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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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Autores principales: Claudet, S, Brodzinski, K, Duret-Bourgoz, E, Ferlin, G, Knoops, S, Wagner, U
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 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

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