Conveners
03- Reliability Before Design
- Benjamin Todd (CERN)
Dependability studies are of fundamental importance for the performance of particle accelerators. The possibility of influencing such performance is nevertheless significantly higher (and more cost-effective) if studies are carried out in the early stages of a project, at the beginning and throughout the design phase. Developing dependability models to predict the evolution of key performance...
To illustrate TRIUMF design practices I will detail a project that I have undertaken to upgrade an underground pneumatic transfer system connecting a TRIUMF radioisotope lab to the UBC hospital 2.7 km away. In order to enhance our research program this system required an electrical, mechanical, and controls upgrade to provide isotopes to a second facility in addition to the hospital. It is...
The European Spallation Source ERIC is currently under construction in Lund, Sweden. One of the main requirements for this facility is to have high operational availability in order to compete with the highly reliable performance of the nuclear reactors that it is intended to replace. During the last years, the design of the different subsystems has been crystallising and going through design...
