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Chmielewski, A.G.

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MOLP23	Implementation Of High Power Electron Accelerators For Environmental Protection Z. Zimek, A.G. Chmielewski Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Poland High power accelerators have been recently developed to meet demands of flue gas treatment and other high throughput processes. Such accelerators can substantially increase the capacity of the process and reduced unit cost of operation. Automatic control, reliability and reduced maintenance, adequate adoption to process conditions, suitable electron energy and beam power are the basic features of modern accelerator construction. Accelerators have the potential to serve as big radiation sources which can transfer much higher amounts of energy into the irradiated objects than other types of facilities. That provide opportunity to construct technological lines with high capacity and they are more technically and economically suitable with high throughputs and low cost what is necessary in environmental protection technologies. Some special efforts should be done to optimize electrical energy consumption for accelerator, electron beam handling system and other auxiliary equipment related to radiation facility to achieve the highest electrical efficiency. Electron beam technology is already being utilized in many pilot plants and demonstration facilities for environmental application. Several full size facilities were constructed and implemented in different countries. Among them flue gas treatment unit equipped with four electron accelerators with total beam power over 1 MW installed in Poland. Accelerators may play a major role in new big market related to environment application of radiation processing if except high power, high efficiency, low cost they will be characterized by high reliability suitable for industrial standards. High power accelerator technology may need governmental support in design, construction and testing such equipment because environmental applications of EB technology are examples of high risk and not very high payoff but on the other hand radiation technology transfer to environmental application could be in result a substantial improvement in public health.

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MOLP23

Implementation Of High Power Electron Accelerators For Environmental Protection

Z. Zimek, A.G. Chmielewski
Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Poland

High power accelerators have been recently developed to meet demands of flue gas treatment and other high throughput processes. Such accelerators can substantially increase the capacity of the process and reduced unit cost of operation. Automatic control, reliability and reduced maintenance, adequate adoption to process conditions, suitable electron energy and beam power are the basic features of modern accelerator construction. Accelerators have the potential to serve as big radiation sources which can transfer much higher amounts of energy into the irradiated objects than other types of facilities. That provide opportunity to construct technological lines with high capacity and they are more technically and economically suitable with high throughputs and low cost what is necessary in environmental protection technologies. Some special efforts should be done to optimize electrical energy consumption for accelerator, electron beam handling system and other auxiliary equipment related to radiation facility to achieve the highest electrical efficiency. Electron beam technology is already being utilized in many pilot plants and demonstration facilities for environmental application. Several full size facilities were constructed and implemented in different countries. Among them flue gas treatment unit equipped with four electron accelerators with total beam power over 1 MW installed in Poland. Accelerators may play a major role in new big market related to environment application of radiation processing if except high power, high efficiency, low cost they will be characterized by high reliability suitable for industrial standards. High power accelerator technology may need governmental support in design, construction and testing such equipment because environmental applications of EB technology are examples of high risk and not very high payoff but on the other hand radiation technology transfer to environmental application could be in result a substantial improvement in public health.