Special Aluminum Gasket Sealing of Non-circular Profile Flanges for the Accelerator UHV Systems release_xpjrgtyrofhqbf3vlldjn7gkle

by Gao-Yu Hsiung, Mark Boland, hitoshi tanaka, David Button, Dowd, Rohan (Ed.), Volker RW Schaa, Tan, Eugene (Ed.)

Published by JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland.

2019   Volume IPAC2019, Australia

Abstract

Most of the beam ducts for the accelerators are not regularly the circular profile. Unfortunately, the conflat (CF-) flanges and the gaskets with non-circular profile were not commercially available. Besides, additional RF-contact bridges between the flanges must be built in for mitigating the impedance from the flange-gaps. In this presentation, various types of the aluminum (Al-) gaskets designed for the non-circular profile Al-flanges for the accelerator ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) systems are introduced. The surface of the Al-flange is flat to accommodate the special Al-gasket with knife edges for the sealing. Both the flange and gasket are manufactured by the oil-free Ethanol-CNC-machining process that any non-circular profile, e.g. rectangular, race-track, key-hole, etc., flanges can be precisely produced. The inner diameters of the gasket just suits those of the flanges that the impedance from the gap is significantly reduced. The flanges and gaskets after oil-free machining can be assembled immediately without any chemical cleaning. The experimental results for the as-mentioned non-circular profile Al-flanges reveal the UHV quality at pressure 20 nPa after vacuum baking.
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