Textbook - MODERN VACUUM PRACTICE
“Modern Vacuum Practice" is recognised as being the introductory book that every vacuum novice needs.
Revised & Updated - 3rd Edition
100 more pages of information
457 pages, around 270 line drawings, 50 tables, 30 black & white photos, 90 questions & answers and a 9 page bibliography. ISBN-13:978-0-9551501-1-1
by Nigel S. Harris M.Sc, C.Phys
Formerly 'Corporate Technical Training Manager', BOC Edwards.
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Dec 2017 - A hardback REPRINT is now available on UK ebay and Amazon
n.b. a few copies of the original printing remain with the stocking distributor in America - see: Vacuum & Low Pressure Consulting - see also their ebay offering Modern Vacuum Practice
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The 3rd edition changes include...
• 100 more pages (nearly 30% increase on 2nd edition and 45% increase on 1st edition
• Corresponding increase in the number of illustrations
• New chapter dealing with vacuum applications
• New chapter dealing with vacuum for chemical processes (water ring, steam ejectors, chemical dry pumps)
• New section having 90 questions and answers (requested by educational users)
• Introduction chapter has been doubled in length
• Some historical overviews added
• Other additions: Point-of-use dry pumping, speed testing of vacuum pumps, venting turbos, nomograms for pump/speed calculations,
outgassing rate graphs, contra flow and hybrid flow leak detection explained etc.
About the author
Nigel Harris has been involved with high vacuum technology for over 30 years and has published more than 20 technical review papers and booklets.
• He has an MSc in “Vacuum Science & the Physics of Solid Surfaces and Thin Films” from Sir John Cass College, London.
• He joined Edwards High Vacuum as a Development Engineer/Physicist working on the development of vacuum pumps later becoming Manager of their UK Vacuum Training facility and eventually “Corporate Technical Training Manager, BOC Edwards”.
• He spent most of his career devoted to raising the technical competency of customers and employees, latterly pioneering the introduction of e-Learning into BOC Edwards.
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