Leak checker data logging system
- Arlington, TX
- Waterman, IL
A portable, high speed, computer-based data logging system for field testing systems or components located some distance apart employs a plurality of spaced mass spectrometers and is particularly adapted for monitoring the vacuum integrity of a long string of a superconducting magnets such as used in high energy particle accelerators. The system provides precise tracking of a gas such as helium through the magnet string when the helium is released into the vacuum by monitoring the spaced mass spectrometers allowing for control, display and storage of various parameters involved with leak detection and localization. A system user can observe the flow of helium through the magnet string on a real-time basis hour the exact moment of opening of the helium input valve. Graph reading can be normalized to compensate for magnet sections that deplete vacuum faster than other sections between testing to permit repetitive testing of vacuum integrity in reduced time.
- Research Organization:
- UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSN
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC35-89ER40486
- Assignee:
- United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5551285
- OSTI ID:
- 870587
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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