[Nurdrage] puts out a lot of neat videos, mostly about home chemistry. For the home chemist it is occasionally desirable to pull a vacuum. For example, a potentially dangerous chemical can be boiled ...

In principle, industrial vacuum pumps are merely compressors run with the inlet attached to the vacuum system and the outlet open to exhaust. In smaller sizes, compressors and vacuum pumps are often ...

High vacuum lines and valves should be designed in accordance with the nominal pumping speed of the high vacuum pump. Otherwise, there will be considerable losses in the effective pumping speed due to ...