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Title: Power Handling Upgrade of Debuncher Stochastic Cooling Kicker Tanks

Abstract

The Debuncher Stochastic Cooling Power Upgrade tripled the number of TWTs from 16 to 48. The power desired for each TWT is about 120 W. The debuncher stochastic cooling system contains 6 kicker tanks (4 short tanks, 2 long tanks) with a total number of 64 microwave feedthroughs. Thus, the power per feedthrough increased from 30W to 90 W as a result of the upgrade. The kicker array inside the vacuum tank is connected to the microwave feedthrough on the vacuum flange by means of a rigid 0.25-inch diameter coaxial cable which is 12-inch long. With 90 W flowing through the coax, the amount of power dissipated is 2.5 W. A lab test on a single debuncher kicker tank showed that this power dissipation caused the temperature of the coaxial cable to rise to greater than 175 C. At this point the Teflon dielectric of the coax and the solder joints in the coax might seriously degrade. As a temporary stop-gap solution, transistor heat sinks were placed around the outside of the coaxial cable. (The amount of heat sinks need for all the cables was 3400.) The primary function of the transistor heat sinks around the coaxial cable was tomore » remove thermal energy generated in the coax by radiation. Lab tests showed that the with the heat sinks in place, the temperature of the coax was brought below 110 C. However, with the tanks installed, the maximum total amount of power that could be applied to the tanks and keep the ion pumps safely below their trip level (The trip level on the ion pumps is about 1 x 10{sup -6} Torr. We kept the ion pumps at about 3 x 10{sup -7} Torr.) was about 2250 W or 35 W per feedthrough. The ion pumps with the highest pressure in the kicker sector (D30) were D:IP202 and D:IP305. These pumps are mounted directly on the two long kicker tanks. These two long kicker tanks account for one half of the total microwave feedthroughs. Further bench studies showed that 2.5 W were also dissipated in the microwave vacuum feedthrough. This 2.5 W that was generated caused a large temperature rise in the vacuum feedthrough because of the poor heat sinking of the feedthrough. The poor heat sinking was the result of the stainless steel walled bellowed flange on which the feedthrough is mounted. To alleviate the vacuum problem. the two long kicker tanks were removed during the fall shutdown of 1990. The 32 bellowed flanges were replaced with solid flanges that mounted directly on the tank. The microwave feedthrough was welded into the flange and was heat sunk by means of a copper collar that screwed directly on to the feedthrough. The copper collar was cooled by chilled water. Because there are no bellows on the new flange design, the rigid 0.25-inch diam. coaxial cable was replaced by flexible, braided 0.141-inch diam. cable in order to allow a good vacuum seal. The flexible coaxial cable was heat sunk along most of its length by means of a 8-inch long copper collar. The collar itself was heat sunk to a 1-inch diameter copper bar that extended to outside the vacuum tank and was water cooled. The water cooling of the copper bar for each feedthrough was tied in series by 3/8-inch copper water line. The 3/8-inch copper water line itself was in series with the chilled water of the kicker tank. In this way, no flow was diverted from the chilled water into the kicker tank. The entire coax and flange assembly is shown in Fig. 1. As an added precaution, the elbow launcher on the array was water cooled by tapping off the kicker resistor chilled water cooling lines in side the vacuum tank. The extra lines were placed in series with the existing kicker resistor water lines so as not divert any flow from the kicker resistors. The water cooled lines were attached to the launcher elbow by means of a copper clip. With the above modifications in place, the temperature of each feedthrough coax could be kept under 60 C with an applied power of 90 W. Because of time constraints, the 4 short kicker tanks were not modified. Instead, the ratio of the power feeding the long tanks to the power feeding the short tanks was changed to 2:1. The power that could now be achieved while still keeping the ion pump pressure below 3 x 10{sup -78} Torr was now 3600 W which is 2/3 of the desired maximum power. This 3600 W corresponds to 75 W per feedthrough for the long tanks and 37.5 W per feedthrough for the short tanks. With the power to the short tanks off, a total power of 2700 W could be delivered to the 2 long tanks which corresponds to 84 W per feedthrough. Although it is difficult to separate the outgassing rates for the different tanks, it is believed that the limitation on the vacuum is now constrained by the shorter tanks. Thus, the above cooling scheme will be applied to the 4 short tanks after the fixed target run of 1991.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
983976
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PBAR-NOTE-505
oai:inspirehep.net:862453; TRN: US201015%%1037
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; CABLES; COAXIAL CABLES; COPPER; DEGASSING; DESIGN; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FEEDING; FLANGES; HEAT SINKS; MODIFICATIONS; RESISTORS; SHUTDOWN; STAINLESS STEELS; STOCHASTIC COOLING; TANKS; TARGETS; TEFLON; TRANSISTORS; WATER; Accelerators

Citation Formats

McGinnis, D. Power Handling Upgrade of Debuncher Stochastic Cooling Kicker Tanks. United States: N. p., 1991. Web. doi:10.2172/983976.
McGinnis, D. Power Handling Upgrade of Debuncher Stochastic Cooling Kicker Tanks. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/983976
McGinnis, D. 1991. "Power Handling Upgrade of Debuncher Stochastic Cooling Kicker Tanks". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/983976. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/983976.
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author = {McGinnis, D.},
abstractNote = {The Debuncher Stochastic Cooling Power Upgrade tripled the number of TWTs from 16 to 48. The power desired for each TWT is about 120 W. The debuncher stochastic cooling system contains 6 kicker tanks (4 short tanks, 2 long tanks) with a total number of 64 microwave feedthroughs. Thus, the power per feedthrough increased from 30W to 90 W as a result of the upgrade. The kicker array inside the vacuum tank is connected to the microwave feedthrough on the vacuum flange by means of a rigid 0.25-inch diameter coaxial cable which is 12-inch long. With 90 W flowing through the coax, the amount of power dissipated is 2.5 W. A lab test on a single debuncher kicker tank showed that this power dissipation caused the temperature of the coaxial cable to rise to greater than 175 C. At this point the Teflon dielectric of the coax and the solder joints in the coax might seriously degrade. As a temporary stop-gap solution, transistor heat sinks were placed around the outside of the coaxial cable. (The amount of heat sinks need for all the cables was 3400.) The primary function of the transistor heat sinks around the coaxial cable was to remove thermal energy generated in the coax by radiation. Lab tests showed that the with the heat sinks in place, the temperature of the coax was brought below 110 C. However, with the tanks installed, the maximum total amount of power that could be applied to the tanks and keep the ion pumps safely below their trip level (The trip level on the ion pumps is about 1 x 10{sup -6} Torr. We kept the ion pumps at about 3 x 10{sup -7} Torr.) was about 2250 W or 35 W per feedthrough. The ion pumps with the highest pressure in the kicker sector (D30) were D:IP202 and D:IP305. These pumps are mounted directly on the two long kicker tanks. These two long kicker tanks account for one half of the total microwave feedthroughs. Further bench studies showed that 2.5 W were also dissipated in the microwave vacuum feedthrough. This 2.5 W that was generated caused a large temperature rise in the vacuum feedthrough because of the poor heat sinking of the feedthrough. The poor heat sinking was the result of the stainless steel walled bellowed flange on which the feedthrough is mounted. To alleviate the vacuum problem. the two long kicker tanks were removed during the fall shutdown of 1990. The 32 bellowed flanges were replaced with solid flanges that mounted directly on the tank. The microwave feedthrough was welded into the flange and was heat sunk by means of a copper collar that screwed directly on to the feedthrough. The copper collar was cooled by chilled water. Because there are no bellows on the new flange design, the rigid 0.25-inch diam. coaxial cable was replaced by flexible, braided 0.141-inch diam. cable in order to allow a good vacuum seal. The flexible coaxial cable was heat sunk along most of its length by means of a 8-inch long copper collar. The collar itself was heat sunk to a 1-inch diameter copper bar that extended to outside the vacuum tank and was water cooled. The water cooling of the copper bar for each feedthrough was tied in series by 3/8-inch copper water line. The 3/8-inch copper water line itself was in series with the chilled water of the kicker tank. In this way, no flow was diverted from the chilled water into the kicker tank. The entire coax and flange assembly is shown in Fig. 1. As an added precaution, the elbow launcher on the array was water cooled by tapping off the kicker resistor chilled water cooling lines in side the vacuum tank. The extra lines were placed in series with the existing kicker resistor water lines so as not divert any flow from the kicker resistors. The water cooled lines were attached to the launcher elbow by means of a copper clip. With the above modifications in place, the temperature of each feedthrough coax could be kept under 60 C with an applied power of 90 W. Because of time constraints, the 4 short kicker tanks were not modified. Instead, the ratio of the power feeding the long tanks to the power feeding the short tanks was changed to 2:1. The power that could now be achieved while still keeping the ion pump pressure below 3 x 10{sup -78} Torr was now 3600 W which is 2/3 of the desired maximum power. This 3600 W corresponds to 75 W per feedthrough for the long tanks and 37.5 W per feedthrough for the short tanks. With the power to the short tanks off, a total power of 2700 W could be delivered to the 2 long tanks which corresponds to 84 W per feedthrough. Although it is difficult to separate the outgassing rates for the different tanks, it is believed that the limitation on the vacuum is now constrained by the shorter tanks. Thus, the above cooling scheme will be applied to the 4 short tanks after the fixed target run of 1991.},
doi = {10.2172/983976},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991},
month = {Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991}
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