA; Nuclear Technologies Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), P.O. Box 6086, Riyadh, 11442, Saudi Arabia; Corresponding author. Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), Rolla, MO, 65409, USA.
Mahmoud M. Taha: College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait
Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan: Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), Rolla, MO, 65409, USA; Multiphase Flows and Reactors Engineering and Education Laboratory (mFReel), Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), Rolla, MO, 65409, USA; TechCell, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Hay Moulay Rachid 43150, Ben Guerir, Morocco; Corresponding author. Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), Rolla, MO, 65409, USA.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 55, no. 11
pp. 4213 – 4227

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Computer Automated Radioactive Particle Tracking (CARPT) technique has been successfully utilized to measure the velocity profiles and mixing parameters in different multiphase flow systems where a single radioactive tracer is used to track the tagged phase. However, many industrial processes use a wide range of particles with different physical properties where solid particles could vary in size, shape and density. For application in such systems, the capability of current single tracer CARPT can be advanced to track more than one particle simultaneously. Tracking multiple particles will thus enable to track the motion of particles of different size shape and density, determine segregation of particles and probing particle interactions. In this work, a newly developed Multiple Radioactive Particle Tracking technique (M-RPT) used to track two different radioactive tracers is demonstrated. The M-RPT electronics was developed that can differentiate between gamma counts obtained from the different radioactive tracers on the basis of their gamma energy peak. The M-RPT technique was validated by tracking two stationary and moving particles (Sc-46 and Co-60) simultaneously. Finally, M-RPT was successfully implemented to track two phases, solid and liquid, simultaneously in three phase slurry bubble column reactors.

Published in Nuclear Engineering and Technology

ISSN: 1738-5733 (Print)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Korea, Republic of
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering: Nuclear engineering. Atomic power
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/nuclear-engineering-and-technology

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