Helium Leak DetectionHelium Leak Detection and RGA Analysis

Using the best technology available today, VPI can do Helium Leak Detection on site. Vacuum Processes, Inc. is the premiere facility for design, sales and service of industrial, high-vacuum and leak-testing equipment and systems

The new VPLDS 1000 Leak Detector is equipped with:

  • High-volume and console-testing stations
  • Easy integration into product lines
  • Packing, fire extinguishers, gas bottles, fuel tanks, hermetically sealed objects
  • Leak detector and pump repair
  • Leak detector rentals
  • Used leak detectors
  • Leak detection
  • RGA
  • Ultrasonic testing
  • Pipeline and task testing
  • System constituent testing with RGA

Applications

VPI uses the best technology available and can do helium-leak testing on site.
Applications include:

Electrical

  • Light bulb and tube manufacturing
  • Photo multiplier tubes
  • Circuit breakers
  • high-voltage relays and transformers
  • Underground cables
  • Distribution

Instrumentation

  • RGA
  • Lasers
  • Instrumentation analyzers
  • Gas analyzers
  • Electronic microscopes

Nuclear Physics and Research & Development

  • Particle-accelerator vacuum an beam lines
  • Cryogenic-lines vessel
  • Vacuum valves and components
  • Accelerators and containers
  • Vacuum systems
  • Instruments

Semiconductors

  • Process chambers
  • Vacuum-system maintenance
  • Load locks
  • Gas-panel lines
  • Mass-flow controllers

Medical and Pharmaceutical

  • Catheters
  • Blood filters
  • Pacemakers
  • Hermetically sealed packaging
  • Blister packs

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

  • Compressors
  • Heat exchangers
  • Lines
  • Dryers
  • Evaporators
  • Complete system

Automotive Industry

  • Air conditioning compressors
  • ABS valves and lines
  • Evaporators and lines
  • Air bag
  • Air-bag inflators
  • Air-bag ignitors
  • Fuel injectors
  • Heat exchangers

Aeronautics and Aerospace

  • Test of satellites
  • Fuel tanks
  • Engine injection valves
  • Pumps
  • Window-seal systems
  • Hydraulic components
  • Oxygen lines

Chemical and Mechanical

  • Reservoirs and storage vessels
  • Filters
  • Vapor generators
  • Ovens
  • Vacuum systems
  • Storage tanks
  • Freeze dryers
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Heat exchangers
  • Transfer lines
  • Distillation columns
  • Controlled environment

Technical Data:

  • Smallest detectable helium-leak rate
  • Fine mode 5.0×10-11 mbar x 1 x s-1
  • Gross mode 3.5×10-10 mbar x 1 x s-1
  • Sniffer mode 1.0×10-7 mbar x 1 x s-1
  • Maximum inlet pressure 2 mbar
  • Response time < 1 second
  • Ion source 2 iridium cathodes coated with yttrium oxide
  • Vacuum connections DN 16 KF