In this study, we propose an approach using the gamma transmission technique based on the combination of the experimental and simulated data for determining the percentage concentration of the acid solution. The experiment consists of a collimated 137Cs radioactive source emitting a narrow gamma beam of 662 keV and a NaI(Tl) detector. Monte Carlo simulation data is used to construct the calibration curve of lnR versus the percentage concentration of acid solution at different temperatures (R is the ratio of the area under a transmission peak for an acid solution relative to that for water). The percentage concentration of the acid solution is determined based on the calibration curve and the experimental ratio R. The obtained results showed that this approach was feasible in which the percent concentration of 7 in total 8 samples of the sulfuric acid solution are less than 5% in comparison with one of the reference samples. There is only one sample with a relative deviation of 7.6%. These preliminary results suggest that it is possible to develop nondestructive testing for the rapid determination of the percentage concentration of acid solutions based on the gamma transmission technique.
The effect of the diameter of the detector collimator on the saturation thickness in gamma-scattering measurements is studied using the spectrum of singly scattering. Geometric arrangement of gamma-scattering measurement includes: a gamma-ray collimated beam with the energy of 662 keV emitted from 137Cs source is irradiated on a rectangular aluminium target with incident angle of 90o, and detector NaI(Tl) 5.1cmx5.1cm with collimator is used to record the scatterd gamma rays at scattered angle of 120°. The experimental measurements are carried out to obtain scattered spectra with various target thickness and diameter of detector collimator. The profile of the singly scattering and multiply scattering in the scattered spectra are determined by a spectrum processing technique based on the least squares fitting. The experimental results showed that the saturation thickness of the counts of singly scattering increases with increasing the window diameter of the detector collimator. These results will support for the non-destructive testing research of application of gamma-scattering method to determine the thickness or the defect of the sample.
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