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System Layout on EPFL campus
System layout: liquefaction and main recovery
at CRPP
Liquefaction
Recovery system
Mobile dewars
Transport
Data Acquisition
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System Layout: liquefaction and main recovery system at CRPP

System Layout

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Liquefaction system
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- Liquefaction Capacity
- 35 l/h without LN2 pre-cooling
- 70 l/h with LN2 pre-cooling
- Liquid Helium Storage Dewar
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Gaseous Helium Recovery system
Main recovery system at CRPP
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Capacity
- two compressors with a maximum flow of 50m3/h each.
- This capacity corresponds to an evaporation of 130 l/h of liquid helium.
- Maximum pressure 200bar
- Storage Volume
- 9 spheres of 3.75m3 each
- The total capacity of the 9 spheres corresponds to 9000l of liquid helium
- Maximum pressure 200bar
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Recovery system in PH and BSP buildings
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In the basement of the PH buildinga a gas turbine connected to 15m3 gas balloon pushes the helium gas toward the main recovery system installed at CRPP.
This balloon recovers gas from:
PH building
CH building
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In the basement of the BSP buildinga a gas turbine connected to 15m3 gas balloon pushes the helium gas toward the main recovery system installed at CRPP.
This balloon recovers gas from:
BSP building
BCH building
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Recovery manifolds installed in each laboratory
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When recovering important quantity of cold gas such that the recovery manifolds might freeze, the by-pass has to be used in order to avoid damaging the gas counter.
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Mobile dewars
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Mobile dewars
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Capacity |
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RH38 |
38 [l] |
6 |
RH65 |
65 [l] |
20 |
RH100 |
100 [l] |
10 |
| RH250 |
250 [l] |
1 |
RH450 |
450 [l] |
2 |
It is important that the mobile dewars are returned for refilling at the earliset convenience due to the following reasons:
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The number of dewars being finite, it is important that the operator has available the maximum number of dewars for preparing the orders placed by your colleagues (This is particularly true for the most demanded RH65 model).
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If the operator has not available a dewar with a capacity equal to the amount of ordered helium, he will deliver in a different dewar type (larger or smaller) with the closest capacity corresponding to the ordered quantity
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The mobile dewars should be returned cold (i.e. at Helium temperature) in order to minimize the outgassing during refilling
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Transport on Campus
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The delivery of helium is done twice a week on Monday and Thursday morning between 8h-12h.
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Data Acquisition



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- A data acquisition of the entire helium gas recovery system distributed on the EPFL campus is being developped at CRPP.
- At present the data acquisition for the main recovery system located at CRPP has been succesfully put in operation. The completion of the system including the data acquisition form the PH abd BSP building is underway.
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