• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.86-95
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• 2007

This paper presents the optimal design of an exhaust system of a vacuum-compatible air bearing using a genetic algorithm. To use the air bearings in vacuum conditions, the differential exhaust method is adopted to minimize the air leakage, which prevents air from leaking into a vacuum chamber by recovering air through several successive seal stages in advance. Therefore, the design of the differential exhaust system is very important because several design parameters such as the number of seals, diameter and length of an exhaust tube, pumping speed and ultimate pressure of a vacuum pump, seal length and gap(bearing clearance) influence on the air leakage, that is, chamber's degree of vacuum. In this paper, we used a genetic algorithm to optimize the design parameters of the exhaust system of a vacuum-compatible air bearing under the several constraint conditions. The results indicate that chamber's degree of vacuum after optimization improved dramatically compared to the initial design, and that the distribution of the spatial design parameters, such as exhaust tube diameter and seal length, was well achieved, and that technical limit of the pumping speed was well determined.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.49-52
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• 2007

Vacuum facility is required for high altitude space environment test to develop small thruster. We, at Chungnam National University, developed vacuum test facility up to $10^{-5}$ torr to simulate $100{\sim}120km$ altitude environment. Prior to operation, we predict vacuum pump performances and present preliminary calculation and experiments.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.161-168
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• 2010

The ISO standard specifies the diameter of the gas introducing tube to be definitely 1/10 of the chamber inner diameter of the standard test dome which is used for evaluating the performance of vacuum pumps. Because the inner diameter of the test chamber should not be less than the intake diameter of the vacuum pump, the tube diameter would be even 100 mm if fitting to a very large vacuum pump. Though such a thick tube can be accommodated in a large test dome, it is worthful to investigate whether a thicker tube is helpful or adverse for making more accurate measurements. In this paper it is discussed if there is an optimum tube diameter by comparing the isotropicity of particles emanating from the tube and that of particles entering the orifice.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.243-248
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• 2010

Sonic nozzles have been a standard device for measurement of steady state gas flow, as recommended in ISO 9300. This paper introduces two sonic nozzles of diameter ${\Phi}$ 0.03 mm and ${\Phi}$ 0.2 mm precisely machined according to ISO 9300. The constant volume flow meter(CVFM), readily set up in the Vacuum center of KRISS. was used to calibrate the discharge coefficients of both nozzles. The calibration results were shown to determine them within the 3% expanded measurement uncertainty. Calibrated sonic nozzles were found to be applicable for precision measurement of steady state gas flow in the vacuum process in the ranges of 0.6~1,800 cc/min. Those flow conditions are equivalent to the fine gas flow with Reynolds numbers of 26~12,100. Those encouraging results confirm that calibrated sonic nozzles enable precision measurement of extremely low gas flow encountered very often in th vacuum processes. Both calibrated sonic nozzles are proven to provide the precision measurement of the volume flow rate of the dry vacuum pump within one percent difference in reference to CVFM. Calibrated sonic nozzles are applied to a new 'in-situ and in-field' equipment designed to measure the volume flow rate of vacuum pumps in the semiconductor and flat display processes. Furthermore, they can provide other applications to flow control devices in vacuum, such as MFC, etc.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.456-462
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• 2015

The objective of this study was to develop an advanced pump technology using tornado and axial pumping principles without priming water. The developed rotor type slurry pump consisted of an electric motor, driving shaft and coupling, a rotor, an impeller, suction and discharge pipes. For the clean water test, the experimental results are presented for the discharge flowrate, electric power input and vacuum pressure with the rotor design parameters as a function of the motor rpm. The slurry discharge characteristics with the solid concentration of the cement slurry was performed. As the rotor diameter and height increase, the discharge flowrate and electric power input increase while the vacuum pressure in the suction pipe decreases. The rotor thickness had no significant effect on the discharge flowrate and electric power input. Slurries with more than 18 % solid concentration, which is the development factor, can be pumped.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.69.2-69.2
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• 2015

가속기의 진공용기는 안지름이 대략 20~40 mm 정도로 아주 작지만 길이는 수백 미터 이상이다. 이 같은 진공장치에서 기체 컨덕턴스가 그 진공성능을 결정하게 되며 점점 더 작아지고 있다. 이때 진공배기 방법은 주로 균등배기(distributed pumping)을 하는 데 초기에는 distributed ion pump와 Strip NEG를 주로 사용하였으며 최근에는 coated NEG가 대세이다. 균등배기의 또 다른 한 가지 방법으로 작은 동전 모양의 게터를 사용하여 그 성능을 평가하여 보고하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.343-349
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• 1995

게데형 분자드래그펌프의 배기특성을 강구(hard sphere)분자모델과 NTC(No Time Counter)충돌 scheme을 이용한 직접모사 법의 하나인 DSMC(direct simulation Monte Carlo)방법을 이용하여 해석하였다. 해석에 사용된 모델은 높이가 일정하고, 길이가 높이의 1~3000배 사이인 이차원 채널이다. 자유분자영역으로부터 연속체 영역까지의 영역에서 최대압축비와 배기속도를 계산하였다. 계산결과 기존의 최대압축비 이론 결과는 채널내의 압력변화가 클 때는 큰 오차를 유발하는 것을 알 수 있었고, 유동방향의 기체분자의 통과확률은 채널 길이와 출구압력에 관계없이 거의 일정한 값을 갖는다는 것을 발견하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.1078-1083
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• 2000

A high speed rotor balancing machine was developed, which is capable of balancing a flexible rotor in high speed. The machine is largely consisted of vacuum chamber, oil supply system and vacuum pump system. And, in order to investigate performances of the machine, various tests were carried. After high speed rotor balancing of gas turbine engine rotor using influence coefficient method, the flexible engine rotor passed smoothly through its critical speed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.240-240
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• 2013

PLS-II 저장링 진공시스템의 주 배기 장치로 설치되어 운용되고 있는 조합펌프(NEG+이온펌프)의 성능을 측정하였다. 이 조합펌프는 60 l/s 또는 30 l/s의 이온펌프와 WP950 (ZrVFe) getter module (1~3개)로 구성되어 있다. 이 펌프의 배기속도를 활성화 방법에 따라 측정하여 성능을 검증하고 재활성화 빈도, 흡착률을 실험적으로 측정하였다. 배기속도는 수소, 일산화탄소, 수소+일산화탄소의 혼합기체를 사용하여 측정하여 보고하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.44-44
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• 2010

포항가속기연구소에서는 성능향상사업(PLS-II)를 수행하고 있다. 전자빔의 에너지는 2.5에서 3 GeV로, 빔전류는 200 mA에서 400 mA로 증가되는 반면 빔에미턴스는 약 1/3로 줄어든다. 저장링 진공시스템은 저장된 전자가 충분한 시간동안 저장되도록 $10^{-9}$ Torr 대의 진공도를 가져야 한다. 빔에너지와 전류가 늘어나기 때문에 기체부하도 약 4배 상승하므로 적절한 배기 시스템을 가지도록 설계되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 저장링 Main pump로 사용할 조합펌프, Lumped NEG 펌프의 설계 과정과 시험결과 에 대하여 보고하고자 한다.