BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Power Supply checkout is a necessary, pre-beam, time-critical function. At odds are the desire to decrease the amount of time to perform the checkout while at the same time maximizing the number and types of checks that can be performed and analyzing the results quickly (in case any problems exist that must be addressed). Controls and Power Supply Group personnel have worked together to develop tools to accomplish these goals. Power Supply checkouts are now accomplished in a time-frame of hours rather than days, reducing the number of person-hours needed to accomplish the checkout and making the system available more quickly for beam development.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Vibrations of the cryogenic triplet magnets at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are suspected to be causing the beam perturbations observed at frequencies around 10 Hz. Several solutions to counteract the effect have been considered in the past, including reinforcing the magnet base support assembly, a mechanical servo feedback system, and a local beam feedback system at each of the two experimental areas. However, implementation of the mechanical solutions would be expensive, and the local feedback system was insufficient since perturbation amplitudes outside the experimental areas were still problematic. A global 10 Hz orbit feedback system is currently under development at RHIC consisting of 36 beam position monitors (BPMs) and 12 small dedicated dipole corrector magnets in each of the two counter-rotating rings. A subset of the system consisting of 8 BPMs and 4 corrector magnets in each ring was installed and successfully tested during the RHIC 2010 run; and the complete system is being installed for the 2011 run. A description of the overall system architecture and results with beam will be discussed.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
TUL-DMCS, Łódź, Poland
The Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA), MicroTCA (uTCA) and Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) standards, known as xTCA, provide unique features desired by various control systems of particle accelerators. The standards provide availability and operability as high as 99.999 %. A significant number of additional features must be implemented to take a full advantage of xTCA standards and gain the required availability. On the other hand, many control systems require various data acquisition and control modules with different number of input analogue and digital inputs or outputs as defined by their respective system specifications. The paper presents an universal base module, designed according to the AMC standard with an FPGA Mezzanine Card connector, that can be used for fast development of input-output subsystems. The module consists of two submodules. The digital part is designed according to the AMC standard while the main input-output functionality is realized by the FPGA Mezzanine Card part. The FMC submodule provides the functionality required by the specification of the LLRF system.
ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Compa Industries, Inc., Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
A new test facility was designed and constructed at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) for testing the Thales TH628 Diacrode® and TH781 tetrode power amplifiers. Anode power requirements for the TH628 are 28 kV DC, with peak currents of 190 Amperes in long pulses. A new 225 uF capacitor bank supplies this demand. A charging power supply was obtained by re-configuring a 2 MW beam power supply remaining from another project. A traditional ignitron crowbar was designed to rapidly discharge the 88 kJ stored energy. The anode power supply was extensively tested using a pulsed tetrode switch and resistor load. A new Fast Protect and Monitor System (FPMS) was designed to take samples of RF reflected power, anode HV, and various tube currents, with outputs to quench the HV charging supply, remove RF drive and disable the conduction bias pulse to the grid of each tube during fault events. The entire test stand is controlled with a programmable logic controller, for normal startup sequencing and timing, protection against loss of cooling, and operator GUI.
ANL, Argonne, USA
The quench properties of two 42-pole prototype superconducting undulators (SCUs) (one having a steel core the other with an aluminium core) have been tested. Since the SCUs have relatively low stored energy, the quench protection has relied on an over-voltage protection feature of the power supply, and the inherent quench back from the core. Concerns about conductor damage (during a quench) due to heating and high induced voltages were raised. The maximum conductor temperatures and voltages have been deduced from voltage and current measurements during a quench. The deduced maximum hot-spot temperature of the conductor was less than 150 K and the maximum voltage across each SCU coil was less than 300 V.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
IMP, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
FHNW, Windisch, Switzerland
In particle accelerators, the magnet power supply system (controller, power stage and magnet) normally has a higher system order (>5). An exact model, representing the behavior of such a system, would be very helpful for an optimal control. For the control, the engineers are mainly not interested in the analytic model, which shows the exact internal mechanisms of the physical system, but, in a model describing the I/O behavior. Moreover, since the real elements do not exactly correspond to the design values, it is desirable to model the power supply system by means of system identification from measured properties. For that, a subspace based identification method is applied, which yields the observer for the self-optimizing high dynamic control of magnet power supplies at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The only inputs the identification needs are the measured DC-link voltage, the magnet voltage and the magnet current. With that it calculates a corresponding state space model for the system. The whole process is done automatically and in situ, which is a practical and meaningful approach to obtain the exact system information for control design.
FHNW, Windisch, Switzerland
PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
In 1999, the first fully digitally controlled magnet power supplies were put into operation at PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland). Today, approximately 1000 are in use at PSI and a multiple of that worldwide. This project aims at developing a high performance control scheme for a better dynamic behavior of today's magnet powers supplies, without reducing their excellent static behaviors. The resulting control strategy, an in situ identification based observer, combined with state space and proportional integral (SS-PI) control, leads to a significantly improved dynamic behavior of the existing power supplies. The whole commissioning, including system identification, as well as control parameter determination and optimization, is done automatically on the DSP with support of a PC. The control strategy has been implemented on the existing PSI controller and a 10A-corrector power supply, together with various magnets, by updating the software and/or firmware only. Currently, the new control strategy is being implemented and tested at PSI on a second generation Digital Power Electronic Control System (DPC) controller card.
ANL, Argonne, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The Brookhaven Booster Main Magnet Power Supply (MMPS) is a 24 pulse thyristor control supply, rated at 5500 Amps, ±2000 Volts, or 3000 Amps, ±6000 Volts. The power supply is fed directly from the power utility and the peak magnet power is 18 MWatts. This peak power is seen directly at the incoming ac line. This power supply has been in operation for the last 18 years. This paper will describe the present topology and operation of the power supply, the feedback control system and the different modes of operation of the power supply. Since the power supply has been in operation for the last 18 years, upgrading this power supply is essential. A new power supply topology has been studied where energy is stored in capacitor banks. DC to DC converters are used to convert the dc voltage stored in the capacitor banks to pulsed DC voltage into the magnet load. This enables the average incoming power from the ac line to be constant while the peak magnet power is pulsed to ± 18 MWatts. Simulations and waveforms of this power supply will be presented.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a third generation synchrotron light source that has been operating since 1993 at Berkeley Lab. A few years ago, the ALS was upgraded to achieve Top-Off Mode, which required replacing the booster dipole and quadrupole magnet power supplies to increase the peak booster beam energy from 1.5GeV to 1.9GeV. The original analog controller for each power supply has been replaced by a digital power supply controller (DPSC) to improve stability and resolution and provide a remote interface. The DPSC capabilities include 24-bit 100k-point digital reference waveform download and voltage reference generation, and complete digital current loop implementation. The hardware includes an FPGA with an embedded processor running a full EPICS IOC on VxWorks. This paper will present the current functionality of the DPSC as well as performance results from recent commissioning.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The SLAC P2 MARX P2 Modulator consists of 32 cells charged in parallel by a -4000V supply and discharged in series to provide a -120 KV 140 amp 1.6 millisecond pulse. Each cell has a 350uF main storage capacitor. The voltage on the capacitor will droop approximately 640 volts during each pulse. Each cell will have a boost supply that can add up to 700V to the cell output. This allows the output voltage of the cell to remain constant within 0.1% during the pulse. The modulator output voltage control is determined by the -4KV charging voltage. A voltage divider will measure the modulator voltage on each pulse. The charging voltage will be adjusted by the data from previous pulses to provide the desired output. The boost supply in each cell consists of a 700V buck regulator in series with the main capacitor. The supply uses a lookup table for PWM control. The lookup table is calculated from previous pulse data to provide a constant cell output. The paper will describe the modulator and cell regulation used by the MARX modulator. Measured data from a single cell and three cell string will be included.
Advanced Design Consulting, Inc, Lansing, New York, USA
SSLS, Singapore, Singapore
* T. Hezel, B. Krevet, H.O. Moser, J.A. Rossmanith, R. Rossmanith, and Th. Schneider, A superconductive undulator with a period length of 3.8 mm, J. Synchrotron Rad. 5(1998) pp. 448-450.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
A horizontal tune jump system has been installed to overcome the horizontal intrinsic spin resonances, which requires jumping the horizontal tune 0.04 units 82 times, 41 up and 41 down. Two quadruple magnets have been installed in AGS ring to do this. The pulsed magnet currents range from about 140 amps near injection to about 1400 amps late. Current pulse rise and fall times are around 100 micro-sec and flat tops time are around 4mS. These quadruples have separate supplies. This tune jump pulse power supply employees all semiconductor parts as the main switches. During dummy load and magnet testing, the test result showed that the power supply could meet the specification. This article will describe some detail of power supply simulation, design and testing. Some test waveform and pictures are presented in this paper.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
After years of suffering Booster Injection Kicker transistor bank driver regulator trouble shooting, a new real time monitor system has been developed. A simple and floating circuit has been designed and tested. This circuit monitor system can real time monitor the driver regulator power limit resistor status and warn machine operators if the power limit resistor changes values. This paper will introduce the power supply mainly and the new designed monitoring system.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The SLAC P2 Marx is under development for the ILC linac klystron modulator. Specifications are for an output of 120 kV, 140 A, 1.6 ms pulse width, 5 Hz pulse repetition frequency, and ± 0.5% flat-top. The SLAC P2 Marx builds upon the success of the P1 Marx, which is currently undergoing lifetime evaluation. While the P2 Marx’s target application is the ILC, characteristics of the Marx topology make it equally well-suited for different parameter ranges; for example, increased pulse repetition frequency, increased output current, longer pulse width, etc. Marx parameters such as the number of cells, cell capacitance, and component selection can be optimized for the application. This paper provides an overview of the P2 Marx development including design, fabrication progress, and test results for the modulator and sub-assemblies. High-availability features of the modulator such as the diagnostic/prognostic embedded control system and fault-adaptive automatic reconfiguration will be detailed. In addition, the scalability of the Marx topology to other long-pulse parameter ranges will be highlighted. Topology adaptations for several proposed accelerators will be presented.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Two partial snakes overcome the vertical depolarizing resonances in the AGS. But a new type of depolarizing intrinsic resonance from horizontal motion appeared. We reduce these using horizontal tune jumps timed to these resonances. We gain a factor of five in crossing rate with a tune jump of 0.04 in 100 micro-sec. Two quadrapoles, we described in 2009 *, pulse 42 times, the current matching beam energy. The power supplies for these quads will be described in this conference**. The controls for the Jump Quad system is based on a BNL designed Quad Function Generator. Two modules are used; one for timing, and one to supply reference voltages. Synchronization is provided by a proprietary serial bus, the Event Link. The AgsTuneJump application predicts the times of the resonances during the AGS cycle and calculates the power supply trigger times from externally collected tune and energy verses time data and the Low and High PS voltage functions from a voltage to current model of the power supply. The system was commissioned during runs 09 & 10. Beam effects are described elsewhere in this conference***. Details of improvements, operation and the feed forward software will be described.
* JW Glenn, et al “AGS Fast Spin Resonance,-” PAC-09
** JL Mi, et al “AGS Tune Jump Power-” these proceedings
*** L.A.Ahrens, et al "Recent RHIC Motivated Polarized-" these proceedings
LNLS, Campinas, Brazil
ANL, Argonne, USA
Recently there was a situation at the APS when one sextupole power supply failed during top-up operation (all magnets at the APS have separate power supplies). The beam was not lost but the lifetime decreased significantly to the point where it was hard for the injectors to provide enough charge for top-up injections. Luckily, the power supply was able to reset quickly, and the operation was not compromised. One can anticipate similar failures in the future when it would not be possible to reset the power supply. In such a case, the APS would need to operate with lower lifetime until the next intervention period. Here we present an optimization of the sextupole distribution in the vicinity of the failed sextupole that allows us to partially recover the lifetime. A genetic optimization algorithm that involves simultaneous optimization of the dynamic and energy apertures was used*. Experimental tests are also presented.
* M. Borland et al., "Application of Direct Methods of Optimizing Storage Ring Dynamic and Momentum Apertures," Proc. ICAP2009, to be published.
IMP, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
Particles in a storage ring oscillate in the longitudinal and transverse dimensions. Therefore, the beam parameters, such as tune, momentum spread, emittance and their evolution can be obtained by analyzing the beam signals in frequency domain. In this paper, the simulation result of transverse beam spectrum in HIRFL-CSR is reported, including the influence of electron cooling, power supply ripple and the misalignment between ion and electron beams. Transverse coupling would occur if the longitudinal magnetic field of electron cooling device can not be compensated. And the distribution of ion beam in transverse space is a circle due to the misalignment between ion and electron beams. In this paper, main interest is focused on the effect of power supply ripple. The tune ripple form is the sine ware with the frequency of 50Hz which is equal to that of the industrial frequency in the simulation firstly. And then different forms of current ripple of power supply are simulated for comparative analysis. Tune shift will be induced by the power supply ripple. In this paper, those factors which may affect the accumulation of HIRFL-CSR are simulated in transverse beam spectrum.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
There are 60 12×150A current leads distributed in 6 RHIC service buildings; each current lead delivers power supply current from room temperature to cryogenic temperature in RHIC. Due to the humid environment, condensation frequently occurs and ice was quickly formed during operation, especially during an extensive storage period. This condition generated warnings and alarms that personal had to respond to, in order to provide temporary solutions, to keep the machine operational. A temperature control system was designed to avoid such occasions. We will discuss design, implementation and some results of this design in this paper.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Electron lenses for head-on beam-beam compensation will be installed in IP 10 at RHIC. Compensation of the beam-beam effect experienced at IP 8 requires betatron phase advances of ∆ψ=k·π between the proton-proton interaction point at the IP 8, and the electron lens at IP 10. This paper describes the lattice solutions for both the BLUE and the YELLOW ring to achieve this goal.
Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
High gradient DC guns are currently being developed with inverted ceramic insulators in order to avoid failure of the insulators from field emission and charge build-up. Our goal is to increase the DC voltages from 250 kV to 500 kV in these inverted ceramic DC Gun insulator assemblies. To achieve reliability, the arc-path gradient along the length of the insulator ceramic at the interface with the dielectric material should be lower than 500 kV/m (13 V/mil). In order to achieve this low arc-path gradient, a novel extended inverted insulator ceramic is being developed. Novel assembly processes are being developed for the high voltage connector, so that the interface between the connector dielectric and the surface of the extended inverted ceramic insulator will be void free. A complete DC Gun Inverted Ceramic Insulator Assembly will be designed and fabricated for reliable 500 kV DC operation.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
SPEAR3 beam is now delivered to users in a "frequent fill" mode in which beam is injected into the storage ring, with beam-line shutters open, on a periodic schedule so that the beam current is kept constant to within 1% of its average value. This goal was achieved with the constraints of having the SPEAR3 injector run at very high reliability and ensuring that there would be no challenges to the beam containment system in this operational mode. This paper presents the accelerator development, the hardware changes, and the software developed to implement this operational mode.