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https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2018-THOAMA04
Title Design and FEA of an Innovative Rotating Sic Filter for High-Energy X-Ray Beam
Authors
  • W. Tizzano, T. Connolley, S. Davies, M. Drakopoulos, G.E. Howell
    DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Abstract I12 is a high-energy imaging, diffraction and scattering beamline at Diamond. Its source is a superconducting wiggler with a power of approximately 9kW at 500 mA after the fixed front-end aperture; two permanent filters aim at reducing the power in photons below the operating range of the beamline of 50-150 keV, which accounts for about two-thirds of the total*. This paper focuses on the design and simulation process of the secondary permanent filter, a 4mm thick SiC disk. The first version of the filter was vulnerable to cracking due to thermally induced stress, so a new filter based on an innovative concept was proposed: a water-cooled shaft rotates, via a ceramic interface, the SiC disk; the disk operates up to 900 degrees C, and a copper absorber surrounding the filter dissipates the heat through radiation. We utilised analysis data following failure of an initial prototype to successfully model the heat flow using FEA. This model informed different iterations of the re-design of the assembly, addressing the issues identified. The operational temperature of the final product matches within a few degrees C the one predicted by the simulation.
Footnotes & References *M. Drakopoulos et al., "I12: the Joint Engineering, Environment and Processing (JEEP) beamline at Diamond Light Source".
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Conference MEDSI2018, Paris, France
Series Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation (10th)
Proceedings Link to full MEDSI2018 Proccedings
Session Simulation
Date 28-Jun-18   10:50–14:10
Main Classification Simulation
Sub Classification Thermal
Keywords radiation, simulation, interface, storage-ring, scattering
Publisher JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Keihan Tavakoli (SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France); Manuel Tilmont (SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
ISBN 978-3-95450-207-3
Published December 2018
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