Application of Radiosotopes to Petroleum Industry

Abstract

In this paper, elucidation is given on the applications of radioisotopes to the petroleum industry, citing some applications chiefly in the United States.They are divided into two groups, applications as tracers and radiation sources.As the former, the author explains the application to the chemical analysis, researches on the reaction mechanisms and transmission of materials (distillation, mixing, stirring, wear, etc.) And the latter is the fixed radiation sources (radiograph, thickness gauge, level gauge, hydrometer), movable radiation sources (flow of fluid in pipe, leak test of pipe, etc.) and radiation energy sources.