ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Favre, G.)

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Simultaneous On-line Ultrasonic Flowmetery and Binary Gas Mixture Analysis for the ATLAS Silicon Tracker Cooling Control System

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M. Doubek, V. Vacek, M. Vitek
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic
R.L. Bates, A. Bitadze
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
M. Battistin, S. Berry, J. Berthoud, P. Bonneau, J. Botelho-Direito, G. Bozza, O. Crespo-Lopez, E. Da Riva, B. Di Girolamo, G. Favre, J. Godlewski, D. Lombard, L. Zwalinski
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
N. Bousson, G.D. Hallewell, M. Mathieu, A. Rozanov
CPPM, Marseille, France
G. Boyd
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
C. Degeorge
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
C. Deterre
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
S. Katunin
PNPI, Gatchina, Leningrad District, Russia
S. McMahon
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
K. Nagai
University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences,, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
C. Rossi
Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy

We describe a combined ultrasonic instrument for continuous gas flow measurement and simultaneous real-time binary gas mixture analysis. The analysis algorithm compares real time measurements with a stored data base of sound velocity vs. gas composition. The instrument was developed for the ATLAS silicon tracker evaporative cooling system where C3F8 refrigerant may be replaced by a blend with 25% C2F6, allowing a lower evaporation temperature as the LHC luminosity increases. The instrument has been developed in two geometries. A version with an axial sound path has demonstrated a 1 % Full Scale precision for flows up to 230 l/min. A resolution of 0.3% is seen in C3F8/C2F6 molar mixtures, and a sensitivity of better than 0.005% to traces of C3F8 in nitrogen, during a 1 year continuous study in a system with sequenced multi-stream sampling. A high flow version has demonstrated a resolution of 1.9 % Full Scale for flows up to 7500 l/min. The instrument can provide rapid feedback in control systems operating with refrigerants or binary gas mixtures in detector applications. Other uses include anesthesia, analysis of hydrocarbons and vapor mixtures for semiconductor manufacture.
* Comm. author: martin.doubek@cern.ch
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R. Bates et al. Combined ultrasonic flow meter & binary vapour analyzer for ATLAS 2013 JINST 8 C01002

Poster TUPPC038 [1.834 MB]

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TUPPC038	Simultaneous On-line Ultrasonic Flowmetery and Binary Gas Mixture Analysis for the ATLAS Silicon Tracker Cooling Control System	642
	M. Doubek, V. Vacek, M. Vitek Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic R.L. Bates, A. Bitadze University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom M. Battistin, S. Berry, J. Berthoud, P. Bonneau, J. Botelho-Direito, G. Bozza, O. Crespo-Lopez, E. Da Riva, B. Di Girolamo, G. Favre, J. Godlewski, D. Lombard, L. Zwalinski CERN, Geneva, Switzerland N. Bousson, G.D. Hallewell, M. Mathieu, A. Rozanov CPPM, Marseille, France G. Boyd University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA C. Degeorge Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA C. Deterre DESY, Hamburg, Germany S. Katunin PNPI, Gatchina, Leningrad District, Russia S. McMahon STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom K. Nagai University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences,, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan C. Rossi Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy
	We describe a combined ultrasonic instrument for continuous gas flow measurement and simultaneous real-time binary gas mixture analysis. The analysis algorithm compares real time measurements with a stored data base of sound velocity vs. gas composition. The instrument was developed for the ATLAS silicon tracker evaporative cooling system where C3F8 refrigerant may be replaced by a blend with 25% C2F6, allowing a lower evaporation temperature as the LHC luminosity increases. The instrument has been developed in two geometries. A version with an axial sound path has demonstrated a 1 % Full Scale precision for flows up to 230 l/min. A resolution of 0.3% is seen in C3F8/C2F6 molar mixtures, and a sensitivity of better than 0.005% to traces of C3F8 in nitrogen, during a 1 year continuous study in a system with sequenced multi-stream sampling. A high flow version has demonstrated a resolution of 1.9 % Full Scale for flows up to 7500 l/min. The instrument can provide rapid feedback in control systems operating with refrigerants or binary gas mixtures in detector applications. Other uses include anesthesia, analysis of hydrocarbons and vapor mixtures for semiconductor manufacture. * Comm. author: martin.doubek@cern.ch Refs R. Bates et al. Combined ultrasonic flow meter & binary vapour analyzer for ATLAS 2013 JINST 8 C01002
	Poster TUPPC038 [1.834 MB]