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Beatrice Mandelli (CERN), Frederic Merlet (CERN)

GAS M&O meeting 27 January 2020

Present: Beatrice, Roberto, Fred, Patrick, Kacper, Andrea, Michal, Mara, Federico, Fabio, Sabino

Indico: https://indico.cern.ch/event/882558/

 

ALICE #no elog

  • MTR
    • Start with standard gas mixture on Tuesday

Reminder:

    • Alarm in power supply: DC MCB trip —> Michal/Patrick to check
    • exhaust pressure regulation does not work
    • mixer pressure regulation does not work: Zimmerli not installed
  • CPV
    • Probably water in pipes —> try to flush with N2
    • Mounting the humidifier in the workshop
  • TPC
    • Still leak present, system is running in Ar
    • In the purifier the small thermic box triggered (also last year it happened) —> Patrick/LPh to check
  • TRD

Reminder

    • Purifier: to review if keep the safety valve or the rupture disk
    • Purifier: safety valve at the input where we have Ar or Ar/H2 at high pressure —> LPh to check with safety
    • Alarm on power supply

 

ATLAS #2209

  • MDT
    • Working on the modification of pump module
    • Add a second H2O sensor for the exhaust and use this one to regulate
    • 3 MFCs calibration done, missing the one of Humidifier —> this week
    • Still some work in the electrical part to do
    • Found a circuit breaker almost broken —> bought a new one: it will arrive next week
    • Found a problem of grounding on pressure sensors —> a lot of investigation/work is needed
  • General
    • Power of bande chauffant —> Patrick/Kacper
    • Several electrical problem in ATLAS:
      • See elog 2205, 2206, 2207
      • Patrick to prepare a protocol for the student to identify the failures

 

CMS #2202

  • RPC
    • Test on rack 67: flow measured 40-50 l/h instead of 4-5 l/h (read by the flowcell)
      • Problems in doing measurements with Drycal: system stopped several times
      • To buy a voegtlin red for the test of flow tests
      • At this point the problem is electrical —> Michal to investigate
    • Roberto proposed to add flow sensors at the input and output of the distribution
    • iC4H10 MFC changed with the second one: still problem (percentage at 4%) —> maybe problem is in R134a MFC —> to try to move to the second R134a MFC
    • Reminder:
    • Missing quick manifold and flowcell in barrel +1 and +2
    • Swap of pipes in rack RE-1 (racks 61 and 65) and RPC 3.1 (racks 63 and 87)
    • Rack 85: to check if dummy chamber is installed, if yes to add pressure sensor connection
  • DT

Reminder:

    • Difficult to re-start the gas system after power-cut —> to do some tests
    • Test for power cut and re-start for the exhaust line —> to do other tests
  • CSC
    • Broken bubbler in rack 67 supply —> to mechanical modify the rack to have a protection (not possible to have the standard parete)

Reminder:

    • Warning to set-up —> Beatrice/Michal/Roberto
  • GEM
    • System stopped on Friday during the maintenance procedure of TOTEM mixer
      • Piquet didn’t receive SMS
      • System re-started on Saturday after the weekly check

 

LHCb #2204

  • RICH1
    • last week: 1.5% of Air like before, even if we stopped the system
    • new MFC installed: it is 33 l/h —> to block at 5 l/h
  • General
    • Next week replacement of AUX PLC: Michal will send to Schneider the one that crashed

Reminder:

    • Interlock of Ar/H2 does not work —> Michal/Patrick to check
    • Problem with Profibus cable/connector module —> to understand where —> Patrick

 

PIQUET

  • Several alarms of flammable gas in ALICE: all alarms were blocked by Andrea —> LPh to check and fix

 

GENERAL

  • Presentation of LPh about the 2019 activities of ALICE
  • Presentation of Sabino about CMS RPC regulation valves
    • Econex valve to test this week in the lab
  • Mixer maintenance
    • Tried the procedure in CMS T1
    • Add flammable detection for flammable gases: to put outside the detection head or purge
    • Add purge to the mixer
  • Presentation of Fabio about presence of leaks in CMS RPC

 

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 1
      Status of RPC regulation valves
      Speaker: Sabino Zagaria (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
    • 2
      MFC calibration campaign
      Speakers: Beatrice Mandelli (CERN), Fabio Bordon (CERN), Federico Consolaro (CERN), Kacper Jerzy Kapusniak (CERN)
    • 3
      First feedbacks of the mixer maintenance
      Speaker: Sabino Zagaria (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

      -Mixer Maintenance performed on CMS TOTEM CSC (T1)

      -Maintenance with Mixer in RUN and Mixer in STOP

      -MFCs dismounted for validation check

      -Filled form here:

      G:\Departments\PH\Groups\TA1\Gas_group\002_LS2\Maintenance_Mixer\CMS_Mixer\TOTEM_CSC-T1

      - T2 no communication: what should we do?

      Ps. I perfectly know you might not need a procedure because you have a lot of experience on these systems, but this can be very helpful for newcomers with no experience. Please keep that in mind even if for you it might seem a loss of time. Your feedback is fundamental in order to improve the future M&O of the systems. Thank you!

    • 4
      Overview of planning LS2
      Speaker: Beatrice Mandelli (CERN)

      PLC:

      https://its.cern.ch/jira/secure/WBSGanttMain.jspa?filter=BOARD_345

      LS2:

      Departments/PH/Groups/TA1/Gas_group/002-LS2

    • 5
      Piquet interventions

      http://eloggas.cern.ch/GAS_PIQUET/

      Speakers: Andrea D'Auria (CERN), Beatrice Mandelli (CERN), Frederic Merlet (CERN), Louis-Philippe De Menezes (CERN), Patrick Carrie (CERN), Kacper Jerzy Kapusniak (CERN), Michal Zbigniew Zimny (CERN)
    • 6
      Activities on-going
      Speakers: Beatrice Mandelli (CERN), Frederic Merlet (CERN)
    • 7
      Plan of LS2 activities
      Speakers: Beatrice Mandelli (CERN), Frederic Merlet (CERN), Roberto Guida (CERN)
    • Gas systems for the LHC experiments
      • 8
        ALICE
        Speaker: Louis-Philippe De Menezes (CERN)
      • 9
        ATLAS
        Speaker: Kacper Jerzy Kapusniak (CERN)
      • 10
        CMS
        Speaker: Andrea D'Auria (CERN)
      • 11
        LHCb
        Speaker: Patrick Carrie (CERN)
      • 12
        Gas analysis: standard H2O/O2
        Speaker: Louis-Philippe De Menezes (CERN)
      • 13
        Gas web-page

        http://test-gasmonitoring.web.cern.ch
        https://ep-dt-gasanalysis.web.cern.ch

        Speaker: Beatrice Mandelli (CERN)
      • 14
        Software
        Speaker: Michal Zbigniew Zimny (CERN)
    • Gas System developments
      • 15
        Gas System Test-Bench
        Speakers: Fabio Bordon (CERN), Sabino Zagaria (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

        Electrical work to be tested

      • 16
        CMS CF4 recovery
        Speakers: Fabio Bordon (CERN), Mara Corbetta (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR))
      • 17
        LHCb RICH2 CF4 recuperation
        Speakers: Federico Consolaro (CERN), Mara Corbetta (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR))

        analysis of CF4 bottle+battery when portable GC is back (w6?)

      • 18
        R134a Recuperation
        Speakers: Federico Consolaro (CERN), Gianluca Rigoletti (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR)), Ian Crotty (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

        Testing pressure on iC4H10

        Analysis kept on running

        System is currently switched off

      • 19
        AoB
        Speakers: Fabio Bordon (CERN), Federico Consolaro (CERN), Gianluca Rigoletti (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR)), Mara Corbetta (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR)), Sabino Zagaria (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
    • 20
      FSU & Jobs status
      Speaker: Frederic Merlet (CERN)
    • 21
      AoB
      Speakers: Andrea D'Auria (CERN), Beatrice Mandelli (CERN), Frederic Merlet (CERN), Louis-Philippe De Menezes (CERN), Patrick Carrie (CERN), Roberto Guida (CERN)