Performance of Zr--Al getter pumps under transient load conditions
Testing of the pump limiter concept in the Impurity Study Experiment (ISX-B) tokamak will involve the use of Zr--Al nonevaporable getter pumps capable of handling intermittent pulses of hydrogen and/or deuterium in the presence of carbon and oxygen impurity concentrations of several percent. To study the pumping characteristics under these conditions we have installed a Zr--Al cartridge pump in a vacuum chamber equipped with a fast gas puff feed system, a quadrupole residual gas analyzer, and a high speed ion gauge for transient pressure measurements. In this paper we report on the performance of the pump over a wide range of gas loads up to that sufficient to provide tens of monolayers of coverage of the getter surface. With flow rates up to 13 Torr l/s, pumping speeds for hydrogen were measured to be 1200--1500 l/s at pressures up to 10 mTorr. The measurements were carried out with gas pulses ranging in length from 50 ms to over 1 s and under conditions that provided a constant pumping speed for impurity species.
- Research Organization:
- Metals and Ceramics and Fusion Energy Divisions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 6232105
- Journal Information:
- J. Vac. Sci. Technol., A; (United States), Journal Name: J. Vac. Sci. Technol., A; (United States) Vol. 2:4; ISSN JVTAD
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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DEUTERIUM
ELEMENTS
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GAS FLOW
GETTERING
GETTERS
HIGH TEMPERATURE
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
IMPURITIES
INFORMATION
ISOTOPES
ISX TOKAMAK
LIFETIME
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METALS
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NUCLEI
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ODD-ODD NUCLEI
OPERATION
OXYGEN
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PUMPING
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TRANSITION ELEMENTS
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