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

Mohammed, Mohammed Siddig H.; Banoqitah, Essam M.; Elmoujarkach, Ezzat; Alhawsawi, Abdulsalam M.; Djouider, Fathi

doi:10.2478/nuka-2021-0003

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.

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

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