ICALEPCS 2009
TUP095
Facility Utility Control System of XFEL/SPring-8
M.I.Ishii, R.Tanaka, T.Masuda* (JASRI/SPring-8) N.Kumagai, T.Fukui, Y.Sekiguchi (RIKEN/SPring-8)
The XFEL facility under construction at SPring-8 requires highly stable RF phase and intensity control for steady X-ray lasing. The RF conditions are very sensitive to facility utilities and environmental conditions such as air temperature, power line voltage, especially to cooling water temperature for accelerating structures. We, therefore, have to monitor them with required sampling rate and resolution from the viewpoint of the accelerator control. In particular, the cooling water for accelerating structure should be controlled seamlessly from the XFEL control system to achieve steady lasing. We designed and constructed a control system for the facility utilities as a part of the XFEL accelerator control with the MADOCA framework. All the signals of the facility utilities are stored into the same database with the XFEL control system, which helps us to investigate the correlations between beam stability and environmental conditions. All the utility equipment is controlled by PLCs connected to VME systems through FL-net. We set up PLC touch panels to support daily management as the local control interface.