Deliveries
From Russia by road
28 Apr 2020
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ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Russia
Six trucks filled with electrotechnical equipment for the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ installation have arrived from the Efremov Institute in Russia.
The latest shipments of electrotechnical equipment from Russia were packed into 10 tractor-trailers. Six have reached the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ site; another four are travelling.
Over several weeks in April, a convoy of tractor-trailers carrying DC busbars for the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ magnets, resisters and other electrotechnical equipment for the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ installation travelled the 3,000 kilometres separating Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ site. Four other trucks are on their way.
The equipment they contain was developed and manufactured at the Efremov Institute (NIIEFA) for Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM. The fabrication and supply of switching equipment, busbars, energy absorbing resistors and control racks for the power supply and protection of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ superconducting magnets is the largest procurement package of 12 under ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Russia's responsibility.
Over five kilometres of steel-jacketed aluminium busbars insulated in epoxy wrapping and actively cooled by a constant flow of pressurized water are required to deliver DC power to the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ magnets. The busbar network, along with the fast discharge and switching network units, will almost fully occupy two levels of the Diagnostics Building.
The Russian Domestic Agency, the Efremov Institute, and the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Organization took all the necessary steps to have the equipment reach ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ on time and prevent any delay in the installation schedule.