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Construction and Measurements of an Improved Vacuum-Swing-Adsorption Radon-Mitigation System

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 نشر من قبل Joseph Street
 تاريخ النشر 2015
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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In order to reduce backgrounds from radon-daughter plate-out onto detector surfaces, an ultra-low-radon cleanroom is being commissioned at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. An improved vacuum-swing-adsorption radon mitigation system and cleanroom build upon a previous design implemented at Syracuse University that achieved radon levels of $sim$0.2$,$Bq$,$m$^{-3}$. This improved system will employ a better pump and larger carbon beds feeding a redesigned cleanroom with an internal HVAC unit and aged water for humidification. With the rebuilt (original) radon mitigation system, the new low-radon cleanroom has already achieved a $>$$,$300$times$ reduction from an input activity of $58.6pm0.7$$,$Bq$,$m$^{-3}$ to a cleanroom activity of $0.13pm0.06$$,$Bq$,$m$^{-3}$.


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