On 31st of January guest lecture was lead by Gavin Tracey-senior sales
account manager and Dr Don Collins-Global market sector manager,
chemicals from Edwards Company. Edwards is a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, abatement solutions and related value-added services. The vacuum production systems are very important for many special applications in industry, transport and packaging materials, but also in research programs. Theme of the lecture was an overview of basics of vacuum, which was built in five basic categories. Initially they talked about what is a vacuum and how to create it. Also how do we measure the pressure of it through of examples of vacuum levels and SI units of pressure, as and vacuum gauge ranges. Informations was given and about how the gas flows into the vacuum system. Furthermore reference was also made to companies who use the application of vacuum. Concluding spoke about separated categories of vacuum pumps. The vacuum producing recommends a procedure analogous but reverses to that of the compressed air production. While there compressors add energy into an air chamber by maintaining the air pressure therein at a desired level, the vacuum producing devices remove air from a vacuum chamber by lowering the pressure therein at very low levels. The vacuum producing is done by machinery whose operation principle is similar to that of the basic types of pumps or compressors. The main types of vacuum pumps are rotary machines, in which the air thrust elements have the appropriate configuration (e.g. finned or screw machines). The technology of vacuum producing devices intended to remove the maximum possible number of moles of a chamber so the pressure inside it becomes a very small fraction of atmospheric pressure. The first class more interested in industrial applications and vacuum achieved with rotary vane pumps of relatively low cost. In this type of pumps, the seal between the vacuum and the pump portion which is in contact with the atmosphere is the oil. The construction of these pumps oil vapours entering the vacuum area, which leads to an undesirable pollution in the vacuum chamber. This type of pumps can utilize the vacuum to mechanical devices, but cannot ensure maximum purity of the vacuum chamber where it is necessary to operably specific chemistry applications, food industries, drugs etc. In the second class of vacuum systems utilized diffusion type pumps using hot oil or mercury, and have the advantage that no moving parts although the overall arrangement is supported by vane rotary pumps. And these pumps related applications in which absolute cleanliness in the air-vacuum system is not critical. If desired an increased cleanliness then vortex pumps used moles (turbomolecular pumps). And these pumps utilize an array of rotating blades, wherein the blades are arranged in various suitable corners in order to eject the remaining moles of air in a particular direction. The third class of vacuum systems has mainly laboratory and less industrial interest. The vacuum production systems have many applications in industry, whether related to the manufacture, packaging or industrial or industrial projects. More particularly exploited in vacuum drying chambers, coatings vacuum, to leak detection in sublimation etc. Still have a crucial role to specific requirements of industrial laboratories as support centrifuging devices, gas level balancing devices, vacuum gauges and electron microscopes.