Modular Architecture

The linear axis lets the machine be split into factory-built, transportable modules assembled in line on a prepared site.

Because the burner is a straight machine, it can be divided along its axis into discrete modules: the plug assemblies, the throat sections, the central-cell segments, the expander and DEC ends, and the support skids. Each module can be built and tested in a factory and shipped as a transportable unit, so site work is dominated by assembly and connection rather than in-place fabrication.

Modularity is a deliberate design choice for the fixed-installation housing. It shortens on-site time, moves quality control into a controlled factory environment, and makes later units repeatable rather than bespoke. The high-field plugs, the central-cell solenoid, the DEC end, the cryoplant, and the power skids are the natural module boundaries.

Module boundaries

• High-field plug assemblies (one per end)
• Throat transition sections
• Central-cell solenoid segments
• Expander and DEC end tanks
• Cryoplant, heating, pumping, and power skids

The module boundaries are chosen where the interfaces are cleanest — a vacuum flange, a cryogenic coupling, a structural joint — so that connecting two modules on site is a defined, verifiable operation rather than open fabrication. Alignment of the plug–cell–plug axis across module joints is the tightest tolerance in assembly, because field uniformity depends on it.

What modularity buys

The payoff is repeatability and shorter site campaigns: modules arrive tested, are set on a prepared foundation, and are connected through their vacuum, cryogenic, and power interfaces. It also aids maintenance — a failed module can be a defined replacement unit rather than an in-place repair. This is an engineering and logistics property of the machine, with no economic claim attached.

All figures are design-and-simulation values for a machine not yet built.