ID |
Date |
Author |
Operational Mode |
Subject |
106
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Mon Jul 18 15:51:17 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | Compressor restarted, flow to solenoid |
Recovered the vacuum in the solenoid, then started the compressor.
Started flow to solenoid in parallel warm return. |
105
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Mon Jul 18 11:18:40 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | Solenoid Quenched over the weekend |
The solenoid was found to be warm on Monday morning. M9Q3 had a bad water
leak over the weekend. The water header serving Q3 was turned off and the
leak confirmed. Q3 was isolated and the header was turned back on. My
supposition is that while the main header was turned off, the diff. pump
under the solenoid tripped. When I looked at it this morning the
compressor was off and the vesssel vacuum was very bad. The PLC connection
to EPICs is down, so I can not restart the vacuum system yet. Mike Leross
is looking at the problem.
There was no trip signal to the main control room. It looks as though the
control room signal was bypassed downstairs.
The power supply fault light was on on the QRL panel, but I okayed Bob
Hilton locking out the power supply in order that Q3's water leak can be
repired. Shutting of the main breaker may have turned on this light. The
other possibility is that the power supply was not ramped down and shut
off properly. |
104
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Tue Jun 14 23:01:22 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | switched to parallel cold return |
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103
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Tue Jun 14 20:53:19 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | restarted refrigerator after power bump |
see bitmap for temps/pressures after presurrizing coldbox. Preparing to
start flow to turbines, then will start flow to solenoid in parallel warm
return. |
Attachment 1: june142045.BMP
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102
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Tue Jun 14 18:48:14 2005 |
Experimentor | Normal Running | Power bump at 18:40 |
Solenoid tripped on a power bump at 18:40 Tuesday
-- Donald Arseneau |
101
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Thu Jun 9 21:41:25 2005 |
Willy Andersson | Quench Recovery | Trying to achieve stable cooling. |
From about 08:00 to 15:00
See Doug's previous entry for quench recovery details.
First the system had been set to // cold return mode because the solenoid
temps seemed low enough. Temps started to rise instead of cooling so system
was eventually set back to // warm return mode. With the system in // warm
return mode the solenoid was still warming instead of cooling. Solenoid
temps were rising to almost 50K and T1 shield heater was about 90%. T1
inlet temp was below 75K and falling even with shield heat set so high.
CV155 kept closed and // warm return flows were full flow. T1 brake valve
seemed way too open at about 0.8 (compared to previous runs).
15:00 to 19:00
Tried opening CV155, didn't seem to help much. Temps still trending
upwards. Decided to reduce flow to solenoid to see if the cold box would
cool down. Started reducing the // warm return outlet valves. TI121 began
to drop slowly. On graph plotting solenoid temps they started to trend
downwards. Weird. A reduced flow seemed to produce more cooling ? Don't
understand this but will continue. Flow temps returning from solenoid were
about the same temp as TI121, about 35 K. Switching to // cold return mode
to try to reduce TI121. Keeping CV155 as open as possible, just keeping
CV204 from closing completely. After switching to // cold return TI121
starts to slowly fall, T1 inlet temp rises over time so start to drop
shield heater setting. Solenoid temps now trending downwards. Cracked open
CV142 to get some flow going through powerleads. Raised compressor
discharge press to about 11.2 barA. Shield heater down over time to about
10%. Reduced CV155 down to the point where temps almost stop falling then
open cv155 just enogh to keep temps falling.
19:30 Solenoid temps down to about 28K. Letting system continue cooling
overnight.
Guessing the cause of the turbine overspeed quench was caused by
contamination entering the spinning turbine, causing rapid speed changes or
possibly the continued saga of the water damaged Jaquet turbine speed
tachometer giving random false trips. |
100
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Thu Jun 9 08:56:10 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | system back on |
The compressor was restarted and the solenoid is cooling (sort of) in
parallel cold return. |
99
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Thu Jun 9 06:53:40 2005 |
Experimentor | Other | Trip at 6:45 Today. |
Solenoid quenched at 6:45. All temperature monitors were flat until trip.
Hearing compressor stop was first warning. Lights are:
Turbine T1 overspeed, Compresor alarm, cryostat quench.
--Donald Arseneau |
98
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Thu Jun 2 09:16:40 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | continuing to cool |
See screen grab |
Attachment 1: 02-06-05-7.32.49 AM.jpg
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97
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Thu Jun 2 01:38:25 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | strip tool plot |
This is a strip tool plot of the cooldown |
Attachment 1: 02-06-05-12.57.26 AM.jpg
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96
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Thu Jun 2 01:26:30 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | started flow to solenoid |
See attached file for a screen grab of temps. |
Attachment 1: Capture6-2-05-1.13.33 AM.jpg
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95
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Wed Jun 1 23:48:02 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Quench Recovery | the first quench |
I recieved a call from ops at 22:00 tonight that the solenoid had alarmed.
I came in and found a cold box fault, with the compressor tripped off. I
was unable to restart the compressor. I cleared the cryostat quench and
compressor trips. The system looked as though it was ready to start. I
pushed the compressor "ON" button, but as soon as the main contactor
closed, the compressor tripped again. After a few trys and a bit of
searching, I tried resetting the compressor over-pressure switch. That
allowed me to restart the compressor. Once the high pressure comes up I'll
start flow to the turbines. |
94
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Wed Jun 1 08:23:19 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Start Up | start up notes |
The solenoid was pumped out Monday and yesterday after the quads just
downstream of the solenoid were put back in place. The quad just
downstream of the solenoid was remove to replace two coils on it.
The cold box vacuum had tripped off some time in the last little while.
Started it pumping on Monday also. The compressor was started Tuesday
afternoon and flow was started to the solenoid. The purifier was
regenerated and put on line in it's total buffer tank flow mode. The cold
box was pressurized and the turbines were briefly spun up to check the
operation of the new turbine speed indicator. It seems to be working
properly.
Flow to the turbines was started this morning and all went well. The speed
indicator works properly.
M9BIG1 started ot 6.6 x 10-6 before flow was started. One hour later it
reads 4.8 x 10-6 |
93
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Thu May 19 15:05:31 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Maintenance | STA 120 replaced |
The turbine 2 speed indicator control box STA 120 has been replaced with a
newer style Jaquet controller. This is similar to the ones used in the
ISAC helium liquifier. See attached photos for set up parameters. These
were taken from the old controller, Sulzer documentation, and the ISAC 2
controllers. |
Attachment 1: M9 Turbine 2.doc
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92
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Mon Apr 18 09:52:11 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Maintenance | Relays replaced |
The following relays have been replaced in the Sulzer control panel:
K341, K379, K132, K324A, K314, K125, K127, K133, K252, K227, K233, K238,
K239, K245, K246.
These were the one that had indications of sever rusting inside the case.
There are five more spare relays in the gray cupboard. |
91
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Fri Mar 11 09:18:30 2005 |
Doug Preddy | Maintenance | services on system |
The cold box was isolated and pumped out after it warmed up. It has been
refilled with helium.
Turbine 2 speed indicator failed at some time during the last run. After
the turbine inlet vavle was closed the turbine continued to read full
speed. I am removing the controller to look at it. The main power has been
turned of for this procedure. |
90
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Sun Dec 5 11:15:24 2004 |
Doug Preddy | Normal Running | more ripples |
I loked at the power lead temps this morning. LHe_in 10.4-12.0 PL-Neg 8.0-
9.0 PL-Pos 9.8-10.4. Flows down to 160mm. Called Ops and got Danica to
cycle CV142. Ripples and flow improved on the second try. |
89
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Thu Dec 2 10:51:16 2004 |
Doug Preddy | Normal Running | power lead ripple |
Ripples got worse overnight.LHe in 10.3-11.7, PL Neg 8.0-8.7. Flows <200mm.
cycled CV142. Flows 240mm. LHe in 10.3-11.3 PL Neg 7.9-8.1 |
88
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Wed Dec 1 12:55:56 2004 |
Doug Preddy | Normal Running | added one bottle helium gas |
buffer tank pressure is up to 6.5 psi. |
87
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Mon Nov 29 09:28:16 2004 |
Doug Preddy | Normal Running | Buffer tank empty |
Came down to check on system. CV211 was fully open, trying to charge the
system. Ripples on LHe in and PL neg. CV141 fully closed. I closed CV147 to
0.45 to try and move CV141 open. Checked the buffer tank pressure, it was
almost at zero. Lowering the liquid level to 40%. |