EP2916326B1 - Système permettant de fermer hermétiquement une ouverture d'accès permettant l'accès à une chambre conçue pour contenir des fluides toxiques et/ou radioactifs - Google Patents

Système permettant de fermer hermétiquement une ouverture d'accès permettant l'accès à une chambre conçue pour contenir des fluides toxiques et/ou radioactifs Download PDF

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EP2916326B1
EP2916326B1 EP15157481.1A EP15157481A EP2916326B1 EP 2916326 B1 EP2916326 B1 EP 2916326B1 EP 15157481 A EP15157481 A EP 15157481A EP 2916326 B1 EP2916326 B1 EP 2916326B1
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Marco Testa
Alessia Zanelli
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    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21F—PROTECTION AGAINST X-RADIATION, GAMMA RADIATION, CORPUSCULAR RADIATION OR PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT; TREATING RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED MATERIAL; DECONTAMINATION ARRANGEMENTS THEREFOR
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  • the present invention concerns a system to hermetically seal an access opening to a chamber suited to contain toxic and/or radioactive fluids.
  • the present invention finds an advantageous, but not exclusive, application in ports or mobile doors for closing an access opening to a bunker containing a cyclotron for the production of radiopharmaceuticals, to which the following description will make explicit reference without thereby losing its generality.
  • a bunker containing a cyclotron must have a high degree of confinement and tightness to prevent the highly radioactive and toxic gases produced during the cyclotron operation from coming out of the bunker and contaminating the outside environment.
  • the most critical area subject to this confinement is the sealing system of the mobile door closing the access opening to the bunker.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a system to hermetically seal an access opening to a bunker, said system allowing to simplify the qualification procedure of environmental insulation of the bunker and, at the same time, being of easy and economic realization.
  • Korean patent KR 100760597 B1 discloses an hermetic substrate transportation container, which serves to permit storage of an electronic substrate, to keep a rise of internal moisture concentration low, thus preventing generation of natural oxidation film on the surface of the electronic substrate and allowing detection of the contents inside the substrate transportation container from outside.
  • the substrate transportation container comprises a container body having an aperture for loading and unloading the electronic substrate, and a lid for sealing such aperture, and the container body and the lid are made of a material having an amorphous polyolefin as its main constituent.
  • Japanese patent application JP 07-142418 A discloses a vertical furnace in which an object to be processed is protected against metallic contamination while enhancing the durability.
  • a boat cap is mounted on a furnace cover provided for a boat elevator such that the boat cap can abut, at the flange thereof, on the lower face of the flange of a reaction tube.
  • a bank part is provided along the periphery of the furnace cover and a seal ring is fitted to the upper face of the bank part.
  • Another seal ring is fitted concentrically to the seal ring onto the upper face of the flange of the boat cap.
  • a hole communicating the seal rings is made through the flange of reaction pipe and a suction port communicating with the hole is provided for a reaction pipe fixing ring.
  • the reference 1 generally indicates an environment whose atmosphere is not harmful to human health
  • 2 indicates the inner chamber of a bunker for a cyclotron, i.e. an environment containing, in use, a dangerous atmosphere to human health due to the presence of radioactive and/or toxic substances.
  • the chamber 2 is defined by walls 4 able to retain radioactive and toxic substances and has a rectangular opening 3 to allow the access of the operator or the passage of objects when the cyclotron is turned off, and therefore when the chamber 2 does not contain any radioactive and/or toxic substances.
  • the sealing system comprises a mobile closing panel, which is formed, for example, by a closing panel 5, sliding parallel to the plane of the opening 3 to be arranged in front of an annular portion 8 of the wall 4 surrounding the opening 3 so as to close the opening 3, and by at least two annular gaskets 15 and 16 ( Figure 2 ), suited to be interposed, concentrically to one another and mutually spaced, between the closing panel 5 and the annular portion 8 to ensure the hermetic sealing.
  • the annular portion 8 comprises at least two mutually concentric annular seats 6 and 7, separated by an annular sub-portion 8a of the annular portion 8, each of the gaskets 14 and 15 being respectively arranged in one of the seats 6 and 7.
  • the seats 6 and 7, and then the seals 14 and 15, have a substantially rectangular shape with rounded corners.
  • the shape of the seats 6 and 7 and of the seals 14 and 15 does not limit the invention, but it is substantially linked to the shape of the opening 3.
  • the gaskets 14 and 15 are two pneumatic or hydraulic dynamic expansion gaskets provided with respective fluid supply ducts 9 and 10 suited to expand the gaskets.
  • Figure 2 shows the gaskets 14 and 15 in their resting configuration, in which they are housed in their respective seats 6 and 7, all substantially below the plane defined by the annular portion 8
  • Figure 3 shows the seals 14 and 15 in their working configuration, in which their respective front portions 14a and 15a project from the seats 6 and 7 and create a seal on the inner surface of the closing panel 5.
  • the interposition of the gaskets 14 and 15 between the closing panel 5 and the annular portion 8 defines a hollow space 18 ( Figures 2 and 3 ) between the inner surface of the closing panel 5, the annular portion 8, and in particular the sub-portion 8a, and the gaskets 14 and 15.
  • the hollow space 18 is in all respects a small chamber separating the chamber 2 from the environment 1 to eliminate or at least to reduce as much as possible the fluid exchange (air and liquid) between the chamber 2 and the environment 1 when the closing panel 5 is closed.
  • the annular portion 8 has a hole 11 at the hollow space 18, i.e. the hole 11 is drilled in the sub-portion 8a, and the sealing system comprises a control chamber 12 ( Figure 1 ) and a conduit 13 to connect the hole 11 to the control chamber 12 so as to connect the hollow space 18 to the control chamber 12.
  • the hole 11 is a through hole, i.e. it passes through the wall 4 of the chamber 2, and has an outer end facing the hollow space 18 and an inner end connected to the conduit 13.
  • the sealing system also comprises one or more valves, for example two valves, to have a minimum of safety redundancy, indicated with 16 and 17 in the figures, arranged in several points of the conduit 13 to allow or block the fluid circulation in the conduit 13.
  • the sealing system also comprises a sucking pump 19 arranged in the control chamber 12 to create a given vacuum in the hollow space 18, so as to suck toxic and/or radioactive fluids that might possibly leak, in use, from the gasket 14, namely from the gasket which is closest to the opening 3, and so as to collect them in the control chamber 12. In this way any small leak of the gaskets 14 and 15 is automatically corrected.
  • the control chamber 12 then becomes a tank of toxic and/or radioactive fluids.
  • the system finally comprises fluid analysis means (not shown) connected to the control chamber 12 to detect the presence of toxic substances in the hollow space 18, for example so-called “particle counting instruments", mass spectrometers or oxygen concentration sensors, and/or to measure physical parameters of the fluids contained in the hollow space 18, for example to measure pressure, temperature and relative humidity of the fluids.
  • fluid analysis means (not shown) connected to the control chamber 12 to detect the presence of toxic substances in the hollow space 18, for example so-called “particle counting instruments", mass spectrometers or oxygen concentration sensors, and/or to measure physical parameters of the fluids contained in the hollow space 18, for example to measure pressure, temperature and relative humidity of the fluids.
  • the aforesaid observations or measurements can be carried out as described in ISO 10648.
  • a method for checking the hermetic seal of the aforesaid sealing system 1 comprising creating and maintaining a given vacuum or a given overpressure in said hollow space 18 by means of a sucking pump 19 or of a compressor arranged in said control chamber 12 and connected to the conduit 13 and measuring the pressure changes in the hollow space 18 during a predetermined amount of time.
  • a sucking pump 19 or of a compressor arranged in said control chamber 12 and connected to the conduit 13 and measuring the pressure changes in the hollow space 18 during a predetermined amount of time.

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  1. Système permettant de fermer hermétiquement une ouverture d'accès permettant l'accès à une chambre conçue pour contenir des fluides toxiques et/ou radioactifs, le système comprenant un panneau de fermeture mobile (5) à agencer, en utilisation, en face d'une portion de paroi annulaire (8) de la chambre (2) entourant ladite ouverture (3), de façon à fermer l'ouverture (3) proprement dite, et au moins deux joints d'étanchéité (14, 15), qui ont une forme annulaire et sont conçus pour être interposés, concentriquement l'un à l'autre, entre le panneau de fermeture (5) et la portion annulaire (8), de façon à assurer une fermeture hermétique et pour définir un espace creux (18) entre la surface intérieure du panneau de fermeture (5), la portion annulaire (8) et les deux joints (14, 15) ; la portion annulaire (8) ayant un trou (11) en correspondance avec ledit espace creux (18) ; le système comprenant une chambre de commande (12) et un conduit (13) pour relier le trou (11) à la chambre de commande (12), de façon à établir une communication entre l'espace creux (18) et la chambre de commande (12), permettant ainsi à la fermeture hermétique du système d'être commandée, et étant caractérisé en ce que lesdits joints consistent en des joints d'expansion dynamiques (14, 15) qui sont conçus pour être expansés lorsque ledit panneau de fermeture (5) est en face de ladite portion annulaire (8).
  2. Système selon la revendication 1 et comprenant au moins deux sièges annulaires (6, 7), qui sont agencés le long de ladite portion annulaire (8) et sont mutuellement séparés par une sous-portion annulaire (8a) de la portion annulaire (8), et lesdits joints (14, 15) sont agencés chacun dans un des deux sièges (6, 7) respectifs, de sorte que ledit espace creux (18) est défini entre la surface intérieure du panneau de commande (5) et ladite sous-portion annulaire (8a) ; ledit trou (11) étant obtenu dans ladite sous-portion annulaire (8a).
  3. Système selon la revendication 2, dans lequel lesdits joints (14, 15) ont des portions avant (14a, 15a) respectives qui font saillie du plan défini par ladite portion annulaire (8) au moins lorsque le panneau de fermeture (5) est en face de ladite portion annulaire (8) de façon à créer un joint avec ladite surface intérieure du panneau de fermeture (5) afin de définir ledit espace creux (18).
  4. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3 et comprenant au moins une soupape (16, 17) qui est montée dans un point respectif dudit conduit (13) de façon à permettre ou à empêcher la circulation de fluides dans le conduit (13).
  5. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4 et comprenant des moyens d'analyse de fluide qui sont reliés à ladite chambre de commande (12) de façon à détecter la présente de substances toxiques dans ledit espace creux (18) et/ou pour mesurer des paramètres physiques des fluides contenus dans l'espace creux (18).
  6. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5 et comprenant une pompe d'aspiration (19) agencée dans ladite chambre de commande (12) pour créer un vide donné dans ledit espace creux (18), de façon à aspirer des fluides toxiques et/ou radioactifs qui peuvent éventuellement fuir, en utilisation, du joint (14) qui est le plus proche de ladite ouverture (3) et de façon à les collecter dans la chambre de commande (12).
  7. Procédé de commande de la fermeture hermétique d'un système d'étanchéité selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, le procédé comprenant :
    - la création et la maintenance d'un vide donné ou d'une surpression donnée dans ledit espace creux (18) au moyen d'une pompe d'aspiration (19) ou d'un compresseur agencé dans ladite chambre de commande (12) ; et
    - la mesure des changements de pression dans l'espace creux (18) pendant une durée de temps prédéterminée.
EP15157481.1A 2014-03-03 2015-03-03 Système permettant de fermer hermétiquement une ouverture d'accès permettant l'accès à une chambre conçue pour contenir des fluides toxiques et/ou radioactifs Active EP2916326B1 (fr)

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