Analytical planning and practical realization of the intellectual systems of automatic control

Формалізовано процес автоматизації профілактичного вентилювання насипу зерна при зберіганні засобами розмитої логіки. Визначео та задано нечіткими термами лінгвістичні змінні, нелінійні залежності: рівноважна вологість зерна як функція його температури, відносної вологості і параметрів повітря та продуктивність вентиляційної системи як функція часу вентилювання, відносної вологості і маси зерна, реалізовані в нечітких контролерах, які з'єднані між собою відповідно до послідовності керування процесом профілактичного вентилювання. Нечітка система керування реалізує процес вентиляції зернового насипу за заданими параметрами з похибкою 8%. Система працює в реальному часі, через паралельний порт комп'ютера задає режими роботи вентиляційної установки.The process of automation of prophylactic aeration of embankment of grain is formalized at storage of the washed out logic facilities. Certain and set unclear therms linguistic variables, nonlinear dependences of humidity of grain in a state of equilibrium as functions of his temperature, relative humidity and parameters of air and productivity of a vent system as are realized the function of time of aeration, relative humidity and mass of grain in unclear inspectors which connection between itself according to the sequence of process control of prophylactic aeration. Unclear control the system will realize the process of ventilation of corn embankment after preset a parameter with an error 8%. The system works real-time, through parallel port of computer sets the modes of operations of a vent setting

Experimental and theoretical investigation of the Preglow in ECRIS

International audienceA careful study of pulsed mode operation of the PHOENIX ECR ion source has clearly demonstrated the reality of an unexpected transient current peak occurring at the very beginning of the gas breakdown. This regime was named the Preglow, as an explicit reference to the classical Afterglow occurring at the microwave pulse end. After the transient Preglow peak, the plasma regime relaxes to the classical steady state one. Argon Preglow experiments performed at LPSC are presented. A theoretical 0-dimension model of ECR gas breakdown in a magnetic trap, developed at IAP RAS, is presented in detail. Results of the simulation are compared with the experimental Preglow peaks and discussed

Study of pulsed ECRIS plasma near breakdown: the Preglow

International audienceA careful study of pulsed mode operation of the PHOENIX ECR ion source has clearly demonstrated the reality of an unexpected transient current peak, occurring at the very beginning of the plasma breakdown. This regime was named the Preglow, as an explicit reference to the Afterglow occurring at the microwave pulse end. After the transient Preglow peak, the plasma regime relaxes to the classical steady state one. Argon Preglow experiments performed at LPSC are presented. A theoretical model of ECR gas breakdown in a magnetic trap, developed at IAP, showing satisfactory agreement with the experimental results is suggested

High intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe

The EUROnu project has studied three possible options for future, high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe. The first is a Super Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of pions created by bombarding targets with a 4 MW proton beam from the CERN High Power Superconducting Proton Linac. The far detector for this facility is the 500 kt MEMPHYS water Cherenkov, located in the Fréjus tunnel. The second facility is the Neutrino Factory, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of μ+ and μ− beams in a storage ring. The far detector in this case is a 100 kt magnetized iron neutrino detector at a baseline of 2000 km. The third option is a Beta Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of beta emitting isotopes, in particular He6 and Ne18, also stored in a ring. The far detector is also the MEMPHYS detector in the Fréjus tunnel. EUROnu has undertaken conceptual designs of these facilities and studied the performance of the detectors. Based on this, it has determined the physics reach of each facility, in particular for the measurement of CP violation in the lepton sector, and estimated the cost of construction. These have demonstrated that the best facility to build is the Neutrino Factory. However, if a powerful proton driver is constructed for another purpose or if the MEMPHYS detector is built for astroparticle physics, the Super Beam also becomes very attractive

A very low energy ion beam extraction system design of the GTS ECR ion source at GANIL

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The biased disc of an electron cyclotron resonance ion source as a probe of instability-induced electron and ion losses

Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source (ECRIS) plasmas are prone to kinetic instabilities resulting in loss of electron and ion confinement. It is demonstrated that the biased disk of an ECRIS can be used as a probe to quantify such instability-induced electron and ion losses occurring in less than 10 µs. The qualitative interpretation of the data is supported by the measurement of the energy spread of the extracted ion beams implying a transient plasma potential >1.5 kV during the instability. A parametric study of the electron losses combined with electron tracking simulations allows for estimating the fraction of electrons expelled in each instability event to be on the order of 10% of the total electron population.peerReviewe

Study of gasdynamic electron cyclotron resonance plasma vacuum ultraviolet emission to optimize negative hydrogen ion production efficiency

Negative hydrogen ion sources are used as injectors into accelerators and drive the neutral beam heating in ITER. Certain processes in low-temperature hydrogen plasmas are accompanied by the emission of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) emission. Studying the VUV radiation, therefore, provides volumetric rates of plasma-chemical processes and plasma parameters. In the past, we have used gasdynamic ECR discharge for volumetric negative ion production and investigated the dependencies between the extracted H− current density and various ion source parameters. It was shown that it is possible to reach up to 80 mA/cm2 of negative ion current density with a two electrode extraction. We report experimental studies on negative hydrogen ion production in a high-density gasdynamic ECR discharge plasma consisting of two simple mirror traps together with the results of VUV emission measurements. The VUV-power was measured in three ranges—Lyα, Lyman band, and molecular continuum—varying the source control parameters near their optima for H− production. It was shown that the molecular continuum emission VUV power is the highest in the first chamber while Lyα emission prevails in the second one. Modifications for the experimental scheme for further optimization of negative hydrogen ion production are suggested.peerReviewe

Efficiency investigation of a negative hydrogen ion beam production with the use of the gasdynamic ECR plasma source

Negative hydrogen ion sources are of great demand in modern physics as injectors into accelerators and drivers for neutral beam injectors for fusion devices. It has been shown earlier that the use of the gasdynamic ECR discharge provides the opportunity to extract up to 80 mA/cm2 of negative ion current density. We studied experimentally the volumetric negative hydrogen ion production and vacuum ultraviolet emission in a gasdynamic ECR discharge. The high-density plasma was sustained by the pulsed 37 GHz / 100 kW gyrotron radiation in a magnetic configuration consisting of two consecutive simple mirror traps. The future prospects of the volumetric H– source based on the gasdynamic ECR discharge related to the transition from pulsed to continuous operating mode with the use of an improved magnetic confinement system are discussed. Numerical simulation of the negative hydrogen ion beam extraction at the continuous operating mode facility was performed. Optimal configuration of the extraction electrodes and the electron damping magnets was found.peerReviewe