• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.86-92
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• 2003

The pumping characteristics of a commercial UHV cryopump with a G-M refrigerator for various gases were investigated. The pumping speeds as a function of pumped amount of $H_2,\; D_2,\; He,\; Ar,\; N_2$, CO and the pumping capacity of $N_2$ were measured and the trend was theoretically analyzed. The spectrum change of the residual gas was also investigated during cyropump operation.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.334-340
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• 2011

Turbo-pumps have weak points, such as the pumping operation is unstable on the positive slope of the head curve and/or the cavitation occurs at the low suction head. To improve simultaneously both weak points, the first author invented the unique pumping unit composed of the tandem impellers and the peculiar motor with the double rotational armatures. The front and the rear impellers are driven by the inner and the outer armatures of the motor, respectively. Both impeller speeds are automatically and smartly adjusted in response to the pumping discharge, while the rotational torques between both impellers/armatures are counter-balanced. Such speeds contribute to suppress successfully not only the unstable operation at the low discharge but also the cavitation at the high discharge, as verified with the axial flow type pumping unit in the previous paper. Continuously, this paper investigates experimentally the effects of the tandem impeller profiles on the pump performances and the rotational speeds against the discharge, using the impellers whose loads are low and/or high at the normal discharge. The worthy remarks are that (a) the unstable operation is suppressed as expected and the shut off power is scarcely large in the smart control, (b) the blade profile contributes to determine the discharge giving the maximum/minimum rotational speed where the reverse flow may incipiently appears at the front impeller inlet, (c) the tandem impeller profiles scarcely affect the rotational speeds, while the loads of the front and the rear impellers are same, but (d) the impeller with the low load must run faster and the impeller with the high load must run slower at the same discharge to take the same rotational torque, and (e) the reverse flow at the inlet and the swirling velocity component at the outlet of the front impeller with the high load require making the rotational speed of the rear impeller with low load fairly faster at the lower discharge.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.249-255
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• 2010

Methods of the characteristics evaluation of turbo-molecular pumps (TMP) are well-defined in the international measurement standards such as ISO, PNEUROP, DIN, JIS, and AVS. The Vacuum Center in the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has recently designed, constructed, and established the integrated characteristics evaluation system of TMPs based on the international documents by continuously pursuing and acquiring the reliable international credibility through measurement perfection. The measurement of TMP pumping speed is normally performed with the throughput and orifice methods dependent on the mass flow regions. However, in the UHV range of the molecular flow region, the high uncertainties of the gauges, mass flow rates, and conductance are too critical to precisely accumulate reliable data. In order to solve the uncertainty problems of pumping speeds in the UHV range, we introduced a SRG with 1% accuracy and a constant volume flow meter (CVFM) to measure the finite mass flow rates down to $10^{-1}$ Pa-L/s with 3% uncertainty for the throughput method. In this way we have performed the measurement of pumping speed down to $10^{-4}$ Pa with an uncertainty of less than 6% for a 1000 L/s TMP. In this article we suggest that the CVFM has an ability to measure the conductance of the orifice experimentally with flowing the known mass through the orifice chambers, so that we may overcome the discontinuity problem encountering during introducing two measurement methods in one pumping speed evaluation sequence.

• Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.27-32
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• 2003

A large cryo-pumping system composed of 4 cryosorption pumps was designed and manufactured to satisfy the pressure requirements of the NBI test stand. The cryosorption pump consists of a thermal shield/baffle assembly and a cryopanel coated with activated carbon granules. The thermal shield is cooled by liquid nitrogen, and the cryopanel by a commercial helium refrigerator. The operation characteristics and vacuum performance of the cryosorption pump were investigated. The cooling down time of the cryopanel to 20 K was about 6 hours with a liquid nitrogen consumption rate of about 35 L/hr. The maximum pumping speed of the cryosorption pump for the hydrogen gas measured by the steady pressure method was about 90,000 L/s.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.99-101
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• 2011

In order to have pumping technology for high speed construction of tall building, study for quantitative evaluation of flow characteristics and pumpability should be conducted. So, this study evaluate the characteristics among the inner pipe pressure, fresh concrete properties and separated mortar through the continuous pumping test. Then it consider of relations between rheological properties and pumpability. In the result of test, it found that there are high interrelationship between the rheological characteristics which represented plastic viscosity and pressure lose by pipe length.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.335-335
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• 2010

한국표준과학연구원 진공센터에서는 국제규격에 바탕을 둔 저진공펌프 종합특성평가시스템을 구축하여 $1100mbar\;{\sim}\;10^{-3}mbar$ 압력 영역에서의 저진공펌프(roots, dry 등)류의 종합특성평가를 시행하고 있다. 저진공펌프 종합특성평가시스템은 국제적 절차에 따른 신뢰성을 바탕으로 구축하고 있으나, 한국표준과학연구원 진공센터 뿐만 아니라, 국내에서도 고진공 종합특성평가 시스템을 구축 하고 있지 않다. 이에 반도체/디스플레이 등 첨단 공정에서 진공 환경을 조성하는 핵심장비인 고진공펌프의 종합특성평가시스템을 개발하고자 터보펌프(TMP) 1000L/s 급의 database를 구축 하였다. 터보펌프(TMP)는 throughput method와 orifice method 두 가지 방법을 병행하여 pumping speed 측정한다. orifice method는 일종의 미세유량 측정 장치이며, 실험값과 계산값 유량의 오차 범위가 작고 신뢰성을 확보하면 throughput method 만으로 측정할 수 있다. Througput method는 $10^{-6}mbar$ 압력 이상의 영역을 측정하며, ultimate pressure 및 $150^{\circ}C$의 bake-out 을 진행하여 base pressure을 측정 할 수 있으며, $10^{-6}mbar$ 압력 이상의 pumping speed를 측정 할 수 있다. 이에 따른 정압형 유량시스템을 개발 중에 있으며, inlet pressure와 outlet pressure를 이용한 compression ratio를 측정 한다. Orifice method는 ultimate pressure와 base pressure을 측정하며, leak valve를 이용한 컨덕턴스(C)로 pressure ratio을 이용하여 유량값을 계산하며, $10^{-6}mbar$ 압력 이하의 pumping speed를 측정할 수 있다. 또한 throughput method와 orifice method의 pumping speed 뿐만 아니라 소비전력 및 소음, 진동, 온도 등 특성평가 관련 사항들의 전반적인 사항을 평가하여 터보펌프(TMP) 1000L/s 급의 database를 구축한다. 향후 예비 실험을 통한 고진공펌프의 종합특성평가시스템을 완비해 나가며, 고진공펌프 종합 특성평가시스템을 통하여 국제적으로 공인받을 수 있는 평가기준을 확립하고 그 기준에 의한 진공/기계적 성능의 전방위적인 종합특성진단과 공정대응성 평가 등 국제적 기술 신뢰성을 확보하고자 한다.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.59-68
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• 2023

In the pumping process, concrete moves along the pipe and experiences both pressure and shear. This changes the workability and flow characteristics of the concrete. However, the effect of pressure and shear on the change in properties of concrete during the pumping process has not yet been accurately identified. This study analyzed the effects of pressure and shear on the properties of concrete during pumping. For quantitative tests, lab-scale test equipment capable of simulating the pressure and shear applied to concrete during pumping was used. For one coarse aggregate type, two paste types, three mortar types, and five concrete types, the effects of pressure, shear, and shear under pressure conditions were examined by varying the maximum pressure (0 to 200 bar) and the rotational speed of the vane for shear (0 to 180 rpm). Under the maximum pressure condition of 200 bar, the water absorption of coarse aggregate increased by 0.62% and that of fine aggregate also increased. When the concrete was under pressure, significant changes (a reduction in a slump and an increase in viscosity and yield stress) compared with the effect of the elapsed time occurred owing to an increase in the water absorption of the aggregates. When both pressure and shear were applied to concrete, both the slump and viscosity decreased. As the rotational speed of the vane increased, changes in properties became significant. Shearing in the absence of pressure maintained the properties of concrete. However, shearing under pressure conditions caused a reduction in slump and viscosity.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.140-147
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• 2008

An experiment setup was introduced to study dynamic behaviour of different types of check valves and the effects of air entrainment on the check valve performance under pressure transient condition. The experiment results show that the check valves with low inertia, assisted by springs or small traveling distance/angle gave better performance under pressure transient condition than check valves without these features. Air entrainment was found to affect both wave speed and reverse velocity. With the increase of the initial air void fraction in pipeline, the experiment results show that the wave speed was reduced, the reverse velocity was increased. The first peak pressure increased initially and then decreased with the increase of the initial air void fraction, the pressure surge periods were increased proportionally with air void fraction due to the greatly reduced wave speed. The study can be applied to help choosing suitable check valves for a particular pumping system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.640-650
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• 1998

Pumping performances of a helical molecular drag dump(MDP) and of a radial MDPs are numerically analyzed by using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. A helical- and radial-MDP have rotating pumping channels cut on a cylinder and on a disk, respectively. For a helical MDP, the present results agree quantitatively with the previously known numerical results. For radial MDPs, both of the Type 1 (having pumping channels cut on the stationary disk) and of the Type 2 (having pumping channels cut on the rotating disk) are analyzed to predict their performances for various parameters, i.e., the radius of curvature center of the channel wall, the depth of the channel, the clearance between housing and disk, and the rotating speed. The results show that the performance of the Type 2 is superior to that of the Type 1, and that for all types the pumping efficiency decreases as the clearance increases. Also, the radial type MDP has larger leakage losses in the direction of pumping channel than does the helical one.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.451-457
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• 2006

We measured pumping speed of a sputter ion pump with a honeycomb anode cell structure and compared the result with that of another sputter ion pump with a typical cylindrical anode cell structure. A cell module with a honeycomb structure has no dead space which is about 10 % of the entire horizontal area of the cell module with a cylindrical structure. This dead space makes a little contribution to the ionization of the gas, so the pumping performance of the pump with dead space is expected to be lowered by the amount. From the experimental data we concluded that the honeycomb cell structure is superior to the cylindrical structure by $5{\sim}10%$ in performance.