TY - JOUR AU - Sandro Gonzi AU - Fabio Ambrosino AU - Paolo Andreetto AU - Lorenzo Bonechi AU - Germano Bonomi AU - Diletta Borselli AU - Sergio Bottai AU - Thorsten Buhles AU - Irene Calliari AU - Paolo Checchia AU - Ugo Chiarotti AU - Carlo Cialdai AU - Roberto Ciaranfi AU - Luigi Cimmino AU - Vitaliano Ciulli AU - Raffaello D'Alessandro AU - Mariaelena D’Errico AU - Fabian Finke AU - Andreas Franzen AU - Björn Glaser AU - Altea Lorenzon AU - Vincenzo Masone AU - Valerio Moroli AU - Oleksandr Nechyporuk AU - Luca Pezzato AU - Bharath Rangavittal AU - Davide Ressegotti AU - Giulio Saracino AU - Jan Sauerwald AU - Oleksandr Starodubtsev AU - Lorenzo Viliani AU - Francesco Volzone PY - 2022/05/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Imaging of the Inner Zone of Blast Furnaces Using Muon Radiography: The BLEMAB Project JF - Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science JA - JAIS VL - 2022 IS - 0 SE - International Workshop on Cosmic-Ray Muography (Muography2021), Ghent, Belgium DO - https://doi.org/10.31526/jais.2022.272 UR - http://journals.andromedapublisher.com/index.php/JAIS/article/view/272 AB - The aim of the BLEMAB project (BLast furnace stack density Estimation through online Muons ABsorption measurements) is the application of muon radiography techniques, to image a blast furnace’s inner zone. In particular, the goal of the study is to characterize the geometry and size of the so-called “cohesive zone”, i.e., the spatial region where the slowly downward-moving material begins to soften and melt, which plays such an important role in the performance of the blast furnace itself. Thanks to the high penetration power of natural cosmic-ray muon radiation, muon transmission radiography could be an appropriate non invasive methodology for the imaging of large high-density structures such as a blast furnace, whose linear dimensions can be up to a few tens of meters. A state-of-the-art muon tracking system is currently in development and will be installed at a blast furnace on the ArcelorMittal site in Bremen (Germany), where it will collect data for a period of various months. In this paper, the status of the project and theexpectations based on preliminary simulations are presented and briefly discussed. ER -