Welcome to the lecture number 38 on cryogenic engineering under the NPTEL program. So taking from where we left earlier, in the earlier lecture we talked about conductance. We talked about the conductance equation that has to be considered in order to calculate the pumping speed and we had talked about various equation various conductance equations for some commonly used pipes. We also know the concepts of pumping speed SP and we know the meaning of the word system speed or SS. So the pumping speeds will depend upon throughput and the pressure the vacuum you get at the inlet of the pump while the system speed is basically due to this conductance plus the pumping speed and therefore, the system speed is going to be less than the pumping speed and it is equal to q upon p that is what actual vacuum you get which is going to be less than the pi value. Now this SS and SP the system speed and the pump speed gets related to each other and we have seen this equation 1 upon SS is equal to 1 upon SP plus 1 upon CO where CO is the conductance of the connector of the vacuum pump and the system to be pumped. So one can see from here this is a kind of a reciprocal rule we know that SS is going to be less than SP and less than CO. So in order to maximize SS we have to use such a pump which has got a maximum CP and we have to use such an arrangement we get maximum conductance so that our value of SS is going to be as high as possible. So one can see from here from this equation and also we know that SP depends on vacuum pump. So what kind of pump do we use? The vacuum pump actually will decide what maximum SP it can deliver. So therefore, one of the most important variable in order to calculate system speed is SP while CO is going to be depending on arrangement or how easily one can access the system. Can I use big diameters? Can I use minimum of curvatures? All this will decide in order to maximize conductance and that has to be done in good vacuum system design the CO has to be kept very very as much high as possible normally it will get governed by the geometrical placements or the configurations and things like that. However, the most important component is SP and this SP will be governed by what kind of vacuum pump you choose. Now this vacuum pump will be chosen based on various parameters which is cost, time, space all this parameter will decide what kind of vacuum pump you want to use and this is what we are going to see in this lecture. Also we had seen once we got a SS value it will also decide the time that you require to create a vacuum. So depending on the volume availability how much volume you have to vacuum and what is your SS. So higher the SS less is the value of TP that is time to reach a particular value of P2 from the pressure P1 while PU is the ultimate pressure all these things we had seen in the earlier lecture. So this particular lecture is going to be actually you know decide what kind of SP we can get and therefore what kind of vacuum pumps that one should use. So we will understand what are different available vacuum pumps and depending on your requirement how you choose different vacuum pumps. So outline of this lecture is classification of vacuum pumps. So vacuum pumps can be classified based on I mean there are various vacuum pumps available depending on their functioning and therefore we have to understand how do they get classified. Then we got various types of vacuum pump under each classification mode and therefore we will try to take an example of each of the working of different systems that could be normally used in these applications and finally conclusion lecture of this vacuum technology topic. Now introduction to this topic in the earlier lecture we have seen the importance of vacuum in cryogenics. We have also seen the importance of degree of vacuum and the pump down time from the application point of view. For practical applications a wide variety of pumps are used to achieve the desired vacuum because there are several kinds of vacuum pumps available and therefore based on applications based on availability we have to choose a right kind of pump that this choice of pump is very very important in cryogenics. There is a need to study the different types of vacuum pumps and the components of a vacuum system. This is very important to understand what kind of vacuum pumps you select for your operation and therefore how do we classify vacuum, how do these vacuum pumps in what way they work, what kind of vacuum levels they can create and things like that these are very important. How much time do they take to reach a particular vacuum, these are very important parameters and based on this parameter the selection of vacuum pump is done. So the classification of vacuum pump is the most important thing to understand and the vacuum pump is basically classified in two parts and that is depending on how do they transfer gas, how do they create a vacuum. So any space, you could a space over here in which you want to remove this gas and create a vacuum. So there are various ways of how this gas will be taken out from here and these two ways are one the gas will be taken out from here and you know left to the atmosphere that is one possibility that you just take out the gas and put it back to the atmosphere basically. While in other case which is a entrapment the classification based on gas transfer is one thing in which gas is physically taken out from that place and dumped it to atmosphere. The second possibility it you do not take the gas out of it, you just trap the gas then and there only that means the gas will not be allowed to move now it will be just trapped and therefore there will not be any motion of gas, the gas will be kind of absorbed or adsorbed over there and therefore gas will be not be present in the working space. So in this case we are not transferring the gas out of that system, the gas is kept in the system itself it is trapped over there. So there are two major ways in which vacuum pumps can be classified. Now if you want to understand there are various ways of gas transfers. Gas transfer I will do by taking this gas out from the system and dumping it outside. How can I do that thing? One is positive displacement this is a very standard way of pumps which you see which delivers waters to your houses basically you just take a water from the tank and deliver it top of the house. Similarly I will just take this gas from the system using a positive displacement that means I have got some positive way some directional dependence. For example some simple compressor you know you got an inlet wall, you got outlet wall this gas transfer therefore will happen because of some movement of some rotor element there will be something which is moving it will just displace this gas from this system to be vacuum and dump it it will give the direction to it and dump it to the atmosphere. It will try to dump it to atmosphere or I try to dump it to the next pump which ultimately it will leave it to the atmosphere. So positive displacement pump will basically take this gas from the system it will create actually a pressure difference because of which pressure difference the gas will be taken out from the system it will be dump it will be given a direction correct direction so that it goes from system A to system B and from or directly from system A to the atmosphere sometimes it can go from system A to system B and it can go to atmosphere. So here creating a direction taking this gas from the system and dump it to the atmosphere this is what we call as a positive displacement type of gas transfer. The other one is you got several gas molecules over there and it is not possible for you to give a direction in this case because now we are talking about molecular levels. In this case what we do is you know give direction to the molecules, give velocity to the molecule in a correct direction alright. So each and every molecule actually bombarded with other molecule maybe of gas or a fluid it will give its kinetic energy to that particular molecule. That means the momentum will be transferred and therefore the molecule will travel and the travel will happen so that the gas molecule goes out of that particular system creating a vacuum over there. So these are the two different ways of gas transfer and under each type now there are several kinds of pump for example under positive displacement pumps we have got four different characteristics of pump which is sliding wind type of pump we got a rotary vacuum pump, we got a roots pump and we got a dry pumps. So in which all these cases there is something which is moving and this moving element will move this gas from the system to the vacuum to the atmosphere and we will see for example the rotary pump and roots pump how do they work and in the similar fashion all these pumps normally go to work. Now under kinetic kind of vacuum pumps, kinetic as I just told you that the velocity is important therefore momentum is transferred from molecule to molecular level most of the times kinetic kind of vacuum pumps are used for molecular levels. So in which category we have got a diffusion type of pump, we got a turbo molecular pump and we got a fluid entrainment pump. So there are three different types of which we will talk about diffusion and turbo molecular pumps in detail to understand how do this function. The third category or the second category of vacuum pump which is based on entrapment we these are all the types which come under gas transfer pump. The second possibility is to have a trapping of these gases that means the gases will not be physically taken out from the system but they are trapped inside the system only. Under this category now we got several types of pumps again we got absorption phenomena where the gases are just taken over and absorbed over like a sponge basically. The gases are retained over there only they are just absorbed. Then the cryo pump here the gases are the temperature of the gas is lower to such a level that they get solidified alright. So they get sort of dumped over there they cannot move and therefore the vacuum gets created. Then we got a gator where adsorption phenomena could be utilized or they could be chemical action because of which this gas molecule will cease to move and they will get kind of you know some chemical action may happen and they will get trapped over there. So we got three different ways of having to trap this gas and we got a four different ways of having gas transfer by positive discipline style. Again we saw that under the kinetic category we got three different pumps. So this is the overall classification structure. One has to understand is it a gas transfer type or entrapment type. Naturally you cannot trap lot of gases you cannot trap a big number of gas molecules over there. So there is a limitations but a gas transfer can happen continuously and therefore this is the most acceptable kind of mechanism that is normally used big systems. Well entrapment is to improve the vacuum further if you go to minus 5 to go from minus 5 to minus 6 normally trapping would be done. Now let us see an example how does a rotary pump work. We can see few examples like rotary pump, roots pump, diffusion pump, turbomolecular pumps, cryo pump. These are the pumps which are normally used in most of the engineering applications. So let us see how does a rotary when pump works. So rotary when pump is a widely used pump in vacuum technology. In most of the applications primary applications rotary when pumps will be used. It is mostly used as a primary pump for backing or roughing stages. That means you can get a minus 2 or minus 3 levels of vacuums which are sometimes used as backing to other pumps or you can get some rough vacuum of minus 2, minus 3 and then afterwards you can use different pumps. This is called as a vacuum kind of a pump or you can create a rough vacuum with these pumps. And obviously this pump falls under the category of gas transfer and positive displacement. It is what we just talked. So it falls under the gas transfer category with positive displacement characteristics. That means it has got some directions from where it is taken and delivered to atmosphere. So how does a rotary pump work? What is the principle of working of a rotary pump? So this can be shown in this schematic over here and we can understand how does a rotary pump work. The schematic of a rotary when pump is as shown in this figure. So it consists of a stationary part stator which is what you see here. The blue color is a stator it does not move at all while there is other component which is called rotor which move in this stator. So it consists of a stationary part stator and a moving part rotor assembled inside the casing. So this is the casing to which we call as stator and is a rotor which is actually attached to a motor which will rotate this. But you can see this rotor is little eccentrically placed with this. All right. So this is what constitutes a rotary pump. Moving component is an eccentrically placed slotted rotor. This rotor is not a simple rotor it has got a slot. And through this slot runs a vane and this is what we can see here. So moving component is an eccentrically placed slotted rotor which turns inside the cylindrical stator. So why eccentricity? You can see that there is a sealing. There is a actually some kind of seal contact between this rotor and stator. So this is inlet of the gas. This is exit of the gas. And this inlet of the gas cannot go directly to the exit. It has to go through this way only. And therefore this is kind of sealing. Therefore for which case you have to minimize the distance difference of the opening between the stator and the rotor. There should not be any gap left over here. And therefore this rotor is eccentrically placed with this stator. And whatever gap remains there, it is actually sealed with the oil which is present over there as lubrication also. So there is no rubbing as such over here. It is a rolling contact between the rotor and the stator. All right. This spring loaded sliding vans are mounted in the slots of the rotor. So you can see the rotor over here. And there are slots in this case. And these slots which will have a sliding vane. And these sliding vans are spring loaded. So the spring inside which sees to it that these vans are always in contact with these walls. So actually they get rubbed on this wall. And this spring which are in tension sees to it that this vane is always hard pressed against this stator. All right. So because spring loaded sliding vans are mounted in the slots of the rotor. So when this rotor will rotate the these vans will rub against these walls. But they will never cease to be not having contact with this stator. Always been the rubbing contact with this stator. This rotor is driven by an electric motor at a constant speed. So the rotor is driven by a motor which rotates at a constant speed. Due to the spring action, the rotor sliding vans are in continuous contact with the stator walls during the rotation. This is what I just told you that this spring will ensure that the vane is always in contact with these walls. This rubbing action generates huge amount of heat naturally and therefore we need to have some kind of cooling mechanism. The heat is dissipated by circulating coolant around the stator. So you can have some oil or some kind of air or something. Some cooling medium will always be there to cool the rubbing the heat which is generated between rubbing. Now how does it work? So the system to be vacuum will be connected to the inlet of this pump. And air which is got a working medium we can say it is drawn over here through this inlet because as soon as this rotor start moving the pressure which is going to be generated at this point is going to be less than the atmospheric pressure which is existed over here. So, as soon as that happens this air at atmospheric pressure will start coming inside. Why this happens? Because the rotor is moving all the time and this vane see that there is no gas left inside. In fact, all the gas trapped between this space over here is basically going to be given to the outlet from here. So, as soon as the rotor starts moving the air is drawn due to less pressure on this side the air comes through this inlet and enters over here. Spring loaded exhaust valves are used to expel this compressed gas. So, now once the gas comes when the rotor is at this point the air will come here and when they start rotting this gas volume which is over here. Now between these two vanes it will get compressed and by some time when it reaches near the exit the pressure here will just get above the atmosphere. As soon as this pressure gets above the atmosphere the exhaust valve which will just open as soon as it reaches some pressure above atmosphere it will get it will open and the air will be released to the outlet. So, this sees to that the gas comes here it can start getting compressed just getting compressed above the atmosphere opens this exhaust valve and gets delivered to the outlet to the atmosphere through this outlet opening. So, this valve operates only at a preset pressure to over the backflow. So, gas cannot come back. Therefore, this pressure on this side is going to be just above a predetermined value where the exhaust valve opens and it is delivered to atmosphere. Perfect sealing is maintained by a thin fluid film existing between the moving contact. So, this is the moving contact at this point and therefore, you have to see that there is a oil over here and this sealing is maintained by maintaining this clearance between this rotor and the stator. And it is it also ensure that the gas or the air which enters over here does not move on this side. It always comes through this it gets compressed and then delivered to outside. It is important to note that there is the possibility of condensation of some gases see water vapor during the compression process. Now, this is very important because the air will always come with some water vapor and if the water vapor gets because it gets compressed it has got a particular dew point at its pressure at its partial pressure and therefore, this water can get condensed over which is not acceptable. In a reciprocating or a rotary motion you cannot have a water which is going to get condensed at this point and therefore, you have to ensure that such a condensation could be should be avoided in this case. So, in order to avoid this condensation of the water vapor or any condensable matter for that case this should be avoided over here. So, what is done for that we have got something called as gas ballast valve. Gas ballast is an arrangement in which a metered amount of non-condensable gas is admitted at the high pressure side. So, what we do? We admitted some high pressure air from this side or non-condensable gas here at this and because of which this is a non-condensable gas the partial pressure of the condensable gas which will come down alright. So, please understand this that I am admitting some non-condensable gas is admitted at this high pressure side at this point. This gas packet increases the mole fraction of non-condensable gases in the compressed space that means it decreases the partial pressure of the condensable gas. Once you decrease the partial pressure of the condensable gas the corresponding due point for that the temperature at which it condenses will get lowered and therefore, at this prevailing temperature the condensation may not be possible because the partial pressure of this condensable gas gets reduced. So, what is done to do this? We add some gas increase the pressure of the non-condensable and decrease the partial pressure of the condensable gases because of which now it can't condense anymore and then therefore, it is delivered out in the gaseous form itself. This decreases the partial pressure of the condensable gas alright. And therefore, as a result the water vapor at this temperature does not condense. The very important function of the gas ballast especially in a place where humidity is very very high there is always a good possibility that the water vapor is there in the air. And therefore, initially for some time when you start the rotary pump for some time the gas ballast valve is kept open the air is admitted at this point. And after some time when the air the moisture in the air gets removed the gas ballast valve can be close or sometimes it can function throughout the operation of this rotary pump. So, these are the characteristics of the rotary vane pump you can see the speed versus pressure alright. The adjacent figure shows the pump characteristics for single and two-stage rotary pumps the solid and dotted lines corresponding to pump. So, you can see solid line and a dotted line the solid line is with ballast. So, as soon as you got a ballast that means the ballast is on you got a gas coming or the air coming from the from the outlet side because of which your capacity goes down. So, you cannot deliver low vacuum in this case because you are adding some air deliberately from outside while if you go without gas ballast then you can deliver good vacuuming rate and you can come down to lower pressures also. At the same time such pumps can be used in two stages also that means the outlet of the first pump will go to the inlet of the second pump in that case your meter cube power that means the vacuum speed can be increased you got around 10 meter cube per hour in that case possible and also that you can reach lower and lower pressures in this case. So, one can go for a two-stage rotary vane pump one can go for a single-stage rotary pump one can have the gas ballast on continuously in that case one can have these characteristics or one can normally one can start the pump keeping the gas ballast on and after sometime when the condensables have been taken care of then the gas ballast can be made off and one can then get good vacuum that is what is shown with without ballast alright. Two-stage or multi-stage pumps are used to improve the performance and the ultimate pressure pu of the systems. So, this is the way how the rotary vane pump will work and this is the characteristic of the rotary vane pump with single-stage and two-stage arrangement or with and without gas ballast. This is what we have seen now we saw the rotary pump. Let us see now the second pump which is a roots pump that is also a normally used where you require high flow rates or you want to reach lower vacuums in a very you know immediately that means less time could be taken in those cases. So, typical rotary pump rotary roots pump would look like this. So, you could a inlet and outlet arrangement and you could a two lobe arrangement is a lobe number one and lobe number two. This kind of arrangement is done in a roots pump. The schematic of roots pump is as shown in this figure. It is often used for low and medium degrees of vacuum. So, roots pump are used at various places but not for very high vacuum requirement. Most of the time the roots pumps are preferred in order to reach a vacuum very very fast because the vacuuming rates here are much faster. The pump is base suited in applications where there are high mass flow rates. So, if you want to have very high mass flow rates or you want to have a very big system to vacuum one can use roots pump. Sometimes this rotary pump rotary when pump may not handle very high mass flow rates or you may have to employ two or three pumps in those cases. While around 500 meter cube also can be handled by roots pump basically. It consists of how does it operate now? It consists of two identical lobes rotor mounted inside a casing which you can see this two lobes. Actually it has got kind of a 8 shaped over here. So, there are two lobes we have got a 8 kind of geometry and both these lobes are actually rotated in opposite direction. These lobe rotors are synchronized by an external gear mechanism and are connected to an electric drive. So, both of them are driven by using electric motor and they are synchronized that means they got a special relationship existing between their rotation.  A fine clearance of 0.3 millimeter is maintained between the moving lobes and the status. So, you can see that there is a very fine clearance between these two. Also you can see there is a very fine clearance between the casing and this rotor and at this point. And therefore, the fabrication of these lobes is very very important. The cost of these pumps are relatively higher because of the fabrication cost also involved in them. The micro fabrication that kind of thing which is required the high tolerances that is need to be maintained they are very important over here in this case. They should never touch each other basically if they start rubbing on each other then it will lead to some kind of failure of the roots pump. As a result these pumps can be operated at a very high speed. Now, the fact that there is no rubbing contact in the earlier case there was rubbing contact of vane. Now, the fact that there is no rubbing contact there is always some clearance they can rotate at a very high speed also. And this high speed is responsible to have that its ability to handle very high mass flow rates. So, actually they will never basically have a rubbing contact they can move freely and therefore, we can operate these at very high speeds. And this is a very important characteristic of roots pump. The lobes are rotated opposite direction with respect to each other this is what you can see. So, basically it will take this gas from in late and deliver through this to the outlet and during which it will get compressed. The gas here also you can come the gas can come through this also and the gas will be delivered from in late to the outlet from the system to be vacuum to the atmosphere. The gas is displaced from in late to outlet maintaining a pressure drop. So, the movement of the gas is basically going to happen because of the pressure drop that exists across the inlet and outlet all right. And the gas is going to get compressed while traveling through these and normally the compression ratio could be of the outer optane. Sometimes if you want to have high flow rates for example, or if you want to create low vacuum a backing pressure is necessary on the outlet side before the operation of the pump. So, that you can create a kind of a pressure difference across and these pumps can be put into operation and then by which you can really reach lower vacuums also. This is needed to prevent the overheating. Sometimes when there is no flow occurring there is no delta P across then it can create lot of heat over here because the motion the gas is getting compressed but gas is not moving. The gas will move only when the pressure difference exists across the lobes basically. So, in this case you can have a very high heating over here this is needed to prevent and therefore, when the gas starts flowing the gas also does cooling. So, it is not good to have the gas just moving over here gas has to transfer across here and during that time it cools these lobes also all right. So, the viscosity of the gas also plays a very important role in creating heat in the roots pump operation. The overheating of the casing results in thermal expansion if that happens it will result in thermal expansion of lobe rotors and thereby the possible contact between the moving part and it should be avoided. If this starts having contact between these two they cannot move and it will result in failures of roots pump. It is important to note that against these high mass flow rate one has to compromise on vacuum level. So, if you got a very high mass flow rate you will not get good vacuum you cannot get to very very you know low vacuum case in that case. You can get rough vacuum and you can have very high mass flow rates in the roots pump that can be seen from here also. This is the root pumps characteristics you can see that the adjacent figure shows the pump characteristic for a single stage roots pump. Initially the pump speed s is increases steadily. So, as the pressure vacuum increases the speed will increase it reaches to a maximum value and after the vacuum is created if you further increase the vacuum level the the pumping speed decreases in that case all right. So, one can operate at a very high speed at this point but you get less vacuum in this case. So, one has to see a compromise between the pumping speed and the kind of vacuum. If you want to have very high vacuum then the pumping speed is going to be comparatively less. With a further decrease in the pressure the pumping speed goes to a maximum and then decreases. So, you have to decide at what pressure you want to operate. If I want to operate only at 10 to the power minus 1 millibar then I are going to have a very high pumping speed and therefore, this is where almost 100 meter cube per hour or you can go to 200 meter pure or around 500 meter cube per hour also which is a very high speed as compared to that of the rotary vane pumps. And therefore, roots pump are normally used in applications where very high pumping speed is required at relatively low vacuum levels all right. So, this is what we talked about roots pump. So, we have just now talked about rotary pump under the positive displacement also we talked about rotary pump. Now, let us go to kinetic kind of pump and let us talk about diffusion pump in this case. It is a very important pump and we have been using diffusion pump in almost all the operations here all right because kind of applications we have the diffusion pump is successfully delivering as the vacuum of minus 5 minus 6 that is what required. At the same time it is not very costly and it can be maintained in the lab atmosphere all right. So, let us see how this diffusion pump works. As we know that the diffusion pump falls under category of kinetic pumps now. So, kinetic pump I just told you that it works in a molecular level and it basically involves transfer of momentum from fluid A to fluid B. So, kinetic pumps are used when a high degree of vacuum in comparison to rotary or roots pump is needed. So, I am talking the rotary pumps roots pump delivered normally the vacuum of minus 2 to minus 3 while if you want to go to minus 5 and minus 6 store 10 to the power minus 6 and minus 6 store we will have to look at now kinetic pumps. And therefore, these pumps work at molecular level they work not in the continuum region they do not start from the atmosphere they start at minus 2 or minus 3 their working starts once the molecular levels have been achieved. In these pumps kinetic energy or momentum is imparted to a gas molecule what we talked. This momentum is used in expelling gas molecule from the system and thereby vacuum is created. So, the system to be vacuumed all the gas molecule will be imparted momentum. So, that these gas molecules are driven outside. As mentioned earlier diffusion pump thermo molecular pump fluid entrainment pumps are the common example of kinetic pumps. Now, this is the schematic of a typical diffusion pump. Let us see now how does a diffusion pump works. The schematic of a diffusion pump is as shown in the figure it consists of a chamber housing a oil vessel we can see over here this is the chamber I am talking about and there is a oil at the bottom over here and there is a heater at the bottom to heat this oil. So, it consists of a chamber housing a oil vessel with a heater a chimney which is over here alright you can see a chimney over here a chimney and a nozzle which is at the top. So, you can see a nozzle. So, you got a chimney over here and a nozzle at the top on chamber outer surface cooling coils carrying water are around. So, you can see on this side you got a cooling coil. So, this is basically the coil coiling is done through which the water is flowing water at room temperature a chiller water whatever water it is going to be flowing all the time. So, whenever you want to operate diffusion pump you require this water connection all the time. These pumps are most effective when operated in free molecular regime as I was telling you that these pumps normally look after molecules they will impart momentum to molecules and therefore, they cannot be started in the continuum region or they cannot be started working at room at atmospheric pressure. They cannot start having vacuum creating vacuum from atmospheric pressure. So, in practical application it is coupled with a backing co pump. So, some kind of pump is used over here which will first create kind of a molecular region and then these molecules are dumped to a backing pump and this backing pump will you know leave it to atmosphere. So, this is the way the diffusion pump would work. The heater now how does the diffusion pump work? So, suppose I want to create vacuum in a system which is kept at this point and the diffusion pump will be attached to that system to be vacuum. I will start the heater the heater vaporizes the oil. So, this oil will be vaporized depending on the vapor pressure it will get vaporized and this oil will travel up to top the molecules will go up the hot vapors will go up and they will start coming out this through this nozzles. The heater vaporizes the oil and these hot vapors rise into the vapor chimney. The hot vapors are deflected downwards by an annular nozzle or a jet assembly mounted at the top of the chimney. So, you can see the nozzle at this point and the hot vapor will go up and they will come at a very high velocity when they travel through this nozzles and that is the work these nozzles would do or a jet assembly would do. This jet moving downwards at supersonic speed imparts momentum.  These vapors moving downward at supersonic speed imparts momentum this jet of the oil vapor which is coming out it will impart momentum to randomly moving gas molecules in the chamber. So, you got a gas molecule which is moving here and this jet of the water vapor will impart momentum to these molecules and they will give direction to this randomly moving gas molecules. This momentum deflects the molecule toward the pump outlet this is the pump outlet. So, all these gases will try to come towards the pump because the momentum has been given by this high velocity jet. In other words this momentum gives direction to the randomly moving molecules toward the pump exit. Now, having delivered them to this this is a backing pump which will take these molecules at this pressure and deliver it to atmosphere it will compress this molecule to dump it to the atmosphere. So, the backing pump is very very important because the diffusion works in a molecular region. So, it will take this molecule from here and dump it to some pressure from where it is further compressed to atmosphere by backing pump. So, a backing pump is constantly used to remove the gas molecules. What would you happen if I do not use gas backing pump you can have all the all the molecules at atmospheric pressure here which is a very high pressure at this point and there was such a big number of molecules will be there that this water vapor will not be able to strike to those molecules at all. So, that is why you have to have a molecular region over here and not a continuum region because there are plenty of molecules in other case all right. So, you have to create a molecular region. So, that each and every molecule gets addressed by this jet which is coming out of this nozzles the hot oil condenses. Now, what happens to the oil the oil vapor which is coming at a very high speed it brings this gas molecules to the outlet while this out when it the oil when it touches this wall will get condensed because of this running water from outside all right. So, hot oil will come over here it will get condensed because of the running water at this point and therefore, it will again condense back and will come back in this oil at the bottom of this chamber again. So, hot oil condenses on cold wall and returns to the vessel at the bottom and again it will you know get heated the vapor will start up it will get velocity when it comes out of this thing it will impart momentum to the gas molecule and come back and this cycle continues. One of the common problems in the diffusion pump is the back streaming of oil. So, sometimes when this oil gets heated this oil can go in the space to be vacuumed also this is very important disadvantage which has to be considered while using a diffusion pump. So, if your system can handle sometimes the back streaming of this oil which has got a good possibility to come in the system itself then this system the diffusion pump cannot be used all right because diffusion pump handles oil and sometimes the equipment for example, in semiconductor phases or microelectronics they cannot afford to have any oil coming in the system. So, in this case diffusion pump cannot be used. So, this is disadvantage of diffusion pump that sometimes the back streaming of oil is possible. This occurs when the pump oil molecules move above the upper portion of the jet this causes contamination of vacuum chamber this is not permissible for certain applications and therefore, in those cases diffusion pump cannot be used. Now, this also can be avoided to an extent. So, one can have some chilled baffles over here and these baffles are chilled with running water or using liquid nitrogen sometimes. So, this chilled baffles or cold trap is used to prevent the flow of oil molecules into the vacuum chamber. So, suppose at all oil has to is travelling it will get trapped by this cold trap which is cooled by liquid nitrogen or chilled baffle which is cooled by chilled water and this oil will get condensed over here this oil vapour which otherwise would have gone to system can get condensed and it will come back over here. So, one can always use a diffusion pump with a cold trap in order to minimize the back streaming of oil in the system to be vacuumed all right. So, these are disadvantage associated with it at the same time this disadvantage can be taken care of partially to an greater extent by using chilled baffles or cold trap. However, in a system where require very very clean vacuum where oil some traces of oil also cannot be allowed in that case one cannot use a diffusion pump. So, choice of a pump will be dictated by the kind of applications you are using it for. Now, this is the characteristic of diffusion pump that as soon as see it is work between minus 2 to almost minus 6 minus 8 millibar region and the speed remains constant all right. The figure shows the variation of pump speed with pressure all right. So, you can see 100 meter cube per hour or 150 meter cube per hour that kind of speeds diffusion pump will have and you can go up to minus 8 minus 7 kind of pressures which we have been talking about the ultimate pressure P u what limits this pressure is basically the vapor pressure of oil at what particular pressure the oil you know get evaporated what is the vapor pressure of oil that also will decide what is the limitation on the pump pressure basically then pump design of course, how much what is the characteristic for what particular you know pressure it has been designed for and again the gas flow from the vacuum space. If you got a very high gas to be to be removed gas load it will take a lot of time first thing and you cannot reach very very low vacuum in those cases the schematic of a diffusion pump together with a rotary pump is as shown in the next slide. So, how does it work because it has to work with a backing pump and one can see a schematic. So, you can see that this is my vacuum chamber to be vacuumed and you can see that this is the diffusion pump and this is a rotary pump and this rotary pump is connected to directly to the system to be vacuumed through this roughing wall and also it is connected to the diffusion pump through a backing wall. As mentioned before diffusion pump is effective in free molecular regime the initial pump down of the system is done using rotary pump. So, you cannot start diffusion pump immediately if this vacuum chamber is at atmospheric pressure. So, in which case I will not start diffusion pump, but I will start only the rotary pump and this rotary pump when it is attached to the vacuum chamber through a roughing wall it will create the minus 2 or minus 3 levels of vacuum before the diffusion pumps comes into action alright. So, with a backing pump wall close in that case what will I do I will close this backing wall that means rotary pump connection with diffusion pump is stopped rotary pump directly in acts with it gets aligned with the vacuum chamber and roughing wall is made on backing wall close and roughing wall open in this position respectively the gas is pumped out from the system as shown in this figure. So, directly the rotary pump is attached to the vacuum chamber it will create minus 2 vacuum this is delivered to atmosphere you get around minus 2 to minus 3 vacuum alright and then when the pressure in the system falls very below to ensure a free molecular regime the diffusion pump is put to use them. And once diffusion pump comes into picture now I will start this direct condition of rotary pump to the vacuum chamber, but I will have connection through backing wall now. So, the diffusion pump will be made on the diffusion pump molecules comes into molecule region it will leave this using this backing wall it was dumped now the rotary pump is acting as a backing pump to the diffusion pump as the action of which I have explained earlier. So, with backing wall open and roughing wall closed positions respectively the gas is pumped out of the system as shown in the figure and this is how the diffusion pump will work continuously now in this operation initially only for some time say 1 hour you will have roughing wall open the rotary pump will be directly connected to the vacuum chamber to be vacuumed, but after 1 1 to 1 and half hour the roughing wall is closed the backing wall is open and the diffusion pump is made on and this will start working like this. Now, you can see the actual diffusion pump over here I have just given a picture and you can see this is a diffusion pump here and this is a rotary pump and they are connected through this 2 walls and this is a roughing wall I have just shown a schematic. So, you can understand it better way. So, initially I will start this rotary pump connect it to the space to be vacuumed through this roughing wall and then I got a backing wall which I will open once the molecular regime is established at this point and you can see the diffusion pump and this is the cooling coil at this and you got a oil and a heater at the bottom over here alright. So, you can one can understand entire working of a diffusion pump from this and you got a rotary pump over here alright. So, this will make you understand the working of a diffusion pump completely. So, let us see a video here which shows you 2 hoses vacuum hoses A and B let us say and as I said that your vacuum pump can you know stay away from this place well your space to be vacuumed can be quite away and therefore, we have to have some hoses joint together for which we have got some coupling mechanism and this is very important because this one has to be used this quite often. So, what it has it has got some kind of ceiling in between. So, you can see some rubber ceiling you got some brass ring on which this rubber ceiling goes and it stays over there. So, kind of a housing over here and then you got a coupling alright and this is what constituted a kind of k f coupling here which is normally used in connecting this vacuum hoses which are made of stainless steel and you can see some corrugation also here and this is the way the coupling is actually you know compiled together. So, you got a nut at the end which actually you know puts them together. So, we just saw the coupling 1, 2, 3 part and now you can see vacuum hose which has got a diameter and this can be a k of 25 that means the 1 inch kind of a thing. Similarly, you have got a 2 inch coupling also. So, whatever you want to use and you got 2 hoses now and using this coupling now we want to connect this 2 vacuum hoses. So, you can see how the rubber is held on this brass housing alright. This will have the same id as this and this will now be connected with this using this coupling together alright.  So, this is my ceiling this is the way you press it now here. So, this will have a id matching over here the internal diameter will match with this alright as you see. So, this is in perfectly aligned with this vacuum hose on this side and the vacuum hose on the other side also. So, I can put them together and now this coupling will hold all these 3 elements together vacuum hose 1, vacuum hose 2 and the ceiling material together. So, this is the way a k f coupling would be assembled and this is what will be used everywhere in all the cryogenic experiments and therefore, the conductance of the entire connection now will change because you have got a 2 lengths brought together because of various reasons and this is the way the 2 hoses of you know 1 meter lengths will be connected at the other end you got a pump and the other end you got let us say some vacuum jacket of which you have to take a vacuum basically and this is the way the 2 vacuum hoses will be connected without having any leak through this with perfect ceiling mechanism alright. So, this is our classification table and having seen how the diffusion pump works under the category of kinetic kind of pumps. Let us see now how the turbo molecular pump works because these 2 pumps are normally very widely used under the kinetic category. So, as to obtain a vacuum level of minus 6, minus 7 of these sorts basically. So, let us see how this turbo molecular pump works. The schematic of a turbo molecular pump normally it is referred to as TMP at in a short form lot of people will call it as use a TMP. So, a turbo molecular pump is normally called as TMP in colloquial language and this is the way it works. So, you got a arrangement like rotor stator, rotor stator, rotor stator like that and rotor stator would look like this there are blades which can identify the rotor there are other blades which get identified as stators and they got several rotor stator, rotor stator arrangements the gas is transferred and delivered to the vacuum vacuum pump and this is how the turbo molecular pump works normally. So, a turbo molecular pump consists of alternate layers of stator and rotor discs the rotor rotates at a very high speeds the stator remains constant stator will not move while the rotor will start moving and the rotor rotates at a very high speed typically of the orders of 27,000 rpm and above they are working at 60,000, 70,000, 1 lakh that kind of rpm higher the speed better it is because as I told you this is a kinetic category and is a transfer of momentum. So, depending on the gas molecular size and depending on the kind of speeds they get the mass into velocity is a momentum is going to be created because of the mass into velocity the typical gases which we use here could be air, nitrogen, helium and each gas would have its own mass to this mass now we will give a momentum by giving a velocity and therefore, the velocity has to be as high as possible. So, speeds at which these people work the turbo molecular pump works is going to be very very high as high as possible that is possible from design point of view. So, higher the speeds higher the momentum higher the gas molecular size or mass higher is the momentum. So, helium for example, is a very light gas very small size molecule the very small mass and therefore, momentum transfer in that case is going to be less as compared to that of nitrogen. So, one has always TMP will be specifying the flow rate with respect to a particular gas because the particular gas has got a molecule will have a particular mass and therefore, it is very important to see that normal TMP or diffusion pumps where momentum transfer happens the speeds are mentioned in terms of nitrogen or a particular gas. Now, here we have got a various blades the rotor blades the stator blades the rotor blade and the stator blades and the blades are mounted at an optimum angle there the angle over here which ensures that the space to be vacuum the gas is going to move in downward directions. The the molecule will strike against these blades it will given a direction by the stator blade again it will give a momentum by rotor blade again the direction given by stator blade in order to see that molecule will not go back, but is always going down to the backing pump. So, the direction is given by the blade angle and the blade angles have to be correctly designed manufactured optimum angles and these angles are in have to be ensured that they correctly exist on rotors as well as static blades both the blades will have to have correct angle. This high speed rotation imparts momentum to the gas molecules upon collision with the rotor disc. So, what is happening this rotor is moving very very fast and the gas molecule will come the come over there and this gas molecule will collide on the rotor discs and this during this disc the momentum of the rotor will get transferred to the gas molecule and it will get velocity because of which it will go to the stator and again the stator will give direction again on the next rotor stage it will get a momentum and again it will given direction and in such a way that the momentum is imparted in every rotor stage while the stator stage ensures that it goes in the correct direction and ultimately it will go through a backing pump. The high speed molecules are directed toward the exit using the stator discs. These two adjacent discs are often called as a stage of a TMP. For example, one rotor and one stator will call will constitute one stage. So, you got a one stage, stage number 2, stage number 3, stage number 4 and normally 6 to 7 or 8 stages could be there for a given TMP not more than that alright. What is most important you can understand that first requirement is that they are rotating at very high speed. The rotor is rotating at a very high speed and the second is a fabrication of these blades. The angle at which each stage is kept every stage the angle will be different every stage the compression ratio will be different alright. So, the gas will come at minus 5 and by the time it comes to vacuum pump the gas will be at minus 2 or minus 3 in these cases. This is very important how these blades design will change across the stages what the angle will change and therefore correct angle correct fabrication is very important aspect of TMP. Fabrication requires lot of skills because of which you can understand the cost of the TMP also is exorbitantly high as compared to the diffusion pump. A TMP has 6 to 7 stages depending upon the level of vacuum required. These pumps are more efficient in free molecular flow region again as you know diffusion pump they also work in a free molecule region and therefore you have to have a backing pump in order to take the gas and again dumping it to atmosphere ultimately. So, the TMP would deliver from minus 6 minus 7 to minus 2 from where rotary pumps will take over as backing pump and they will deliver it to atmosphere ultimately. They are often backed up by mechanical pumps or a rotary pump lot of developments are happening because they are moving at such a high speed the bearings of TMP pump alright. The balancing of TMP pump are very important research activities research topics. So, let us develop in TMP include replacement of oil bearings with dry non lubricant bearing alright. So, we have you got to have lot of magnetic bearings are there non contact bearings are there static bearing dynamic bearings are the very important happenings you know research activities happening in the design of turbo molecular pump. And a typical turbo molecular pump is shown over here and you can see that there is a rotary pump on this side and there is a turbo molecular pump which houses all the stages here alright. So, you got a turbine stages which are housed over here you got a rotary pump which is kept at this point. So, there is a kind of a backing pump and ultimately it is left to atmosphere. This is the way the TMP works. Let us come now next kind of thing which is I am just going to give an example of entrapment kind of a vacuum pump now. And therefore, we can see under this category we can see how a cryo pump works. So, we have seen now gas transfer type of pumps we will see entrapment and under entrapment now let us see how does a cryo pump work. Now, how does a cryo pump work? Cryo pump basically works in lowering of temperature and seeing to it that the gas vapor pressure is brought down. That means the gas ceases to be in gaseous conduction the gas gets actually frozen down because of the lower temperature that is generated by a cryo pump. So, for example, if I am at 100 Kelvin it ensures that water is at very low vapor pressure now it is as low as minus 9 that means it is not non-existent at all alright. That means, all the moisture in this case is completely frozen now this is not in gaseous stage at all and therefore, there is no gas existent over here. If I come down to 20 Kelvin you can see that water, xenon, oxygen and nitrogen all of these are below minus 9 kind of a vapor pressure. That means, these gases have got frozen if I have got a 20 k surface exposed to these gases. So, at 20 k now what are the gases over there there are neon, hydrogen, helium this cannot be taken care of. So, if I have got a surface which is having a 20 k temperature it will ensure that the vapor pressure of all these gases normal gases which are existent in air will be taken care of. That means, they all get frozen and therefore, their vapor pressure is much below minus 9 alright. And this is the basic principle on cryo pump works that can you lower the temperature of the space therefore, all the gases in that space will get frozen down and that means they get cryo pumped alright. This is what a principle of a cryo pump is. The adjacent figure shows the variation of equilibrium vapor pressure with temperature for different gases. When the temperature of is less than 20 Kelvin the vapor pressure of gases other than helium, hydrogen and neon helium, hydrogen and neon are close to minus 9 millibar. That means, you can get a vacuum pressure of minus 8 minus 9 easily, but neon, hydrogen and helium will still be in gaseous phase over there. But, they are as you know they are rare gases basically, but you cannot take care of neon, hydrogen and helium at 20 k their pressures are very, very high. They could be at 10 to the power 3 millibar kind of pressures. So, typical cryo pump is looks like that it consists of a two stage gm cryocooler. So, you can see a two stage gm cryocooler which works in a closed cycle manner. You can have a compressor running this cryocooler. The first stage of this cryocooler delivers around 70 Kelvin. The second stage of cryocooler delivers cooling effect at around 20 Kelvin. And this works on a principle normally of gm type machine which we have seen already how does it work. The schematic of a cryo pump is as shown in this figure. A two stage cold head unit produces temperature of 70 Kelvin and 20 Kelvin at first and second stage respectively. Adequate shielding and insulation is provided to avoid various heat in leaks. This pump can reach pressures as less as 10 to the power minus 10 Torr which is very, very good. So, you can see now here the first stage is connected to this lured radiation baffle. That means this baffle is kept at around 70 Kelvin and the spaced vacuum will be exposed over here. When the gas comes inside whatever moisture is there because this is 70 Kelvin this moisture will be trapped it will get frozen down. And we know that at 70 Kelvin now all the moisture is taken care of. Now the second stage you can see there is a shield over here and this is at 20 K surface. So, when this gas comes down the remaining oxygen nitrogen xenon etcetera will get frozen down on this. And therefore, at this 20 K this 20 K shield will take care of the other gases other than moisture by this 70 K shield which is connected to the first stage it will take care of water vapor. As mentioned earlier all the gases except helium hydrogen and neon are frozen at 70 K baffle and 20 K cold head. So, 70 K baffle and 20 K baffle will take care of all the gases except helium hydrogen and neon. Now helium hydrogen neon are basically going to be adsorbed on the carbon charcoal paste which is kept over here on the inside part of this inverted cup. One is open cup like this to be baffles are connected one is a closed inverted cup and the inside part of this is going to be having a charcoal paste on this on which helium hydrogen and neon will get adsorbed. So, all these other gases also can be taken care of by this adsorption technique on the activated charcoal. So, gases like helium hydrogen neon are adsorbed onto the charcoal provided on the underneath of 20 K shield. And this is the way cryo pump will take care of almost all the gases in this case this is the way it works. Hence it is clear that the pumping speed of this pump is directly proportional to the surface area more the surface area you can have more gases that could be adsorbed or that could be trapped in this case. These pumps are self contained hydrocarbon free and are cooled by a two stage cryo. So, there is no oil business over here and therefore, it creates a very clean vacuum and this is the way they can be really used in application like semiconductor physics micro electronics cryo pump is a very very acceptable pumps in this area because they deliver very very clean vacuum there is no oil like what it is in diffusion pumps. So, there are several other pumps called I will not go into detail, but Gator pumps, Sputter ion pump, sublimation pump, adsorption pump and I would like you to go through the working of these pumps they all come in kind of entrapment pumps that also could be sometimes used. The pump selection is governed by various criteria and their criteria is what is the working process? What kind of pump do you want to use? Do I want to rotary pump diffusion pump? As I said we have got a clean requirement of vacuum I should go for cryo pump and thing like that. So, working processes ultimate pressure is required total volume surface area of the chamber to be vacuumed out gassing rate of the operating pressure. So, is there out gassing possibility? Is there a painting on the inner part? Is there some coating on the outer part? All these things have to be seen pump down time required that is also will decide what kind of pumps that could be used dimensions weight vibration limits and cost also will decide what kind of pumps to be used and there are some sometimes special requirement like hydrocarbon atmosphere reactive gases bake out which will also decide what kind of pumps to be select in these cases. So, what we have seen in general is various pumps and various pumps have got different operating ranges. If I want to operate from here to here minus 2 I can select only rotary pump. So, the adjacent figure will show the operating ranges of different vacuum pumps. So, for example, if I want to work from minus 2 I will have a mechanical or single stage vacuum pump and if I want to go up to minus 3 I can have a 2 stage mechanical vacuum pumps. If I want to go below minus 2 up to minus 6 or minus 8 I can go for diffusion pump. That means, I will require a backing pump in order to reach up to minus 2 first. This is what we have seen earlier and then I got different ion pumps which can take me down to minus 10 levels of torque and then I got various other pumps like sorption processes which can bring to minus 6 pumps and there are other pumps like cryo pumps which can operate from minus 3 to minus 10 giving me clean vacuum. Several other pumps are there all of them will have their operating ranges, but what is important to see is what kind of a pump to be used and what criteria of that should be used has to be understood with the working of these pumps. So, let us summarize what we have learnt in this particular topic. We have found that heat in lake is minimized by having vacuum between two surfaces of different temperatures. We also defined a number called Nurssen number which is lambda by D. Based on this Nurssen number we have flow regimes as continuum flow when Nurssen number is less than 0.01. We got a mixed flow when the Nurssen number is between 0.01 and less than 0.3 and you got a free molecular flow when Nurssen number is 0.3. Lambda by D basically determine the ratio of mean free path to the characteristic dimension D and the lambda is defined as a length between the two subsequent collisions of the molecules. The various conductance correlations we had understood. The conductance correlation for a few pipes and pipe joints are given in the lectures and we found that based on these correlations we can calculate conductance based upon which we can calculate the pumping speed and the system speed. And you know that conductances when put in series you got this expression and when conductances they are in parallel we got this expressions in order to calculate the overall conductance of this pipes in series and piping parallel. We know that the pumping speed sp depends on a vacuum pump and therefore in order to maximize system pumping speed we know that the conductance should be kept as maximum and sp and ss and co get related by this formula which is 1 upon ss is equal to 1 upon sp plus 1 upon co. We have studied this formula in detail. For a constant ss now we got an expression for time to create a vacuum from the pressure p1 to p2 and as ss is more as the system pumping is more we know that time to reach that particular vacuum is going to be less and less for a given volume v. Then we had studied various vacuum pumps. We know that the rotary when pump is widely used for backing or roughing stages. It is a positive displacement pump. Roots pump is often used for low and medium degrees of vacuum. It is best suited for high mass flow rates when you want the low vacuum to reach very very fast or we got a very big volume to be vacuum. Then we know diffusion pumps are most effective when operated in free molecular regime. In practical application it is coupled with a backing pump. Then we got TMP or a turbo molecular pump. It consists of alternate layers of stator and rotor discs. These pumps are more efficient in free molecular flow regime as diffusion pump. Then we got a cryo pump which gives us clean vacuum when the oil is a question always a clean vacuum is preferred using cryo pump. So, commercially available cryo pump has normally a two stage gm cold head or a cryocooler which first stage around 70 to 80 Kelvin while the second stage will be around 15 to 20 Kelvin. Temperature on these two stages of this cryocooler and based on the temperature generated on this first stage and second stages various gases will be getting frozen on the surfaces. The vacuuming process involves freezing of the gases onto this cold end and the vacuum is generated. This is any short summary of the entire vacuum topic. Thank you very much.


Fellow citizens of St. Lucia, the government of St. Lucia has dedicated 2020 as a year of health in St. Lucia. While we at the Department of Health and Wellness are aggressively pursuing strategic initiatives which include physical and economic access to health for the people of St. Lucia in keeping with the median-term development strategy. In late 2019 the world was caught off guard by a new virus called COVID-19 which to date has ravaged many countries in the world and touched most of the others. As a result of the global outbreak of COVID-19 the World Health Organization WHO on March 12th 2020 declared the outbreak a pandemic. Currently global leaders are grappling with this infectious disease which threatens the social economic health and overall well-being of countries. For us in St. Lucia it has resulted in the major reprioritization and redistribution of government resources to fight this emerging global threat. One of the key policy decisions that was taken was to accelerate the move to the Owen King European Union Hospital and to use the Victoria Hospital as a respiratory hospital to deal with this highly infectious disease. Following the announcement of this decision the management and staff of the Victoria Hospital have been working very hard to make this move a reality. Before we delve further into the full transition which will commence from Wednesday March 25th 2020 I wish to thank the hard-working team who are fighting this epidemic while simultaneously ensuring that all preparatory activities to facilitate a smooth and safe transition to the OKEU are implemented. We at the Department of Health would like to inform the fellow St. Lucia's that this week will be an historic moment for us in St. Lucia while we do not want to take away from the serious focus of COVID-19 transitioning to a new hospital is a very rare occurrence and therefore citizens of this country will be part of an historic and special moment in the country's national development. As a resilient people the Department of Health urges everyone to join in its efforts to make this transition a reality. Thank you. Intensive training and preparatory activities will continue in the coming days with different stakeholder groups such as the St. Lucia Fire Service, the Royal St. Lucia Police Force, the National Emergency Management Office NIMO and other government agencies. As stated in an earlier press release staff orientation of the new facility was held last week and team building activities will culminate in a few days. Therefore I want to invite all St. Lucia's sons and daughters of the Helen of the West to join us on this grand occasion. You may ask yourself how can you be part of the process? You can be by participating in the following. One follow the updates on the news and on social media from approved credible sources notably the Office of the Chief Medical Officer, the Bureau of Health Education and the Education and Communication Unit within the Department of Health and Wellness. These briefings will also be aired on GIS, NTN and other local media as well as the Ministry of Health and Wellness Facebook page. Two, add hair to the directives given by the move team. Three, add hair to the traffic control measures that will be implemented by the Royal St. Lucia Police Force. Four, the resources of the state will be heavily involved in the transitioning and COVID-19 activities. Therefore we expect you to discuss within the family how emergency situations will be managed. Five, persons are advised to take extra care of their health particularly during the day of the move from Victoria Hospital to OKUH to avoid or to minimize disruptions in our plans. And finally brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of St. Lucia, pray for the move team to ensure a smooth and safe transitioning of all patients from Victoria Hospital to the Owen King European Union Hospital. To allow for the smooth transition from Victoria Hospital to the Owen King European Union Hospital and from a clinical perspective, please note the following. The Casteries Wellness Center will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Monday, March 23, 2020 to Monday, March 30, 2020 except on the Friday, March 27, when it will be open until 8 p.m. This is to manage non-emergency cases to facilitate the ramping down of services at the Victoria Hospital. The Grosselat Polyclinic will remain open from 8 a.m. to midnight from Monday, March 23, 2020 to Monday, March 30, 2020 and this will include the weekend. Lab X-ray and pharmacy services will remain available at the Grosselat Polyclinic during this period. St. Jude Hospital will be assisting Victoria Hospital with management of the emergency cases from Monday, March 23, 2020 to Sunday, March 29, 2020 to protect the public, patients and staff from COVID-19 which is a public health emergency of international concern. The Victoria Hospital management is encouraging that children below the age of 10 years and adults above 60 years to not visit the hospital during the time of COVID-19. The visiting hours will continue in the morning from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. in the afternoon from 12 noon to 1 p.m. However, the 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. shift will now only be for one hour from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. We are also asking to limit to two visitors per patient that is admitted and we are encouraging persons to wash and sanitize their hands before and after visiting the patients and to continue to observe cough etiquette.


Hi, my name is Yoshitake Kobayashi and today I'm talking about the Sibling Fula Structure platform which is an industrial-grade open source base layer. Before I'm starting to talk about CIP, I'd like to explain what CIP is, CIP is one of the most conservative open source project in the Linux foundations. I think this project is one of the most important project for our civilization, civilizations. That's because CIP aims to provide open source base layer for CIP related embedded systems and which runs on the infrastructure stuff. We also work closely with the upstream community, so work with the upstream community is quite important concept for us because without working with the upstream, we cannot become realized through this kind of a concept. So CIP wants to create a base layer, but base layer doesn't mean whole distributions. Whole distribution is quite big, but we would like to concentrate to build very limited important stuff for our embedded use cases. So I'd like to say our civilization runs on Linux, that's real. Many infrastructure related stuff such as transportation and energy or industry and healthcare, something like that, it already runs on Linux. For example, for power plant, turbine is controlling by Linux. So if such kind of stuff just stopped, it caused serious issues for our life. So there are some issues to be solved. For example, I'd like to explain about power plant system example. Once we created power plant, the life cycle is 25 to 60 years. So it's very long time. So when we create power plant, we usually take 3 to 5 years for development. In this development cycle, we also take half year to 4 years for customer specific extensions to fit the customer requirements. And after we release this kind of product, we also supply 6 to 8 years, which means maximum 18 years, 13 years for supply time, including a development time. And then more than 15 years hardware maintenance, oh sorry, after a latest shipment. I'd like to say 20 to 60 years for product life cycle. And I'd like to mention 2 years. What 2 years means? CRP just started from April 2016, which means we're now on 2 years old. But product life cycle, lifetime, is 60 years for the most case. So during this product lifetime, things change a lot. There are one typical example is IoT. IoT means many things connected to the network to optimize our life. And industriality is also a similar concept. And within the industry, even industrial area, many kinds of stuff are connected to the network to keep our infrastructures. And these kinds of stuff need to have industrial grades, quality, and also security management stuff. So this kind of stuff has to be secure enough to continue to provide services. So there are some problems. So in our use case, especially for civilian infrastructure platform case, we need to have very long life support. And currently, this long-term support done by individual companies. So each company doing long-term support. Even their business area is quite similar. And the other problem is we're also doing a lot of effort to create an industrial-grade software and industrial-grade product to have a robustness or secure and reliable. These kinds of stuff also done by individual companies. But we are doing very similar stuff. For example, we would like to have real-time capabilities to control turbines. But the other company also thinking about that. These kinds of stuff can be shared by the companies which have similar concerns. So the solution we need is we have to have long-term maintenance and also industrial-grade. That's two topics can be solved by the collaborations. And CIP is our solution. That's why we started CIP two years ago. And we'd like to establish an open-source base layer of industrial-grade software to ensure the use and implementation of software building blocks for civilian infrastructure systems. And now we have seven companies. And one company, Moxa, is just joined last December. So we try to contribute to the open-source project individually. And also we have a budget to contribute to the other open-source project, which we require to have our use case. This is a very basic concept for the civilian infrastructure systems. Then from an open-source project, we try to collect open-source software by managing CIP and then want to go to long-term support. This is the original concept when we started CIP. And what CIP again is our focus is open-source base layer. Open-source base layer is industrial-grade core open-source software components, which includes Linux kernel and very basic software, something like GDBC or busybox or something like that. And this component is quite important for us, but this can be extended by other distributions because other distributions have a lot of open-source software packages, can be used with CIP open-source base layer. So this concept is very important to realize CIP because CIP have a limited resource and very difficult to create whole distributions. So we started from very small, then extended to a bit and again. So from now, I'd like to explain the latest CIP status and activities. When we started CIP two years ago, we focused... At first, we focused on super long-term support Linux kernels. Then we moved to focus to the testing and real-time and also build environment for CIP base layer. So the first one is the kernel maintenance. We created a super long-term kernel based on Linux kernel stable. And after that, we merged a preempt RT patch on top of the CIP kernel. This is actually based on the stable RT. And after we selected the CIP kernel, we also need to test the kernel. So we created a testing environment, which called a border test. I will explain later. And finally, we created the CIP core, which includes the CIP kernel and the open-source components. So when we started CIP, we need to select the kernel versions. And at that time, we selected the Linux 4.4 as the first CIP long-term support kernel. And we also hired a maintainer from the community. And Ben Hatching is from Cosync, is our CIP super long-term support kernel maintainer. And the Linux <IP_ADDRESS>, CIP-20, it just released on March 9th. So probably most of you related to some development. Maybe 4.4 is LTS, not even a CIP. So what we are doing is CIP not just doing maintenance by ourselves. So we back-boarded some features from the upstream kernel for CIP kernel. But this is very limited to make more secure, to have more board support packages. So one key feature is security. And we back-boarded the kernel-safe protection project-related features. And we also back-boarded patches from Siemens IoT-2000 series. And also, we actually back-porting many patches for UNESCO's RZC series. This kind of feature is now on CIP kernel. And we created the CIP kernel maintenance policy and the most important in our kernel maintenance policy is upstream fast. So if we want to have some future back-port in our CIP kernel, the future must be included in the upstream fast. Then we try to back-board. So I mentioned that some future back-port is already done by CIP. It's actually already on upstream. And now we have around four to six weeks release cycles. But before CIP 120 is released, as you know, there are huge issues on kernel security meltdown spectrum. So we also are investigating a lot and what kind of effects will we have for that. So in that case, yeah, we have a bit longer release cycle. But mostly four to six weeks release cycle done by brain hatching. And we're also working with LTS stable release cycle. For example, a brain hatching review of stable patches. So this is a quite small techies. But Gregor Hartman, just asking, reviewing patches for 4.4. And Ben reviewed and find some patches like that. In this review cycle, there are some patches which delete K-free here. But this delete removable makes memory leak. So Ben Hartman commented to these kind of mistakes. So this kind of work also making more reliable for the stable kernel. And I would like to mention about out of three drivers. We don't have out of three drivers in CIP kernel yet. But of course, this is open source. So anyone wants to have out of three drivers with CIP kernel. But this kind of stuff can be done by themselves. And CIP official kernel do not have any out of three drivers. So now we also need to consider the next CIP LTS kernel versions. At the beginning, starting time, or CIP, I mentioned a CIP kernel will be released every two to three years. And now CIP is two years old. So we are considering to have our next CIP kernel. And most important thing we are considering is kernel version alignment. Now, many projects are using long-term support kernel. So we at least want to select Linux kernel from LTS versions. But the other project also using LTS. For example, LTSI, AGL, and maybe Debian, and more. So we would like to make some alignment with such kind of communities to share the effort for the maintenance. So to make it realize, we are planning to have a face-to-face meeting during Open Source Summit in June with a stable kernel maintainer and also our CIP kernel maintainer. The next thing we are doing is real-time. Most of you know, still real-time Linux patch is not upstream yet. But to make a controller stuff, we need real-time capability. So we are trying to help a real-time Linux project to become a gold member. And currently, we are working together with a real-time Linux project. And Daniel Wabner from Siemens is working to become the maintainer for stable RT kernel. This is the base version of the CIP kernel. And currently, we're discussing how to take over the current maintenance from the Steven Oswet to Daniel after 4.4 maintenance period is done. For more information, you can find this URL. And now, CIP, SLTS kernel is available. And that first CIP real-time kernel was released in January, I think January 2nd. And the latest one is 4.4, 120 CIP, 20 RT something. And it's maintained by Daniel Wabner from Siemens and validated by him and also CIP. And yeah, after we release a CIP kernel, we need to validate a CIP kernel itself. We created the environment for testing kernels. And that's called the Baudat Desk. Baudat Desk designed to test relaxed kernel and base systems locally by using kernel CI and Lava. Kernel CI and Lava is mostly very common tools to test kernels in community. That's why we selected both of two components. But that kind of system usually working on the remotely, but we'd like to test locally to validate our embedded systems. So Baudat Desk able to connect to devices that are on desk. This is a concept why we called Baudat Desk. And this is already available on the GitLab. And you can test by using it Baudat Desk. And recently, we updated Baudat Desk to include the latest kernel CI. And also supporting to Renaissance board. And then we just recently sharing test results by using email mailing list. So if you're going to the CIP test results mailing list, you can find some results by testing done by Baudat Desk. And currently, Baudat Desk, made by Bagramt and Virtual Machine Box. And we direct to development through containers. So this is currently under development. And we also want to collaborate with other testing projects, which is using Lava and Kernel CI. Yesterday, we had a technical showcase. And there are one demonstration which is called a Loving Box. So this is also using Kernel CI and Lava stuffs, just included one box to test both. This kind of work also similar concept with Baudat Desk. So we direct to work together to realize this kind of stuffs. Then the last one is the CIP core packages. So it's just grayed out second step. We define the initial components at first, which include libc, bzbox, uboot, relux kernel, something like that. That was less than 10 components. But after that, we would like to define the component version. But to define component version, it's quite difficult. Because we also would like to work with community. So we decide to contribute upstream projects and decide to Debian as CIP primary reference distributions. Primary reference distribution means CIP will select a CIP core packages from Debian packages. And also CIP will direct to work with Debian community. Recently, the reason why we choose Debian is Debian has wide community. And also Debian has a very clear license cleaning process. And of course, we have already a Debian-based product in some companies. So that's why we chose Debian. And to start collaboration with Debian, we thought long-term support is quite important project. So we decided, and just we decided to support Debian LTS project as a potential label. This is not opened yet because we just decided a few days ago during a CIP governing board meeting. So we started to contribute to Debian LTS and also Debian communities, which related to some security staffs. And yeah, in this, Debian also wants to have some staging repositories to security master. And this is still ongoing project. And it is already on the bug report track. So we let also support this kind of work to be fixed. We are also working for that. So this is OK, skip. And to make a CIP core packages, we also need a build environment. So we created one build environment which have a Debian source code or Debian build packages with CIP kernel to have a minimum deployable base systems. And we call that this software as a CIP core. And current status is we already created tools in this GitHub repository. And some of both include the Renaissance, Big Bone Black, Cyclone 5 staffs is already able to run by using a CIP kernel with Debian source code. Maybe I just skip this. And there are many tools already available by using Debian binary packages or Debian source code. And there are at least three efforts doing similar stuff. So in this kind of stuff could be used by CIP. And currently CIP using a Debian. But this one is based on full source code, not able to get binary packages. So we would like to combine this kind of stuff to make more easy to use to build our root file systems. So this is a tool. And the other way to have a root file systems, of course, we just use Debian itself. But there are some gaps and common goals in between CIP and Debian. As you know, Debian is a very huge distribution, which includes more than 25,000 source packages, which can be generated 67,000 binary packages. But CIP currently focusing less than 10 packages. But the support term is quite different. Kind of Debian only supports five years. But CIP needs to support more than 10 years. That's why we started to contribute to Debian LTS first to consider to extend the support term with Debian community. And for build systems, we sometimes need to have cross build capabilities. But Debian are using native build. So there are some points. We can contribute for Debian cross. And open source license compliance issues, currently Debian moved to a new license format, which is called Dev5. And this is very detailed information and can be converted from SPDX files, which is standardized by Linux Foundation project. So we currently considering to have reviewed result with, for example, SPDX, then convert it to Dev5 and also contribute to Debian community. So this is a kind of way to contribute to Debian. So I also would like to mention some of the CIP members also interested in Yacht project. They want to use BitBake with CIP-based component. So now we decided that Debian are the primary distributions and Debian source code have a five year support. So to have this benefit with Yacht project, we consider to make maybe a meta CIP layer. But this is a kind of ongoing project. So the other stuff under discussion in CIP is we now started considering cybersecurity standards. IEC 26443 is a cybersecurity standard which includes many specifications to develop secure industrial automation and control systems. This standard actually define the processes to develop a secure product. In this process, the specification also requires lots of tests. But currently no standardized test cases are available or we also would like to have this certified product but we still don't study how to get our product ready for the cybersecurity standard. So to realize this kind of stuff, we consider to development test cases and also recommended setting-ups to be documented. If this kind of work to be done by CIP, so CIP users also get the benefit to certify their product for this standard. So that's what we are going to move forward. But we are sure we will not develop a procedure or certification schema because this is done by organizations finally. And question, 20 years from now, do you know? From 20 years we have January 19th, 2038. So this year 2038 is a blocking issue if we want to have our product for more 20 years commitment. So and to solve these issues, there are a lot of stuff needs to be done. And we know someone already working on these issues like and is working for Karnem and the other person working for G-Lib C to solve this year 2038 for issues. So we also had a discussion with them how can we collaborate to solve these issues during the last ELC Europe timing. So yeah, this is currently ongoing, but unfortunately we haven't had any output yet. So we also discussed a lot of stuff. Functional safety and software update for industrial systems is also maybe need to have. But for functional safety, there are also some projects is running like a Syrto-Linux MP or something like that. But this is very difficult issues. So we'd like to, yeah, want to know what they are doing and also we'd like to decide how can we collaborate with them. And this one is not under discussions, but I'd like to say CIP just joined HGX formerly as an associate member. Currently under discussion is what we can do with them because HGX is trying to create middlewares using Docker or containers. But in the below, we are using Linux. And this part also need to be supported securely enough for a longer time by using industrial area. So that's why we become an HGX Foundry associate member. So next time maybe we try to run HGX Foundry component on CIP base layer. But currently CIP base layer have a gap to run HGX Foundry. For example, HGX Foundry require Java. But CIP, I'm sure, currently not includes Java itself. But the Debian component already includes Java. So maybe we can consider to create CIP kernel with CIP base layer and Debian packages, then try to run. This is a might be a story. So I'd like to conclude my presentation. Currently CIP focusing on open source base layer development. And we are focused on several topics, which include kernel maintenance, testing, and CIP core packages. And now we started the security staff. And this kind can be done by collaborations. We already started collaborate with Debian community and real-time start project and HGX Foundry. So we try to extend this kind of collaboration to realize the CIP base layer. So I'd like to conclude my presentations. And I'd like to say our civilizations need an open source base layer of industry-grade software to make more stable for our infrastructure. And CIP will provide this by using Linux. And to realize CIP base layer, we get a sustainability either ensured by backing a big industrial and semiconductor companies, also cross-cooperation with building with mature open source product, such as Debian. And finally, we'd like to say collaboration is one of key concept for CIP. So that's all of my presentation. Thank you very much. Any questions? Yes, please. OK, the question is he's working for the company in Brazil. And in Brazil, CIP is also beneficial to realize their infrastructure. And his question is how can they be involved to CIP? That's all. I think, yeah, please join. Yeah. Yeah. And this is also, of course, this is open source project. You can ask us any contribution to CIP project. And we have an open mailing list, which is open for everyone, not just limited to the CIP members. We have our WIC page, which includes how to, for example, how to build CIP core, and how to use the CIP kernel, something like that. So I would like to provide this kind of information. Maybe I have some. Hang on a sec. All right. 54. No, no, no. 54. No? 54. Sorry. Maybe I need to finish my presentation first. Then, OK, this is the information you can get there. Yeah, I will upload with this information to the sketch.org. OK, thank you very much. And any other questions? All right. OK. That's a good question. And his question is, yeah, we have an upstream policy. Even we have an upstream policy, the changes for kernel is made every day. And after six years or 10 years, they will change a lot, which include API changes or something like that. In that case, even we have an upstream first policy, we are very difficult to backport from the upstream. And his question is, what do we think about upstream policy? Even this kind of stuff happens. And my answer is, we know this kind of issues will become real. But if we, no, just, sorry, this is in my opinion. Even that, if we consider the upstream first, we know what upstream thinking and what is the most important way to backport it. Even this is quite difficult. So sometimes we have to make two drivers for upstream and downstream. But maybe a concept, some part of the concept for the development could be shared by each other. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Please make a bit loud voice. Yeah, I cannot hear your voice. So there are some possible cases will be happened. Even we have an upstream policy, we have to consider to case by case basis. So that is his comment. And yeah. So this kind, yeah, I understand that. But in that case, that kind of stuff is probably out of tree. And also specific to the developer. So need to be supported by themself. So we direct to have a CIP corner itself and keep it stable. So which means the developer also can be maintained with that CIP corner. Even after the original stable is already unsupported, we have to support CIP corner. So that kind of things can be done, I think. So any other comment or questions? Yes, please. OK, the question is, do I have a summary to show CIP version and release timing? And the answer is, sorry, I don't have. And yeah, we can check the Git log to get the summary. But currently, we don't have a page to summarize that. Ah, I see. OK, that's a good comment. Thank you very much. Yeah, and someone asked me why we are saying CIP corner is supported by 10 years. Why don't we ask karnel.org to show the release pages or something? This is a might be we have to consider. But yeah, currently, we have a backport package. So we should consider what can be done. All right, thank you very much. And other questions? Comment? All right, it's more time. Thank you very much for attending.