Rectangular Vacuum Chamber Design

Consider one wall of a rectangular vacuum chamber approx 1m x 1m.

Rectangular vacuum chamber design. Standard chambers are provided with hinged o ring seal doors in the vacuum chamber material or clear acrylic which afford user access to the full chamber volume. The wall is thin steel plate welded to the rectangular steel frame box section. I m uneducated in physics so i m not sure where to begin with this. It will measure 48 x96 x8 i plan on constructing it from clear polycarbonate sheet on.

Design rules for vacuum chambers c. Depending on material thickness and span stiffening bars may be required to prevent deflection of the walls while the chamber is under vacuum. In general vacuum vessel designs are made as small as possible so long as they don t hamper the process being run in the vessel. Hauviller cern geneva switzerland abstract producing a vacuum chamber means de fining the boundary conditions inner and outer envelopes operational constraints etc choosing the.

Hauviller cern 7 18 may 2006 introduction mechanical design of a vacuum chamber define all the boundary conditions parameters settled by the other systems material. Rectangular chambers are fabricated from plate material that is welded or they are machined from solid billets. A long debate conceptual design followed by. Vacuum furnaces come in all shapes and sizes but common to each is that they require some type of vacuum vessel fig.

Designing a rectangular vacuum chamber help please thread starter olgkd123 start date apr 27 2017 tags chamber design vacuum chamber pressure vacuum vacuum chamber apr 27 2017 1 olgkd123 4 0 hello everyone. Most vacuum vessels in the heat treating industry are cylindrical in shape and either horizontal or vertical in orientation fig. Abbess chamber cubes create the vacuum environment for end use testing and process activities in structurally sound and easily accessible rectangular volumes. I want to build a vacuum chamber that is rectangular and fairly flat.

Im planning to use this vacuum chamber for coating telescope mirrors in the scales of 0 3m 2.