R&D, Walkthroughs, Updates, and System Builds
After a long hiatus from physical system construction, having spent the past couple of months working on project planning and documentation, CAD modeling, thermal simulations, and plasma simulations, progress was made in the beginning main assembly of the Small Scale … Continued
Now that all of the major calculations have been completed, the system V4 design can finally start being pieced together. While the calculations are very enlightening, and required for planning the operational parameters of the system, actually building the system … Continued
Just a quick general site announcement, Applied Ion Systems is now on social media! On the bottom of every page includes the icons for Twitter and Instagram that you can click on to follow all of the latest updates, progress, … Continued
FORELINE PARAMETERS AND PUMPDOWN TIME CALCULATION FROM ATMOSPHERE TO ROUGH VACUUM SYSTEM DESIGN V4 From the previous chapters, the major and critical vacuum parameters were explored and calculated for the V4 design. This section will cover the final main calculations for … Continued
MAXIMUM GAS LOADS FOR VARIOUS PROCESS GASES FOR VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS SYSTEM DESIGN V4 From the previous Chapter 5 calculations, it was shown how to calculate the total gas load for the system V4 design during pumpdown, which consists of water vapor due … Continued
TOTAL GAS LOAD DUE TO OUTGASSING AND DETERMINATION OF ULTIMATE PRESSURE SYSTEM DESIGN V4 Now that molecular and transitional flows for various process gases have been calculated for the current system, the total outgassing load for the system during pumpdown … Continued
CALCULATIONS AND COMPARISONS OF SYSTEM CONDUCTANCES AND EFFECTIVE SPEEDS FOR TRANSITIONAL FLOW FOR VARIOUS PROCESS GASES SYSTEM DESIGN V4 SECTION 1 – Design Overview From the previous Chapter 3 posts, the calculations for molecular flow for system iterations V2, V3, … Continued
CALCULATIONS FOR CONDUCTANCES AND EFFECTIVE SPEEDS IN MOLECULAR FLOW FOR VARIOUS PROCESS GASES SYSTEM DESIGN V4 SECTION 1 – Design Overview As of the present time, design V4 is the current design of the Small Scale Multipurpose High Vacuum System … Continued
CALCULATIONS FOR CONDUCTANCES AND EFFECTIVE SPEEDS IN MOLECULAR FLOW FOR VARIOUS PROCESS GASES SYSTEM DESIGN V3 SECTION 1 – Design Overview As mentioned in Chapter 03.1, the conductances found for system V2, while appearing adequate for deuterium, were too low … Continued
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION FOR MOLECULAR FLOW CALCULATIONS L/D ERROR CURVE FOR SHORT PIPES From the previous calculations, and going forward with future calculations dealing with conductances for molecular flow, one of the correction factors that is applied is an additional correction … Continued