Cable, cooling

This is the business end, a 2-inch diameter bore, helium around it. Those hoses carry purified water in to get the heat out. Over here are water-cooled cables that supply the current. Halfway down the structure, the maximum field occurs. 

The next step is to apply a number of loss control credit factors such as process control (emergency power, cooling, explosion control, emergency shutdown, computer control, inert gas, operating procedures, reactive chemical reviews), material isolation (remote control valves, blowdown, drainage, interlocks) and fire protection (leak detection, buried tanks, fire water supply, sprinkler systems, water curtains, foam, cable protection). The credit factors are combined and appHed to the fire and explosion index value to result in a net index. 

The composite conductor is typically wound in the form of a cable, which can be cooled either internally by a forced belium flow or externally by immersion in a pool of belium. Large electromagnetic body forces, up to 500 t/m, are experienced by the conductor during operation. These are contained by a massive external stmcture, although designs have been proposed in which the conductor itself serves as its own force containment stmcture (126). 

Electrical Connections. Electric current is brought from the transformers by air-cooled copper busbars and close to the electrode by water-cooled bus tubes and flexible cables, connecting to water-cooled copper contact plates at the electrode. The plates are held against the electrode by hydraulic pressure. The connectors are as short and as balanced as possible to allow cancelling of magnetic fields associated with individual conductors. 

Number of power cables running together and their configuration. For more details refer to Chapter 16, Appendix 1. The cooling of the cables is affected by the number of cables and their formation. This detail... 

All electrical energy fed to the room will appear as heat. This presents a load to the plant unless power is conveyed out of the room by cable or hot items are physically removed. Parts of some large computers are cooled by a direct supply of chilled water presenting a load on the refrigeration plant but reducing the load on the airside. Cold outside conditions will result in some of the internal load being met by fabric loss. 

In a crystal-pulling procedure using a tri-arc furnace (Fig. 2), a resistor box, a d.c. power supply (300 A, 80/40 V) and a set of water-cooled power cables are used to bring power and water to the electrodes. The upper part of the furnace is equipped with three equally spaced copper cathodes, to which are fixed W-Rh electrodes. The upper part (cathode) is separated from the lower part (anode) by a transparent quartz glass tube. In the bottom of the furnace there is a tapered opening for a water-cooled copper hearth containing the boride melt. All parts of the furnace are also water... 

Fig. 16.3. Left Schematic picture of the damping system of MimiGRAIL. The suspension consists of seven stages, the upper four made of CuAl followed by three copper masses. The upper CuAl mass is suspended from the top flange of the cryostat by stainless steel cables hanging from helical springs. Mass number 5, the first copper mass, will be cooled by the dilution refrigerator. Right Picture of the four CuAl masses hanging from the top flange (courtesy of Leiden Cryogenics).

Dry Pipe Sprinklers Warehouses Critical Cable vaults Cooling Towers... 

The control of both mass and shape is crucial for radical energy savings and also to reduce the overall complexity in motor design, cooling, electronic control and overall electric cabling. 

Fig.l. Schematic design of a fluorescence probe for the simultaneous detection of two different wavelengths. M mirror, L lamp,Ll-3 lenses,Fl-4 filters, FRl-4 fiber cables, Dl-3 photodetectors, H housing, MZ mixing zone of fiber, QP quartz plate, A amplifier, C cooling, MP microprocessor unit, PS power supply... 

Alloy with Memory. In seeking a way to reduce the brittleness of titanium, U.S. Navy researchers serendipitously discovered a nickel-titanium alloy having an amazing memory. Previously cooled clamps made of the alloy (nitinol) are flexible and can be placed easily in position. When warmed to a given temperature, the alloy hardware then exerts tremendous pressure. Use of conventional clamps for holding bundles of wires or cables in a ship or aircraft structure requires special tools. For this and other applications in industry and medicine, nitinol has been in demand. The alloy, however, is not easy to produce because only minor variations in composition can affect the snap back" temperature by several degrees of temperature. 

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