Operation of ALBA RF Angela Salom on behalf of RF team: Francis Perez, Bea Bravo and Jesus Ocampo
Outline ALBA RF Overview: Booster and SR RF Operation with beam Statistics of first year operation Cavities auto-recovery Fast Data Logger Data Future RF upgrades Costub High Power RF Lab Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 2/ 17
Booster RF Plant Ramping from 100MeV to 3GeV at 3Hz Injection Extraction Cavity voltage 55kV 1000kV Energy loss 0.001keV/turn 627keV/turn Cavity power 0.1kW 33kW Beam Power 0kW 2.5kW Sync. Freq 13.7kHz 9.4kHz Petra Cavity type (5 Cells) Normal Conducting 500MHz 80kW CW - IOT Booster cavity: Operation without major incidents Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 3/ 17
Storage Ring RF Plants RF Parameters U 0 V total 1.3MeV/turn 3.6 MV q 2.5 f s P RF 9kHz 960kW 6 RF Plants of 160kW at 500 MHz 2 IOT Transmitters per RF cavity. Power combined in CaCo Dampy Cavity Normal Conducting Single cell, HOM damped 3.3 MΩ Digital LLRF System based on IQ mod/demod Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 4/ 17
Storage Ring RF Plants New pick up loops designed by Bea and Filip Installed and working in 6 cavities of SR All RF signals calibrated (Bea & Jesus) Power given to the beam (kw) Beam phase respect to RF (º) Cavity Voltage (kv) Calibration allows easy diagnose the right status of the RF Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 5/ 17
RF Operation: Main Error Sources Body currents of IOTs to be reported by J. Ocampo Cooling system: - IOTs cooling system needs readjustment from time to time - Sudden drops of water flows or pressure Other kind of error sources - Transmitter Coaxial Switches the insertion loss of the coaxial switch change with time (from 0.5dB to 4dB) due to overcurrent of the control signal during transients. Critical when combining 2IOTs - Fake Arcs very sensitive arc detector. Sometimes light detected when people taking pictures with flash - Conditioning Two absorbers in front of cavities have been replaced during 2012. Some contamination of the cavities due to the outgassing of the vacuum chamber when injecting beam. This produced arcs and reflected power trips. Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 6/ 17
RF statistics of 1 st year operation Run # IOTs body currents water others (arcs, reflected power, vacuum) total 1 6 7 8 21 2 16 12 21 49 3 7 5 11 23 4 21 14 16 51 5 23 24 25 72 6 32 22 13 67 7 7 8 15 30 Increase due to a bug in LLRF SW Run # RF Failures producing beam dump (%) 1 14% 2 29% 3 22% 4 45% 5 8% 6 37% 7 23% Downtime due to RF failures h % 2 1.90% 0.4 0.25% 4.5 2.54% 14 4.00% 2 0.48% 9.5 2.06% 3.5 1.6% Many RF Trips, but we recover fast Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 7/ 17
RF Autorecovery with beam Automatic Start up: - When no RF in the cavity LLRF Standby: - Low RF drive - Disable tuning - Open loops (I&Q) - When RF ON LLRF smooth startup - Minimum RF Drive - Tuning enabled - Amplitude and phase loops closed - Smooth power increase Main Inconvenients of former automatic startup with beam: - After a trip, the cavity remains tuned it steals power from beam - After recovering the cavity, the beam induces more voltage in the cavity than the IOT Tuning loop becomes crazy Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 8/ 17
RF Autorecovery with beam New Automatic Start up: - When RF trip - Open loops (I&Q) - Disable tuning - Plunger moved 3000 steps up to detune cavity (parking) - When RF ON: - IOT power high enough to induce more voltage in the cavity than the beam loading after unparking - Amplitude and phase loops open because cavity is completely detuned - Phase and amplitude of LLRF adjusted to have very similar conditions in open loop and close loop - Plunger moved back 3000 steps to tune cavity (unparking) - Amplitude and phase loops closed - Smooth power increase - Tested in all cavities at 100mA Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 9/ 17
RF Autorecovery with beam Power to the beam (kw) 30 25 20 15 10 5 0-5 -10-15 -20 PBeam 06A PBeam 06B PBeam 10A PBeam 10B PBeam 14A PBeam 14B Cavity 10B trip 1.552 1.554 1.556 1.558 1.56 1.562 t (s) x 10 4 Cavity 10B trip: Other 5 cavities increase power 10B steals -20kW power to the beam After trip Parking Process starts After 15s, 10B power = 0kW Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 10/ 17
RF Autorecovery with beam Power to the beam (kw) 25 20 15 10 5 0-5 -10-15 Cavity 10B autorecovery with beam PBeam 06A PBeam 06B PBeam 10A PBeam 10B PBeam 14A PBeam 14B 1.5805 1.581 1.5815 1.582 1.5825 1.583 1.5835 1.584 1.5845 1.585 10B RF ON Unparking Tuning TuningDephase (º) 50 0-50 Cavity 10B Autorecovery with beam TunDephase-10B x 10 4 Cavity 10B autorecovery RF ON in 10B: some power to the beam Unparking Process starts After unparking, 10B steals power to the beam Tuning Loop Enable (10B power > 0kW) Amplitude and phase loop enable and power increased Tuning Dephase during autorecovery RF ON : TuningDephase = -90º Unparking Process starts Tuning dephase approaching 0º and then overpasses this value -100 1485 1490 1495 1500 1505 1510 1515 1520 t(s) Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 11/ 17
RF Autorecovery with beam Cavity 10B autorecovery RF ON: 10B Beam phase ~ 140º Unparking Process finishes: 10B Beam phase ~ 230º Conclusion: the unparking process should move the plunger less steps than the parking process already implemented and to be tested in next run Beam Phase respect to RF ~ 150º 240 220 Cavity 10B autorecovery with beam BeamPhase-06A BeamPhase-06B BeamPhase-10A BeamPhase-10B BeamPhase-14A BeamPhase-14B Beam Phase (º) 200 180 160 140 1.581 1.582 1.583 1.584 1.585 1.586 1.587 t(s) x 10 4 10B RF ON Unparking Tuning Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 12/ 17
Trips Post Mortem Analysis Sometimes beam does not survive after RF trip - The less # of cavities, the more likely to have beam dump due to RF trips - The higher the current, the higher reflected power in other cav. after a RF trip Will the beam survive at 400mA after a RF trip? Behaviour of 06B after a trip in 10B and no beam dump (61mA) Power to the beam increases Beam phase gets reduced Frequency oscillations ~ 6kHz (synchrotron freq) Stabilization time ~ 3ms (damping time longitudinal) kw (º) 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 150 140 130 120 Cav Dis - RvCav - Beam Power Beam Phase Cav Dis BeamPower RvCav t(s) x 10-3 Beam Phase (º) 110 100 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 Effect Transient on beam of trajectory 06B after (BPMs trip in 10A reading after RF ITCK Data provided by A. Olmos) Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 13/ 17 t(s) x 10-3
Trips Post Mortem Analysis Behavior of 06B after a trip in 10A and Beam Dump (100mA) Power to the beam starts to increase Beam phase starts to get reduced BUT Reflected power reaches interlock level: 16kW kw 15 10 5 0-5 -10 Cav Dis - RvCav - Beam Power Cav Dis BeamPower RvCav -15-20 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 Provisional solution: Reflected power interlock level increased up to 23kW Maximum reflected power calculated when working at 400mA (data provided by Bea Bravo) Cavities β adjusted to have minimum reflected power at 400mA Working with 6 Cavities, 600kV/cav, 400mA RF trip causes: Reflected Power transient of 73kW per cavity Circulator incapable to react against fast transients Reflected power will reach IOTs Will beam survive at 400mA after RF trip? Still don t know, but not likely Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 14/ 17 t(s) x 10-3
Future RF upgrades Installation of CoStubs in all IOTs CaCo: Symmetric mode: Combines power of two IOTs Asymmetric mode: one IOT is switched off while 2 nd IOT is active CoStub: coaxial stubs Shortcircuit the coaxial waveguide of the passive IOT to avoid arcs in that IOT With CoStubs, if one IOT is not operational, we still can power that cavity with only one IOT Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 15/ 17
Future RF upgrades High Power RF Lab Installation of a high power RF lab in CELLS Warehouse 1 IOT 80kW Radiation bunker to allocate Booster or Dampy cavity Cooling, electricity installation and safety bunker already built Foreseen completion date: January 2013 It will be used to recondition problematic IOTs, testbench of new RF upgrades and SAT of new IOTs Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 16/ 17
Summary SR RF: Many water trips and IOT trips Fast Recovery after RF trips (usually less than 10 minutes) RF robust enough for operation at 100mA Still learning and adding improvements to the RF Systems Acknowledgments RF team: Francis Perez, Bea Bravo and Jesus Ocampo Operators, technicians and controls support, specially to Filip Mares, Joan Pages, Antonio Milan Thanks for your attention Operation of ALBA RF - ESLS RF - October 2012 17/ 17