Radiometric Design
When standard instruments can't measure your process — extreme temperatures, high pressures, dense or coated vessels, aggressive chemistry — radiometric becomes the right answer. TriNova engineers radiation-based measurement systems for the hardest applications, selecting source, detector, mounting, and shielding around your process and your compliance program.
How TriNova performs Radiometric Design
Our specialists begin with the application — process requirements, vessel geometry, material characteristics, and what the measurement actually needs to do. From there, we engineer the system: source type and strength, detector configuration, mounting locations, shielding requirements, and the safe-handling and regulatory considerations that have to be built into the design rather than added on at the end.
The result is a radiometric system specified to perform in your process from day one, with the documentation your procurement, project, and radiation safety teams all need to move forward.
- Process requirement evaluation — temperatures, pressures, chemistry, measurement objective
- Vessel geometry and material characterization
- Source type and source strength selection
- Detector configuration and mounting location specification
- Shielding requirements and safe-handling planning
- Compliance and licensing considerations built into the design package
The Outcome
What Radiometric Design delivers
A system specified to work in your application
Not "any radiometric will do" — a system engineered around your temperatures, pressures, vessel, and chemistry. The measurement starts with a design that fits the process, not a design that fits the catalog.
Source selection that balances measurement and safety
Source type and strength chosen to get the measurement you actually need with the lowest activity that does the job — so your detector sees what it needs to see, and your radiation safety program isn't carrying unnecessary exposure.
Mounting and detector geometry optimized
Mounting locations, detector configuration, and beam path geometry specified for the vessel and process at hand. Alignment and placement that actually work — not a generic install drawing adapted on the fly.
Compliance built in from day one
Licensing requirements, shielding provisions, and safe-handling practices are part of the design package — not an afterthought to be solved during commissioning. The system arrives ready to be permitted, installed, and operated.
When to engage design support
Common reasons facilities request Radiometric Design
- Process conditions — temperature, pressure, chemistry — exclude standard level, density, or interface instruments
- Vessel geometry, internal hardware, or material build-up complicates conventional measurement approaches
- New process unit, capital project, or expansion requires a radiometric level, density, or interface measurement
- Existing radiometric system is performing poorly and needs to be re-engineered around current conditions
- Procurement or project team needs design support before specifying or ordering radiometric equipment
Radiometric Design FAQs
When should we engage you for radiometric design rather than just buying from a vendor? Vendors specify their equipment well. The harder questions are whether a radiometric is the right answer for the application in the first place, whether the source strength, detector, and geometry are right for your vessel and process, and whether the design fits cleanly into your radiation safety program. That's the work TriNova does — independent application engineering, vendor-agnostic, with your compliance program in the room.
Do you specify the source, or do we work with the source supplier separately? We specify the source type, strength, and configuration as part of the design — then coordinate with your preferred source supplier (or recommend one) for procurement and licensing. You get a coordinated package, not a design that hands the source question back to you to solve.
What deliverables do we receive at the end of the design phase? A complete design package — application analysis, process requirements summary, source and detector specification, mounting and shielding drawings, and the compliance and safe-handling considerations that need to flow into licensing and installation. Built to support procurement, project execution, and your radiation safety program.