Preparing to pump
27 Mar 2016
The ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ cryolines are a system of complex, multi-process, vacuum-insulated pipes that connect cryogenic components in the Cryoplant and Tokamak buildings—some 3.5 kilometres of piping in all. Their function is to provide helium at 4.5 K and 80 K to the machine's superconducting magnet system, the thermal shields and the cryo-vacuum pumps.
On a recent mission to India, the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Vacuum Section reviewed one of two full-size prototypes of the cryoline sections that will feed the torus cryopumps. Pictured here at the Institute of Plasma Research in Gandhinagar are Biswanath Sakar (ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ India) and Eamonn Quinn (ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ vacuum team).