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Title: Cryostat with Foil and MLI

Abstract

Induction cores are used to accelerate heavy ion beam array, which are built around the outer diameter of the cryostat housing the superconducting quadruple array. Compact cryostat is highly desirable to reduce the cost of the induction cores. Recent experiences in fabrication of a cryostat for single beam transport revealed that it is possible to reduce the spacing in the cryostat vacuum jacket by using low-emissivity thermal insulation material instead of conventional MLI. However, it is labor-intensive to install the new type of insulation as compared with using MLI. It is promising to build a cost-effective compact cryostat for quadruple magnet array for heavy ion beam array transport by using low-emissivity material combined with conventional MLI as radiation insulation. A matrix of insulation designs and tests will be performed as the feasibility study and for the selection of the optimal thermal insulation as the Phase I work. The selected mixed insulation will be used to build prototype compact cryostats in the Phase II project, which are aiming for housing quadruple doublet array. In this STTR phase I study, a small cryostat has been designed and built to perform calorimetric characterization of the heat load in a liquid helium vessel insulatedmore » with a vacuum layer with a nominal clearance of 3.5 mm. The vacuum clearance resembled that used in the warm-bore beam tube region in a prototype cryostat previously built for the heavy ion beam transport experiment. The vacuum clearance was geometrically restricted with a heater shell with the temperature controlled at near 300 K. Various combinations of radiation and thermal shields were installed in the tight vacuum clearance for heat load measurements. The measured heat loads are reported and compared with previous test result using a compact vacuum layer. Further developments of the thermal insulations used in the present study are discussed. The compact cryostat with foil and MLI insulation may be used in the superconducting magnets for a wide range of applications including particle accelerators, fusion energy research, NMR, NMI, laboratory high field experiments and industrial magnets, compact feed through for general-purpose cryostat, etc. Combination of low emissivity thermal insulation material with the conventional MLI has a great potential to build cost-effective compact cryostats for heavy ion fusion beam array transport and other more general-purpose applications.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Advanced Magnetic & Cryogenic, LLC, Macungie, PA
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
850484
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/86206
TRN: US0701890
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-04ER86206
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; ACCELERATORS; BEAM TRANSPORT; CRYOSTATS; EMISSIVITY; FABRICATION; HEATERS; HEAVY IONS; HELIUM; INDUCTION; MAGNETS; RADIATIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; THERMAL INSULATION; THERMAL SHIELDS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS; TRANSPORT; cryostat,insulation,calorimetry,beam tube,reflective foil, MLI

Citation Formats

Hwang, Peter K.F., and Gung, Chen-yu. Cryostat with Foil and MLI. United States: N. p., 2005. Web. doi:10.2172/850484.
Hwang, Peter K.F., & Gung, Chen-yu. Cryostat with Foil and MLI. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/850484
Hwang, Peter K.F., and Gung, Chen-yu. 2005. "Cryostat with Foil and MLI". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/850484. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/850484.
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title = {Cryostat with Foil and MLI},
author = {Hwang, Peter K.F. and Gung, Chen-yu},
abstractNote = {Induction cores are used to accelerate heavy ion beam array, which are built around the outer diameter of the cryostat housing the superconducting quadruple array. Compact cryostat is highly desirable to reduce the cost of the induction cores. Recent experiences in fabrication of a cryostat for single beam transport revealed that it is possible to reduce the spacing in the cryostat vacuum jacket by using low-emissivity thermal insulation material instead of conventional MLI. However, it is labor-intensive to install the new type of insulation as compared with using MLI. It is promising to build a cost-effective compact cryostat for quadruple magnet array for heavy ion beam array transport by using low-emissivity material combined with conventional MLI as radiation insulation. A matrix of insulation designs and tests will be performed as the feasibility study and for the selection of the optimal thermal insulation as the Phase I work. The selected mixed insulation will be used to build prototype compact cryostats in the Phase II project, which are aiming for housing quadruple doublet array. In this STTR phase I study, a small cryostat has been designed and built to perform calorimetric characterization of the heat load in a liquid helium vessel insulated with a vacuum layer with a nominal clearance of 3.5 mm. The vacuum clearance resembled that used in the warm-bore beam tube region in a prototype cryostat previously built for the heavy ion beam transport experiment. The vacuum clearance was geometrically restricted with a heater shell with the temperature controlled at near 300 K. Various combinations of radiation and thermal shields were installed in the tight vacuum clearance for heat load measurements. The measured heat loads are reported and compared with previous test result using a compact vacuum layer. Further developments of the thermal insulations used in the present study are discussed. The compact cryostat with foil and MLI insulation may be used in the superconducting magnets for a wide range of applications including particle accelerators, fusion energy research, NMR, NMI, laboratory high field experiments and industrial magnets, compact feed through for general-purpose cryostat, etc. Combination of low emissivity thermal insulation material with the conventional MLI has a great potential to build cost-effective compact cryostats for heavy ion fusion beam array transport and other more general-purpose applications.},
doi = {10.2172/850484},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/850484}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2005},
month = {Thu Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2005}
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