[labnetwork] Local cooling of large rough pumps

[Richelson, Tucson]

Hello Samantha,

We use local chillers for two of our Oxford PlasmaPro100's (and associate rough pumps). I have a TF7500, and a dinosaur Lyrton RC070. I look at the gpm and everything else usually scales with it. The chillers are noisy and it's a little messy with the additional hoses and pipes, but it's worth it.

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Early days of MIT.nano, while the central PCW distribution was being replaced, we installed a half dozen air cooled Thermo TF7500 chillers up on the fan deck to serve groups of tools (essentially a mini chiller system). They can cool up to 7.5kW @ 20GPM/~60F supply…We filled with RO water, and it worked well for us > 2 years.



Happy to discuss in detail if you have questions email/call me.



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From: labnetwork <labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu> On Behalf Of Samantha Roberts
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2024 1:15 PM
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Subject: [labnetwork] Local cooling of large rough pumps





Hello Labnetwork --

I hope you have had been having a good holiday!


I have a situation where our main facility chiller is offline and for reason beyond our control may be offline for some time.  We do not have a facility-scale backup chiller ??.

Has anyone implemented local cooling solutions for their plasma tool rough pumps?

One idea might be to have several individual smaller air cooled SMC-HRS-050 type chillers<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.smcelectric.com/products/smc-spnhrs050an20/?srsltid=AfmBOooeEziJMZnHJXZuusTW5CAROr0mVf6TMwfapY0K72tJPtqaUb_o__;!!DZ3fjg!7-b6vN-wvHznfwGYzYfmvQ6CO6zD3rhN8uTxJbiwX7sHM5ZKwNn0hmlCKtMd_y7ebf1p7pG3EJTX5--uC7w$> (or the like) each cooling a single Pfeiffer pump (Such as is used for ICPs and PECVD pumps).

However, I am not certain of what the critical values are to be satisfied, and how to determine if this is even feasible.  I am currently looking at the water temperature and flow requirements for the pump at the moment, but do not know if these are the only considerations.

If anyone has implemented individual cooling solution for pumps the size of Pfeiffer pumps A604<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.provac.com/products/pfeiffer-a604h-multi-stage-dry-process-pump?srsltid=AfmBOopKTRPXlmYwryqgyYq73UzqL-WHyLesP6H1sfMHLEvarD3C99H7__;!!DZ3fjg!7-b6vN-wvHznfwGYzYfmvQ6CO6zD3rhN8uTxJbiwX7sHM5ZKwNn0hmlCKtMd_y7ebf1p7pG3EJTXanMidzA$> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.provac.com/products/pfeiffer-a604h-multi-stage-dry-process-pump?srsltid=AfmBOopKTRPXlmYwryqgyYq73UzqL-WHyLesP6H1sfMHLEvarD3C99H7__;!!DZ3fjg!7-b6vN-wvHznfwGYzYfmvQ6CO6zD3rhN8uTxJbiwX7sHM5ZKwNn0hmlCKtMd_y7ebf1p7pG3EJTXanMidzA$> or A124<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.provac.com/products/pfeiffer-a124h-multi-stage-dry-process-pump?srsltid=AfmBOooZkIRhCvwgFPkQMOK-1UhZbuHR1HPP9W5s0JgltU5ghsW-I4Je__;!!DZ3fjg!7-b6vN-wvHznfwGYzYfmvQ6CO6zD3rhN8uTxJbiwX7sHM5ZKwNn0hmlCKtMd_y7ebf1p7pG3EJTX2KvhcyQ$> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.provac.com/products/pfeiffer-a124h-multi-stage-dry-process-pump?srsltid=AfmBOooZkIRhCvwgFPkQMOK-1UhZbuHR1HPP9W5s0JgltU5ghsW-I4Je__;!!DZ3fjg!7-b6vN-wvHznfwGYzYfmvQ6CO6zD3rhN8uTxJbiwX7sHM5ZKwNn0hmlCKtMd_y7ebf1p7pG3EJTX2KvhcyQ$> I would love to hear what specific chillers you have used and what your experience of this has been.

Thanks – and happy new year!

Best
Sam



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ASRC Nanofabrication Facility Director

City University of New York



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