Manufacturing Industries

Manufacturing Industries

Techniques

Quality Control

• Density: rubber, oils, fabric, paper, etc
• Thickness: paper, glass, steel, plastic films
• Level: beverages, cooking oil

Process Control

• Density: cement, mud, liquids, chemical products
• Level: vessels, silos, chemical products, minerals
• Moisture: glass, cement, minerals

Radiotracers in

• Fertilizer Plants,
• Cement Factories,
• Sulphuric Acid Plants, etc

Radiation Sources

Gauges can be categorized by their mode of operation

• transmission
• backscatter

Type of radioactive source used

• Gamma, Beta and Neutron
• Sources
• X-ray
• Cesiums-137
• Cobalt-60
• Krypton-85 (encapsulated gas)
• Strontium-90 (foil source)
• Promethium-147 (foil source)
• Americium-241
• Americium-241/beryllium
• Plutonium-238/beryllium