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The Liquid Helium Cryogenic System for the Superconducting Cavity in Srrc Proceedings of the 2001 Particle Accelerator Conference, Chicago THE LIQUID HELIUM CRYOGENIC SYSTEM FOR THE SUPERCONDUCTING CAVITY IN SRRC F. Z. Hsiao, M. C. Lin, Ch. Wang, D. S. Lee, and J. R. Chen, SRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan B. Hilbert, and A. Praud, Air Liquide DTA, Sassenage, France Abstract r A 500MHz superconducting cavity will replace the o ss n e r recovery valve p mai current copper cavity and begin to operate in the m compressor box co beginning of the year 2003. A liquid helium cryogenic oil system provides the cavity at 4.5K a cooling capacity of removal refrigerator 255W without LN2 pre-cooling and a liquefaction rate of 110 liter/hour with LN2 pre-cooling. A safety factor of 1.5 is used to estimate the heat load from the gas tank dewar cryostat superconducting cavity and the heat loss from the transfer lines. With the LN2 pre-cooling, this cooling system warm He gas cold He gas liquid He provides a cooling capacity of up to 450W to cool down Figure 1: Configuration of the Air Liquide designed the additional superconducting Landau cavity. The helium cryogenic system. capacity of the system can be tuned using a frequency driver installed at the compressor station. The pressure provides the required 4.5K cooling capacity to the fluctuations of the dewar and of the suction line are kept superconducting cavity. This system will be a turnkey to the same stability requirement that of the cavity system, which is designed and manufactured by the cryostat to minimize the influence in cavity operation. A Advanced Technology Division of Air Liquide. shutdown period for maintenance of more than 8000 hours for the cryogenic system is expected without 2 CONFIGURATION interfering with the continuous operation of the Figures 1 and 2 show the configuration and the physical superconducting cavity. location of the cryogenic system respectively. The system consists of one 315KW main compressor, one 45KW 1 INTRODUCTION recovery compressor, one 10KW refrigerator (cold box), 3 To improve the brightness and beam stability of the one 2000L dewar, two 100m gas helium storage tanks, storage ring, SRRC will replace the current copper cavity and one 6m LN2-shielded multi-channel transfer line. with a 500MHz superconducting cavity and then increase The piping of the warm helium gas, which connects the the beam current to up to 400mA. This is the first usage main compressor and the refrigerator, includes one 2.5- of a superconducting cavity in the synchrotron light inch discharge line and one 8-inch suction line. One 2.5- source. The cavity will be operational in the beginning of inch make up line is used to connect the helium tank and the year 2003. A liquid helium cryogenic system the control valves, which are placed near the compressor. Booster Refrigerator Liquid Nitrogen Dewar Dewar Experiment Area (Mechanical Vibration and Outdoors, Radiation EM Noise Sensitive Area) Restriction Region He Gas Tank Bridge Radiation Restriction Region Storage Ring Trench Compressor New Utility Building Figure 2: Location of the cryogenic system. 0-7803-7191-7/01/$10.00 ©2001 IEEE. 1604 Proceedings of the 2001 Particle Accelerator Conference, Chicago HEX1 HEX2 HEX3 HEX4 HEX5 HEX6 Table 1 Heat load estimation (1) Phase I Phase II Cryostat 80W+0.18g/s 2*(80W+0.18g/s) (~100W ) (~200W ) (7) (6) Distribution Box (DB) 10W 10W compressor (4) Transfer Line Between DB and 15W 15W+30W (8) Cryostat JT m2 Transfer Line Between Dewar 10W 10W (5) and DB m3 Reserved Cryogenic Capacity 35W(heater) 35W (heater) LN2 (2) Total 150W+0.18g/s 260W+0.36g/s † W W LHe Total*Safety Factor 225W+0.27g/s 390W+0.54g/s T1 T2 Total equivalent cooling power 255W 450W turbine (3) † Safety Factor=1.5 mm Q (a) flow chart Both the discharge and the suction lines are 160m in length; the make up line is 120m. The liquid helium line m (g/s) P (bar) T (K) h (J/g) s (J/g-K) between the refrigerator and the dewar is 5m. This line is (1) 48.2 12.05 318 1656 24.78 thermal shielded with the cold helium gas from the dewar (2) 26.2 11.77 67.9 355 16.79 (3) 26.0 1.25 10.5 52 11.62 to the refrigerator. The liquid helium will be drawn off (4) 22.1 11.73 5.0 2 1.484 from the dewar and sent to the distribution valve box (5) 22.1 1.25 4.5 15 6.174 through the multi-channel transfer line, then the helium is (6) 48.0 1.15 313 1624 29.66 sent to the cryostat of the superconducting cavity through (7) 51.2 1.05 318 1652 29.85 the flexible transfer line. A nitrogen storage tank with a (8) 0 - - -- capacity of 20000L will be installed at the site of the (b) state at phase I helium tanks to provide liquid nitrogen to the refrigerator m (g/s) P (bar) T (K) h (J/g) s (J/g-K) for pre-cooling. Liquid nitrogen is also used to thermal (1) 70.9 14.75 318 1657 24.360 shield the cavity cryostat. A transfer line of 1 inch in (2) 32.9 14.30 60.1 15.744315 diameter, 120m in length is used to transfer liquid (3) 32.7 1.30 10.2 51 11.373 nitrogen. (4) 4.714.2238.0 2 1.164 The refrigerator and the dewar are located on a platform (5) 38.0 1.30 4.5 15 6.104 (6) 70.7 1.10 311 1615 29.633 close to the distribution box and the cavity so that the (7) 73.9 1.05 318 1652 29.847 transfer heat loss can be minimized. Since the refrigerator (8) 3.6 1.25 79.2 -118 2.888 uses the expansion turbines, no vibrations during the (c) state at phase II beam operation will be expected. The large power compressor is located 80m straight from the storage ring Figure 3: Thermodynamic state of the refrigerator. to reduce the vibration effects on the beam orbit. The cryogenic system will be ready at the end of the year 2002. will be heated to room temperature and then injected to the warm suction line. 3 SYSTEM DESIGN 3.2 Thermodynamic State 3.1 Heat Load The design of the refrigerator is shown in Figure 3 [2]. Estimation of the system heat load is shown in Table 1 The work cycle of the refrigerator is based on the [1]. The estimated heat load is 100W for one cavity, 10W modified Claud cycle. The high inlet temperature for the valve box, 15W for the 10m flexible transfer lines, attributes to the system installed within the subtropics 10W for the multi-channel transfer line, and 35W for the area. The outlet temperature of the JT valve is defined at reserved cooling capacity. Calculated with a safety 4.5K because the cavity will be operated at 4.5K. Two factor of 1.5, this cryogenic system will provide a cooling expansion turbines, one warm turbine and one cold capacity of 255W at 4.5K without liquid nitrogen pre- turbine, are connected in series. The turbines remove cooling. Since the 1.5GHz superconducting Landau most of the energy of the gas stream. The temperature of cavity will be installed in the storage ring in the future, the helium gas after passing through the warm turbine this system is to provide a cooling capacity of 450W at decreases to around 50 K. It is then cooled down in the 4.5K at phase II of the project. The capacity of 450W is heat exchanger (HEX) 4 to a temperature lower than 16K estimated based on the additional heat load of 100W from and expanded in the cold turbine from which it exits at the Landau cavity and that of 30W from the additional about 10K. The helium gas is then returned at a low transfer lines. In addition to the cooling capacity for pressure through heat exchangers where it cools down the phases I and II, the system needs to provide a helium high-pressure helium in heat exchangers 3,4 and 5. The liquefaction rate of 110 liters/hour to cool down the cavity calculated cooling capacities for the first and second from room temperature to 4.5K. The cooling of the cavity phases are 270 W and 470W respectively [3]. These and the refrigerator will be done separately. During values meet the capacity requirement specified in Table1. cavity cooling, the refrigerator will not use the enthalpy of The consumption of the liquid nitrogen at phase II is 3.6 the cold helium gas from the cavity. Instead, the cold gas g/s, i.e., 16.2 L/Hr. 1605 Proceedings of the 2001 Particle Accelerator Conference, Chicago 3.3 Helium Flow Process in the refrigerator, the charcoal in the oil removal system, and the bearing of the cooling fan for the motor of the To maintain a stable operation of the cavity, we keep main compressor. the variation of the helium level of the cryostat at less ± The duty period of the activated charcoal in the oil than 1% and the variation of pressure at less than removal system can be increased if the Grade A helium ± 3mbar. Since the heat load of the cavity cryostat gas with a purity of 99.995% is used in the cryogenic fluctuates from 35W at the condition of standby to the system. The bearing of the cooling fan lasts for 8000 maximum 100W at a full operation, a heater in the hours if the ambient temperature is controlled within 35°C.
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