• 제목/요약/키워드: Radiation room dose distribution

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Heavy concrete shielding properties for carbon therapy

  • Jin-Long Wang;Jiade J Lu;Da-Jun Ding;Wen-Hua Jiang;Ya-Dong Li;Rui Qiu;Hui Zhang;Xiao-Zhong Wang;Huo-Sheng Ruan;Yan-Bing Teng;Xiao-Guang Wu;Yun Zheng;Zi-Hao Zhao;Kai-Zhong Liao;Huan-Cheng Mai;Xiao-Dong Wang;Ke Peng;Wei Wang;Zhan Tang;Zhao-Yan Yu;Zhen Wu;Hong-Hu Song;Shuo-Yang Wei;Sen-Lin Mao;Jun Xu;Jing Tao;Min-Qiang Zhang;Xi-Qiang Xue;Ming Wang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제55권6호
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    • pp.2335-2347
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    • 2023
  • As medical facilities are usually built at urban areas, special concrete aggregates and evaluation methods are needed to optimize the design of concrete walls by balancing density, thickness, material composition, cost, and other factors. Carbon treatment rooms require a high radiation shielding requirement, as the neutron yield from carbon therapy is much higher than the neutron yield of protons. In this case study, the maximum carbon energy is 430 MeV/u and the maximum current is 0.27 nA from a hybrid particle therapy system. Hospital or facility construction should consider this requirement to design a special heavy concrete. In this work, magnetite is adopted as the major aggregate. Density is determined mainly by the major aggregate content of magnetite, and a heavy concrete test block was constructed for structural tests. The compressive strength is 35.7 MPa. The density ranges from 3.65 g/cm3 to 4.14 g/cm3, and the iron mass content ranges from 53.78% to 60.38% from the 12 cored sample measurements. It was found that there is a linear relationship between density and iron content, and mixing impurities should be the major reason leading to the nonuniform element and density distribution. The effect of this nonuniformity on radiation shielding properties for a carbon treatment room is investigated by three groups of Monte Carlo simulations. Higher density dominates to reduce shielding thickness. However, a higher content of high-Z elements will weaken the shielding strength, especially at a lower dose rate threshold and vice versa. The weakened side effect of a high iron content on the shielding property is obvious at 2.5 µSv=h. Therefore, we should not blindly pursue high Z content in engineering. If the thickness is constrained to 2 m, then the density can be reduced to 3.3 g/cm3, which will save cost by reducing the magnetite composition with 50.44% iron content. If a higher density of 3.9 g/cm3 with 57.65% iron content is selected for construction, then the thickness of the wall can be reduced to 174.2 cm, which will save space for equipment installation.

자주포용 보조동력장치 엔진룸의 열유동 최적화에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Optimization of Heat Flux in Engine Room of Auxiliary Power Unit for Self-Propelled Artillery)

  • 노상완;박영민;김성훈;이재동;김병현
    • 한국산학기술학회논문지
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    • 제20권12호
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    • pp.629-635
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    • 2019
  • 자주포는 운용 특성상 정차상태에서 구동하기 때문에 엔진을 사용할 만큼 많은 에너지가 필요하지 않다. 이와 같은 문제점을 보완하기 위하여 성능개량된 자주포에는 보조동력장치(APU)를 설치하였다. APU를 통하여 엔진의 불필요한 가동을 줄일 수 있고, 이는 엔진의 수명을 늘릴 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 APU 내부 엔진룸의 열 유동을 최적화하기 위하여 Fan과 오일쿨러 적용에 따른 영향을 분석하였다. 열유동 해석을 수행하기 위하여 대기환경과 일사량은 MIL-STD-810을 적용하였다. 흡입구/배출구 Fan을 적용한 경우(Case1), 흡입구 Fan과 오일쿨러를 적용한 경우(Case2), 흡입구/배출구 Fan과 오일쿨러를 적용한 경우(Case3) 3가지에 대하여 열유동을 해석하였다. 해석결과 Case3의 실린더 헤드 온도가 Case1 보다 21.4℃, Case2 보다 8.0℃ 낮은 것을 확인하였다. 해석결과에 대한 타당성을 검토하기 위하여 동일 외기조건에서 실험을 진행하였다. 해석수치와 실험결과가 7%이하의 차이를 나타냈다. 이를 통하여 APU 열유동 최적화 모델이 설계조건을 만족하는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구결과를 통하여 추후 개발하는 타 군용 APU 열유동 최적화에 대한 기초자료로 사용될 것으로 기대된다.