This study aims to develop and manufacture a device for inspecting impurities in a sealed aluminum container using X-ray technique. In the study, the aluminum container sample dimensions are (diameter: 59 mm), (height: 195 mm), (metal alien substances...
This study aims to develop and manufacture a device for inspecting impurities in a sealed aluminum container using X-ray technique. In the study, the aluminum container sample dimensions are (diameter: 59 mm), (height: 195 mm), (metal alien substances size: 2 mm or more) and (non-ferrous metal alien substances size: 5 mm or more). Two X-ray oscillators and detectors are used for detecting to the whole of the sample.
In this study, the shielding was fabricated based on NCRP 49 p91 like as (the bottom: 4mm steel plate) and (on the other parts: 2mm steel plate). The stage for sample movement was fabricated using two high voltage generators and X-ray detectors arranged in a diagonal direction. In addition, the high-voltage generator is composed of a vacuum tube, a high-voltage generator, and circulating oil for cooling. It also includes a control unit for controlling other equipment, a power supply unit, and a video output unit. The most important part of the X-ray is the X-ray generation part. This part is fabricated using high voltage box, tube voltage and tube current which are considered to be the important management points. In this study, tube voltage was set to 60kV ± 8% and tube current was controlled to 0.5mA ± 18%. For this purpose, it is important to design the frequency multiplier. The frequency multiplier consists of a combination of a capacitor, a diode and two trans. The frequency multiplier directs to increase the voltage regulator to generate high voltage and decompress the voltage to apply the current. Especially, in this high-voltage box part, an enormous heat is generated by using high voltage. Generally, X-ray generator generates 99% heat and 1% X-ray, but at 60kV, 99.5% heat and 0.5% X-ray is generated.
In this study, the flat panel was used along with the aim to develop detector part. In particular, the development of the Scintillator introduced in this study is mainly focused. The developed Scintillator can be combined with a lens and then can be assembled with CCD( charge coupled device) sensor.