Application of Smart Radiotracer Data Analysis (SRDA) Software for Industrial Application

摘要

Radiotracers technique uses a radioactive source and scintillation detectors to accurately detect plant production anomalies and mechanical damage in the plant. The greatest benefit of radiotracer technology over the conventional methods is that the investigation can be carried out on-stream and without disrupting the operating process of the plant. The residence time distribution (RTD) is one of the important parameters that provide hydrodynamics of the reactor as well as process plant anomalies. Nevertheless, the data is obtained through multichannel analyzer and the analysis of RTD is carried out later and not on site. This is because the lengthy data treatments should be conducted to the counts before obtaining the RTD curve. This data treatment process is cumbersome and time consuming, Thus, this proposal is to describe the application of developed smart radiotracer data analysis (SRDA) software by Nuclear Malaysia so that it can accelerate industrial analysis. In this study, RTD in mixing process has been carried out using SRDA and instant result such as percentage of dead zone has been determined and optimized. The optimized parameters for mixing process are 100 rpm speed of impeller, clearance of 100mm and U_(tip) is 0.5m/s which result in 1.1% dead zone.