Vaccum Engineering
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Vaccum Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Vaccum Engineering (subject code 3711002) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 1 divides the course into 9 units, covering 35 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3711002)Unit 1 Equation of state for ideal gases ,real gases ,velocity and speed of gas
- the mean free path
- volume occupied by gas molecules
Unit 2 Basic theory of pumping
- Basic definitions
- resistance and conductance of arbitrary vacuum pipe work
- fundamental equation of vacuum technique
- regions of gas flow in pipes
- calculation of pump down time
Unit 3 Interaction of gases with solid-taking up and evolution of gases by
- adsorption and desorption of gases
Unit 4 Production of vacuum
- classification of vacuum pump-Calculation
- operating limits of vacuum pump
- their ranges
- Types of vacuum pumps-oil sealed rotary
- roots blower
- turbo molecular
- getter pumps
- cold cathode &cryogenic pumps principles
- operation of pump and their salient features
Unit 5 Vacuum gauges
- classification –ranges of vacuum gauges
- thermal conductivity gauges
- hot cathode and cold cathode ionization gauges
- ionization gauges with upper range-principle
- construction and salient features
Unit 6 Metered leak measurement. Leak hunting
- Tightness of vacuum system
- leak detection methods
- halide leak detector, and mass spectrometer leak detector
Unit 7 Vacuum system components
- demountable vacuum joints
- electrical lead
- introduction to vacuum valves
- various types
- their selection
Unit 8 Vacuum materials
- -basic requirements
- metals & their alloys
- pump fluids
Unit 9 Selection of pumping facilities –determination of intrinsic speed-
- matching pumps operating in series and in parallel
- calculation of fire
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