The Straw Cooling System in the ATLAS TRT

This technical note deals with the straw cooling system for the TRT End-caps in the ATLAS detector. The combination of a high gas flow requirement and small gas volumes yield unfavourable properties in terms of control stability. Early experiments on a prototype of the final cooling system, showed that pressure losses in the gas distribution lines must be decreased to fulfil the pressure control requirements. One part of this note is devoted to a cfd analysis of a critical component, an elbow duct, in the gas distribution line. To enable analyses of the overall cooling system dynamics, generic simulation components were created and applied in a simulation of the prototype cooling system. The simulation was verified by an equivalent experiment on the prototype cooling system. The manifolds that distribute and collect the gas in the group-of-wheels are dealt with in the last chapter where results from a fluid mechanical model implemented in Matlab are compared to values obtained by experiments