Use of High Power Electron Beam Radiation for Treatment of Municipal and Industrial Wastes

Abstract

In the recent years the experience of successful solution of ecological problems using the radiation technologies based on powerful electron accelerators attracts more and more attention. The report presents the brief data of the industrial electron accelerators produced in the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics and used for this application. The possibilities of cleaning the various gases from SO₂, H₂S, NO_x, etc., using the electron beam and stimulated corona discharge are described. The possibility of deactivation of the chemical warfare using the radiation technologies is considered. The report also describes the experience of operation of the industrial installation (based on the accelerators produced in BINP) for the cleaning of industrial wastewater from nekal. The results of the investigations of cleaning of municipal and industrial wastewater from other harmful additives, including the heavy metals, are given. The radiation technology permits to produce the enzymes immobilized on the stable carrier. The radiation-immobilized enzymes can be used for the ecologically pure lines for treatment of hides and leather, washing of raw wool, decomposition of organic wastes. The examples of accelerators’ usage in the ecologically pure production are given.