Re: [AMMRL] Flirting with the 5 gauss line #HeliumRecovery

From: Ulrich <Ulrich.Haunz_at_uni-konstanz.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:53:39 +0200
Hello!

Von meinem iPad gesendet

Am 21.06.2024 um 21:25 schrieb Spin-Doc <bert.heise_at_spin-doc.net>:

Hi Luke,

there may be another possible solution (bit more drastic, but here you go): In case the installation of the new NMR system isn't too far away anymore you could also just quench the old magnet yourself - being unshielded it's rather unlikely that it will find a new home (unless you do have such plans for it of course). Quenching a magnet - specifically an older one which has a readily accessible vacuum valve - is shockingly easy…

Yes - this is working fine. There is a closed cap on before the valve to the vacuum chamber. We opened the cap - closed it and opened the valve.
Closed the valve - opened the cap vented the small volume there and then closed this part with a cap and opened the valve to the vacuum once more again. You have to do this 10 or more times.

This takes time - but the vacuum is with this method slowly broken down. after a while the quenching vents are opened by the magnet itself - the quench is happening now. 

In our case - we tried to recover as much as possible of the liquid helium. So we tried to vent the main stuff in to our recovery system. Before all this - the main bladder was completely emptied and during the quench the recovery system went on maximum. Even we tried to put more into our recovery system and put a screw driver over the quenching vents and press this one a bit down - venting into the recovery hose. This was the final end of my 9.4 Tesla Oxford magnet. 

Bert is right - its working.

Yours sincerecly,

Ulrich Haunz


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