Author: Nonis, M.
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THPFI050 Some Ideas Towards Energy Optimization at CERN 3400
 
  • H.J. Burckhart, J.-P. Burnet, F. Caspers, V. Doré, L. Gatignon, C. Martel, M. Nonis, D. Tommasini
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The paper pre­sents the ef­forts of CERN to op­ti­mize its en­ergy usage. Work is pro­ceed­ing in 3 areas: ac­cel­er­a­tors, cam­pus and in­fra­struc­ture, and re-use of ther­mal “waste” en­ergy. The ac­cel­er­a­tor chain has the po­ten­tial to fur­ther re­duce the en­ergy con­sump­tion by dy­namic sup­pres­sion of cy­cles when they are tem­porar­ily not needed and by op­er­at­ing mag­nets in pulsed mode. R&D for fu­ture ac­cel­er­a­tors in­cludes the re­cu­per­a­tion of the RF en­ergy, which is not used for ac­cel­er­a­tion of the beams. Con­cern­ing the CERN cam­pus more than half of the build­ings are older than 40 years. Hence there is a big need for ren­o­va­tion, which in­cludes en­ergy as­pects. New build­ings use re­new­able en­ergy when­ever pos­si­ble. As an ex­am­ple a build­ing is under con­struc­tion, which will use a 250 m2 solar field to­gether with an ab­sorp­tion re­frig­er­a­tor for cool­ing pur­poses. Fi­nally, about 80% of the elec­tric en­ergy gets dis­si­pated in air cool­ing tow­ers. Part of this en­ergy can be re-used for heat­ing build­ings.