Characterization of vacuum conductance in commercially available (sintered) and additively manufactured porous structures
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
This report documents the work performed in characterizing the vacuum conductance of porous structures made by conventional sintering (purchased as commercially available products from Mott Corporation ranging from 20 to 100 media grade) and additive manufacturing (powder bed fusion). The additively manufactured structures described in this report were originally intended to be the first iteration of several in an effort to produce desirable conductance characteristics. While resources were not available to link the experimental results to a modeling effort to better understand why certain characteristics were observed, the author hopes that this report may provide a useful set of data for future use, especially as sintered porous structures are not uncommonly procured from Mott corporation for research and development purposes. For that reason, all of the raw data is tabulated in the Appendix: it is possible to reproduce all of the figures shown in this report independently. For a quick order-of magnitude scan of the conductances, refer to Figures 5, 6, 8 and 9.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States); Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1593543
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2020-0258; 682908
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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