Date of Award
1973
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Chemistry
First Reader
Unknown
Abstract
A mercury vapor diffusion pump is capable of evacuating a space to a very low pressure, but will not pump against a high back pressure. The pressure to which a vessel can be reduced with this principle is of the order of a fraction of a micron. (One micron is that pressure which will support a column of mercury 0.001 millimeters, it is 1/760,000 of an atmosphere). The back pressure against which a mercury diffusion pump will exhaust is from 250 to 500 microns. In the three-stage type pump, two additional stages of the ejector nozzle type exhaust in series from the discharge of the first, or diffusion stage, to a back pressure of the order of 20 millimeters.
Recommended Citation
Rothwell, Gary, "Renovation of a Westinghouse Mercury Vapor Vacuum Pump" (1973). Honors Theses. 407.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/honors_theses/407
Technique of High Vacuum and Vacuum Gauges