Design and Development of Underwater Radioactive
Material Cleaning Robot Applied in Pressure Vessel
Volume 3 - Issue 3
Liming Zhang1,2,3, Tian Tan1*, Pengfei Liu1, Wensheng Ma2, Jingdong Luo1, Yan Shen1 and Qiao Li1
- 1School of Nuclear Energy Science and Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, China
- 2ChongQing Pump Industry Co, LTD, China
- 3Chongqing Machine Tool Co, LTD, China
Received: January 18, 2022 Published: February 01, 2022
Corresponding author: Tian Tan, School of Nuclear Energy Science and Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033,
China
DOI: 10.32474/ARME.2022.03.000167
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Abstract
This paper designed and developed an underwater robot for radioactive material cleaning and other operations, instead of
manual methods. Since radioactive substances exist in a pressure vessel, the interior of which is filled with water, and the working
environment of the robot is underwater. Its working method is as follows: the inner wall of the pressure volume is cleaned by
the cleaning and grinding tools mounted on both sides of the fuselage, and the radioactive material dropped from the bottom of
the pressure vessel is cleaned by the robotic arm mounted on the bottom of robot. At the same time, sensors such as cameras,
thermometers, and sonars mounted on the robot can return video images and information data inside the pressure vessel. Under
the nuclear environment, the underwater robot can improve the cleaning efficiency of the inner wall of the pressure vessel, and
reduce the radioactive radiation received by the staff, and control the production of secondary and tertiary wastes. The test results
show the effectiveness and practicability of the underwater robot, meanwhile the robot can also be used for cleaning up other
underwater radioactive environments.
Keywords: Underwater Robots; Radioactive Cleanup; Pressure Vessel Cleaning; Dynamic Simulation; Hardware Selection
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