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A virtual laboratory for radiotracer and sealed-source applications in industry

Published:2021-03-01 Issue:1 Volume:66 Page:21-27
ISSN:0029-5922
Container-title:Nukleonika
language:en
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Author:

Mohammed Mohammed Siddig H.¹^ORCID,Banoqitah Essam M.¹^ORCID,Elmoujarkach Ezzat¹^ORCID,Alhawsawi Abdulsalam M.¹^ORCID,Djouider Fathi¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Nuclear Engineering , King Abdulaziz University , , Jeddah , 21589 , Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Abstract Radioactive sealed sources and radiotracer techniques are used to diagnose industrial process units. This work introduces a workspace to simulate four sealed sources and radiotracer applications, namely, gamma scanning of distillation columns, gamma scanning of pipes, gamma transmission tomography, and radiotracer flow rate measurements. The workspace was created in Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) simulation toolkit and was called Industrial Radioisotope Applications Virtual Laboratory. The flexibility of GATE and the fact that it is an open-source software render it advantageous to radioisotope technology practitioners, educators, and students. The comparison of the simulation results with experimental results that are available in the literature showed the effectiveness of the virtual laboratory.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Waste Management and Disposal,Condensed Matter Physics,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,Instrumentation,Nuclear Energy and Engineering,Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/nuka-2021-0003

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