Volume 42 Issue 8
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Chunqian Li, Meng Li, Guangquan Chen, Huaming Yu, Chenglun Zhang, Wen Liu, Jinjia Guo, Shibin Zhao, Lijun Song, Xiliang Cui, Ying Chai, Lu Cao, Diansheng Ji, Bochao Xu. In-situ detection equipment for radon-in-water: unattended operation and monthly investigations[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2023, 42(8): 178-184. doi: 10.1007/s13131-023-2238-y
Citation: Chunqian Li, Meng Li, Guangquan Chen, Huaming Yu, Chenglun Zhang, Wen Liu, Jinjia Guo, Shibin Zhao, Lijun Song, Xiliang Cui, Ying Chai, Lu Cao, Diansheng Ji, Bochao Xu. In-situ detection equipment for radon-in-water: unattended operation and monthly investigations[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2023, 42(8): 178-184. doi: 10.1007/s13131-023-2238-y

In-situ detection equipment for radon-in-water: unattended operation and monthly investigations

doi: 10.1007/s13131-023-2238-y
Funds:  The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos U22A20580 and 42130410; the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under contract No. 202341002; the Pilot Project for the Integration of Science, Education, and Industry under contract No. 2022PY069.
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  • Corresponding author: E-mail: limeng@ouc.edu.cnxubc@ouc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 2023-06-02
  • Accepted Date: 2023-08-14
  • Available Online: 2023-09-01
  • Publish Date: 2023-08-31
  • Radon is recognized as a powerful tracer of certain geophysical processes in marine and aquatic environments. In the past few decades, the instruments and methods for measuring radon concentration in water have been developed to some extent but still lack underwater in-situ measurements. Here we present an in-situ detection equipment for radon-in-water (pulsed ionization chamber (PIC)-radon) to measure dissolved radon in ocean and groundwater settings. The equipment has been successfully deployed in the Jiaozhou Bay in July 2022 and has achieved 14 d of unattended underwater in-situ observation. Then it was successfully placed in a groundwater monitoring well in the Laizhou Bay in November 2022 and monitored radon activities for over 30 d. The results showed that this instrument had a good indication of submarine groundwater discharge. The PIC-radon detector takes advantage of smaller size, lower power consumption, and is barely influenced by humidity, making it particularly suitable for long-term in-situ measurement, especially in harsh environments with limited human care or deployment spaces.
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