Review of the commissioning of Sector 45
Thursday, February 28, 2008 -
8:30 AM
Monday, February 25, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
8:30 AM
General Overview
8:30 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
Identification of main issues appearing during the commissioning Sector 45
-
Roberto Saban
(
CERN
)
Identification of main issues appearing during the commissioning Sector 45
Roberto Saban
(
CERN
)
8:30 AM - 8:50 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
- Event driven by view from operation - invitation to an open discussion - Scenarios: commissioning to 450 GeV, 2 TeV and 4 .. 6 TeV - Key dates in preparation for the next sector and outlook to planning - Discussions on improvements: what can be done in the next 3-4 weeks? - 2 shifts during 5 days versus 3 shifts during 7 days, , MPP analysis, what can be done in a nightshift – WE? Bottlenecks in manpower - Organisation: HC coordinator on a weekly basis? For coordination between sectors etc. - (written) guidelines for operators (coordination tools, conditions for powering) - Commissioning meetings efficient? How continue activities during meetings? - Follow-up by mini teams on: Automatic commissioning and controls issues, Tools required to optimize commissioning, Organisation, System upgrades and improvements
9:00 AM
Powering Test Overview
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Boris Bellesia
(
Politecnico di Torino
)
Powering Test Overview
Boris Bellesia
(
Politecnico di Torino
)
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
- What happens before powering tests after cooldown - Main issues that slowed us down - ELQA: Continue as for sector 45? Further optimisation of the strategy? - What has been done during the powering tests? During what time? By whom? Efficiency? - How to ensure minimization of re-commissioning 45 and to secure what has been achieved? - How to avoid that changes during the “shutdown” require re-commissioning?
9:30 AM
Safety and Access
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
Safety and access I
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Anne Funken
(
CERN
)
Safety and access I
Anne Funken
(
CERN
)
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
- Electrical safety during interventions, “consignation” - Electrical safety subsectors
10:00 AM
Safety and access II
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Magali Gruwe
(
CERN
)
Safety and access II
Magali Gruwe
(
CERN
)
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
- Hardware commissioning using the access system - Set the rules for access, different modes
10:30 AM
Safety and access III
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Karl Hubert Mess
(
CERN AT-MEL
)
Hugues Thiesen
Safety and access III
Karl Hubert Mess
(
CERN AT-MEL
)
Hugues Thiesen
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
- Tunnel access during powering – what can access during powering as a function of current in the different circuits? Clear and transparent rules.
10:50 AM
Coffee-break
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
11:10 AM
Cryo Performance & Operation
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Serge CLAUDET
(
CERN AT ACR
)
Cryo Performance & Operation
Serge CLAUDET
(
CERN AT ACR
)
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
- Availability for cryogenic system - Recovery time after quenches: what can we expect? - Operation overnight and over the weekend: is it possible? - Operation with several sectors in parallel, what will change? - Presence in the CCC - Level measurements - How to ensure a correct Helium level for operation?
Cryogenics, DFBs and current leads
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: AT Auditorium
11:40 AM
Cryogenic conditions for powering tests
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Andrzej SIEMKO
(
CERN AT-MTM
)
Cryogenic conditions for powering tests
Andrzej SIEMKO
(
CERN AT-MTM
)
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
- What can be done at what temperature? (e.g. below 2.8 K low current tests), and when can we start the tests? - Relaxed operation at reduced current (e.g. can we operate without cold compressors a magnet currents corresponding to 2 TeV)? - Table for all steps and all circuits? - Orbit correctors 60 / 120 A – what conditions? What needs to be watched by operators? - Procedure: masking of interlocks to provide CryoStart and CryoMaintain
Powering, Power Converters, Quench Protection System, 600A and 13kA Energy Extraction
11:40 AM - 2:50 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
12:10 PM
Power Converters
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David Nisbet
(
CERN
)
Yves Thurel
(
CERN
)
Power Converters
David Nisbet
(
CERN
)
Yves Thurel
(
CERN
)
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
- 600 A spikes during 0 V crossing and QPS system - Spikes and how to avoid them (IERROR and IEARTH) - RB power converter performance, is there an issue?
12:30 PM
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
2:00 PM
Quench Protection and Energy Extraction System
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Reiner Denz
(
CERN AT-MEL-PM
)
Knud Dahlerup-Petersen
(
CERN
)
Quench Protection and Energy Extraction System
Reiner Denz
(
CERN AT-MEL-PM
)
Knud Dahlerup-Petersen
(
CERN
)
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
- Partial heater firing if switches do not open – yes/no? - Access to the tunnel for 600 A extraction switches, can be optimised? - Firing heaters without current in the magnet circuit – Why? EMC due to other tests? - Closing switches for many circuits
2:30 PM
Time for commissioning versus objectives
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Antonio Vergara Fernandez
(
Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMA
)
Time for commissioning versus objectives
Antonio Vergara Fernandez
(
Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMA
)
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
- 450 GeV, 2 TeV and 5 .. 6 TeV: what circuits at what current? What can be left for later? (remember: it is always possible to bring in other circuits on the fly) - How much time is required to commission for injection, for ~2 TeV, 4-6 TeV and 7 TeV? What could be gained? What circuits could be left out? - When is tunnel access required? By whom? How to optimise it? What can be done without access to the tunnel?
3:00 PM
Powering Tests and Magnet Performance Panel
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
Procedures
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Walter Venturini Delsolaro
(
CERN
)
Nuria Catalan Lasheras
(
CERN
)
Procedures
Walter Venturini Delsolaro
(
CERN
)
Nuria Catalan Lasheras
(
CERN
)
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
- Procedures and their realisation in sequences: can they be lighter? - EDMS approval of procedures and their changes - Analysis and approval of test steps in CCC – can it be improved?
3:30 PM
What quenches did we observe? What is expected?
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Arjan Verweij
(
CERN
)
Robert Henry Flora
(
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)
)
What quenches did we observe? What is expected?
Arjan Verweij
(
CERN
)
Robert Henry Flora
(
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab)
)
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
- What circuits? - What quenches? - Why did it quench?
3:50 PM
Coffee-break
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
4:10 PM
Post-Mortem, Logging, Sequencer, Tracking data and progress after the tests
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
Tools provided by CO
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Markus Zerlauth
(
CERN
)
Tools provided by CO
Markus Zerlauth
(
CERN
)
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
- Status of PM system? Data gets sometimes stuck? - PM event builder - Can we become more efficient with more automatic analysis? - Coherence MTF – LSA etc. - Long tests: can one reduce the time of the test online, for example due to a long plateau? PASS TO THE NEXT STEP button. - Managing powering: better SOC names to avoid confusion? SOCs per day? - Tools for powering groups of circuits ((based on SOCs?)
4:40 PM
Tools for coordination
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Alvaro Marqueta Barbero
(
Cent. Invest. Energ. Medioamb. Tec. (CIEMAT) - Consejo Sup. de I
)
Tools for coordination
Alvaro Marqueta Barbero
(
Cent. Invest. Energ. Medioamb. Tec. (CIEMAT) - Consejo Sup. de I
)
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
- How to improve the Powering Test Visualisation tool, etc. - How to improve the planning tool (EXCEL?) Can both be merged?
5:10 PM
Feed Back
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LHC HWC Operators
Alick Macpherson
Feed Back
LHC HWC Operators
Alick Macpherson
5:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
5:40 PM
Final session
5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: AT Auditorium
Summary and Discussions
-
Rüdiger Schmidt
(
CERN
)
Summary and Discussions
Rüdiger Schmidt
(
CERN
)
5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: AT Auditorium