Construction and measurements of an improved vacuum-swing-adsorption radon-mitigation system
Abstract
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 ∼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× reduction from an input activity of 58.6 ± 0.7 Bq m-3 to a cleanroom activity of 0.13 ± 0.06 Bq m-3.
- Publication:
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Low Radioactivity Techniques 2015 (LRT 2015)
- Pub Date:
- August 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4928027
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1506.00929
- Bibcode:
- 2015AIPC.1672o0004S
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT) 2015, Seattle, WA, March 18-20, 2015