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TY - CONF AU - Quispe, M. AU - Casas, J.J. AU - Colldelram, C. AU - Garriga, D. AU - González, N. AU - Juanhuix, J. AU - Nicolàs, J. AU - Nikitin, Y. AU - Rabasa, M. ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Bian, Lin ED - Chen, Zhichu ED - Dong, Yuhui ED - He, Ping TI - Design and Fluid Dynamics Study of a Recoverable Helium Sample Environment System for Optimal Data Quality in the New Microfocus MX Beamline at the ALBA Synchrotron Light Source J2 - Proc. of MEDSI2023, Beijing, China, 06-10 November 2023 CY - Beijing, China T2 - International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation T3 - 12 LA - english AB - XAIRA is the new microfocus MX beamline under construction at the ALBA Synchrotron Light Source. For its experiments, the quality will be optimized by enclosing all the end station elements, including the diffractometer in a helium chamber, so that the background due to air scattering is minimized and the beam is not attenuated in the low photon energy range, down to 4 keV. This novel type of chamber comes with new challenges from the point of view of stability control and operation in low pressure conditions while enabling the recovery of the consumed helium. In particular, it is planned to collect the helium gas with a purity > 99.5\% and then to recover the gas at the ALBA Helium Liquefaction Plant. Besides, the circuit includes a dedicated branch to recirculate the helium used by the goniometer bearing at the diffractometer. This paper describes the fluid dynamic conceptual design of the Helium chamber and its gas circuit, as well as numerical results based on one-dimensional studies and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 203 EP - 206 KW - experiment KW - detector KW - operation KW - cryogenics KW - MMI DA - 2024/07 PY - 2024 SN - 2673-5520 SN - 978-3-95450-250-9 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2023-WEPPP035 UR - https://jacow.org/medsi2023/papers/weppp035.pdf ER -