Design and Implementation of a Low-Temperature Liquid Level Monitor Unit for Superconducting Magnets

  • LU Jian-chang1 ,
  • 2 ,
  • ZHU Tian-xiong1 ,
  • CHEN Jun-fei1 ,
  • 2 ,
  • LI Zheng-gang1 ,
  • LIU Chao-yang1*
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Center for Magnetic Resonance(Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Wuhan 430071, China;
    2. University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
*Corresponding author:LIU Chao-yang, Tel: +86-027-87198790, E-mail: chyliu@wipm.ac.cn.

Received date: 2014-05-29

  Revised date: 2014-10-29

  Online published: 2014-12-05

Supported by

国家重大科学仪器设备开发专项资助项目(2011YQ120035).

Abstract

The design and implementation of a low-temperature liquid level monitor unit used in superconducting magnets is introduced. In the design, voltage-controlled current source circuit and voltage-frequency conversion circuit are used in liquid helium level measurement, and capacitance-frequency conversion circuit is used in liquid nitrogen level measurement. Digital circuit based on STM32 microcontroller is used to control the voltage-controlled current source, process the frequency signal, display the liquid-level data, send the liquid-level data to the upper computer and use CAN bus to complete the remote control of the unit. The feasibility of the design was demonstrated by experimental measurements.

Cite this article

LU Jian-chang1 , 2 , ZHU Tian-xiong1 , CHEN Jun-fei1 , 2 , LI Zheng-gang1 , LIU Chao-yang1* . Design and Implementation of a Low-Temperature Liquid Level Monitor Unit for Superconducting Magnets[J]. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2014 , 31(4) : 465 -476 . DOI: 10.11938/cjmr20140402

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