Design and development of a liquid nitrogen cooled test cryopump for application in Steady-state Superconducting Tokamak-1

被引：5

作者：

Gangradey R. ^{[1
]}

Mukherjee S.S. ^{[1
]}

Gupta V. ^{[1
]}

Panchal P. ^{[1
]}

Nayak P. ^{[1
]}

Mishra J.S. ^{[1
]}

Dewasi A. ^{[1
]}

Verma S.K. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gujarat, Gandhinagar

来源：

Vacuum | 2022年 / 200卷

关键词：

Activated charcoal; Adsorption isotherm; AVS method; Cryopump; Design and analysis; Molflow; Pumping speed and capacity;

D O I：

10.1016/j.vacuum.2022.110986

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摘要：

Cryocoolers and liquid helium cooled sorption cryopumps are widely used for the generation of high and ultra-high vacuum in large size experimental systems. Application areas of the sorption cryopumps using only liquid nitrogen is not explored much. Aiming to that, liquid nitrogen cooled test cryopump is designed, developed and fabricated to confirm the application feasibility on Steady-state Superconducting Tokamak-1 (SST-1) for pumping nitrogen and water vapor. After rough vacuum, base pressure ≤2.0E-7 mbar is achieved in the pumping dome using the cryopump. In addition, the pumping performance tests of the cryopump were carried out as per the AVS recommended method. The system offers pumping speed of ∼3616 l/s for nitrogen gas and 15928 l/s (N2 equivalent) for water vapor using liquid nitrogen only and the temperature on the panels were 80–81 K. Adsorption capacity for nitrogen gas was tested up to 6123 mbar-l and maximum gas load applied was 8.0E-2 mbar-l/s. In this paper, the pump design concept, analysis, pumping speed simulations, selected sorbent application and experimental investigations are discussed systematically. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd

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