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excellent monitoring tyler.</div>
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it is <i>unacceptable </i>that the valve was turned off without notification to the RICH group.</div>
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i was under the impression that the detector manager should be informed prior to any work that could affect his detector.<br>
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if marco wasn't notified, i hope he'll try figure out the whys and wherefores or at least bring the matter up.</div>
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writing and sending an e-mail isn't that challenging.</div>
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but then again what do i know, perhaps saving cyber ink was the priority.<br>
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the bank of N2 should be replaced asap.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Dsg-rich <dsg-rich-bounces@jlab.org> on behalf of Tyler Lemon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 7, 2019 8:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> dsg-rich<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Dsg-rich] Follow up to RICH N2 flow loss last night</font>
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Hello, <br>
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In follow-up to last night's findings of RICH N2 supply having been shut off, attached are plots showing N2 panel pressures and N2 flow and N2 Volume humidity.</div>
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>From the plots of the N2 panel pressure and flow, it seems that something happened with the N2 supply maybe on Monday June 3. From June 3 to last night (June 6), there were three drops in pressure at the N2 panel:</div>
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<li> June 3 at 13:50 - Initial drop in pressure. It seems like the main N2 supply was shut off for some reason and the backup supply kicked in to keep N2 flow to RICH.</li><li>June 4 at 24:29 - Second drop in N2 panel pressure. This is probably the first 12-cylinder N2 backup bank running out and then the switch to the second 12-cylinder N2 backup bank. This swap is done "automatically" by having the first bank's regulator set
higher than the second bank's.</li><li>June 6 at 15:33 - Third drop in N2 panel pressure and loss of N2 flow. Second N2 backup bank ran out.</li></ol>
<div>If the drops on June 4 and 6 are the N2 banks running out, it means the backup N2 banks will provide ~40 slm to RICH for ~ 3 days.</div>
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<div>When Bob found the N2 was valved off and reopened it, the N2 flow, main N2 supply pressure, and overall N2 panel pressure returned to normal while the N2 backup supply pressure remained at 0 psi. This is because both N2 backup banks are now empty. We will
have to get replacement banks for the future.</div>
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<div>The second attached plot is N2 volume humidity values. Humidity in RICH only went up when N2 flow dropped to zero. Humidity in RICH increased ~ 1 % Relative Humidity during this period. At the time of this plot, the humidity values have almost returned
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<div>In summary, N2 flow last night was lost because the main Hall B N2 supply to RICH was shut off for some reason and the backup system provided N2 to RICH for ~3 days before running out, dropping N2 flow to 0 slm. N2 Volume Humidity went up ~1 % RH during
this time and has since returned to normal. The "positive" result of this event is that the N2 backup banks work correctly and can supply N2 to RICH for ~3 days when the main Hall B N2 supply is lost.
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Tyler<br>
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