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Green Conversion of the Hazardous Cathode Ray Tube and Red Mud into Radiation Shielding Concrete
The present investigation was aimed at the utilization of alternate materials, emphasizing hazardous industrial products (red mud and cathode ray tubes), as constituents of radiation shielding concrete. The usage of these hazardous industrial products improves the sustainability and performance of t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9369814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35955250 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15155316 |
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author | Sayyed, M. I. Almousa, Nouf Elsafi, Mohamed |
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description | The present investigation was aimed at the utilization of alternate materials, emphasizing hazardous industrial products (red mud and cathode ray tubes), as constituents of radiation shielding concrete. The usage of these hazardous industrial products improves the sustainability and performance of the radiation shielding concrete. Five concrete blocks were cast and their density, compressive strength, gamma shielding factors, radiation absorption ratio, and transmission factor were explored. For this purpose, gamma-ray shielding measurements were done with the help of an HPGe detector. Mix-1, with zero contents of red mud and CRTs, had the lowest LAC. The LAC results demonstrated that the shielding performance of the current concretes would be better with the increase in red mud and cathode ray tube glass. The Transmission factor (TF) for the prepared concretes with a thickness of 2 cm varied between 11.9–26.1% at 0.06 MeV, while it varied between 4–13% for a thickness of 3 cm. The TF results showed that the composites with a thickness of 2, 3, or 5 cm are good shields against lower energy radiation. The radiation absorption ratio (RAR) for the prepared concretes is high at low energy, suggesting that these new composites can absorb most of the low-energy photons. The RAR results emphasize that the increase in CRTs in the new composites enhanced the radiation shielding features, and when the CRT glass is at a maximum, more attenuation was achieved. |
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spelling | pubmed-93698142022-08-12 Green Conversion of the Hazardous Cathode Ray Tube and Red Mud into Radiation Shielding Concrete Sayyed, M. I. Almousa, Nouf Elsafi, Mohamed Materials (Basel) Article The present investigation was aimed at the utilization of alternate materials, emphasizing hazardous industrial products (red mud and cathode ray tubes), as constituents of radiation shielding concrete. The usage of these hazardous industrial products improves the sustainability and performance of the radiation shielding concrete. Five concrete blocks were cast and their density, compressive strength, gamma shielding factors, radiation absorption ratio, and transmission factor were explored. For this purpose, gamma-ray shielding measurements were done with the help of an HPGe detector. Mix-1, with zero contents of red mud and CRTs, had the lowest LAC. The LAC results demonstrated that the shielding performance of the current concretes would be better with the increase in red mud and cathode ray tube glass. The Transmission factor (TF) for the prepared concretes with a thickness of 2 cm varied between 11.9–26.1% at 0.06 MeV, while it varied between 4–13% for a thickness of 3 cm. The TF results showed that the composites with a thickness of 2, 3, or 5 cm are good shields against lower energy radiation. The radiation absorption ratio (RAR) for the prepared concretes is high at low energy, suggesting that these new composites can absorb most of the low-energy photons. The RAR results emphasize that the increase in CRTs in the new composites enhanced the radiation shielding features, and when the CRT glass is at a maximum, more attenuation was achieved. MDPI 2022-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9369814/ /pubmed/35955250 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15155316 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sayyed, M. I. Almousa, Nouf Elsafi, Mohamed Green Conversion of the Hazardous Cathode Ray Tube and Red Mud into Radiation Shielding Concrete |
title | Green Conversion of the Hazardous Cathode Ray Tube and Red Mud into Radiation Shielding Concrete |
title_full | Green Conversion of the Hazardous Cathode Ray Tube and Red Mud into Radiation Shielding Concrete |
title_fullStr | Green Conversion of the Hazardous Cathode Ray Tube and Red Mud into Radiation Shielding Concrete |
title_full_unstemmed | Green Conversion of the Hazardous Cathode Ray Tube and Red Mud into Radiation Shielding Concrete |
title_short | Green Conversion of the Hazardous Cathode Ray Tube and Red Mud into Radiation Shielding Concrete |
title_sort | green conversion of the hazardous cathode ray tube and red mud into radiation shielding concrete |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9369814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35955250 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15155316 |
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