Radon Studies Laboratory

Address: ETSEIB, Avda. Diagonal, 647. 08028 Barcelona
Phone number: +34 934016740 / +34 934016049
E-mail: arturo.vargas@upc.edu, claudia.grossi@upc.edu

Head of the Laboratory: Arturo Vargas Drechsler

Technical Director: Claudia Grossi

Eng. Technician: Roger Curcoll

• To offer a calibration service to private and public companies measuring radon activity concentrations.
• To organize and to carry on inter-comparison campaigns of continuous radon monitors and integrated radon detectors.
• To offer support to research activities of the INTE research groups, particularly related with radon and radon flux measurements (currently: TraceRadon)

• Organization and realization of inter-comparison campaigns and calibrations of radon monitors.
• Studies of indoor radon concentrations under different environmental conditions.

The radon chamber is made by a 20 m³  room where sensors and instruments are located to automatically set and measure the environmental parameters and the radon concentration wihtin the room. 

Main characteristic of the INTE radon chamber:

• Size: 2.91 x 2.91 x 2.30 m³
• Builiding material: 2 mm thick welded steel sheets
• Radon exhalation rate: 0 - 256 Bq mín-1 (source made by ²²⁶Ra with 2101 kBq nominal activity)
• Radon concentration range: 0 - 80 kBq m³± 10% (k=2) 
• Dilution rate: 0 - 3 h^-1
• Temperature: 5 - 50 ºC ± 1 ºC
• Relative Humidity: 5 - 95 % ± 2 %