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Operation and maintenance of Fermilab's satellite refrigerator expansion engines
Description
Fermilab's superconducting Tevatron accelerator is cooled to liquid helium temperatures by 24 satellite refrigerators, each of which uses for normal operations a reciprocating open-quotes wetclose quotes expansion engine. These expanders are basically Process System (formerly Koch) Model 1400 expanders installed in stand alone cryostats designed by Fermilab. This paper will summarize recent experience with operations and maintenance of these expansion engines. Some of the statistics presented will include total engine hours, mean time between major and minor maintenance, and frequent causes of major maintenance
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Plenum Press.
- Imprint Place
- New York, NY (United States)
- Imprint Title
- Advances in cryogenic engineering. Volume 41, Part A ampersand B
- Imprint Pagination
- 2037 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 957-963.
Conference
- Title
- Cryogenic engineering conference and international cryogenic materials conference.
- Dates
- 17-21 Jul 1995.
- Place
- Columbus, OH (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 28047542
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COOLING SYSTEMS; CRYOGENICS; EXPANSION; FERMILAB TEVATRON; HELIUM DILUTION REFRIGERATORS; MAINTENANCE; OPERATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; REFRIGERATORS; SYNCHROTRONS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-950722--.