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Sakai, Kenji; Oi, Motoki; Watanabe, Akihiko; Kai, Tetsuya; Kato, Yuko; Meigo, Shinichiro; Takada, Hiroshi
JAEA-Conf 2015-002, p.593 - 598, 2016/02
For safe and stable beam operation, a MLF general control system (GCS) consists of several subsystems such as an integral control, interlock, server, network, and timing distribution systems. Since the first beam injection in 2008, the GCS has operated stably without any serious troubles in comparison with upgrade of target devices for ramping up beam power and increment of user apparatuses year by year. In recent years, however, it has been improved significantly in view of sustainable long-term operation and maintenance. The monitor and operation system of the GCS has been upgraded by changing its framework software to improve potential flexibility in its maintenance. Its interlock system was also modified in accordance with the re-examination of the risk management system of J-PARC. This paper reports recent progress of the MLF-GCS.
Oi, Motoki; Sakai, Kenji; Watanabe, Akihiko; Akutsu, Atsushi; Meigo, Shinichiro; Takada, Hiroshi
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 8, p.036007_1 - 036007_5, 2015/09
This paper reports on upgrading of the monitor and operation (MO) system for a general control system (GCS) of the Materials and Life science experimental Facility (MLF) at J-PARC. The MLF-GCS consists of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), operator interfaces (OPIs) for integral control and interlock systems, shared servers, and so on. It is controlling various components of the pulsed spallation neutron source such as a mercury target and hydrogen moderators. The MO system is used for monitoring, alarm notification and remote control from the MLF control room. The GCS has been working well as expected, but current MO system which consists of the OPIs and data servers based on iFix has some problems in view of sustainable maintenance because of its poor flexibility of supported OS and software version compatibility. To overcome the problems, we upgraded the MO system to be operated using the framework of EPICS, the OPI of Control System Studio (CSS) and the server software of Postgre SQL. This improves versatility of the MO system, enabling to run on various platforms such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS. At first, we made a prototype MO system, which processed 100 points of data and 5 operation screens and verified that the MO system functions correctly. Then we made full spec MO system which processes the data point of 7000 and operation screens of 130. It was operated in parallel with the current system to evaluate its performance with real data such as data transmission speed from PLCs, control functions from OPI, storage capability of servers and long-term reliability. As results, the new MO system achieved the communication speed of 2 Hz and its operability compatible to the current system. Now, we are operating and debugging it in comparison with the current system during the operating period as a preparation for the system replacement at the end of 2014.
Sakai, Kenji; Kai, Tetsuya; Oi, Motoki; Watanabe, Akihiko; Nakatani, Takeshi; Higemoto, Wataru; Meigo, Shinichiro; Sakamoto, Shinichi; Takada, Hiroshi; Futakawa, Masatoshi
Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology (Internet), 4, p.264 - 267, 2014/04
no abstracts in English
Watanabe, Akihiko; Sakai, Kenji; Oi, Motoki; Meigo, Shinichiro; Takada, Hiroshi
JAEA-Technology 2013-028, 21 Pages, 2013/11
JAEA-Technology-2013-028.pdf:2.46MB
The General Control System (GCS) of the MLF of J-PARC has a problem that it costs very much in the maintenance because of its poor flexibility on OS, etc. For resolving the problem, we have re-examined framework and application softwares for the MLF-GCS, in considering functions that PLCs in many local control panels are controlled by the plural exclusive PCs, and operating data over 7000 are acquired, stored and distributed with suitable data format by shared servers. Furthermore, we have made a prototype of an upgraded GCS and evaluated its concrete performances with true data such as communication speed between the PLCs and PCs, control functions from operating windows, storage capability of data server, and long-term stability of the system. In conclusion, we decided to adopt following softwares for the upgraded GCS: EPICS as framework software, Takebishi OPC server as data input/output module, CSS as user interface window and PostgreSQL for the data storage server.
Sakai, Kenji; Sakamoto, Shinichi; Kinoshita, Hidetaka; Seki, Masakazu; Haga, Katsuhiro; Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Wakui, Takashi; Naoe, Takashi; Kasugai, Yoshimi; Tatsumoto, Hideki; et al.
JAEA-Technology 2011-039, 121 Pages, 2012/03
JAEA-Technology-2011-039.pdf:10.87MB
This report investigates the behavior, damage and restoration of a neutron source station of the MLF at the Great East Japan Earthquake and verified the safety design for emergency accidents in the neutron source station. In the MLF, after an occurrence of the Earthquake, strong quakes were detected at the instruments, the external power supply was lost, all of the circulators shut down automatically, and the hydrogen gas was released. The leakages of mercury, hydrogen and radio-activation gases did not occur. While, the quakes made gaps between the shield blocks and ruptured external pipe lines by subsidence around the building. But significant damages to the components were not found though the pressure drop of compressed air lines influenced on a target trolley lock system and so on. These results substantiated the validity of the safety design for emergency accidents in the source station, and suggested several points of improvement.
Sakai, Kenji; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Takada, Hiroshi; Sakamoto, Shinichi; Maekawa, Fujio; Kinoshita, Hidetaka; Seki, Masakazu; Haga, Katsuhiro; Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Wakui, Takashi; et al.
Proceedings of 20th Meeting of the International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources (ICANS-20) (USB Flash Drive), 6 Pages, 2012/03
This report investigates behaviors and damages of each component in a neutron target station of the MLF at the J-PARC at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE). At the date of the GEJE, in the MLF, strong quakes were detected at several instruments, an external power supply were lost, all of the circulation systems were shut down automatically, and a hydrogen gas was released as planned. Leakage of activation liquids and gases did not occur. While, the quakes made gaps between shield blocks and ruptured external pipe lines for air and water by subsidence. But significant damages on the components of the target station were not found though a loss of compressed air supply affected lock systems with air cylinders and pneumatic operation values. These results substantiated a validity of safety design on the target station for emergency accidents.
Sakai, Kenji; Oi, Motoki; Kai, Tetsuya; Watanabe, Akihiko
JAEA-Technology 2010-001, 35 Pages, 2010/02
JAEA-Technology-2010-001.pdf:12.39MB
A MLF general control system (MLF-GCS) at J-PARC consists of several subsystems of integral control and interlock, network, server, timing distribution systems, and PPS. The design and construction of MLF-GCS has progressed for the first proton beam injection in 2008. After finishing the construction of most of the subsystems, the commissioning on operation and control of the MLF has started step by step in 2007. During short period before the first beam injection, the trial operations, performance tests, and improvements of the MLF-GCS subsystems have been executed under restricted conditions. After the first beam injection in May 2008, the subsystems have been improved according to experience on the beam operations, the administrative structure for the MLF operation shift has been established, and the stable and efficient operations of the MLF-GCS has been realized. This paper reports on the commissioning on the MLF operation and control from April 2007 to March 2009.
Sakai, Kenji; Oi, Motoki; Kai, Tetsuya; Watanabe, Akihiko; Nakatani, Takeshi; Higemoto, Wataru; Shimomura, Koichiro*; Kinoshita, Hidetaka; Kaminaga, Masanori
JAEA-Technology 2009-042, 44 Pages, 2009/08
JAEA-Technology-2009-042.pdf:35.33MB
A general control system for the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF-GCS) at J-PARC has an advanced and independent system for control of the mercury target, including a large amount of mercury, three moderators with supercritical hydrogen, and cooling systems with radioactive water. Although the MLF-GCS is an independent system, it works closely with the accelerator and other facility control systems within J-PARC. The MLF have succeeded in the first proton beam injection and neutron beam generation in May 2008, and succeeded the muon beams generation in September 2008. The design and construction of the MLF-GCS has finished before the first proton beam injection. It has been operated stably and efficiently in the off- and on- beam commissioning. This paper reports on the design, construction and operation of the MLF-GCS.
Sakai, Kenji; Oi, Motoki; Kai, Tetsuya; Kinoshita, Hidetaka; Kawasaki, Susumu; Watanabe, Akihiko; Kaminaga, Masanori; Futakawa, Masatoshi
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 600(1), p.75 - 77, 2009/02
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：12.32(Instruments & Instrumentation)In order to operate all equipment of the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) safely and efficiently, the MLF general control system (MLF-GCS) is designed to have several subsystems such as the facility control system centering on the control of the targets, interlock systems for protecting personnel, machine and the neutron target, and so on. Although it is an independent system, the MLF-GCS should also be as a part of the control system of the whole J-PARC operated from the central control room (CCR). The construction of MLF-GCS has been almost finished, and its performance test is in progress to check and adjust remote operations and integral interlocks from the control room of MLF. This paper gives an overview of the MLF-GCS and reports its construction status.
Maebara, Sunao; Zheng, X.*; Watanabe, Akihiko*; Kishiro, Junichi*; Takayama, Ken*; Horioka, Kazuhiko*; Ogawa, Masao*; Kawasaki, Sunao*; Shiho, Makoto
JAERI-Research 2004-007, 40 Pages, 2004/03
JAERI-Research-2004-007.pdf:4.48MB
no abstracts in English
Maebara, Sunao; Morimoto, Iwao*; Zheng, X.*; Watanabe, Akihiko*; Yamamoto, Masanori*; Sakamoto, Keishi; Shiho, Makoto
Shingaku Giho, 101(415), p.61 - 66, 2001/11
no abstracts in English
X.D.Zheng*; ; Maebara, Sunao; ; ; ; Yakayama, Ken*; ; ; Ogawa, Masao*; et al.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 407(1-3), p.198 - 202, 1998/00
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：22.09(Instruments & Instrumentation)no abstracts in English
Ishizuka, H.*; Kawasaki, S.*; ; ;
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 35(10), p.5471 - 5478, 1996/10
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：26.07(Physics, Applied)no abstracts in English
; ; Kawasaki, S.*; Ishizuka, H.*; ; ; ;
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 375(1-3), p.396 - 400, 1996/00
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：43.39(Instruments & Instrumentation)no abstracts in English
; Kawasaki, S.*; Sakamoto, Keishi; ; Kishimoto, Yasuaki;
JAERI-M 94-048, 133 Pages, 1994/03
no abstracts in English
Ishizuka, H.*; ; Kawasaki, S.*; Musyoki, S.*; ; ;
JAERI-M 94-047, 19 Pages, 1994/03
no abstracts in English
Sakamoto, Keishi; ; Kawasaki, S.*; Kishimoto, Yasuaki; Musyoki, S.*; ; ; Ishizuka, H.*; ;
Journal of Applied Physics, 75(1), p.36 - 42, 1994/01
Times Cited Count：13 Percentile：60.44(Physics, Applied)no abstracts in English
Sakamoto, Keishi; ; ; Musyoki, S.*; Kishimoto, Yasuaki; Kawasaki, S.*; Ishizuka, H.*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 341, p.101 - 104, 1994/00
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.01(Instruments & Instrumentation)no abstracts in English
Sakamoto, Keishi; ; Kishimoto, Yasuaki; Kawasaki, S.*; Musyoki, S.*; ; ; Ishizuka, H.*;
Physical Review Letters, 70(4), p.441 - 444, 1993/01
Times Cited Count：11 Percentile：63.94(Physics, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Musyoki, S.*; Sakamoto, Keishi; ; ; ; ; Kawasaki, S.*; ; ; ; et al.
JAERI-M 92-153, 13 Pages, 1992/10
no abstracts in English
