Muon Tomography
A new tool with several applications.
What do we offer?
The versatility of this technology makes it the most suitable solution in many fields of application. Our strategy is to introduce it to the customers in a progressive service composed of the following steps:
Feasibility study
Demonstration with actual portable detectors
Results and validation
Installation of dedicated systems
Targeted sectors
Muon Systems is currently focusing its activity in three specific areas: Industry, security, and civil engineering.
INDUSTRY
Quality control in blast furnaces walls and industrial boilers.
A common problem for the iron and steel industry is the relative reduction of the effective wall thickness in their blast furnaces. Due to the high temperature conditions, the walls suffer wear and the structural integrity is compromised.
Muon tomography provides a clean way to estimate the wear of the wall without stopping the productive process and allowing a better planning of the technical stops, yielding large economical and energetic profits.
SECURITY
Inspection of containers and cargo vehicles at ports and borders:
The illicit traffick of illegal materials is today a serious security problem for many countries. Massive maritime transport makes current container and vehicle inspection tasks difficult and requires new detection technologies.
Muon tomography is a suitable technique for this type of application thanks to its high penetrability and the fact that it is an absolutely harmless and non-invasive technique. Learn more about Muon Systems' work in this sector through The Muon Cargo Project.
CIVIL ENGINEERING
The mining and civil engineering sectors rely on their knowledge about the inner properties of the structures. Unknown voids and cracks are a risk for the stability of their systems, whereas remarkable density differences might indicate the beginning of a new material layer.
These problems involving such large structures are complicated for the current tomography systems since their radiation is not able to penetrate them. This fact makes muon tomography suitable for this kind of application.
These problems involving such large structures are complicated for the current tomography systems since their radiation is not able to penetrate them. This fact makes muon tomography suitable for this kind of application.