Capacitance manometer with sensors maintained at temperatures above the temperature of the vacuum vessel may read a higher gas pressure than the true value. This arises due to a transport process of molecules induced by molecule-surface collisions called thermal transpiration effect. Thermal transpiration effect depends on the pressure, the temperature gradient, gas, geometry and surface properties of the interconnecting pipe between the capacitance manometer and the vacuum vessel. To determine the height of the thermal transpiration effect for the biomolecular gas tetrahydrofuran, an experimental setup has been built. Its suitability to measure the thermal transpiration effect has been tested. Measurements of thermal transpiration effects for nitrogen and tetrahydrofuran have been analyzed with the semi-empirical Takaishi-Sensui equation. The coefficients of the Takaishi-Sensui equation can be used to determine the magnitude of the thermal transpiration effect for different temperature gradients, diameters of the interconnecting pipe and pressures.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-114529 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Johansson, Martin Viktor |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för fysik, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig & Berlin |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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