Features and Ways to Upgrade Electron-Beam Wastewater Treatment

Currently available industrial electron accelerators and radiation-chemical reaction vessels designed for them make it possible to irradiate no more than 20 000 m3 of water per day, which is many times less than practical needs. At the same time, there are technical prerequisites for the development of more powerful accelerators suitable for large-scale water treatment. Interest in the electron-beam water treatment is rapidly increasing in light of the acute problem of neutralizing biologically hazardous impurities. Various designs of accelerators and reaction vessels used for a multiple increase in the productivity of the electron beam purification of water are considered.