Global Trading

13:30 - 16:15 Monday 22 September | Plenary Session 3: Global Trading
Natesan Ramamoorthy, PhD: Director of the Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, IAEA, Austria | Radiation processing has become a well accepted technology on the global market, from sterilization of medical devices, through polymer cross-linking and controlled degradation, grafting and curing, to irradiation of selected food items. Besides these well-established uses, new technologies and applications are emerging in the area of environmental protection and synthesis of advanced materials. The new technologies aiding the development, manufacture and analysis of advanced materials as well as for tackling environmental pollutants and biohazards are attracting increasing interest in many Member States (MS) of the IAEA.

16:15- 16:30 Monday 22 September | Plenary Session 3: Global Trading
Paul Wynne, iia Director | The international irradiation Association (iiA) is the only global association with members from throughout the world that includes the leading suppliers of both isotope and machine based radiation equipment, multi-national healthcare companies, as well as the providers of over 90% of the world's contract irradiation services. iiA (including its predecessor AIII) and our members continue to play a leading role in the continuing development of industrial radiation-processing applications.

15:30 - 17:00 Tuesday 23 September
Chair: Dave Meyer, Sterigenics, USA

15:35 - 15:50 Tuesday 23 September | Global Trading 1: Commercial Systems and Market Developments
Jean-Louis Bol, IBA, Belgium | With years, IBA has developed innovative approaches for the sterilization by X-Ray irradiation based on the existing 7 MeV 700 kW Electron power Rhodotron. The interaction with customers, using Gamma technologies for years, pushed in the direction of a simple and flexible solution: an X-ray converter irradiate a single layer of totes.

15:50 - 16:05 Tuesday 23 September | Global Trading 1: Commercial Systems and Market Developments
Philippe FONTCUBERTA, Linac Technologies SAS, France | The paper presents e-beam accelerator facilities from small in-line self-shielded units to medium power high energy industrial and research facilities and discusses latest developments to existing technology and the new systems which have been developed in the past few years.

15:30 - 17:00 Tuesday 23 September | Global Trading 1: Commercial Systems and Market Developments
Larry Winn: MDS Nordion, Ottawa, Canada | The design of large scale industrial irradiators has evolved significantly since the first North American irradiator was installed by MDS Nordion in 1963. Current designs provide efficient, effective and reliable delivery of sterilization dose for traditional single use medical disposables, as evidenced by the more than 40% share of the sterilization market commanded by gamma globally.

16:20 - 16:35 Tuesday 23 September | Global Trading 1: Commercial Systems and Market Developments
Peng Wei: Beijing SQHL Radiation Engineering Technology Co., China | The first gamma irradiator was constructed in China in the late of 1950's, through nearly half century's development, now there are total 101 gamma irradiators (design capacity more than 0.3 MCi) with total design capacity more than 100MCi in operation in China, and other 10 irradiators with total design capacity of 15MCi under construction.

16:35 - 16:50 Tuesday 23 September | Global Trading 1: New Commercial Systems and Market Developments
Kohli, A. K., India | Radiation processing of food is in its infancy in India. Currently radiation processing of food is being carried out mostly for export purposes. Export markets also have not been fully exploited as yet and tremendous scope lies ahead. The products currently being treated by gamma radiation besides medical products are mainly spices and pet feed.

11:00 - 12:30 Wednesday 24 September
Chair: Andrzej Chmielewski, INCT, Poland

11:00 - 11:15 Wednesday 24 September | Global Trading 3: Environmental Applications
Andrzej Chmielewski, Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Poland | The electron beam flue gas treatment technology has been developed some years back I Japan, USA, Germany and Poland. The first industrial applications for coal fired boiler off-gases purification have been reported for projects in China and Poland.

11:15 - 11:30 Wednesday 24 September | Global Trading 3: Environmental Applications
Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, University of Maryland, USA | The widespread release of PCBs into the environment presents a serious problem due to their persistence and toxicity. Ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and the high-energy electron beam, is remarkably effective in dechlorinating PCBs into biphenyls.

11:30 - 11:45 Wednesday 24 | Global trading 3: Environmental Applications
Richard Sharp, Isotron, UK | This presentation describes the use of a Tandem particle accelerator to expose candidate radioactive waste encapsulation materials to alpha radiation in order to assess their suitability for long term waste disposal. Traditional assessment methods use open, alpha‐emitting sources, requiring special handling and containment practices. This new technique offers a clean, contamination‐free alternative.

11:45 - 12:00 Wednesday 24 September | Global Trading 3: Environmental Applications
Bumsoo Han, EB TECH Co., Ltd., Korea | Textile dyeing processes consume large amount of water, steam and discharge filthy and colored wastewater. After the laboratory experiments, a pilot scale e-beam plant had constructed at Daegu Dyeing Industrial Complex (DDIC) in 1997.

11:45 - 12:00 Wednesday 24 September | Global Trading 3: Environmental Applications
Yuriy A. Zaikin, PetroBeam, Inc., USA | Radiation technologies for oil refining have been intensely developing during the last decade. At the earlier stage of this period, they were intended to application of radiation-thermal cracking to heavy feedstock difficult for processing by conventional methods. These studies resulted in efficient radiation methods for heavy oil processing.

13:30 - 15:00 Wednesday 24 September
Chair: Bob Moss - STERIS Isomedix, USA

13:30 - 15:00 Wednesday 24 September | Global Trading 4: Isotope security, logistics and supply

Lorne Green, World Nuclear Transport Institute, UK | Each day thousands of shipments of Class 7 - radioactive materials are transported on national and international routes. These consignments are vital to many aspects of modern life, from medicine and health, scientific research, and agriculture to the generation of electricity.

13:30 - 15:00 Wednesday 24 September | Global Trading 4: Isotope security, logistics and supply
Philip Robbins, REVISS Service (UK) Ltd. U.K. | The process of designing, manufacturing and validating a Type B(U) transport container starts with a specification, defined and agreed in consultation with the necessary stakeholders. The requirements of different stakeholders are frequently conflicting and the design process involves balancing each of them to a satisfactory degree.

13:30 - 15:00 Wednesday 24 September | Global Trading 4: Isotope security, logistics and supply

Peter Lambourne, REVISS Services (UK) Ltd., U.K. | Compliance with national and international regulatory requirements for the shipment of radioisotopes is fundamental to the smooth running of a large proportion of the global radiation processing industry.

13:30 - 15:00 Wednesday 24 September | Global Trading 4: Isotope security, logistics and supply
Paul Gray, MDS Nordion, Canada | The positive safety and security record of the gamma processing industry is well known and long standing. Regulations which govern us, however, continue to evolve to meet an ever changing socio-political environment.

Poster Sessions IMRP 2008 London Tuesday 23 September 13:30 - 15:00
Poster Presenters will be allocated their Poster Space when they register at the Programme Registration Desk in the Hotel Lobby.

Ordered by Reference Number (Date Received).

Wu, Minghong et. al. China | In this paper electron beam irradiation treatment technique were used to treat active violet K-3R present in the effluent. An effort is made to decolorize textile effluents at near 15 kGy for suitable discharge of wastewater.

Lee M.J., et. al., Korea | Concentration of Poly Chlorinated Biphenyl(PCBs) contained in waste insulating oil should be reduced to less than 2 ppm according to environmental regulation in Korea. Electron beam irradiation was applied to dechlorination of PCBs and dechlorinated Cl ion was separated into water by water washing method. Electron beam accelerator with 2.0 MeV and 100 kW was used.

Chasovskih A.V., et. al | During over a century the systems of municipal water supply have used various methods of disinfection of water. However, even now there is still a risk of diseases connected with the use by the population of potable water,

Duarte, C L., et. al., Brazil | This paper is part of the project with the objective to evaluate pesticides degradation for decontamination of commercial polymeric packing of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), used in agriculture. The herbicide used to this study was Ametryne (commercial name, Gesapax 500), commonly used on field crops and on corn and commercialized since 1975.

Duarte, C. L., et. al., Brazil | Under normal conditions Brazil annually produces and processes more than 300 million metric tons of sugarcane, that corresponds a quarter of the 1300 million tons grown worldwide in more than 100 countries. The Brazilian sugar cane sector gross annual income of US$ 10 billion represents around 2% of the Gross National Product.

Joung, Pil-Mun et. al., Korea | Poliovirus is a recognized surrogate for norovirus, pathogen in water and food, due to the structural and genetic similarity. Although radiation sensitivity of poliovirus in water or media had been reported, there was no research in food model such as shellfish.

Wieland, Patricia, Brazil | Although feasibility studies indicate that industrial irradiation plants are a great business that pays off in few years, some initiatives fail due to unexpected reasons. In Brazil, from nine industrial irradiation plants for medical sterilization purposes, only four are in operation.

Oh Sejo, et. al. Korea | Peanut (PN) allergy is one of the most serious forms of IgE-mediated food hypersensitivity, and gamma irradiation has been applied widely for the preservation of food.

Jung, Hee-Jin et. al., Korea | The aim of the present work was to identify products obtained from genistein by ionizing radiation and to enhance the antioxidant properties of genistein through radiation-induced transformation

CHOI, Tae Beom et. al., Korea | Isoflavones have biological activities in human disease such as cancers, osteoporosis, heart disease and postmenopausal symptom. Especially, isoflavones have been used as a functional food for woman patient with osteoporosis and postmenopausal symptom because its chemical structure is similar to that of the female hormone, estrogen.

Futatsukawa, Shoji et. al., Japan | Japan Radioisotope Association (JRIA) supplies radioisotopes (RI), not only sealed RI but also unsealed RI including radiopharmaceuticals, for users all over Japan. The Japanese user orders RI from JRIA. RI produced by foreign manufacture or domestic manufacture is supplied to user through JRIA.

YANAGISAWA, Kazuaki et. al., Japan | Our economic study performed in 1997 revealed that the use of radiological technology in medicine was tended to spread. A reimbursement of medicine was about 10b$ (billion dollars) corresponding to about 4% of the national health expenditures (240b$) or to an average expenditure of 1,900$ a year for the Japanese.

Yuan, Liyong et. al., China | Room-temperature ionic liquids are currently being assessed as next generation diluents for extractions in the nuclear fuel cycle. Influence of radiation on ionic liquid-based extraction systems is very important for their practical applications.

Hongyan, YU et. al., China | The demand for the proton exchange membrane (PEM) used as a key component of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), capable of withstanding temperatures > 100ºC and cost-competitive, has prompted this study. The PEM was prepared by radiation-induced grafting of styrene onto porous Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) films using simultaneous irradiation followed by sulfonation reaction.

Cho, Jae-Young e. al., Korea | Global attention to the increasing levels of biohazardous pollutants reaching water, air and soil has led to the necessity of developing new alternative technologies devoted to pollutants degradation. The ability of ionizing radiation is to convert non-biodegradable substances into more readily degradable ones.

Cleland, Marshall et. al. USA | Cellulose is the major structural component of wood and plant fibers and is the most abundant polymer synthesized by nature. Despite this great abundance, cellulosic biomass has seen limited application outside of the paper industry.

Herer, Arnold et. al., Belgium | Fifteen years after its industrialization and commercial launch, the CW technology has evolved with new features and capabilities.

Khan, Hasan M. et. al., Pakistan | A number of environmental problems have emerged as a result of rapid Industrialization, such as release of toxic metals and other toxic organic and inorganic compounds to the environment. Rapid expansion of leather related industries in Pakistan have resulted in considerable environmental problems and effluents from processing of both domestic and imported hides and skins have increased pollution to alarming levels.

Fuochi, P.G., et. al., Italy | A bipolar transistor, previuosly investigated as a possible radiation dosimeter and tested under industrial irradiation conditions in high-activity gamma and high energy, high-power electron beam facilities has been subjected to stability test in order to improve its performances.

Fuochi, P.G. et. al., Italy | The electron beam energy device, previously developed and tested under standard laboratory conditions using electron beams having energy in the range of 4-12 MeV, has now been tested under industrial irradiation conditions in high-energy, high-power electron beam facilities.

Hristova-Tranteeva, M.G. et. al., Bulgaria | A self-shielded gamma irradiator has been designed and manufactured in Bulgaria by Gitava LTD for scientific research of gamma ray effects and their practical application on different materials.

Farah, K. et. al., Tunisia | In some irradiation facilities, dosimeters may receive their total absorbed dose in two or more absorbed-dose increments.

Bhatti, Ijaz A. et. al., Pakistan | The effect of gamma radiation on the dyeing of cotton with extract of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) powder has been investigated. The cotton and turmeric powder were irradiated to absorbed doses of 1,2,3,4 and 6 kGy using Co-60 gamma irradiator.

Sun, Yongxia Su et. al., Poland | Chloroethylenes (vinyl choride (VC), dichloroethylene(DCE), trichloethylne(TCE), tetrachloroethylene(PCE)) emitted into atmosphere from various industrial waste off -gases cause severe environmental problem. Chlorinated ethylenes destruction in air using electron beam (EB) technology was investigated experimentally by many researchers.

Sun, Yongxia et.al., Poland | The volatile organic compounds destruction from the simulated waste combustion process was studied in this work. The simulated off-gases was prepared by combustion of Polish light oil with air and the EB irradiation was carried out at ILU-6 accelerator, Qualitative and quantitative analysis of organic compounds from off-gases and their by-products formed after EB-irradiation were carried out by using a GC-MS.

Borrely, Sueli Ivone et. al., Brazil | The proposed study aimed the color of effluents and the biological effects as well. Color and toxicity removal was performed for dying water solutions and for two kinds of real effluent: the first from textile industry and the second from manufacture of dyes. The radiation processing was applied with double purposes to reduce biological effects and color.

ZIMEK, Zbigniew et. al., Poland | Upgrading of radiation facility located at Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology in Warsaw has been initiated towards higher technical and economical effectiveness, better operational characteristics suitable for radiation processing and research programs in order to promote in Poland the radiation technologies for sterilzation medical devices and tissue grafts as well as food product hygenization and other radiation processes where high energy electrons are required.

Lee, Byung Cheol et. al., Korea | KAERI has built a high power electron beam user facility for the development of radiation processes. The facility provides users from universities, research institutes, and industries with electron beams having energies from 0.1 MeV to 10 MeV

Han, Bumsoo et. al., Korea | The sludge resulting from municipal wastewater treatment is usually in the form of a liquid or semisolid liquid, and can be used as a soil conditioner. However, it contains bacteria, viruses and parasites and should be disinfected prior to any such use.

Masefield, J. et. al., USA | Unfounded concerns exist about industrial cobalt-60 sources being stolen, lost, or abandoned. Implementation of many security measures since September 11, 2001 protects against the theft of cobalt-60 sources. The industry uses unique serial numbers to perform "cradle to grave" tracking of the cobalt-60 sources. And regulatory changes require owners of irradiators to provide substantial upfront financial guarantees to cover anticipated disposal costs in the unlikely event an owner abandons their sources.