Radiotracer Technology in Mixing Processes for Industrial Applications
N. Othman1 and S. K. Kamarudin2- Radiotracer Technology in Mixing Processes for Industrial Applications.
 
Radiotracers are widely used for the measurement of the flow rate of liquids, gases, and solids in many industrial systems. Thus, in the enhancement of production efficiency and process optimisation, radioisotope-based technology continues to play a rapidly growing role in various industries, such as petrochemicals, oil, and gas, as well as wastewater treatment plants. An investigation of many major industrial applications, including fluidised beds, sugar crystallisers, trickle bed reactors, cement rotary kilns, wastewater treatment units, and interwell communications in oil fields, can be performed by injecting a radiotracer at the inlet of the system and monitoring it at the outlet.The data output can be treated and analysed to investigate the behaviour of the system.