Cooling Water Purification and Monitoring system for LANSCE Particle Accelerator

Los Alamos National Laboratory/CSULA Engineering, 2010-11

Liaison(s): John Erickson, Sergio Rodriguez, Brian Smith
Advisor(s): Patrick Little, Trinh Pham (CSULA)
Students(s): Michael Anderson (CSULA, TL-S), Marco Fernandez, Shaw Gentry (CSULA), Julia Karl (TL-F), Tae Lee, Allen Tong (CSULA)

In this joint project with California State University at Los Angeles (CSULA), the student team built a water filtration and monitoring system for the cooling water of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) particle accelerator. The goal of the project was to achieve proper levels of conductivity, pH, and oxygen in the water to reduce corrosion in the system and to provide a sensor/software package that allows the filtration system to be remotely monitored as well as controlled via LANL’s central network.