• Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2003

A large cryo-pumping system composed of 4 cryosorption pumps was designed and manufactured to satisfy the pressure requirements of the NBI test stand. The cryosorption pump consists of a thermal shield/baffle assembly and a cryopanel coated with activated carbon granules. The thermal shield is cooled by liquid nitrogen, and the cryopanel by a commercial helium refrigerator. The operation characteristics and vacuum performance of the cryosorption pump were investigated. The cooling down time of the cryopanel to 20 K was about 6 hours with a liquid nitrogen consumption rate of about 35 L/hr. The maximum pumping speed of the cryosorption pump for the hydrogen gas measured by the steady pressure method was about 90,000 L/s.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2005

중성입자빔 가열장치의 이온원과 빔라인 부품들을 개발하고 시험하기 위해 제작한 부피 $60m^3$의 시험설비에는 특성 비교를 위해 몇 가지 다른 방식으로 제작된 대용량 크라이오 흡착펌프를 장착하여 사용하고 있다. 크라이오 펌프의 활성탄 패널을 냉각시키면서 수소를 적절한 간격으로 도입하여 수소 분압을 측정하고 그 시간적인 변화를 통해 온도에 따른 수소흡착과 방출특성을 분석해 보았으며 관련 파라미터 사이의 상호 영향에 대해 알아보기 위해 시뮬레이션을 수행했다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.359-365
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• 2006

Since the start of the KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) project, Instrumentation and Control (I&C) of the Neutral Beam Test Facility (NB-TF) has been striving to answer diverse requests arising from various facets during the project's development and construction phases. Hard-wired electrical circuits have been designed, tested, fabricated, and finally installed to the relevant parts of the system. In relation to the vacuum system I&C, controlling functions for the rotary pumps, a Roots pump, two turbomolecular pumps, and four cryosorption pumps have been constructed. I&C for the ion source operation are the temperature and flow rate signal monitoring, Langmuir probe signal measurements, gradient grid current measurements, and arc detector circuit. For the huge power system to be monitored or safely operated, many temperature measurement functions have also been implemented for the beam line components like the neutralizer, bending magnet, ion dump, and calorimeter. Nearly all of the control and probe signals between the NB test stand and the control room were made to be transmitted through the optical cables. Failures of coolant flow or beam line vacuum pressure were made to be safely blocked from influencing the system by an appropriate interlock circuit that will shut down the extraction voltage application to the system or prevent damages to the vacuum components. Preliminary estimation of the beam power through the calorimetric measurement shows that 87.9% of the total power of the 60kV/18A beam with 200 seconds duration is absorbed by the calorimeter surface. Most of these I&C results would be highly appropriate for the construction of the main NBI facility for the KSTAR national fusion research project.