Author: Serra, N.
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THPHA096 ALBA Equipment Protection System, Current Status 1599
 
  • A. Rubio, G. Cuní, D. Fernández-Carreiras, S. Rubio-Manrique, N. Serra, J. Villanueva
    ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  
  ALBA is the name of Barcelona's 3GeV Syn­chro­tron Light­source. In op­er­a­tion since 2012, it cur­rently hosts ex­per­i­ments 24/7 in its 8 beam­lines with 3 more in de­vel­op­ment. The aim of ALBA Equip­ment Pro­tec­tion Sys­tem is to avoid dam­age of hard­ware by man­ag­ing sets of per­mits and in­ter­lock sig­nals. The EPS scope cov­ers not only ALBA ac­cel­er­a­tors and its beam­lines but also the ac­ces­sory lab­o­ra­to­ries like RF, Op­tics, Vac­uum, etc. It is built on B&R PLCs with CPUs in­stalled in cab­i­nets in ALBA ser­vice and ex­per­i­men­tal areas and a net­work of re­mote I/O mod­ules in­stalled in shielded boxes in­side the tun­nel and other ir­ra­di­ated zones. CPU's and Re­mote mod­els are in­ter­con­nected by the X2X field-bus. Sig­nals man­aged by PLC's in­clude in­ter­locks, tem­per­a­ture read­outs, flow-me­ters, flow-switches, thermo-switches, shut­ters, pneu­matic ac­tu­a­tors, flu­o­res­cence screens, etc. This paper de­scribes the de­sign and the ar­chi­tec­ture of the Equip­ment Pro­tec­tion Sys­tem, the cur­rent sta­tus, the tools used by the EPS team and the re­cent im­prove­ments in terms of re­ac­tion time and in­ter­ac­tion with other sys­tems via Pow­er­link and fast in­ter­lock sys­tems.  
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