Room tritium-in-air monitor
Model 7045
Tyne Engineering’s new Model 7045 Room Tritium-In-Air Monitor is a rack mounted or wall mounted, more sensitive version of our popular Model 7043 Portable Tritium Monitor. The 7045 is intended for room monitoring for both tritium and gamma.
- Simple to use, uses only one operating switch with four settings: Off, Sample, Pump, Set Up.
- Gamma Compensation with four large ion chambers arranged in a cruciform configuration. Two chambers are used for measuring the air sample, and two are for background compensation.
- Better than 90% accurate in 20 mR/hr field.
- High Sensitivity. The current amplification circuit employs ultra-low leakage technology. Each chamber has its individual amplifier, increasing the signal-noise ratio of the analog circuit.
- Radon compensation is provided by an analog filter circuit designed to separate out the radon spike. The software can distinguish the radon spike from the tritium signal occurring as a slow-change signal.
- Ion-traps are built into each ion chamber.
- Noble gas compensation.
- Direct gamma measurement is provided using an installed GM tube.
- Decontamination by purging of all 4 ion chambers can be achieved with use of the centrally installed cartridge heater.
Compensation for Gamma background is crucial in tritium measurement, since a gamma field of 1mR/Hr will generate 500 times the ionization generated in 1μ Ci/m3 of tritium. Tyne designed the four ion chambers in a cruciform with each chamber connected to an ultra sensitive electrometer amplifier and filter. All signals pass through the ADC converter, and the micro-processor calculates and displays the tritium value. To cover high ranges of tritium a separatesmall ion chamber is used. Measurements such as flow from the solid state flow meter and chamber temperature are also monitored by the micro- processor.
Instrument output includes analog (0-5V, 4-20mA); relay alarm contact (30VDC, 1A) for operation of external equipment; and communication (RS232/RS485) to enable downloading or recording of information onto a computer. The TFT full color
LCD display mounted on the surface plate clearly displays instrument readings in both digital and graphic format to show real time measurements and trends.