The term “vacuum” means many different things depending whether you are working on space equipment, scientific instruments, or even internal combustion engines. In our sphere it is so often used as a ...

There’s nothing like a true hack, where something useful is concocted from bits of scrap and bargain store finds. Builds like these are much more than the sum of their parts, especially when they ...

A new vacuum chamber for Cal Poly's College of Engineering was dedicated on campus Thursday, the university announced. Congressman Salud Carbajal, who helped secure the funding for Cal Poly's ...

Reagent jars stored in a vacuum chamber has been suggested, but the plant matter in question contains various oils/terpines, which have a general boiling point of 315F, however in a vacuum of 29.9img ...

Novatec has introduced a line of compressed air, blow-back vacuum chambers and vacuum loaders for powders and dusty regrind. They are said to be especially effective for handling polyvinyl chloride ...

Aluminum - The Unsung Hero for Non-magnetic Vacuum Applications. A variety of industries — semiconductor manufacturing, aerospace, precision metrology, and scientific research — require vacuum systems ...

When you need to test hardware designed to operate in the vast reaches of space, you start in a vacuum chamber. NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has many of them, but Vacuum Chamber 5 (VF-5) ...

Stan Grisnik describes how NASA’s huge craft-testing facility can recreate the vacuum conditions of space. Inside the Space Power Facility The cost of failure of a space mission is millions or even ...

If a vacuum line much smaller than the flange diameter of the turbopump (DN 100 (100 mm)) is used, the effective pumping speed will decrease. A DN 25 (25 mm) vacuum line will result in only around 7.4 ...