Apparatus for analyzing free-flowing material
AssigneeGesellschaft fur Kernforschung m.b.H.
InventorsHartmut Braun, Fritz Riffel, Walter Hartung
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Abstract
An apparatus for analyzing flowable material in intermittent sequence comprises a hollow dosing sphere having a predetermined inner volume for forming samples of constant volume of the material introduced thereinto; a hollow radiation sphere connected to the outlet of the hollow dosing sphere; a radiation source supported within and centrally with respect to the hollow radiation sphere for a homogeneous activation of the sample introduced thereinto from the hollow dosing sphere; a hollow measuring sphere connected to the outlet of the hollow radiation sphere; and a detector arranged in the hollow measuring sphere for sensing the activity of the irradiated sample introduced thereinto from the hollow radiation sphere.
Claims12
In an apparatus for analyzing flowable material in intermittent sequence;
- comprising
- a. a hollow dosing sphere having an inlet, an outlet and a predetermined inner volume for forming samples of constant volume of the material introduced into said hollow dosing sphere through its inlet;
- b. a hollow radiation sphere having an inlet operatively connected to the outlet of said hollow dosing sphere and an outlet;
- c. a radiation source supported within and centrally with respect to said hollow radiation sphere for a homogeneous activation of the sample introduced into said hollow radiation sphere from said hollow dosing sphere;
- d. a hollow measuring sphere having an inlet operatively connected to the outlet of said hollow radiation sphere and an outlet;
- e. a detector arranged in said hollow measuring sphere for sensing the activity of the irradiated sample introduced into said hollow measuring sphere from said hollow radiation sphere;
- and
- f. material guide means for combining said hollow dosing sphere, said hollow radiation sphere and said hollow measuring sphere into a structural unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.