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<p>Radioactive aerosols in the confined workplace are a major source of internal exposure hazards for workers. Cloud-type radioactive aerosol elimination system (CRAES) have great potential for radioactive aerosol capture due to their high adsorption capacity, lack of cartridges and less secondary contamination. A CRAES was designed and constructed, and a FeOOH/rGO composite was directly prepared by a hydro-thermal method to characterise and analyse its morphology, chemical structure and removal efficiency for simulated radioactive aerosols. The results show that the FeOOH/rGO composite works in synergy with the CRAES to effectively improve the removal efficiency of simulated radioactive aerosols. A 30-minute simulated radioactive aerosol removal rate of 94.52% was achieved when using the experimentally optimized composite inhibitor amount of 2 mg/L FeOOH/rGO with 0.2 g/L PVA as a surfactant. Therefore, the CRAES coupled with the composite inhibitor FeOOH/rGO has broad application potential for the synergistic treatment of radioactive aerosols.</p>
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Radioactive aerosols in the confined workplace are a major source of internal exposure hazards for workers. Cloud-type radioactive aerosol elimination system (CRAES) have great potential for radioactive aerosol capture due to their high adsorption capacity, lack of cartridges and less secondary contamination. A CRAES was designed and constructed, and a FeOOH/rGO composite was directly prepared by a hydro-thermal method to characterise and analyse its morphology, chemical structure and removal efficiency for simulated radioactive aerosols. The results show that the FeOOH/rGO composite works in synergy with the CRAES to effectively improve the removal efficiency of simulated radioactive aerosols. A 30-minute simulated radioactive aerosol removal rate of 94.52% was achieved when using the experimentally optimized composite inhibitor amount of 2 mg/L FeOOH/rGO with 0.2 g/L PVA as a surfactant. Therefore, the CRAES coupled with the composite inhibitor FeOOH/rGO has broad application potential for the synergistic treatment of radioactive aerosols.

Experimental research on the removal characteristics of simulated radioactive aerosols by a cloud-type radioactive aerosol elimination system

Polish Journal of Chemical Technology

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Radioactive aerosols in the confined workplace are a major source of internal exposure hazards for workers. Cloud-type radioactive aerosol elimination system...

Experimental research on the removal characteristics of simulated radioactive aerosols by a cloud-type radioactive aerosol elimination system

Published Online: Jan 11, 2024

Page range: 10 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjct-2023-0033

Keywords
Radioactive aerosols, elimination, composite, CRAES, FeOOH/rGO

© 2023 Jiqing Zhang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Experimental research on the removal characteristics of simulated radioactive aerosols by a cloud-type radioactive aerosol elimination system

Published Online: Jan 11, 2024

Page range: 10 - 18

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjct-2023-0033

KeywordsRadioactive aerosols, elimination, composite, CRAES, FeOOH/rGO

© 2023 Jiqing Zhang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Radioactive aerosols, elimination, composite, CRAES, FeOOH/rGO