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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
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    • 제55권11호
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    • pp.4213-4227
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    • 2023
  • 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.

A novel radioactive particle tracking algorithm based on deep rectifier neural network

  • Dam, Roos Sophia de Freitas;dos Santos, Marcelo Carvalho;do Desterro, Filipe Santana Moreira;Salgado, William Luna;Schirru, Roberto;Salgado, Cesar Marques
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제53권7호
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    • pp.2334-2340
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    • 2021
  • Radioactive particle tracking (RPT) is a minimally invasive nuclear technique that tracks a radioactive particle inside a volume of interest by means of a mathematical location algorithm. During the past decades, many algorithms have been developed including ones based on artificial intelligence techniques. In this study, RPT technique is applied in a simulated test section that employs a simplified mixer filled with concrete, six scintillator detectors and a137Cs radioactive particle emitting gamma rays of 662 keV. The test section was developed using MCNPX code, which is a mathematical code based on Monte Carlo simulation, and 3516 different radioactive particle positions (x,y,z) were simulated. Novelty of this paper is the use of a location algorithm based on a deep learning model, more specifically a 6-layers deep rectifier neural network (DRNN), in which hyperparameters were defined using a Bayesian optimization method. DRNN is a type of deep feedforward neural network that substitutes the usual sigmoid based activation functions, traditionally used in vanilla Multilayer Perceptron Networks, for rectified activation functions. Results show the great accuracy of the DRNN in a RPT tracking system. Root mean squared error for x, y and coordinates of the radioactive particle is, respectively, 0.03064, 0.02523 and 0.07653.

Study on visualization of water mixing flows in a digester equipped with a vertical impeller by using radiotracers

  • Jung, Sung-Hee;Moon, Jinho;Park, Jang-Guen;Lim, Jae Cheong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제52권1호
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    • pp.170-177
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    • 2020
  • A mixer with a new concept design has been adapted into water treatment plants. It reportedly cuts down the energy consumption of the mixer by the new mixer, which moves vertically and creates internal flows toward its bottom. However, no experimental observations have been made on the internal flow caused by a vertical impeller. In this study, a radiotracer experiment, radioactive particle tracking (RPT) technique, and particle image velocimetry (PIV) were carried out to visualize the flow in the mixer, and compared to each other. The results show that the flow patterns from these techniques are very similar to each other, and the performance of the mixer was good enough to mix the inner materials.

유선 분석법의 개발 및 적용 (Development and Application of Streamline Analysis Method)

  • 김태범;이치형;정재열
    • 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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    • 제28권6호
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2023
  • In order to properly evaluate the spatio-temporal variations of groundwater flow, the data obtained in field experiments should be corroborated into numerical simulations. Particle tracking method is a simple simulation tool often employed in groundwater simulation to predict groundwater flow paths or solute transport paths. Particle tracking simulations visually show overall the particle flow path along the entire aquifer, but no previous simulation studies has yet described the parameter values at grid nodes around the particle path. Therefore, in this study, a new technical approach was proposed that enables acquisition of parameters associated with particle transport in grid nodes distributed in the center of the particle path in groundwater. Since the particle tracking path is commonly referred to as streamline, the algorithm and codes developed in this works designated streamline analysis method. The streamline analysis method can be applied in two-dimensional and three-dimensional finite element or finite difference grid networks, and can be utilized not only in the groundwater field but also in all fields that perform numerical modeling.

Conceptual Design of Sandglass-like Separator for Immobilized Anionic Radionuclides Using Particle Tracking Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Park, Tae-Jin;Choi, Young-Chul;Ham, Jiwoong
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.363-372
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    • 2020
  • Anionic radionuclides pose one of the highest risks to the long-term safety assessments of disposal repositories. Therefore, techniques to immobilize and separate such anionic radionuclides are of crucial importance from the viewpoints of safety and waste volume reduction. The main objective of this study is to design a separator with minimum pressure disturbance, based on the concept of a conventional cyclone separator. We hypothesize that the anionic radionuclides can be immobilized onto a nanomaterial-based substrate and that the particles generated in the process can flow via water. These particles are denser than water; hence, they can be trapped within the cyclone-type separator because of its design. We conducted particle tracking analysis using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for the conventional cyclone separator and studied the effects due to the morphology of the separator. The proposed sandglass-like design of the separator shows promising results (i.e., only one out of 10,000 particles escaped to the outlet from the separation zone). To validate the design, we manufactured a laboratory-scale prototype separator and tested it for iron particles; the efficiency was ca. 99%. Furthermore, using an additional magnetic effect with the separator, we could effectively separate particles with ~100% efficiency. The proposed sandglass-like separator can thus be used for effective separation and recovery of immobilized anionic radionuclides.

Preliminary results of groundwater flow simulation for high level radioactive disposal in Yu-seong area

  • Park kyung-woo;Cho sung-il;Kim chun-soo;Kim kyung-su;Lee kang-keun
    • 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국방사성폐기물학회 2005년도 Proceedings of The 6th korea-china joint workshop on nuclear waste management
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    • pp.253-257
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    • 2005
  • This research aims to demonstrate the regional and site scale groundwater flow simulation for the high level radioactive disposal research site in Yu-seong. We used the Modflow by a finite difference method for groundwater flow simulation, and Modpath module in Modflow package for particle tracking simulation. The range of numerical domain for regional groundwater flow model is $16.32km{\times}20.16km$. And, the depth of numerical domain was expanded to 6,000m. The area of numerical domain for the site scale groundwater flow simulation is $1.6km{\times}1.6km$. Since 2005, the underground research tunnel(URT) is being constructed at KAERI(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) site. In the site scale groundwater flow model, the groundwater flow around the KAERI site is simulated. And the change of groundwater level with tunnel excavation is also predicted.

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방사성폐기물 지하처분장에 대한 가상의 사례 연구를 위한 KURT 부지의 지하수 유동 모의 (Groundwater Flow Modeling in the KURT site for a Case Study about a Hypothetical Geological Disposal Facility of Radioactive Wastes)

  • 고낙열;박경우;김경수;최종원
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제10권3호
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2012
  • 한국원자력연구원의 지하처분연구시설인 KURT 부지에 가상의 심지층 처분 시설을 가정하고 안전성평가를 수행하기 위해 필요한 지하수 유동 자료를 작성하기 위한 지하수 유동 모의가 수행되었다. 연구지역의 전반적인 지하수 유동 특성을 고려하기 위해, 광역 규모의 지하수 유동 모의를 먼저 실시하여 국지 규모 지하수 유동 모의에서 이용될 경계 조건을 구하고, 현장에서 확인된 단열 자료를 반영하여 국지 규모에서의 지하수 유동계가 모의되었다. 같은 방식으로 국지 규모에서 지하수 유동에 관한 경계 조건을 뽑아내어 KURT 부지 규모의 지하수 유동 모의에 이용하였다. 국지 규모의 지하수 유동 모의 결과로 얻어진 지하수위 분포를 통해 입자 추적(particle tracking) 모의를 수행하여 가상의 처분 부지 위치에서 지표로 흐르는 지하수의 유동 경로를 확인하고, 경로의 길이와 지하수의 시간당 유동량(discharge rate)을 구하였다. 본 연구에서 이용된 일련의 지하수 유동 모의 및 입자 추적 모의 방법은 향후 심지층 처분 시설의 안전성 평가에 필요한 자료를 작성하는데 유용하게 쓰일 것으로 기대된다.

지하수 유동 특성을 이용한 심층처분의 처분공 배치 방안 (Arrangement of Disposal Holes According to the Features of Groundwater Flow)

  • 고낙열;백민훈
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제14권4호
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    • pp.321-329
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    • 2016
  • 가상의 심층처분 부지의 지하수 유동 모의 결과를 통해 처분 심도에 위치하는 처분공 지점에서의 지하수 유동량 및 해당 지점에서 지표 환경까지 지하수가 유동하는 경로의 거리와 경로를 통과하는데 걸리는 시간에 대한 수량적, 공간적 분포를 분석하여 그 결과를 처분공의 위치 결정에 이용할 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다. 지하수 유동량은 처분공 위치에서 계산된 지하수위를, 유동 거리와 경과 시간은 입자 추적 기법(particle tracking)을 이용하여 계산하였다. 지하수 유동량 및 유동 거리와 경과 시간의 공간적 분포를 이용하여 처분시설의 성능을 유지하는데 상대적으로 유리한 위치를 선별하고 특정한 제한 조건이 주어진 경우 제외되어야 하는 처분공 위치를 결정하여 처분공 배치에 이용할 수 있은 방안을 제시하였다. 또한 세 가지 정보를 함께 고려하여, 추가적인 처분공의 위치를 선정할 필요가 있을 경우 보다 유리한 확장 방향을 제시할 수 있는 방안도 논의되었다. 처분 심도에서의 지하수 유동 정보를 활용하여 처분공의 배치 방안을 결정하는 것은 처분시설의 성능 및 안전성 확보를 위해 기여할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

Groundwater Ages and Flow Paths at a Coastal Waste Repository Site in Korea, Based on Geochemical Characteristics and Numerical Modeling

  • Cheong, Jae-Yeol;Hamm, Se-Yeong;Koh, Dong-Chan;Lee, Chung-Mo;Ryu, Sang Min;Lee, Soo-Hyoung
    • 지질공학
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    • 제26권1호
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2016
  • Groundwater flow paths and groundwater ages at a radioactive waste repository located in a coastal area of South Korea were evaluated using the hydrochemical and hydrogeological characteristics of groundwater, surface water, rain water, and seawater, as well as by numerical modeling. The average groundwater travel time in the top layer of the model, evaluated by numerical modeling and groundwater age (34 years), approximately corresponds to the groundwater age obtained by chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-12 analysis (26-34 years). The data suggest that the groundwater in wells in the study area originated up-gradient at distances of 140-230 m. Results of CFC analyses, along with seasonal variations in the δ18O and δD values of groundwater and the relationships between 222Rn concentrations and δ18O values and between 222Rn concentrations and δD values, indicate that groundwater recharge occurs in the summer rainy season and discharge occurs in the winter dry season. Additionally, a linear relationship between dissolved SiO2 concentrations and groundwater ages indicates that natural mineralization is affected by the dilution of groundwater recharge in the rainy summer season.

KURT 부지 환경에 위치한 가상의 처분 시설에서 누출되는 방사성 핵종의 이동을 Time Domain에서 해석하는 방법에 관한 연구 (Radionuclides Transport from the Hypothetical Disposal Facility in the KURT Field Condition on the Time Domain)

  • 황영택;고낙열;최종원;조성석
    • 방사성폐기물학회지
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    • 제10권4호
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    • pp.295-303
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    • 2012
  • 한국원자력연구원의 지하처분연구시설인 KURT 주변의 지하수 유동 환경과 관련하여 수집 및 분석된 자료를 바탕으로, 가상의 처분장에서 누출된 방사성 핵종의 이동 현상을 시간 영역(time domain)에서 계산하였다. KURT에서 실시된 현장 시험에서 밝혀진 수리지질학적 특성을 바탕으로 지하수 유동 모의를 실시하였고, 그 결과를 통해 파악된 지하수 유동 경로를 따라 방사성 핵종이 이동하는데 걸리는 시간은 시간 영역에서 용질 이동 모의를 하는 TDRW(Time Domain Random Walk) 방식을 통해 평가하였다. 이류(advection)와 분산(dispersion) 현상 외에 방사성 핵종의 붕괴(decay), 평형 흡착(equilibrium sorption), 암반 기질로의 확산(matrix diffusion) 현상이 용질의 이동 시간에 영향을 주는 것으로 설정되었다. 모의 결과를 통해 방사성 핵종과 지하 매질의 특성에 의한 흡착 현상, 기질 확산 현상이 핵종 이동에 미치는 영향이 분석되었으며, 방사성 핵종의 연쇄 KURT 부지 환경에 위치한 가상의 처분 시설에서 누출되는 방사성 핵종의 이동을 Time Domain에서 해석하는 방법에 관한 연구 반응에 의한 영향도 평가하였다. KURT 부지 환경에서 지표로 유출될 수 있다고 계산된 방사성 핵종의 유출량은 처분장에서 누출될 수 있는 양의 $10^{-3}$배 미만이었고, 암반 기질로의 확산 및 흡착이 고려되면 그 비율이 더욱 낮아졌다. 본 연구에서 사용된 핵종 이동 모의 방법은 방사성붕괴나 흡착, 확산 등 이동 지연 현상을 고려하면서 핵종의 이동 시간을 계산할 수 있어 안전성 평가에서 요구되는 심부 지하에서의 방사성 핵종 이동 관련 자료를 작성하는데 활용될 수 있을 것이다.