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Selecting the right vacuum solution for your industrial application
Vacuum pumps are widely used in various industrial applications for creating a vacuum or low-pressure environment, being exposed to very different operating and process conditions. There are many factors to consider when selecting a vacuum pump such as physical volumes, gas composition, process parameters or environmental conditions.
These factors are essential to consider for proper pump selection and achieving optimum design and productivity. Edwards applications engineers are always ready to help you choose the right vacuum solution for your manufacturing needs, all thanks to our decades-long application expertise and advanced proprietary modelling software.
Industrial applications we support
Industrial Gas Production
Vacuum pumps are used in industrial gas production for a variety of applications including gas tanks filling, vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) for the recovery of high purity hydrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide (carbon capture) as well as the generation of oxygen and nitrogen (air separation).
Another area where Edwards dry pumps are used is for cryogenic applications such as gas liquefaction where vacuum is used for thermal insulation reducing heat loss and boil off.
Sterilisation
Vacuum technology plays an important role in several health care and life sciences applications. Sterilisation is a critical process needed for eliminating microorganisms that could contaminate pharmaceutical material, apparatus or medical equipment and thereby result in a health hazard. Sterilisation processes include high temperature (steam) or low temperature processes (ethylene oxide or ETO, hydrogen peroxide, plasma, electron beam or E-Beam) for decontamination of heat sensitive objects. Edwards dry chemical vacuum technology with hazardous area application enables most of these sterilisation processes.
Plasma Treatment
A plasma is in simple terms a partially ionized gas and is often called the fourth state of matter. Plasma technology is used in thin film coating or metallurgical applications; however, plasma treatment generally refers to utilisation of plasma for surface activation (modification of the surface energy) or surface cleaning (removal of organic contaminants).
Our Dry screw pump combined with mechanical booster pumps enables physical conditions for plasma ignition and as such are present in most of these applications.
Crystal growing
Crystal growing is a process where layers of atoms are grown in highly ordered and structured arrangements to form high purity crystal. Various techniques are employed such as growing them from a seed crystal or epitaxial deposition. Materials used typically includes silicon for semiconductor and solar panel markets, gallium for compound semiconductor wafers (III-V), silicon carbide for power devices. Diamond growing is an emerging technology for semiconductors, high frequency sensors, quantum computing as well as lab-grown consumer diamonds and is growing in demand day by day.
Our GXS pumps and combinations with in-built control and state-of-the-art screw technology are ideal for your crystal growing process owing to their high reliability and vapour handling capability.
Innovative products for a changing industry
At Edwards, we are continuously working to equip our pumps with market-leading innovations to suit the changing needs of the industry. Our vacuum solutions are widely used in many other industrial applications such as our Chemical Dry Pumps for vapour recovery, Oil Sealed Rotary Vane Pumps for production of heat dissipation pipes, optical fibres production where our Dry Screw Pumps are capable of handling process dusts, high capacity Oil Screw Pump for large volume environmental chambers or Liquid Ring Pumps for mineral, mining as well as pulp and paper industries.
We are at the forefront of leading innovations for emerging industrial markets, please contact your local Edwards office to discuss more about your industrial vacuum requirements. Our application experts will be happy to help you choose the right vacuum solution for your process.
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