advanced TRITIUM AND RADIATION MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS
customized solutions to facility wide tritium monitoring
Tyne is an industry leader in designing and manufacturing customized tritium detection and monitoring solutions with a focus on specialized applications. We provide low-cost and simple to use to highly specialized computer controlled systems for full integration in nuclear power plants, modular reactors, fusion research facilities, medicine and homeland security environments.
Area and Personnel monitoring
nuclear facility process systems monitoring
complex stack monitoring systems
customized MSR, SMR, radiopharmaceutical monitoring solutions
specialized military detection applications
- Passive or active measurements
- Single room or multi room measurements
- Installed or easily moved instruments
Tyne Engineering has uniquely positioned itself as specialists in the development of instruments specifically suited for measuring tritium inside process lines.
Tyne’s surface activity monitor quickly, conveniently and directly measures fixed and removable tritium activity on flat surfaces and can measure removable tritium on all surfaces. This carefully designed instrument is portable, easily calibrated, produces no waste, and is more efficient than scintillation.
In most laboratories where tritium is handled, much of the soft waste may be clean and could be discarded appropriately if the activity level could be measured. Tyne’s tritium in soft waste monitoring equipment provides that opportunity.
Advantages of our technology include:
- Cuts expenses by reducing long term waste
- Can monitor many bags of tritium contaminated waste simultaneously
- Automatically timed operation with minimal operator involvement
Tyne’s tritium in breath monitor is intended to simplify measuring bodily intake of high levels of tritium in persons who have been working in areas where the release of tritium is possible. This system is a great addition to the current method of urine analysis because the results are discovered immediately.
Tritium-In-Air Montors
Tyne is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of portable, wall mount and room radiation monitoring instruments. Our range of products extend from low cost and simple to use to highly specialized computer controlled systems that will ensure accurate monitoring. We offer complete monitoring solutions customized to our clients’ unique requirements.
Convenient and reliable handheld device monitors both tritium and gamma in a single robust, portable instrument.
High accuracy room monitoring for both tritium and gamma with the convenience of simple wall mounting for ease of removal for calibration or relocation.
A versatile wall or rack-mount monitor. The 7045 is intended for room monitoring for both tritium and gamma. Incorporating 4 ion chambers and a sniffer probe.
Accurately determines total tritium in air based on a continuous air sample drawn through a flexible tube that can be located up to 100 feet away. Features two ion chambers alternatively used with auto switching for continuous re-zeroing.
Simultaneously monitors up to 32 remote locations or rooms for background (environmental, gamma and other isotopes) compensated tritium activity.
Ideal for measuring tritium in remote locations. Includes battery backup, two sample tubes mounted on stands, real time measurement, backup bubbler totalizing, auto zeroing and dual local/remote alarms.
Incorporates two tritium monitor controllers mounted on a movable hand cart which can be pushed to an environment where an operator is performing tasks where concerns of possible tritium leaks into the atmosphere exist.
Enables operators leaving areas of potential tritium contamination to acquire an immediate measure of bodily uptake of tritium.
Determines the amount of tritium in the laboratory atmosphere via concentration of tritium absorbed into the Passive Diffusion Cell.
Tyne's tritium bubbler system collects workspace or environmental samples from ambient air. With the recognized fast conversion dynamic of free tritium to THO, the requirement for a catalytic furnace to convert free Tritium into THO prior to sampling is avoided and a direct three stage bubbler system implemented.
In order to provide customers with the desired flexibility, Tyne Engineering has developed an external pump box that can be utilized with all of our tritium monitoring instruments, providing reliable, continuous, long term operation beyond the design life of the instrument internal pumps.desired.
This system was designed by Tyne for the capture of tritium and carbon-14 from biological and environmental samples by pyrolysis followed by high temperature catalysis to THO and CO2. The evolved gases are captured in bubblers for THO capture followed by bubblers for CO2 capture. The resulting bubbler samples are analyzed using a laboratory liquid scintillation counter.
Tritium In Process Tubing Monitoring
Tyne has successfully designed, fabricated and tested in-line tritium monitoring systems for process and experimental applications across multiple industries with a wide scope of clients in the nuclear power sector. Our monitors are uniquely simple and compact in design, ultrahigh vacuum compatible, and bakeable to 350°C.
tritium handling systems
getterbed loops
tritium lights manufacturing
laboratory experimentation
drug labelling systems
The tritium detector can be either a 1000cc or 10cc in-line ionization chamber. The 1000cc detector gives the maximum sensitivity and the 10cc detector gives the maximum detection limit. The signal from the detector can be connected to our low cost, single range tritium signal processor, or the touch screen, auto zeroing, multi-ranged tritium monitor.
Tyne’s multi range tritium monitor is used to measure, alarm and control the amount of tritium directly in-line of a process loop in real time. The unique small footprint detector head has the ability to handle up to 150 psig, is leak tight and can operate at elevated temperatures. The touch panel controller which can be remotely installed up to 100m away handles all multi ranging, alarming with relay output, auto-zeroing and gamma compensation functions.
- Real Time Measurement
- Direct In-line installation
- Multi Ranging*
- Small Footprint
- Electro-polished Detector Surface
- Max of 150 PSIG
- 1×10-9 He Leak Tight
- Operates above 100°C
- 1 L/s flow rate
- Explosion Proof
- Auto Zeroing*
- Voltage Analog Output
- Current Analog Output*
- Digital Range Indication*
- Dual set point Alarms*
- Visual and Audible local alarm*
- RS232 Output*
- Remote Alarm, 30VAC/DC Relay output*
- Dual Channel for 2nd detector or gamma compensation*
- Low sensitivity of 1 µCi/m³
- Gamma compensation
Designed as a high activity, bakeable radiation detector. Built with virtual wall technology and can bias anode up to 100V from ground. Suitable for mCi/m3 to kCi/m3 of tritium.
Designed to be an in-line radiation within a process gas detector with the most typical application being tritium. The inlet and outlet VCR 8 connectors allow the chamber to be easily mounted into an existing process line.
The main data processing center for tritium monitoring configurations. Suitable for in-line monitoring of process systems in addition to glovebox, stack and air monitoring.
Designed as a solution for measuring multiple locations in a process loop in real time. The detector and transmitter are packaged into a single small footprint device that can be located directly in-line with the process.
Tritium On Surfaces and In Soft Waste
Assesses potential presence of tritium on paper, plastics, and fabric waste. Should waste activity be below approved levels for disposal, the items can be sent to regular landfill resulting in both monetary and environmental benefits.
Measures fixed tritium activity on flat surfaces and removable tritium on all surfaces. Designed for portability, easy calibration and efficiency. Faster and equally as accurate as the scintillation counter for reading smears.
Tritium In Breath Monitoring
The tritium breathalyzer is intended to simplify measuring the bodily intake of high levels of tritium in persons who have been working in areas where the release of tritium is possible.
Enables operators leaving areas of potential tritium contamination to acquire an immediate measure of bodily uptake of tritium.
CSA-N286.2 by CANPAC (Nuclear Design Quality Assurance) . CSA-Z299.1 by CANPAC and QMI (Nuclear Design Quality Assurance) . EPRI-NP-5625 (for CGD by CANPAC) . ISO9001:2000 by QMI . TSSA certification to ASME Section VIII Div 1 . TSSA certification to ASME B31.1 . TSSA certification to ASME B31.3 . TSSA certification to CSA B51 . Tyne complies fully with 10CFR50 Appendix B and has been audited to ASME NQA-1 Nuclear Quality Assurance Program.
