Empirical models for NOx and SO2 removal in a double stage flue gas irradiation process

A multidimensional regression method has been applied to construct empirical model equations of NO_x and SO₂ removal efficiency in e–b process for a two-stage irradiation system based on results achieved for the EPS Kaw czyn pilot plant. The influence of different parameters such as dose, temperature, gas humidity and ammonia stoichiometry have been studied. Model equations describe with satisfactory accuracy experimental results. Therefore obtained models equations can be used for prediction of NO_x and SO₂ removal efficiency in e–b process during two-stage irradiation of flue gases, particularly in the case of scale-up. The results will be implemented in the industrial electron beam flue gas treatment installation being constructed at EPS Pomorzany, Dolna Odra PS Group SA, Poland (flue gas flow 270,000 N m³/h, total beam power of applied accelerators 1.2 MW).     

Recent progress of high-power negative ion beam development for fusion plasma heating

A negative-ion-based neutral beam injector (N-NBI) has been constructed for JT-60U. The N-NBI is designed to inject 500 keV, 10 MW neutral beams using two ion sources, each producing a 500 keV, 22 A D⁻ ion beam. In the preliminary experiment using one ion source, a D⁻ ion beam of 13.5 A has been successfully accelerated with an energy of 400 keV (5.4 MW) for 0.12 s at an operating pressure of 0.22 Pa. This is the highest D⁻ beam current and power in the world. Co-extracted electron current was effectively suppressed to the ratio of Ie/I_D⁻ < 1. The highest energy beam of 460 keV, 2.4 A, 0.44 s has also been obtained. To realize 1 MeV class NBI system for ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), demonstration of ampere class negative ion beam acceleration up to 1 MeV is an important mile stone. To achieve the mile stone, a prototype accelerator and a 1 MV, 1 A test facility called MeV Test Facility (MTF) were constructed. Up to now, an H⁻ ion beam was accelerated up to the energy of 805 keV with an acceleration drain current of 150 mA for 1 s in a five stage electrostatic multi-aperture accelerator.     

Accelerators for E-beam and X-ray processing

During last years the demand for pasteurization and desinsection of various food products (meat, chicken, sea products, vegetables, fruits, etc.) had increased. The treatment of these products in industrial scale requires the usage of powerful electron accelerators with energy 5–10 MeV and beam power at least 50 kW or more. The report describes the ILU accelerators with energy range up to 10 MeV and beam power up to 150 kW.The different irradiation schemes in electron beam and X-ray modes for various products are described. The design of the X-ray converter and 90° beam bending system are also given.     

High power electron accelerators for flue gas treatment

Over 1000 accelerators based on different principles have been constructed and used in the field of radiation chemistry and radiation processing. One of the radiation processes which was successfully demonstrated in many laboratories and pilot plant facilities is the reduction of SO₂ and NO_x pollutants from flue gases emitted during fuel combustion in boilers for electrical power and heat production. The full scale industrial implementation of an electron beam process for flue gases treatment would require accelerator modules with a beam power of over 500 kW and electron energy in the range 1–1.5 MeV. The 500 MW power plant may require 5–8 MW of electron beam power deposited in the flue gas.     

New applications of 10 MeV electrons for reeled goods

Because of their high penetration capability, electron beams produced by 10 MeV machines are increasingly used for the sterilization processing of medical devices. Worldwide there are already more than 20 such machines in action for this purpose. But compared with electron beam sterilization, the physical crosslinking of plastic products with 10 MeV has not been as much investigated as in the range of low and medium energy. So the products with high wall thickness or big dimensions are still chemically crosslinked as the penetration and power of the beam of existing accelerators was not sufficient for those products. But now radiation crosslinking is possible also for higher dimensions of reeled goods due to higher beam power up to 150 kW, and one machine with different handling systems can be used for sterilization and modification of plastic products.

The aim of our work is to examine the homogeneous crosslinking of industrial products by a 10 MeV/150 kW electron beam as for instance for XLPE-c pipes and heat shrinkable tubes. Furthermore the uniformity of crosslinking especially along the roundness is measured, which is one of the essential quality characteristics.     

Energetic distribution of the electrons from a 200 keV beam in polyurethane layers : EGS4 calculation and FTIR analysis

The aim of this study is to characterize the chemical transformation of a polymer resulting from irradiation by a 200 keV electron beam. Thermoplastic PU polyetherurethane material was used and irradiation was performed with applied electron fluences in the range of 10¹⁴–10¹⁷ electron cm⁻² at 77 K.

The chemical changes have been observed by FTIR analysis of irradiated layers. A NH bond evolution study has allowed us to follow polymer degradation versus depth and fluence. The results have been compared to a simulation of electronic energy loss and to the energy spectrum of the generated electrons in the polymer using EGS4 code.     

碘代聚苯乙烯——负型电子束、远紫外抗蚀剂

本文合成了碘代聚苯乙烯,它是一种高灵敏度的负型电子束和远紫外抗蚀剂。作为电子束抗蚀剂,其灵敏度为1.5×10^-6C/cm²,分辨率为0.75μm,反差为2,曝光之后在真空中几乎没有后交联现象。作为负型远紫外抗蚀剂,使用500W JB-05型远紫外曝光机所需的曝光时间为20秒,能分辨1.0μm的线条。     

乙腈团簇增强的激光高价电离现象的质谱研究

利用脉宽为25 ns的脉冲Nd：YAG1064 nm激光, 在10¹⁰～10¹¹ W•cm^－２强度下, 用飞行时间质谱对乙腈分子束激光电离过程进行了研究, 发现了高价态的原子离子N^q+(q＝1～5)和C^q+(q＝1～4). 类氦离子N⁵⁺、C⁴⁺的最可几平动能分别高达566 eV和427 eV. 激光延时以及不同束源压力的实验结果表明, 这些高价离子可能来源于乙腈团簇的库仑爆炸过程. 提出一个多光子电离引发, 逆韧致吸收加热- 电子碰撞电离模型来解释高价离子的产生.     

The study of electron beam flue gas treatment for coal-fired thermal plant in Japan

The fundamental research work with simulated coal-fired flue gas was performed in JAERI to get basic data for electron beam treatment of flue gas from thermal power plants in Japan. The standard condition of the experiments was set to be the same as that of next large scale pilot test in Nagoya. The concentrations of NO_x and SO_x were 225 ppm and 800 ppm, respectively. The temperature of the system was 65°C. The effect of multiple irradiation was observed for NO_x removal. The target SO_x and NO_x removals (94% and 80%, respectively) with low NH₃ leakage (less than 10 ppm) were achieved at 9 kGy irradiation with 0.9 NH₃ stoichiometry during 7 hours continuous operation. The facility for the pilot plant (12,000 Nm³/hr) has just built at the site of Shin-Nagoya power plant of Chubu Electric Power Company and will be started in full operation in November 1992.     

The A Πu-X Πg emission spectrum of I2

The A ²Π_u-X ²Π_g electronic emission spectrum of I₂⁺ has been recorded at a low rotational temperature in a crossed molecular beam/electron beam apparatus. Six vibrational sequences with five or more members have been assigned to progressions in ν′, giving ω′_e = 122±8 cm⁻¹, but a full vibrational analysis has not been possible. It is not known whether this is due to the relatively poor resolution (≈5 cm⁻¹) at which the spectrum has been recorded or because the A ²Π_u state is perturbed in one or both spin-orbit components. Existing data on the A state of I₂⁺ are reviewed.     

Formation of SF5 in electron attachment to SF6; swarm and beam results reconciled

Based on the results of recent swarm experiments, it has been proposed that the increase in the cross section for SF₅⁻ formation observed at an electron energy, E_e of about 0.3 eV in electron beam studies of electron attachment to SF₆ is due to the combined (opposing) effects of the vibrational heating of the molecule by the attached electron, which enhances the dissociation of the nascent (SF₆⁻)^* ion, and the reduction of the cross section for capture (s-wave) of the electron by SF₆ with increasing E_e. Further, it has been shown that the dissociation reaction is endothermic by 0.12 eV, and that, contrary to previous suggestions, there is no potential barrier to this dissociation reaction. Now we have carried out electron beam studies of the SF₆ attachment reaction in Berlin at gas temperatures, T_g, over the range 300 to 920 K and in Innsbruck at T_g below 300 K. These studies have provided support for the above proposals concerning the appearance of the SF₅⁻ peak and for a reaction endothermicity of 0.12 eV. Thus these studies have clarified the doubts about the products of the SF₆ attachment reaction at low electron energy.     

Gamma rays produced by inverse Compton scattering in the Super-ACO storage ring free electron laser

The inverse Compton scattering between positron bunches and the free electron laser (FEL) of the Super-ACO storage ring generates a collimated and tunable gamma-ray beam. The use of the FEL instead of an external conventional laser, automatically provides the transverse alignment and synchronisation of the electron and optical beams. The Super-ACO FEL is operated in the 300–430 nm range at 800 MeV with a high repetition rate (8 MHz) and an average transmitted power of 300 mW at 350 nm. High energy gamma-rays of 35 MeV are produced with a rate of 1.5×10⁷ photons/s and good monochromaticity (about 10%).     

脉冲辐解研究喹啉和异喹啉与瞬态粒子的反应

通过合理控制反应条件, 使体系在电子束脉冲作用后只剩下所需要的一种瞬态粒子, 用脉冲辐解研究了喹啉、异喹啉分别与水合电子、羟基自由基、氢自由基等几种典型的氧化还原瞬态粒子的反应过程, 研究了各种瞬态产物的吸收光谱及其变化规律, 测定了相关反应的速率常数. 喹啉、异喹啉与水合电子的反应速率常数分别为7.1×10⁹和3.4×10⁹ mol^-1·L·s^-1, 与羟基自由基的反应速率常数分别为7.2×10⁹和3.4×10⁹ mol^-1·L·s^-1, 与氢自由基的反应速率常数分别为5.7×10⁹和3.6×10⁹ mol^-1·L·s^-1. 这一结果表明, 喹啉、异喹啉均能够非常迅速地与水合电子、羟基自由基、氢自由基发生反应, 喹啉比异喹啉的反应速率更快. 运用电子理论分析了瞬态反应产物结构的稳定性差异, 结果表明, 喹啉的反应产物比异喹啉的稳定, 从而揭示了喹啉比异喹啉反应速率快的原因.     

Compact ILU-type electron accelerators as a base for industrial 4-sided irradiation systems for cable and tubes

The ILU-type industrial electron accelerators are developed in BINP sins 1967. Their energy range is 0.7–4.0 MeV at beam power of 20–50 kW. The comparison of the irradiation results after bilateral and four-sided irradiation of cables and tubes is given. It is shown that the required electron energy and beam power in the case of four-sided irradiation are sufficiently lower than in the case of bilateral irradiation, resulting in an increase of productive rate of the process and improvement of treatment quality. The installations for four-sided irradiation of cables and tubes are based on the industrial electron accelerators type ILU.     

A homopolymer based on double B←N bridged bipyridine as electron acceptor for all-polymer solar cells

A homopolymer based on double B ← N bridged bipyridine was reported as a novel polymer electron acceptor. The resulting all-polymer solar cells show power conversion efficiencies of 2.44%–3.04%.     

干法显影的电子束抗蚀剂——聚环己烯砜叠氮系

本文研究了用四氟化碳-氧等离子体进行干法显影的电子束刻蚀技术。负型电子束抗蚀剂是由聚环己烯砜和2,6-双-(4'-叠氮苯亚甲基)-4-甲基环己酮组成,其灵敏度为1.5×10^-5C/cm²,分辨率小于1μm,反差约1.43。并讨论了干法显影的影响因素和机理。     

SYNTHESES AND PHOTOREDOX PROPERTIES OF POLYELECTROLYTES FUNCTIONALIZED WITH 5-DEAZAFLAVIN

Abstract— Anionic polyelectrolytes functionalized with the 5-deazaflavin group (dFl) were synthesized. The lifetime of the triplet excited dFl in the polyelectrolytes with a 2-mol% dFl content (AdFl-2) was about 10 times longer than that of a low molecular weight analog (AdFl-M). 2-Mercaptoethanol (RSH) reduced the triplet dFl with the rate constant of k _red= 2.01 × 10⁸ M ⁻¹ s⁻¹ for AdFl-M and k _red= 4.4 × 10⁷ M ⁻¹ s⁻¹ for AdFl-2. A zwitterionic viologen (SPV) oxidized the triplet dFl with the rate constant of k _red= 3.69 × 10⁹ M ⁻¹ s⁻¹ for AdFl-M and k _ox= 7.4 × 10⁸ M⁻¹ s⁻¹ for AdFl-2. The smaller rate constants for the polymer system were discussed in terms of the hindering effect of the macromolecular microenvironment. The back electron transfer was shown to be drastically slowed in the AdFl-2-SPV system as a result of the intensive electrostatic effect of the polyelectrolytes. The buildup of the viologen radicals was studied under the steady-state illumination of the three component systems including viologen and RSH. The dFl group was demonstrated to serve as a very efficient photosensitizer in the oxidative cycle in case back electron transfer was retarded. This is the case of the AdFl-2-SPV system which gave the quantum yield of about 0.4 for the SPV⁻ buildup. By comparison, the AdFl-2-MV²+ system resulted in a much slower buildup of MV +radicals.     

Integration of a linear accelerator into a production line of mechanically deboned separated poultry meat

Linear accelerators, commonly called Linacs, are being used for different industrial processes. This kind of machine produces high power electron beams and can treat many products with a high throughput.

The main application of a Linac is the sterilization of medical disposable devices, polymerization and decontamination of food products. Salmonella commonly contaminates poultry. Thanks to E-beam treatment, it eradicates the pathogen quickly and permits the use of meat that should have been thrown away because of its infection.

The world’s first Linac dedicated to treat mechanically deboned poultry meat is located in Brittany at the Société des Protéines Industrielles. It is a Thomson CSF Linac product, the CIRCE II, with an energy of 10 MeV and a power of 10 kW. This Linac has been used for more than 8 years, and its technology is fully proven.     

Field and photo-field electron emission from self-assembled Ge–Si nanostructures with quantum dots

Monolayer and multilayer Ge nanocluster structures were prepared on Si(1 0 0) using molecular beam epitaxy. The cluster size was 10 nm and cluster density was 10¹⁰ cm⁻². A stable field electron emission was obtained from these structures, showing current peaks in the current–voltage characteristics, which may be attributed to the resonant electron tunneling via the energy levels of the nanocluster potential well. For cluster multilayers, the current–voltage curves also showed current peaks with a complex shape. The cluster multilayer structures had a considerable temperature sensitivity, as well as photosensitivity, in the wavelength range from 0.4 to 10 μm.     

Effect of electron beam irradiation on CO2 reforming of methane over Ni/Al2O3 catalysts

The effect of electron beam irradiation on the CO₂ reforming of methane over Ni/Al₂O₃ was investigated. The conversion rate of CO₂ and CH₄ forming H₂ and CO using various catalysts irradiated with an absorbed dose greater than 2 MGy was 5–10% higher than when using an untreated catalyst. The Ni/O ratio on the catalyst surface increased after treatment with an electron beam, and was more prominent for catalysts with a higher Ni content. As such, based on XRD and XPS measurements, electron beam treatment was found to result in either the desorption of oxygen from NiO or the removal of OH groups from the outermost surface layer of the catalyst. In addition, the concentration of active sites, such as Ni²⁺ and NiO, or surface defects was also found to increase with the absorbed radiation dose, thereby increasing the conversion rate.