ICALEPCS2011 - List of Keywords (cryogenics)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOPKN024	The Integration of the LHC Cyrogenics Control System Data into the CERN Layout Database	database, controls, instrumentation, interface	147
	E. Fortescue-Beck, R. Billen, P. Gomes CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Large Hadron Collider's Cryogenic Control System makes extensive use of several databases to manage data appertaining to over 34,000 cryogenic instrumentation channels. This data is essential for populating the firmware of the PLCs which are responsible for maintaining the LHC at the appropriate temperature. In order to reduce the number of data sources and the overall complexity of the system, the databases have been rationalised and the automatic tool, that extracts data for the control software, has been simplified. This paper describes the main improvements that have been made and evaluates the success of the project.

WEPKN024	UNICOS CPC New Domains of Application: Vacuum and Cooling & Ventilation	controls, vacuum, framework, operation	752
	D. Willeman, E. Blanco Vinuela, B. Bradu, J.O. Ortola Vidal CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The UNICOS (UNified Industrial Control System) framework, and concretely the CPC package, has been extensively used in the domain of continuous processes (e.g. cryogenics, gas flows,) and also others specific to the LHC machine as the collimators environmental measurements interlock system. The application of the UNICOS-CPC to other kind of processes: vacuum and the cooling and ventilation cases are depicted here. One of the major challenges was to figure out whether the model and devices created so far were also adapted for other types of processes (e.g Vacuum). To illustrate this challenge two domain use cases will be shown: ISOLDE vacuum control system and the STP18 (cooling & ventilation) control system. Both scenarios will be illustrated emphasizing the adaptability of the UNICOS CPC package to create those applications and highlighting the discovered needed features to include in the future UNICOS CPC package. This paper will also introduce the mechanisms used to optimize the commissioning time, the so-called virtual commissioning. In most of the cases, either the process is not yet accessible or the process is critical and its availability is then reduced, therefore a model of the process is used to offline validate the designed control system.
	Poster WEPKN024 [0.230 MB]

WEPKS006	UNICOS Evolution: CPC Version 6	controls, framework, operation, vacuum	786
	E. Blanco Vinuela, J.M. Beckers, B. Bradu, Ph. Durand, B. Fernández Adiego, S. Izquierdo Rosas, A. Merezhin, J.O. Ortola Vidal, J. Rochez, D. Willeman CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The UNICOS (UNified Industrial Control System) framework was created back in 1998, since then a noticeable number of applications in different domains have used this framework to develop process control applications. Furthermore the UNICOS framework has been formalized and their supervision layer has been reused in other kinds of applications (e.g. monitoring or supervisory tasks) where a control layer is not necessarily UNICOS oriented. The process control package has been reformulated as the UNICOS CPC package (Continuous Process Control) and a reengineering process has been followed. These noticeable changes were motivated by many factors as (1) being able to upgrade to the new more performance IT technologies in the automatic code generation, (2) being flexible enough to create new additional device types to cope with other needs (e.g. Vacuum or Cooling and Ventilation applications) without major impact on the framework or the PLC code baselines and (3) enhance the framework with new functionalities (e.g. recipes). This publication addresses the motivation, changes, new functionalities and results obtained. It introduces in an overall view the technologies used and changes followed, emphasizing what has been gained for the developer and the final user. Finally some of the new domains where UNICOS CPC has been used will be illustrated.
	Poster WEPKS006 [0.449 MB]

THCHMUST01	Control System for Cryogenic THD Layering at the National Ignition Facility	target, controls, hardware, laser	1236
	M.A. Fedorov, O.D. Edwards, E.A. Mapoles, J. Mauvais, T.G. Parham, R.J. Sanchez, J.M. Sater, B.A. Wilson LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
	Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world largest and most energetic laser system for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). In 2010, NIF began ignition experiments using cryogenically cooled targets containing layers of the tritium-hydrogen-deuterium (THD) fuel. The 75 μm thick layer is formed inside of the 2 mm target capsule at temperatures of approximately 18 K. The ICF target designs require sub-micron smoothness of the THD ice layers. Formation of such layers is still an active research area, requiring a flexible control system capable of executing the evolving layering protocols. This task is performed by the Cryogenic Target Subsystem (CTS) of the NIF Integrated Computer Control System (ICCS). The CTS provides cryogenic temperature control with the 1 mK resolution required for beta layering and for the thermal gradient fill of the capsule. The CTS also includes a 3-axis x-ray radiography engine for phase contrast imaging of the ice layers inside of the plastic and beryllium capsules. In addition to automatic control engines, CTS is integrated with the Matlab interactive programming environment to allow flexibility in experimental layering protocols. The CTS Layering Matlab Toolbox provides the tools for layer image analysis, system characterization and cryogenic control. The CTS Layering Report tool generates qualification metrics of the layers, such as concentricity of the layer and roughness of the growth boundary grooves. The CTS activities are automatically coordinated with other NIF controls in the carefully orchestrated NIF Shot Sequence. LLNL-CONF-477418
	Slides THCHMUST01 [8.058 MB]

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MOPKN024

The Integration of the LHC Cyrogenics Control System Data into the CERN Layout Database

database, controls, instrumentation, interface

147

E. Fortescue-Beck, R. Billen, P. Gomes
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Large Hadron Collider's Cryogenic Control System makes extensive use of several databases to manage data appertaining to over 34,000 cryogenic instrumentation channels. This data is essential for populating the firmware of the PLCs which are responsible for maintaining the LHC at the appropriate temperature. In order to reduce the number of data sources and the overall complexity of the system, the databases have been rationalised and the automatic tool, that extracts data for the control software, has been simplified. This paper describes the main improvements that have been made and evaluates the success of the project.

WEPKN024

UNICOS CPC New Domains of Application: Vacuum and Cooling & Ventilation

controls, vacuum, framework, operation

752

D. Willeman, E. Blanco Vinuela, B. Bradu, J.O. Ortola Vidal
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The UNICOS (UNified Industrial Control System) framework, and concretely the CPC package, has been extensively used in the domain of continuous processes (e.g. cryogenics, gas flows,) and also others specific to the LHC machine as the collimators environmental measurements interlock system. The application of the UNICOS-CPC to other kind of processes: vacuum and the cooling and ventilation cases are depicted here. One of the major challenges was to figure out whether the model and devices created so far were also adapted for other types of processes (e.g Vacuum). To illustrate this challenge two domain use cases will be shown: ISOLDE vacuum control system and the STP18 (cooling & ventilation) control system. Both scenarios will be illustrated emphasizing the adaptability of the UNICOS CPC package to create those applications and highlighting the discovered needed features to include in the future UNICOS CPC package. This paper will also introduce the mechanisms used to optimize the commissioning time, the so-called virtual commissioning. In most of the cases, either the process is not yet accessible or the process is critical and its availability is then reduced, therefore a model of the process is used to offline validate the designed control system.

Poster WEPKN024 [0.230 MB]

WEPKS006

UNICOS Evolution: CPC Version 6

controls, framework, operation, vacuum

786

E. Blanco Vinuela, J.M. Beckers, B. Bradu, Ph. Durand, B. Fernández Adiego, S. Izquierdo Rosas, A. Merezhin, J.O. Ortola Vidal, J. Rochez, D. Willeman
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The UNICOS (UNified Industrial Control System) framework was created back in 1998, since then a noticeable number of applications in different domains have used this framework to develop process control applications. Furthermore the UNICOS framework has been formalized and their supervision layer has been reused in other kinds of applications (e.g. monitoring or supervisory tasks) where a control layer is not necessarily UNICOS oriented. The process control package has been reformulated as the UNICOS CPC package (Continuous Process Control) and a reengineering process has been followed. These noticeable changes were motivated by many factors as (1) being able to upgrade to the new more performance IT technologies in the automatic code generation, (2) being flexible enough to create new additional device types to cope with other needs (e.g. Vacuum or Cooling and Ventilation applications) without major impact on the framework or the PLC code baselines and (3) enhance the framework with new functionalities (e.g. recipes). This publication addresses the motivation, changes, new functionalities and results obtained. It introduces in an overall view the technologies used and changes followed, emphasizing what has been gained for the developer and the final user. Finally some of the new domains where UNICOS CPC has been used will be illustrated.

Poster WEPKS006 [0.449 MB]

THCHMUST01

Control System for Cryogenic THD Layering at the National Ignition Facility

target, controls, hardware, laser

1236

M.A. Fedorov, O.D. Edwards, E.A. Mapoles, J. Mauvais, T.G. Parham, R.J. Sanchez, J.M. Sater, B.A. Wilson
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

Funding: This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world largest and most energetic laser system for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). In 2010, NIF began ignition experiments using cryogenically cooled targets containing layers of the tritium-hydrogen-deuterium (THD) fuel. The 75 μm thick layer is formed inside of the 2 mm target capsule at temperatures of approximately 18 K. The ICF target designs require sub-micron smoothness of the THD ice layers. Formation of such layers is still an active research area, requiring a flexible control system capable of executing the evolving layering protocols. This task is performed by the Cryogenic Target Subsystem (CTS) of the NIF Integrated Computer Control System (ICCS). The CTS provides cryogenic temperature control with the 1 mK resolution required for beta layering and for the thermal gradient fill of the capsule. The CTS also includes a 3-axis x-ray radiography engine for phase contrast imaging of the ice layers inside of the plastic and beryllium capsules. In addition to automatic control engines, CTS is integrated with the Matlab interactive programming environment to allow flexibility in experimental layering protocols. The CTS Layering Matlab Toolbox provides the tools for layer image analysis, system characterization and cryogenic control. The CTS Layering Report tool generates qualification metrics of the layers, such as concentricity of the layer and roughness of the growth boundary grooves. The CTS activities are automatically coordinated with other NIF controls in the carefully orchestrated NIF Shot Sequence.
LLNL-CONF-477418

Slides THCHMUST01 [8.058 MB]