Gamma dose monitoring devices based on long-range wireless communication
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a gamma ray dosage monitoring and 4G thing networking transmission technical field especially relate to gamma ray's weak pulse signal collection at random and handle, the application scenario of radiation environment monitoring such as long-range big data transmission.
Background
Gamma rays, also called gamma particle flux, are rays released when transition of nuclear energy level is degenerated, and are electromagnetic waves having a wavelength shorter than 0.01 angstroms. The gamma ray has strong penetrating power and can be used for flaw detection or automatic control of a production line in industry. The gamma ray has the killing power to cells and is used for treating tumors in medical treatment. Gamma rays are incident on the crystal and produce photoelectric effect, compton effect and electron pair effect. The secondary electrons move in the crystal, consume energy in the crystal, ionize and excite the atoms in the crystal, and when the atoms in the excited state return to the ground state, the crystal flashes, and light is collected by the silicon photodiode to generate weak current pulse signals.
The existing equipment mainly comprises a gas ionization chamber and handheld equipment of a NaI probe, converts gamma radiation energy into a countable pulse signal, inputs the countable pulse signal into a secondary instrument, performs counting measurement, and displays the countable pulse signal through an LED. The existing equipment is limited in space, and most detectors are mainly gas ionization chamber detectors, so that the measurement accuracy is low, and the volume is large. .
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model discloses the purpose is exactly in order to compensate not enough of hand-held type monitoring facilities and wired equipment, provides the device that gamma ray dosage monitoring and 4G thing networking transmission technology combined together. The utility model discloses a CsI (cesium iodide)'s deliquescence is superior to NaI (sodium iodide), can be with the fine matching of silicon photodiode to make the reading system greatly simplify. The application of the crystal is beneficial to obtaining better time resolution.
The utility model discloses a realize through following technical scheme: a gamma dose monitoring device based on remote wireless communication, comprising:
the system comprises a silicon photodiode with a CsI (TI) scintillator, a preamplifier part, a CH549 single chip microcomputer processing chip, a power supply and a 4G wireless transmission module, wherein the silicon photodiode is connected to the input end of the preamplifier, an output pin of the preamplifier is connected to an input port of a comparator arranged in the CH549 single chip microcomputer, the CH549 single chip microcomputer processes signals and sends result data to the 4G module through a serial port;
the scintillator detects gamma rays and then emits light, a photodiode in the silicon photodiode detector converts an optical signal into a current signal, a preamplifier amplifies the current signal, amplifies voltage and conditions the signal, the conditioned signal is divided into two paths, one path enters a comparator to convert a random nuclear pulse analog signal into a corresponding square wave pulse signal, then the square wave pulse signal is input into a CH549 single chip microcomputer to carry out nuclear pulse counting, the nuclear pulse counting is sent to a 4G wireless communication module through a serial port at regular time, the 4G wireless communication module packs and modulates data and then sends the data to a server, and upper computer software takes out a measurement result from the server through a TCP/IP protocol and converts the received pulse counting into radiation dose, so that the remote wireless monitoring of the gamma radiation dose is realized; the other path of signal amplified and conditioned by the preamplifier directly enters an AD sampling module of a CH549 singlechip to acquire the pulse amplitude of the signal; the CsI (TI) scintillator detector has 5% energy resolution, an energy spectrum of gamma radiation to be detected is obtained by collecting and analyzing pulse amplitude, a pulse amplitude analysis algorithm is added into the single chip microcomputer, a two-dimensional energy spectrum curve graph with an X axis as energy and a Y axis as pulse counting rate is output, the energy resolution reaches 1024 channels, and further element analysis is carried out.
Furthermore, the monitoring device is combined with upper computer software, the radiation doses of a plurality of places are measured remotely, data are processed and stored, and the stored data are used for big data analysis.
Furthermore, copper foils are added on the scintillator silicon photodiode and the preamplifier, so that electromagnetic noise interference is reduced while light is shielded, and the gamma background of the environmental level can be detected.
Furthermore, the monitoring device carries out calibration experiments through standard Eu-152 and Cs-137 gamma radioactive sources, the Eu-152 gamma radioactive source, the to-be-detected remote wireless communication small gamma dose monitoring device based on the scintillation bulk silicon photodiode detector and the standard gamma radiation metering instrument are placed on the same straight line, the distance between the to-be-detected monitoring device and the gamma radioactive source from the standard metering instrument is ensured to be equal, and meanwhile, the pulse counting rate of the to-be-detected monitoring device at the current position and the radiation dose value of the standard metering instrument are measured and the result is recorded; the method comprises the steps of measuring gamma rays with different radiation intensities by changing the distance between a radioactive source and a monitoring device to be measured, obtaining a relation curve that the pulse counting rate of the device to be measured increases along with the increase of radiation dose measured by a standard measuring instrument, calculating a calibration coefficient through the relation curve, and finally adding the measured calibration coefficient into upper computer software to convert the number of pulses into radiation dose through operation.
Further, the same calibration procedure of the Eu-152 radioactive source is repeated using the Cs-137 gamma source.
Furthermore, the wireless gamma monitor not only comprises a 4G communication module, but also reserves a compatible communication interface for a satellite communication module, and the whole machine volume size is as follows: 104mm 76mm 46mm can be used for large-scale arrangement, can be applied to the fields of nuclear environment monitoring of standard nuclear facility sites and nuclear emergency.
Further, gamma dose monitoring devices based on long-range wireless communication design for the mini USB interface power supply, also added lithium battery protection circuit in the circuit, for the lithium cell provides the protection of charging, electric quantity demonstration and short-circuit protection. The processor selects a CH549 singlechip, and the chip integrates an ADC (analog to digital converter) and a comparator and supports various communication protocols; the amplifier is an MCP6L01 amplifier; in order to ensure signal quality and reduce interference, the circuit PCB adopts a 4-layer layout.
Has the advantages that:
the utility model discloses the advantage to prior art is now:
(1) the device uses a small-size silicon photodiode detector with a scintillator, has high detection efficiency on gamma particle radiation, and has good time resolution and spatial resolution.
(2) The utility model discloses possessed gamma ray monitoring and 4G thing networking transmission function simultaneously, can long-range real-time data acquisition analysis saves, adapted to the mainstream development trend of modern thing networking.
(3) The original handheld ray detector needs to be handheld and faces a radioactive source, the radiation source generates radiation to a human body, the radiation is not suitable for long-time data detection, the influence on human health is also generated, the device breaks through the limitation on the radiation dose detection space, the cost is greatly reduced compared with similar equipment, and the practicability is further improved. The whole set of device is calibrated through multiple gamma radioactive source experiments, and the measurement precision of the system is improved.
(4) The detector is applied to environment-level measurement, needs extremely low noise level, can bring miniaturization advantage, saves on-site human-computer interaction modules through 4G communication, and is beneficial to large-scale deployment, battlefield nuclear emergency and other applications. Meanwhile, the system reserves an interface with a satellite communication module, can be compatible with various wireless communication modes, and has more flexible application environment.
Description of the drawings:
fig. 1 is a block diagram of the apparatus of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, rather than all embodiments, and all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without any inventive work belong to the protection scope of the present invention based on the embodiments of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a gamma dose monitoring device based on remote wireless communication is provided, which provides a hardware platform environment with high precision acquisition and wireless remote transmission for monitoring radiation dose in nuclear environment; the platform has the functions of data transmission processing, analysis, storage and the like between the 4G platform and the server platform; meanwhile, specific requirements such as external environment interference, system hardware and software compatibility, system maintenance convenience and the like are considered.
According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, the device includes: the scintillator and the silicon photodiode are connected to the preamplifier, and copper foil shielding is added to the scintillator, the silicon photodiode and the preamplifier inside, so that external interference is reduced, and noise interference is further reduced while visible light influence is eliminated. The CH549 single chip microcomputer is used as a core processor chip, signals processed by the pre-amplification circuit are converted into square wave signals through a built-in comparator of the chip, the number of square wave pulses is recorded and then sent to the 4G wireless communication module through a serial port, the upper computer receives data sent by the 4G wireless communication module, and the data are converted into radiation dosage by adding a scale coefficient.
The gamma dose monitoring device based on remote wireless communication is designed to supply power for a mini USB interface, and a lithium battery protection circuit is also added in the circuit to provide charging protection, electric quantity display and short circuit protection for a lithium battery.
According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, CH549 singlechip is chooseed for use to the singlechip processor, and this chip integration ADC and comparator support multiple communication protocol.
According to the utility model discloses an embodiment, MCP6L01 amplifier is chooseed for use to the preamplifier, and in order to guarantee that signal quality reduces the interference, circuit PCB adopts 4 layers of plate overall arrangement.
The gamma dose monitoring device shell based on remote wireless communication uses an aluminum shell, and a mini USB interface and an antenna interface are reserved on the shell. The side of gamma dose monitoring devices shell based on long-range wireless communication is mini USB mouth and antenna interface respectively, and the mini USB interface is used for carrying out the 5V power supply, inserts the line of mini USB on the cell-phone adapter just can the lug connection 220V socket on, and the antenna interface is used for sending data, this device only need power supply can, other step device can accomplish automatically, directly can browse data on host computer software.
According to the gamma dose monitoring device based on remote wireless communication, Eu-152 and Cs-137 gamma ray standard sources are used in calibration experiments, calibration coefficients are obtained through multiple experiments, and recorded pulse numbers are converted into radiation doses through the calibration coefficients. Through many times of gamma radioactive source tests, the measurement precision is also improved.
According to the utility model discloses a preferred embodiment, gamma dose monitoring devices based on long-range wireless communication for the accuracy of measuring gamma ray, reduce the influence of other ray irradiations to circuit module, scintillation silicon photodiode and preamplification circuit have all added copper foil shell ground connection to adopt aluminum alloy material as the shell of whole device, reduce the influence of other rays to the device.
The utility model discloses a Cs-137 gamma radiation source carries out equipment calibration, and the pulse number that will wireless monitoring facilities record makes into XY relation picture with the radiation dose that the accurate instrument of standard shows. And obtaining the corresponding relation between the number of pulses and the radiation dose, and performing linear fitting analysis on the data to obtain a linear fitting correlation coefficient R of 0.999, which indicates that the linear relation exists between the number of the collected pulses and the radiation dose. Can be with the utility model discloses the pulse number that the record arrived turns into corresponding radiation dose, counts further high through many times of measurers the utility model discloses a measurement accuracy.
The gamma dose monitoring device based on remote wireless communication can perform energy spectrum algorithm analysis through the single chip microcomputer to obtain the energy spectrum of the gamma radiation to be detected. Wherein, the X-axis of the two-dimensional energy spectrogram is energy, the Y-axis is pulse counting rate, and the energy resolution of the X-axis can reach 1024 channels.
Although illustrative embodiments of the invention have been described above to facilitate the understanding of the invention by those skilled in the art, it should be understood that the invention is not limited to the scope of the embodiments, and that various changes will become apparent to those skilled in the art once they are within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined and defined in the appended claims.