Day 1
- Introduction
- Basic principles
- Interaction of gases with Surfaces (adsorption, desorption)
- Flow of gases (viscous, molecular & intermediate regime)
- Selected exercises
- Dry backing vacuum pumps and molecular pumps
- Total pressure measurement
- Partial pressure measurement (residual gas analysis)
Day 2
Part 1: Vacuum as a engineering aspect
- Vacuum fundamentals
- Pumping speed
- Gas loads
- Materials
- Joining techniques
- Vacuum seals
Part 2: Mechatronic systems in a vacuum environment
- Heat transfer
- Tribology
- Feedtroughs
- Activators
- Dynamics
- Electronics/Sensors
- Adhesives
- Vacuum budgetting
- Tips & tricks
Day 3
- Cases of construction in vacuum
- Cases in design for UCV
Day 4
- Cleaning, work discipline
- Leak testing
- Exercises & seminar on questions students