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Sandia Z Pulse Accelerator

Intermediate Storage Deionized Water                  System (Z-ISDIWS) 

Z Accelerator cutaway- One of 36 Intermediate Store Capacitors shown

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 Work Summary: 

-Provided extensive software trouble-shooting and re-work of problematic code, originally provided to support deionization and purification (resistivity correction) of Z accelerator energy storage capacitor array.

-Trouble-shot and corrected several hardware related issues with compact FieldPoint PAC controllers.

-Detected and fixed several software bugs, primarily relating to embedded code implementation of compact FieldPoint PAC controllers.

-Provided several code modifications to include:

          -fully functional sequence creator/editor utility

          -I/O channel name assignment and hardware                    channel finder utility

          -data logging, retrieval, and analysis utility

          -integrated with MAX Citedal database

          -additional test sequencing capabilities to                       include new 'command' definitions

          -reused user interfaces

-Control system hardware centered on real-time embedded control provided through National Instrument's compact FieldPoint (cFP) distributed programmable controllers.

-Verified proper activation, control and monitoring of several process 'sub-systems' comprising nearly 250 analog and digital I/O channels distributed across multiple FieldPoint PAC controller/backplane nodes.

-Various process control equipment included: valves fluid-pumps, level sensors, pressure and temperature monitoring, ultra-violet purifiers, liquid-ring separators, etc.. 

 ISDIWS Interface 

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 ISDIWS- Intermediate Store User Interface 

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