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Electron beam (EB) technology has an advantage for treating dilute environmental pollutants in gases due to high-density population of active species such as radicals and atoms. In general, OH radicals play an important role of initiating the decomposition and removal of such pollutants. It is quite important to understand the behavior of OH radical production for the development of efficient decomposition/removal processes and the comparison with other purification methods. The number of OH radicals produced in humid N2 at doses of 2.0–10.0 kGy with dose rates of 0.17–2.55 kGy/s under 1-MeV EB irradiation was indirectly determined using an index of oxidation of CO to CO2, which has been used in atmospheric chemistry. An experiment under conditions where all OH radicals produced react with CO demonstrated that the concentration of CO2 increased linearly with doses of 0–10 kGy, and the G(OH) was estimated as 4.90.
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The authors thank Dr. Hyun-Ha Kim, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, for useful comments on the determination of OH radical number.
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Hakoda, T., Shimada, A., Matsumoto, K. et al. Determination of the Number of OH Radicals in EB-Irradiated Humid Gases Using Oxidation of CO. Plasma Chem Plasma Process 29, 69–78 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-008-9162-y
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