Smart Radon Monitor (SRM)
Introduction
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The Smart Radon Monitor (SRM) is a technologically advanced real time, portable, radon monitor, designed for multiple applications in radon studies.
Principle of SRM :
Applications :
The SRM finds a wide application in nuclear sector, public domain and various R&D organizations. In nuclear sectors, SRM may be used for network based radon monitoring inside uranium mine, soil gas radon measurement for uranium exploration studies and base line survey for upcoming nuclear facilities. In public domain, SRM may be used for radon survey in houses, caves, seismic sites etc. It may be used for radon measurements in water samples. In R&D sector, SRM may be used for calibration of active or passive radon detector systems. It may be used for measurement of radon emission (Surface/ Mass Exhalation) from various sources such as building materials, soil, rocks, coal, fly-ash, Uranium tailings etc and also find application in gas monitoring for earth quake studies.
Advantages
The alpha scintillation technique deployed in SRM has many advantages over the solid state alpha spectroscopy technique currently in use. The technique is more sensitive for radon than alpha spectroscopy technique. More importantly, the measurements with scintillation detector are unaffected by humidity and trace gas presence in sample gas. Various advantages of SRM are:
Equipments :
Most of the manufacturing & testing equipments are available in local market and local agents are available for some imported components such as Photomultiplier tube, ZnS:Ag scintillator.
Infrastructure :
A mechanical workshop having lathe, sheet bending machine and an electronic workshop having oscilloscope, high voltage measurement probe are required.
Manpower :
Two trained personnel having Diploma in Mechanical, Electronics Engineering. , One software Engr. With two semi-skilled workers would be adequate for production of SRM.
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