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Seminars of the UPV Master on Industrial Safety and Environment offered to CHERNE students

9 th Workshop on European Collaboration for Higher Education and Research in Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Protection 5-7 June 2013, Salamanca, Spain. Seminars of the UPV Master on Industrial Safety and Environment offered to CHERNE students

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Seminars of the UPV Master on Industrial Safety and Environment offered to CHERNE students

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  1. 9th Workshop on European Collaboration for Higher Education and Research in Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Protection 5-7 June 2013, Salamanca, Spain Seminars of the UPV Master on Industrial Safety and Environment offered to CHERNE students José Ródenas1, Isabelle Gerardy2, Isabel Lopes3, Ulrich Scherer4, Enrico Zio5 1Universidad Politécnica de Valencia , Spain 2ISIB, Haute Ecole P.H.Spaak, Bruxelles, Belgium 3Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 4FH Aachen, Jülich, Germany, 5Politecnico de Milano, Italy

  2. INTRODUCTION • Master on Industrial Safety and Environment of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) • Includes several Seminars of 20 hours each, given during one week. • Four of these Seminars are included in the Nuclear option of the Master. • They are imparted by external invited professors, coming from CHERNE institutions.

  3. 1) SOFT COMPUTING • An Introduction to Soft Computing Methods in Modern Engineering: Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic • Prof. Enrico Zio, Politecnico de Milano (Italy) • 11 – 15 November 2013 • Deadline for registration: 30 September 2013 Communication of admittance: 15 October 2013 • Number of admitted students depending on official registration at the Master. • Evaluation by the report of a project.

  4. SOFT COMPUTING • This course aims at introducing basic concepts and techniques of soft computing for engineering applications • Particular emphasis to the problems of reliability, safety, risk, fault detection and diagnosis. • At the end of the course, the participants will have acquired a level of familiarity with concepts and techniques of soft computing, necessary to further develop them in the specific applications of interest. • The course is structured in a series of daily 4-hours lectures, some of them devoted to the hands-on computer practice of the theory illustrated.

  5. SOFT COMPUTING TOPICS INTRODUCTION • Introduction to fault diagnosis and soft computing techniques GENETIC ALGORITHMS • Introduction to genetic algorithms for optimisation • Applications to system reliability analysis and preventive maintenance optimization NEURAL NETWORKS • Introduction to neural computing and to the supervised feedforward neural network trained by the error back-propagation FUZZY LOGIC SYSTEMS • Fuzzy logic systems for fault detection • Fuzzy logic systems for fault classification

  6. 2) NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY • Protection against Natural Ionising Radiation. • Dr. Isabelle Gerardy, Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles (ISIB), Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak, Brussels (Belgium). • 25 – 29 November 2013 • Deadline for registration: 30 September 2013 Communication of admittance: 15 October 2013 • Number of students: ~10 (depending on official registration at the Master). • Evaluation by oral presentation of a personal work.

  7. Natural RadioactivityContents A. NATURAL RADIATION • A1 Introduction • A2 Cosmic rays • A3 Natural radioactivity B. EXPOSITION TO COSMIC RAYS • B1 factors affecting the dose • B2 Exposition of air crews: regulation C. EXTERNAL EXPOSITION TO NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES • C1 Radioactivity of the soil and of building materials • C2 Areas with high  activity • C3 Building materials with high radioactivity • C4 Enhanced external exposition on workplaces

  8. Natural RadioactivityContents 2 D. INTERNAL EXPOSITION TO NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES • D1 Our unavoidable radioactivity • D2 Enhanced internal exposition of workers • D3 Radon E. ENHANCED EXPOSITION TO NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY DUE TO HUMAN ACTIVITIES • E1 Regulation • E2 Industries using naturally radioactive materials • E3 Waste problems

  9. Natural RadioactivityContents 3 F. INDOOR RADON • F1 Introduction • F2 Origin of radon • F3 Radon production • F4 Radon migration • F5 Factors affecting the indoor pollution by radon • F6 Radon progeny in air • F7 Evaluation of the cancer risk • F8 What is a dangerous radon concentration? • F9 Indoor radon measurements • F10 Measurement of radon progeny and PAEC • F11 Prevention and mitigation • F12 Justification of mitigation in an existing building • F13 Justification of prevention in a new building • F14 Exposition to radon in workplaces.

  10. 3) RADIOCHEMISTRY • Methods and applications in Radiochemistry • Prof. Ulrich W. Scherer, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Jülich campus (Germany). • 10 – 14 March 2014 • Deadline for registration: 30 January 2014 Communication of admittance: 15 February 2014 • Number of students: ~10 (depending on official registration at the Master). • Evaluation by MCQ exam and oral presentation of a personal work. • Prerequisites: The students should have a basic knowledge of chemistry, chemical engineering and nuclear engineering.

  11. RADIOCHEMISTRY • Radioactive materials play an important role in many areas of science and technology. • Some of our most pressing problems in nuclear energy production are connected to the chemical properties of radionuclides, e.g. the waste management problems. • This course attempts to provide some basic information to students of chemical and nuclear engineering on the principles of Nuclear Chemistry and how they are applied in many disciplines. • This course might be completed by a lab class provided as a summer school in the framework of the CHERNE network.

  12. Radiochemistry: Contents 1. Carrier and Tracers 2. Sources of Radionuclides 3. Decontamination 4. Protective Techniques 5. Radiolabelling 6. Radiotracer Applications 7. Radioanalytical Methods 8. Radiochemical Separation Techniques 9. X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis 10. Transuranium Elements

  13. 4) IMAGING • Formation, Acquisition and Processing of Images in Nuclear Medicine Techniques • Prof. Isabel Lopes, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). • 5 – 9 May 2014 • Deadline for registration: 30 January 2014 Communication of admittance: 15 April 2014 • Number of students: ~10 (depending on official registration at the Master). • Evaluation by MCQ exam and oral presentation of a personal work.

  14. IMAGING Contents I – Introduction: basics of imaging formation in Nuclear Medicine Techniques II –Image quality III – Image acquisition in planar nuclear imaging and SPECT IV – Image acquisition in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) V – Image reconstruction in tomography VI – Digital Imaging Processing: introduction VII – Digital processing techniques in the spatial domain

  15. SUMMARY • Students from CHERNE institutions can participate in these Seminars. • They should register via their Institution representative in CHERNE for one or several of these Seminars. • Students will receive a certificate of attendance • With a grade if they pass the evaluation. • Provided it is approved by administrative and docent authorities of the UPV, students following these Seminars can also receive 3 ECTS for each Seminar, if evaluation is positive.

  16. Thank you for your attention

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