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Rotating Machinery for LHC Cryogenics: First Analysis of Reliability and Origins of Downtime
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is cooled by eight independent helium cryogenic plants. Each cryogenic plant combines an 18 kW at 4.5 K refrigerator and a 2.4 kW at 1.8 K refrigeration unit totaling 64 oil lubricated screw compressors, 74 expansion turbines and 28 cold hydrodynamic compressors. Sinc...
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| Lenguaje: | eng |
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2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2015.06.013 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2103425 |