Abstract

Industrial process controllers for cryogenic systems used in test facilities for superconducting magnets are typically PIDs, tuned by operational expertise according to users’ requirements (covering cryogenic transients and associated thermo-mechanical constraints). In this paper, an alternative fully-automatic solution, equally based on PID controllers, is proposed. Following the comparison of the operational expertise and alternative fully-automatic approaches, a new process control configuration, based on an estimated multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) model is proposed. The new MIMO model-based approach fulfils the required operational constraints while improving performance compared to existing solutions. The analysis and design work is carried out using both theoretical and numerical tools and is validated on the case study of the High Field Magnet (HFM) cryogenic test bench running at the SM18 test facility located at CERN. The proposed solution have been validated by simulation using the CERN ECOSIMPRO software tools using the cryogenic library (CRYOLIB [1]) developed at CERN.

Details

Title
Comparison of different cryogenic control strategies via simulation applied to a superconducting magnet test bench at CERN
Author
Arpaia, P 1 ; Coppier, H 2 ; De Paola, D 3 ; M di Bernardo 4 ; Guarino, A 5 ; B Luz Pedemonte 2 ; Pezzetti, M 3 

 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.; Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. 
 ESIEE, Amiens, France. 
 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. 
 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.; Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. 
 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. 
Publication year
2017
Publication date
Dec 2017
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17578981
e-ISSN
1757899X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2556486304
Copyright
© 2017. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.