Novosibirsk State Technical University (NETI) has handed over more than 20 installations for the SKIF CCP — 52 shipping containers with a total weight of more than 8 tons.
The Engineering Center "Design and Manufacture of High-tech Equipment" of the Department of Engineering of Technological Machines of NSTU-NETI has transferred more than 20 names of unique scientific installations to the site of the synchrotron under construction. This equipment, made within the framework of the Priority 2030 program, will ensure the operation of three experimental stations of the first stage and will allow Russian scientists to conduct world-class research in the field of materials science, biology and physics.
"The construction of the SKIF CCP building complex is entering its final stage. In parallel, contracts for the design, manufacture and supply of scientific equipment for research stations are being finalized. The Engineering Center "Design and Manufacture of High-tech Equipment" acted as a subcontractor for three key stations of the first stage: stations 1-1 "Microfocus", stations 1-2 "Structural Diagnostics" and stations 1-4 "XAFS spectroscopy and magnetic dichroism," said Vasily Yanpolsky, First Vice—rector of NSTU-NETI, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor.
The university's specialists have designed and manufactured more than 20 unique scientific installations. Each of them is designed to form a synchrotron radiation beam with parameters that precisely match the tasks of a particular station.
For the Structural Diagnostics station, Novosibirsk design engineers, employees of the engineering center "Design and Manufacture of High-tech Equipment", created a gap block, two types of beam gates including an exposure, water—cooled gap block, filter block, radiation collimator receiver and beryllium windows.
The XAFS Spectroscopy and Magnetic Dichroism station received a brake radiation collimator trap, a water-cooled slit block, a white beam attenuator, several types of beryllium windows (including water-cooled ones), a radiation collimator receiver, an uncooled slit block and a monochromatic beam shutter.
The next stage of work involves the installation and commissioning of equipment directly at the stations of the SKIF CCP. After this stage is completed, the research stations will be able to receive the first users and begin implementing scientific programs.
The Siberian ring photon source will become one of the most modern sources of synchrotron radiation in the world and will open up new opportunities for Russian science in the field of studying the structure of materials, developing medicines and creating technologies of the future.