TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a high frame rate neutron imaging method for two-phase flows
AU - Lani, Chad
AU - Zboray, Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are very thankful for the support of the staff of the Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC) in carrying out the experiments and operating the Penn State Breazeale Reactor. Special thanks are due to Alison Portanova for helping to operate the imaging beam port and beam cave. The authors are really grateful to Prof. Kenan Unlu, the director of RSEC, for his continued interest and support of our work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/2/21
Y1 - 2020/2/21
N2 - A high frame rate neutron imaging system has been developed at the Pennsylvania State University utilizing the Breazeale TRIGA reactor in the Radiation Science and Engineering Center. The imaging setup uses the pulsing capabilities of the TRIGA reactor to obtain neutron images at frame rates up to 4000 frames per second. The system was used to image an aluminum bubbler which forced compressed air through water creating a two-phase flow mixture. This paper describes the equipment used for the setup and its performance with respect to time and space resolution and analyzes various potential biasing effects for quantitative results such as statistical error and low count bias.
AB - A high frame rate neutron imaging system has been developed at the Pennsylvania State University utilizing the Breazeale TRIGA reactor in the Radiation Science and Engineering Center. The imaging setup uses the pulsing capabilities of the TRIGA reactor to obtain neutron images at frame rates up to 4000 frames per second. The system was used to image an aluminum bubbler which forced compressed air through water creating a two-phase flow mixture. This paper describes the equipment used for the setup and its performance with respect to time and space resolution and analyzes various potential biasing effects for quantitative results such as statistical error and low count bias.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.022
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2018.12.022
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85059307057
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 954
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
M1 - 161707
ER -