TUNGSTEN HEAVY ALLOY COMPONENTS
FOR INDUSTRY
Wolfmet supply tungsten alloy to general industry sectors using gamma rays or neutrons for imaging and safety monitoring.
- Oil and Gas – Collimators used for geologging applications.
- Petrochemical – Collimation devices for process monitoring.
- Logistics – Radiation shielding components for cargo scanners.
INSTRUMENT PROTECTION AND IMAGING
The strength and durability of Wolfmet tungsten alloy allows it to withstand harsh environments, while its density gives it excellent radiation attenuation characteristics.
With more than 40 years’ experience, the Wolfmet team machine tungsten alloy into a wide variety of shapes and to very tight tolerances, allowing the creation of custom-designed shielding and specialist collimators used for geologging and process monitoring.
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Gamma radiography
Wolfmet tungsten alloy is ideal for use in both collimators and shields, protecting operating personnel from any possible exposure to the gamma rays.
The excellent attenuation properties of Wolfmet tungsten alloy provides optimum protection against radiation, while its high density allows designers to reduce the size of shields – without impacting the level of protection.
It is also necessary to ensure radiation is focused accurately on the area being inspected. Using Wolfmet tungsten alloys in collimators ensures beams of radiation are directed precisely on to the target area.
GEOLOGGING COLLIMATORS
The accuracy of gamma radiation beams in geologging is vital to ensure precise measurements of bulk density, porosity, and lithology of rock formations.
Wolfmet tungsten alloy collimators have been manufactured for some of the world’s key instrument suppliers, enabling the precise positioning of gamma rays to detect potential oil and gas deposits from the accurate measurements and data collected.
PROCESS MONITORING
Also know as radiometric or nucleonic gauging, the high density of Wolfmet tungsten alloy compared to alternative shielding materials allows designers of radiation-based process monitoring equipment to replace thick lead shields used in process monitoring techniques with much thinner ones, while still achieving the same level of protection.
Wolfmet tungsten alloy collimators also ensure beams of radiation are focused accurately on the area being inspected.
CARGO SCANNERS
Cargo scanners can use either gamma radiation from radioactive sources or X-rays produced by linear accelerators. In gamma radiation systems, Wolfmet tungsten alloy is used both as a container for the radioactive source and as a collimator to focus the beam of radiation onto a particular area of the shipping container. As X-ray systems do not contain a radioactive source, the primary function of Wolfmet tungsten alloy is to act as the collimator.
The excellent attenuation properties of Wolfmet tungsten alloy offers operating personnel the best possible protection against radiation. In addition, its high density allows designers to reduce the thickness of shielding, while still achieving the same level of protection.
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Wolfmet tungsten alloys are not only very dense, but they are also very good at attenuating ionising radiation. This makes them ideal for shielding applications, for example in nuclear medicine or in the nuclear industry.
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