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UKNF/MICE OsCPM report

• Summary assessment of MICE• Risks, pressures and worries• Project management• Electrical substation, accommodation• Redefining the UK project

Andy Nichols, STFC, 22nd June, 2010

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Present top-level MICE scheduleAgreed by iMICE – only reviewed at Collaboration MeetingsThis version – March, 2010

Credibility of this schedulein some doubt, discussed later......

General progress

• UK has been ready for Steps II & III for some months now• Decay solenoid has just emerged from painful 8K hour

service – but now powered to full current• Running for Step I commences this week• Online (ISIS) target continues to run very well• Offline target project (T2r & T3) making good progress

• Dust catcher sorted out• Magnetic/mechanical axes mismatch understood and on way

to being corrected• Offline-online programme should resume during/after August

shutdown• First planes of EMR due from UNIGE at end July, 2010, but

Step I data collection will take priority• PPS is in final stages – implementation by August 2010

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General progress

• UK project was geared (in good faith) towards arrival of spectrometer magnet #1 in mid-May, 2010 and #2 six months later

• Everything is ready to integrate Steps II & III• Problems with spectrometer magnets mean possible delays

of min one year• Technical/organisational difficulties at ICST/Berkeley still

largely unresolved, re coupling coil magnets• Presently we cannot predict dates for Steps II onwards• Radical change in engineering culture required• MICE is at its most vulnerable since 2007

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Risks, pressures and worries

• MICE top level schedule is critically dependent on two out-of-control subsystems• This really is our only serious worry• Not clear the US collaboration is staffed at the right level• Or that QA and design and manufacturing control is rigorous• Personal view is that another organisation must step in and

apply an ISO 9001 based approach from ground up• FNAL have made a critique of the spectrometer magnet

project – iMICE and solenoid review committee await their report

• UK might be able to influence, given successful Mississippi 1.6M$ MRI grant for RF goods

• Could buy our way into the collaboration to the tune of 1.6M$ as UK now relieved of RF stuff

• But unfortunately there’s much more to this problem than money......

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Risks, pressures and worries

• The foregoing has had a negative effect on the domestic MICE team

• Motivation of the installation and design team has suffered• Vital that we hold the team together• Hope that re-definition of UK activities works – see later

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Project Management

• Chris Bulloch of Magna Parva is now well established:• Visits once a week• Chairs weekly cost & schedule review meeting• Has produced affordable costed project plan for FY10/11• Schedule/milestones table substantially ready• Roy Preece of PPD will take over from Chris later this year• Roy has taken SSC Oracle course for Project Managers• Need to work out a way of importing UK methodology to

international project – will be floated at CM27

Electrical substation progressThe problem:

• The electrical supply in R5.2, the MICE Hall, needs to be upgraded to 2MVA, certainly to run at Step IV and probably at Step III

• Most of the power is required for CCR compressors, latest predictions are (5+1)x2 for spectrometer solenoids and 3x2 for coupling coils

• The present layout in R5.2 gives 1.25MVA and is based on fifty-year old equipment that has not been used to full capacity for many years

• The ingoing cable to R5.2 has adequate capacity and does not require any work

• Historically, this has been treated as a host-lab contribution and has never appeared MICE’s costed plan

• But we understand the need for a discussion

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Schedules and costs summary

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Version Capital (K£) Effort (K£)

BPG1 281.4 26.2

BPG2 439.4 42

BPG3 667.7 63.3

DL1 106 21

Note, costs are based on reasonably detailed effort estimates and Budget estimates from manufacturers

Detailed costing will be re-visited when sufficient guidance on what plan to followIs received – a lot of work otherwise, for which we do not have funding

All the schemes depend on major bought out components that have lead times of8-18 months – this really defines the schedule, again no detail schedulePlanning will be done until chosen route identified

MICE’s schedule for Step III is (very) arguably Q3-4, 2011So we should aim for that

Latest news

• Met with STFC Management the other day• More detailed costing of BPG1 requested, also assessment

of development potential• Description of costed risks of DL1 scheme also requested –

the cheapest, but not necessarily best value solution• Meet again on 8th July• MICE hopes to be pushed in the right direction on that day!• MICE considers it unacceptable that the cost should come

from project funds• If we are forced to take the cheapest option of using the

existing old infrastructure:• Major risk that it won’t work on the day• Preventing our collaborators’ equipment from working• Would make STFC look pretty bad

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Project accommodation

Some success recently:– Have moved into half of R9– Work on compressor supports and CCR hose spools

underway there– Has already proved useful as base to work in parallel when

MICE is running in R5.2– Plans for simple 12 tonne A-frame and rails underway– Negotiations for rest of building continue– Not on critical path anymore, but will keep up pressure

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Re-defining the UK project

• Steps II & III are delayed for at least one year• UK installation team and infrastructure construction were

very carefully geared towards spectrometer solenoid #1 arriving at May 15th

• We want to hold the team together, so:• Advance work on the LH2 system – See Matt’s talk in open

session• Hydride bed• Vent system• Civil engineering• Pipe/valve & gas panel work• Ongoing safety case

• RF power work• Design of waveguide/power/cooling infrastructure• Hands on work at DL with RAL team – second amplifier

• Project plan has been re-costed and is affordable

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LH2 system is at advanced design stagemajor components are orderedhope to have enough detail done to starthands on work mid-late Julymuch work to do/parts to order

The LH2 system should be viewed as the major UK undertaking for FY10/11 – should not be underestimated – and this is only The R&D phase

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RF power work

Separates into three discrete activities:

1. Powering the first amplifier at DL– Electrical support work is making good progress at DL

2. Stripping and reconditioning the second LBL amplifier at DL– Two RAL (Merit-Merrell) installation staff can work at DL to

support DL technicians. Exploratory meeting scheduled for 12-15th July – plenty of space at DL! Can also help with pre-assembly of two CERN amplifiers

3. Advancing work on RF power hardware design in R5.2– Andy Moss and Tim Hayler have begun consulting, for this

year it’s primarily a design exercise – need meeting with US on how to interact with US MRI grant