GB2524811A - Accessory device for a quench valve of a cryostat - Google Patents

Accessory device for a quench valve of a cryostat Download PDF

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GB2524811A
GB2524811A GB1406040.4A GB201406040A GB2524811A GB 2524811 A GB2524811 A GB 2524811A GB 201406040 A GB201406040 A GB 201406040A GB 2524811 A GB2524811 A GB 2524811A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C3/00—Vessels not under pressure
    • F17C3/02—Vessels not under pressure with provision for thermal insulation
    • F17C3/08—Vessels not under pressure with provision for thermal insulation by vacuum spaces, e.g. Dewar flask
    • F17C3/085—Cryostats
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16K—VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING
    • F16K17/00—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves
    • F16K17/02—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side
    • F16K17/04—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded
    • F16K17/0413—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded in the form of closure plates
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16K—VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING
    • F16K17/00—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves
    • F16K17/02—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side
    • F16K17/04—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded
    • F16K17/044—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded with more than one spring
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16K—VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING
    • F16K17/00—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves
    • F16K17/02—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side
    • F16K17/04—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded
    • F16K17/08—Safety valves; Equalising valves, e.g. pressure relief valves opening on surplus pressure on one side; closing on insufficient pressure on one side spring-loaded with special arrangements for providing a large discharge passage
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16K—VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING
    • F16K27/00—Construction of housing; Use of materials therefor
    • F16K27/08—Guiding yokes for spindles; Means for closing housings; Dust caps, e.g. for tyre valves
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C13/00—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels
    • F17C13/005—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels for medium-size and small storage vessels not under pressure
    • F17C13/006—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels for medium-size and small storage vessels not under pressure for Dewar vessels or cryostats
    • F17C13/007—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels for medium-size and small storage vessels not under pressure for Dewar vessels or cryostats used for superconducting phenomena
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C13/00—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels
    • F17C13/04—Arrangement or mounting of valves
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F6/00—Superconducting magnets; Superconducting coils
    • H01F6/02—Quenching; Protection arrangements during quenching
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2205/00—Vessel construction, in particular mounting arrangements, attachments or identifications means
    • F17C2205/03—Fluid connections, filters, valves, closure means or other attachments
    • F17C2205/0302—Fittings, valves, filters, or components in connection with the gas storage device
    • F17C2205/0323—Valves
    • F17C2205/0332—Safety valves or pressure relief valves
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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Abstract

A cracking pressure raising device 14, features a main body 15, a spring arrangement 24, a number of spring elements 26, and attachments means 22. The device 14 in use is attached to a container valve 9, the spring elements 26 bearing down upon the valve 9, thereby raising a cracking pressure of the valve 9. The container 2 may be a cryostat container 2 of liquid helium for the superconducting magnets of an MRI scanner. Placing the device 14 on the container 2 before air transport of the cryostat container 2, may reduce the chance of the valve 9, opening or bursting, under the reduced pressure transport conditions of an aircraft storage hold.

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Accessory device for a quench vaive of a cryostat This invention relates to an aocessory devioe for a quenoh valve of a cryostat, in particular for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. Furthermore, this invention reiates to a method of enabling a cryostat containing a cryogen to be safely transported by air transportation.
Superconducting magnet systems are used for medical diagnosis, for example in magnetic resonance imaging systems. A requirement of an MRI magnet is that it produces a stable, homogeneous, magnetic field. In order to achieve the required stability, it is common to use a superconducting magnet system which operates at very low temperature. The temperature is typically maintained by cooling the superconductor by immersion in a low temperature cryogenic fluid, also known as a cryogen, such as liquid helium.
The superconducting magnet system typically comprises a set of superconductor windings for producing a magnetic field, the windings being immersed in a cryogenic fluid to keep the windings at a superconducting temperature, the superconductor windings and the cryogen being contained within a cryogen vessel.
Superconducting magnets are susceptible to quench events, in which, for one of a number of reasons, part of the superconducting -magnet ceases to be superconducting. The resulting resistance in part of the magnet causes heat due to the current flowing through ft. This rapd1y causes further parts of the supercorductftg magnet to cease superconducting. The result is that all of the energy which was stored in the magnetic field of the magnet is suddenly released as heat. In a superconducting magnet cooled by a liquid cryogen, this typically results in rapid boil-off of a large volume of the cryogen, with gaseous and liquid cryogen being expelled from the cryostat at high speed.
During a quench, it is essential that the escaping cryogen gas is allowed to exit the cryostat in a safe manner. The exit point typically opens by responding to an increase in the pressure within the cryostat. It is known to provide a quench valve to control the exit point. The quench valve is closed until a certain pressure is reached within the cryostat. Once the cryostat pressure reaches the certain value, the quench valve is opened by the pressure acting upon it.
During transportation of an already assembled system, filled with cryogen, no cooling can be provided to the cryogen, which leads to a heat input into the cryostat, leading to a boil-off of cryogen. Therefore, during air transportation, relief devices must be available in order to guarantee a pressure-relief to protect against overpressure. In other words, a significant build-up of pressure within the cryostat shall be prevented.
However, the change of atmospheric pressure during an air shipment, even in a pressurized compartment, can cause a problem with the relief devices employed. Ordinary relief valves can freeze and plug up following rapid ejection of cold gas following altitude changes. For this reason, for air transportation, each magnet system has to be fitted with an absolute pressure relief valve, which is unaffected by atmospheric pressure. Tn addition, in order to comply with safety regulations, an independent second device has to be present, which second device can be a gauge device.
It is permissible to use the existing quench valve as the gauge dev cc. However, the d fferent al pressure requ red to crack the quench valve is less than the differential between the pressure within the magnet system and the pressure within the hold of the air craft during air transportation. Therefore, the quench valve would lift and vent excessive cryogen gas. In order to overcome this, it is known to blank off the outlet of the quench valve by an air tight plate fitted with e.g. a 13 PSTG valve. Additionally, a hand valve is fitted, which may also be used to relief pressure before removing the plate. The whole assembly needs to be leak tight and fully tested, making this an expensive solution.
Furthermore, the assembly is discarded after arrival on operational site.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a simple and reliable technique to ensure a safe air transportation ot a cryostat containing a cryogen.
This object is achieved according to the invention by an accessory device for a quench valve of a cryostat, said cryostat being adapted to contain a cryogen, said quench valve allowing cryogen gas to exit the cryostat in the event of a quench, wherein the accessory device is adapted to be installed to the quench valve, thereby raising the cracking pressure of the quench valve without changing the operability of the quench valve.
The object of the present invention is also achieved by a cryostat with a quench valve to which such an accessory device is installed.
The object of the present invention is also achieved by a method of enabling a cryostat containing a cryogen to be safely transported by air transportation, which method comprises the step of, prior to air transportation, installing such an accessory device to the quench valve.
A core idea of the invention is to enable the existing quench valve -of the cryostat to serve as a pressure-relief device during air transportation of the cryostat, in a way that the quench valve remains fully operable. In other words, the operating ability of the quench valve is not restricted. Merely the cracking pressure of the quench valve is temporarily raised for the purpose of air transportation. By this means, a safe air transportation of a cryostat containing a cryogen is achieved in a simple, reliable and very effective way, thereby following safety regulations.
Instead of removing parts of the existing quench valve, and installing an additional hand valve in case of air transportation, as suggest in the prior art, the invention suggests to raise the valve cracking pressure in order to improve the capabiiity of the existing quench valve. The cracking pressure of the quench valve is raised such that the expected differential pressure between the inside of the cryostat and the air craft hold is less than the raised oracking pressure. No additional valve is required. The accessory device, which is used for raising the cracking pressure of the quench valve, may be used several times.
These and other aspeots of the invention will be further elaborated on the basis of the following embodiments whioh are defined in the dependent claims.
Preferably, the accessory device comprises a main body, which is mountable on the quench valve or on the cryostat. The accessory device further comprises a spring arrangement, which employs a number of spring elements. The spring elements are adapted to directly or indirectly act upon & valve member, e.g. & valve plate, upon a burst disc or any other suited moveable part of the quench valve, by this means raising the cracking pressure of the quench valve. Thereby, the main body provides a counter bearing for the spring arrangement, more precisely for the number of spring elements of the spring arrangement. By this means, the cracking pressure of the quench valve can be raised by means of a very simple, cheep, and re-usable mechanical device. The tension of the spring elements defines the new cracking pressure -of the quench valve. For example, the cracking pressure can be raised to 13 PSIG by selecting suitable spring elements showing an appropriate spring load.
In order to realize a particular reliable functional principle, it is suggested to preferably use at least one plunger for acting upon the valve member, the burst disc or the like. Preferably, the at least one plunger is spring-loaded by at least one of said number of spring elements. In other words, the spring elements do not act directly upon the quench valve, but are employed to load the at least one plunger, which directly act on the valve.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the main body of the accessory device is adapted to serve as an enclosure for the number of spring elements and/or for at least parts of the quench valve. For example, the main body is shaped in form of a cylinder, box or dome. By this means, the main body protects the rnnnber ot spring elements and/or the parts ot the quench vaive inside the enclosnre from harmfnl environmental conditions. At the same time, the main body prevent fragments of the bnrst disc escaping in the event of a disc rupture, thereby protecting the surroundings of the cryostat. Alternatively, the main body of the accessory device does not form an enclosure, but is simply a rigid plate or any other suitable counter bearing for the spring elements, which is fitted to the quench valve or the cryostat, e.g. by means of a distance piece construction.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the accessory device comprises guiding elements, which are adapted to guide at least one, preferably all of the spring elements. The guiding of the spring elements is carried out such that damages to the quench valve during fitting of the accessory device are prevented. In particular, damages can be prevented, which may occur i.e. during mounting of the main body to the quench valve or the cryostat and/or during positioning the spring elements and/or the at least one plunger.
These and other aspects of the invention will be described in -detail hereinafter, by way of example, with reference to the following embodiments and the accompanying drawings; in which: 3 0 Fig. 1 shows a schematic illustration of a cryostat (prior art) Fig. 2 shows a schematic illustration of a quench valve of the
cryostat in a sectional view prior art)
Fig. 3 shows a schematic illustration of a quench valve of the cryostat, according to the present invention, in a sectional view.
A cross-section of a superconducting magnet system for use in an MRT system is illustrated in Fig. 1. Superconductive magnet coils (not shown) are provided in a cryogen vessel 2 of a cryostat 1.
The coils are immersed in a liquid cryogen 3, e.g. liquid helium.
A central bore 4 is provided to accommodate a patient for examination. An access neck S with vent tube 6 is provided at the top of the cryostat 1 to allow access to the cryogen vessel 2.
For clarity reasons, other parts of the cryostat 1, e.g. the refrigerator for providing active refrigeration to cool the cryogen 3, the outer vacuum chamber, or the thermal radiation shields, are not shown.
As illustrated in Fig. 2 in more detail, a turret outer assembly 7 encloses upper extremities of the access neck 5, and provides a normal exit path for cryogen gas from cryogen vessel 2. Turret outer assembly 7 is joined to the cryogen vessel 2 in a leak-tight manner and defines an interior volume which is separated from atmosphere by a protective valve and/or burst disc, in this case by a guench valve 8. The quench valve 8 is closed until a certain pressure is reached within the cryogen vessel 2. Once the cryostat pressure reaches the certain value, the quench valve 8 is opened by the pressure acting upon it.
Quench valve 8 includes a valve plate 9 which is held against valve seat 10 by a first spring arrangement 11. In case of overpressure within cryogen vessel 2, a corresponding pressure of cryogen gas -acting on the inner side 12 of the valve plate 9 will exceed the pressure acting on the outer side 13 of the valve plate 9 suffcent1y to overcome the force of the frstsprng arrangement 11 and open the quench valve 8. Cryogen gas will escape, maintaining the pressure within the cryogen vessel 2 at an acceptable level. Once the pressure in the cryogen vessel 2 drops below the pressure needed to keep the quench valve 8 open, first spring arrangement II will press the valve plate 9 back into contactwithvalve seat 10. Partofthevalveplate 9maybe formed by a burst disc, not visible in Fig. 2 as it lies in the plane of the valve plate 9. In case the differential pressure across the valve plate 9 becomes much higher than the pressure at which the quench valve 8 should open, for example if the quench valve 8 sticks, or the pressure increase within the cryogen vessel 2 is extremely rapid or severe, the burst disc will rupture and cryogen gas will then escape through a hole left by the burst disc and out of the cryogen vessel 2. This burst disc is typically a declared regulatory pressure relict satety device, provided to rupture in the event of quench valve failure.
An embodiment of the invention is depicted in Fig. 3. The existing quench valve 8, as shown in Fig. 2, is modified prior to air shipment, withoilt thereby loosing the valve operability of the quench valve 8. During modifying no part is removed from the quench valve 8. Instead, an accessory device 14 is installed to the quench valve 8, which temporarily raises the cracking pressure of the quench valve 8.
The accessory device 14 comprises a main body 15 forming a cylindrical or box-shaped container 16 with walls 17, with an open front 18 and a back plate 19. The main body 15 is provided with a number of small vent holes, which serve as openings to allow cryogen gas originating from the quench valve 8 to escape from the container 16 in case of a quench. An exemplary position of the vent holes is indicated in Fig. 3 by arrow 20. The main body 15 is fitted to the outer flange 21 of the quench valve 8 by means of removable fastening elements 22, e.g. screws. For this purpose, the front end of the main body 15 is extended to form -mounting flanges 23.
The back plate 19 is arranged parallel to the valve plate 9 of the quench valve 8, when the accessory devices 14 is mounted. A second spring arrangement 24 comprising four spring-loaded plungers 25 is provided within the container 16. In Fig. 3 only two plungers 25 are illustrated. The plungers 25 bear on the valve plate 9, by this means raising the cracking pressure of the quench valve 8. The second spring arrangement 24 comprises four spring elements 26 in the form of compression springs. The spring elements 26 are employed to act on the plungers 25, in order to provide the spring load, as reguired. The back plate 19 of the main body 15 acts as counter bearing for the spring elements 26.
For each spring element 26 an internal guiding rod 27 is provided.
All guiding rods 27 are mounted to the back plate 19 of the main body 15.
By means ot the accessory device 14, using the second spring arrangement 24, the cracking pressure of guench valve 8 may be raised for example from 6 to 13 P51G. Tn case of overpressure during air shipment, the pressure of cryogen gas acting on the inner side 12 of the valve plate 9 has to overcome the force of the second spring arrangement 24 in order to open the quench valve 8. In this event, cryogen gas exits the cryogen vessel 2 and enters the container 16, from which the gas escapes through the number of small vent holes.
When mounted, the main body 15 of the accessory device 14 is adapted to serve as a protective enclosure both for the first and second spring arrangement 11, 24, as well as for the surroundings of the cryogen vessel 2 in case of a rupture of a burst disc.
On arrival in the hospital or any other operational site, the accessory device 14 is removed, bringing the guench valve 8 back into its normal operation mode.
It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrative -embodiments, and that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essent a] attHbutes thereof.
Reference numerals 1 cryostat 2 cryogen vessel 3 cryogen 4 central bore S access neck 6 vent tube 7 turret outer assembly 8 guench valve 9 valve plate valve seat 11 first spring arrangement 12 inner side 13 outer side 14 accessory device main body 16 container 17 frcnt 18 wall 19 back plate position of vent hole 21 cuter flange 22 fastening element 23 mounting flange 24 second spring arrangement plunger -26 spring element 27 guiding rod 3 0
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