7th ESSRI Workshop 2024 from 25-27 September at Carlos III University in Madrid
The RF2.0 team recently participated in this international workshop that brought together around 120 participants from Europe, Asia, and the United States. This event is part of a series that has been held biannually since 2011, which aims to promote the sustainable development and operation of research infrastructures. The ESSRI workshop provided the perfect platform for the RF2.0 team to present the first results from work package 1 and 4 and give an insight of current and future activities of several partners.
Members from KIT, CERN and Zaphiro, presented during the parallel sessions different contributions that focused on energy management topics. In her presentation, “Key Technologies for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Accelerators: A Survey from Shareholders”, Dr. Falastine Abusaif from KIT, introduced a set of high-level sustainability metrics developed for assessing the performance of energy-efficient solutions in research infrastructures, such as accelerators and data centres. She highlighted that these metrics go beyond just energy consumption and costs, incorporating the impact of raw material consumption and the carbon footprint over the accelerator’s lifetime. Additionally, Dr. Abusaif discussed inputs on components and systems with high energy-saving potential, which were identified through an assessment of existing materials, components, and technologies aimed at improving energy efficiency in accelerators.
“Fast Measurement Systems: How to Increase the Power Quality in Accelerator Energy Grid,” is the title of the presentation that was jointly delivered by Dr. Nikolaos Sapountzoglou (CERN) and Ricardo Vasapollo (Zaphiro). This presentation focused on improving the observability and responsiveness of electrical distribution systems in particle accelerator facilities by integrating Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), which can monitor voltage and current fluctuations in real time with high data sampling frequency. These critical real time data will be used to:
a) create an accurate data-fed digital twin,
b) monitor the power quality of the grid and perform harmonic content analysis and
c) communicate detected events to the SCADA system.
As part of the RF2.0 project, CERN and Zaphiro plan to install 22 PMUs across CERN’s electrical network, significantly enhancing its monitoring capabilities. Both presentations were well-received and sparked several questions from the attendees.
During the 3-day workshop, several work package leaders of the RF2.0 team also had the opportunity to present: Francis Perez from ALBA gave a plenary session presentation on “Sustainability for European Synchroton light sources”, Jens Völker from HZB on “Decreasing the footprint for a new SR facility (BessyIII) and Jean-Paul Burnet from CERN on “Energy management and sustainability aspects for FCC” in parallel sessions. The latter has highlighted that that sustainability is a key aspect of FCC and energy savings in combination with low carbon power sources and renewables play a major role in its design, in perfect alignment with RF2.0 objectives. Additionally, the coordinator, Prof. Giovanni De Carne from KIT presented “Insights from the KITTEN Research Platform” addressing energy responsibility in particle accelerators.
Also worth mentioning is that, the doctoral candidate, Mahshid Mohammad Zadeh from KIT attracted significant attention during the poster session with her contribution “Development of real-time digital twin for particle accelerators” and we proudly share that she won one of the three poster prizes.
In conclusion, the workshop was an outstanding opportunity for the team to share their experiences and discuss the technical and strategic challenges faced by the scientific community in developing and implementing sustainable solutions at research infrastructures.
Read more about our contributions https://agenda.ciemat.es/event/4431/
