Heteronuclear radioisotope nanoparticle of core-shell structure and preparation method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9366558-B2
Application number	US-201514681702-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2015
Priority date	Oct 5, 2011
Publication date	Jun 14, 2016
Grant date	Jun 14, 2016

Abstract

Heteronuclear radioisotope nanoparticle of core-shell structure and a preparation method thereof are provided. The Heteronuclear radioisotope nanoparticle of core-shell structure comprising core of two different radioisotopes selected from a group consisting of 198 Au, 63 Ni, 110m Ag, 64 Cu, 60 Co, 192 Ir and 103 Pd, and a shell comprising SiO 2 surrounding the core.
The Heteronuclear radioisotope nanoparticle of core-shell can be used as a tracer for the purpose of detecting variation of volume ratio or for the evaluation of the behavior characteristic of a water resource, based on information about phase ratio in the flow of multiphase fluid existing in a process which is operated under extreme condition such as high temperature and/or high pressure conditions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for analyzing multiphase flows comprising introduction of a tracer into the multiphase flows including a heteronuclear radioisotope nanoparticle of core-shell structure, comprising a single core comprising a mixture of two different radioisotopes selected from a group consisting of 198 Au, 63 Ni, 110m Ag, 64 Cu, 60 Co, 192 Ir and 103 Pd, and a shell comprising SiO 2 surrounding the core, then measuring an amount of radiation detection from each two different radioisotopes which are attenuated while passing through the multiphase flows.

2. The method for analyzing multiphase flows according to claim 1 , wherein the core of the heteronuclear radioisotope nanoparticle comprises a combination of 198 Au and one of the rest of the group except 198 Au.

3. The method for analyzing multiphase flows according to claim 1 , wherein the two different radioisotopes of the core emit radiations distinguished from each other.

4. The method for analyzing multiphase flows according to claim 1 , wherein the multiphase flows are dual phases flows or triple phases flows.

5. The method for analyzing multiphase flows according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
measuring an amount of radiation detection and obtaining attenuation coefficient of each component comprising the multiphase flows for the two different radiation energies;
obtaining a compound rate of the multiphase flows by applying the obtained attenuation coefficient to:

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where, I u (e) denotes the amount of detected radiation before irradiation of two different radiation energies,
μ i denotes linear attenuation coefficient with respect to component i within the multiphase flows,
α i denotes the compound rate of the compound i according to absorption of radiation energy e,
d denotes the distance between the radioisotope and the detector, and
I m (e) denotes the detection amount of radiation energy e in the multiphase flows; and
obtaining a volume ratio of each component comprising the multiphase flows from the obtained compound rate of the multiphase flows.

Assignees

• Korea Atomic Energy Res

Inventors

• Jung Sung-Hee
• Choi Seong-Ho
• Kim Jong-Bum
• Moon Jinho
• Jung Jin-Hyuck

Classifications

• Y10S977/902

  Specified use of nanostructure · CPC title

• B82Y40/00

  Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures · CPC title

• B01J13/18 Primary

  In situ polymerisation with all reactants being present in the same phase · CPC title

• G01F1/7042 Primary

  using radioactive tracers · CPC title

• G21H5/02

  as tracers · CPC title