Gas Fill for Project

Science
#1

Does the Science department (or any other department) have a means of:

  1. Pumping down a sealed system to < 10^-3 torr
  2. Filling the evacuated, sealed system with Neon (I’ll provide the cylinder)
  3. Monitoring the pressure as the system is being filled up to ~30psig

I guess in terms of equipment, this would include:

  1. A vacuum pump
  2. A gas manifold or other gas management subsystem with a regulator
  3. A pressure sensor (or several) which can monitor from 10^-3 torr to 1.5*10^3 torr
  4. Anything else that I’ve missed or haven’t considered

If so, great! I definitely would like to continue a discussion of using such a system. If not, is there anywhere I could go to have this procedure performed (AirGas or the like)?

Thanks!

#2

Paging @Team_Science. They have a deep-draw vacuum pump they are using for some sketchy-ass nuclear bomb/reactor project.

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#3

Would you need to pre-purge with nitrogen or the like, and is your final fill really 30pisg of Neon? Makes one wonder!

#4

No, pre-purge is likely not necessary! And yes, Neon at 30psig. The end use is for an experiment at the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory at UT Austin.

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#5

(No, it’s not a sketchy-ass nuclear bomb/reactor project)

#6

No – Science is doing a sketchy-ass nuclear bomb/reactor project…

#7

Oh, I know, I was just saying that I was not doing a sketchy-ass nuclear bomb/reactor project. But the project is ultimately going to be stuck into the TRIGA reactor facility at UT Austin

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#8

I was thinking this: Plasma toroid experimentation - YouTube