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Transformers Collector's Club Punch / Counterpunch Restock Available Soon
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Transformers Collectors' Club wrote:Punch/Counterpunch will be available this week to order. This is a restricted item and you need to read the product description below before you place an order. If you have ordered one in the past, you are not eligible to order this product.
Please do not call and ask us when this will go online as we want to make this as fair to everyone as possible. As soon as we have verified the shipment we will place it online.
Please do not call to be put on an order list as we are not creating one. If you call to place an order once they go live, we do not guarantee you a place in line. The products are on a first come/first served basis with the online orders placed by members, taking priority over any orders called in.
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08-06-10 2010 Club Exclusive Punch/Counterpunch (1 pc) PLEASE READ RESTRICTIONS BEFORE ORDERING!!!!!! This figure is LIMITED to 1 per person/per membership (you cannot create a second membership and order this product) and is available ONLY to those who have not ordered one in the past. If you order more than 1 per person/per membership or if you have previously ordered this figure, note that your order will be cancelled completely, and then charged a 25% administration fee!
The online system will process any order you place but the humans will be checking every order and will cancel the one's (and charge a 25% administration fee) that violate the rules. We want as many members as possible to get this figure at the offered price.
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i am absolutely amazed and delighted that a toy manufaturer woould care more about the individual than the profit.
i applaude them
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Z3ROhour: Deus X wrote::shock:
i am absolutely amazed and delighted that a toy manufaturer woould care more about the individual than the profit.
i applaude them
It's more like a licensee of said toy manufacturer
Posted by Pretender Skywarp on August 10th, 2010 @ 3:27am CDT
Hopefully theu will look at implementing something similar next year.
Although (begrudgingly) in their defence, I think the repsonse to this one was pretty overwhelming. Common sense however would dictate that if you are going to release a "CHUG" G1 Character that isn't available anywhere elase, you're onto a winner.
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Razorclaw0000 wrote:I think it was $56 plus shipping.
Whatever it was, it's worth it.
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--B-- wrote:Razorclaw0000 wrote:I think it was $56 plus shipping.
Whatever it was, it's worth it.
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We visited Passau last December and found it to be a very beautiful city. We especially liked the river fronts and wanted to return in a warmer season. The city was unfortunately severely flooded this year. Has anyone visited it since? Is its tourism industry up and running? I see that hotels are open on the web.
We are likely to visit Germany again in the early spring next year with my brother and his wife. I thought that Passau would make an excellent stop. I do not want to ogle flood damage, which I understand rightfully irritates residents. I want to see the city, its rivers and the inviting Altstadt.
Any first hand information would be appreciated. Thanks Gary
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We visited Passau last December and found it to be a very beautiful city. We especially liked the river fronts and wanted to return in a warmer season. The city was unfortunately severely flooded this year. Has anyone visited it since? Is its tourism industry up and running? I see that hotels are open on the web.
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Interesting question.
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Thanks for your interest VonVan. Gary
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If you use Google Translate for this site www.pnp.de/hochwasser you'll get a good sense of all the progress that is being made, from reading the many articles on the current state of recovery.
My impression is this: If you go visit Passau, you'll be doing them a favor - isolation is not what they need at this time. There will be obvious visual signs of the flood, and there will be hidden ones, but unless you behave in strange ways, you won't have to feel apprehensive and worried about irritating the locals. They'll tell you their horror stories if they feel like it, but mostly they want life to go on. Read the articles and see if you agree.
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From a tourist's perspective, Passau is back in business. And while you may spot a closed individual building or re-building/construction along the river banks here and there, you won't get a "post Katrina" feeling exploring the tourist sites. After all, getting flooded is a century-long "tradition" for those communities along the Danube, just the intensity of the 2013 flood had been exceptional. And no one will bat an eye if you want to take pictures of flood damages or visible marks of the water line if you should spot some..
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Thanks Michel. I will go take a look at the articles.
Thanks Cowboy. I am looking forward to returning.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Aug 14, 1990
|Filing date
|Jan 10, 1989
|Priority date
|Jan 16, 1988
|Fee status
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|Georg Gartner, Peter Janiel, Hans Rau
|Original Assignee
|U.S. Philips Corporation
|Export Citation
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|Patent Citations (8), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (66), Classifications (9), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The invention relates to a heatable arrangement for producing a gas flow of an inert gas which is enriched with the vapour of at least one low-volatile, pulverulent substance, the arrangement
comprising a vessel having an interior space for holding a powder,
a feed pipe for introducing the gas flow into the vessel and a discharge pipe for removing enriched gas flow from the vessel,
the feed and discharge pipes each having a valve,
the pipes ending in the vessel in such a manner that when the device is operative, the gas flows through the powder,
the vessel (1) and the discharge pipe (19) being provided in a thermostatically controlled bath (2),
the powder (13) including an additional solid inert component,
the interior space (12) having two walls which are arranged transversely to the gas flow (4, 16) and are formed by gas-permeable, porous plates (10, 14), while the other walls of the interior space are impermeable to the gas flow.
Arrangements of this type, which will also afterwards be denoted as a powder evaporator, a powder saturator or a saturator, have for their object to adjust defined gas flows of low-volatile substances, which, for example, are used as starting compounds for reactive depositions from gas phases for example, CVD (chemical vapor deposition). Since commercially available energy flow control values normally require a differential pressure of approximately 300 hPa, they are only suitable for use with substances having vapour pressures of at least 300 hPa at temperatures below 90� C.
To increase the vapour pressure for low-volatile starting materials for CVD, metal-organic compounds (MOV) of the metal components to be deposited are generally used. Normally, the vapor deposition from the liquid phase of the metal-organic compounds or from a solution of the metal-organic compounds occurs at approximately atmospheric pressure. This results in the first place in low transfer rates and in the second place in a decrease versus time of the flow because of an increasing instability above the melting point and/or in the third place in a co-transfer of the solving agent. For that reason the invention relates inter alia to a powder evaporator for metal organic compounds operating at a low pressure, which solves the problems occurring in fluid evaporators for metal-organic compounds, which are operated at approximately normal pressure.
The problems occurring with low-volatile starting materials will now be described in detail by way of example, with thorium. There are no thorium compounds having vapour pressures of 300 hPa at room temerature. Thus, the thorium halides, for example, which would normally be suitable for CVD-methods do not reach vapour pressures of 10 hPa until at temperatures from 600� C. to 700� C. Certain metal-organic thorium compounds reach approximately 1 hPa at approximately 150� C., have below their melting point a still adequate stability, are anhydrous and can be used in the pulverulent form. Thorium heptafluordimetyl octadionate (Th(fod)4), for example, has a vapour pressure of 0.13 hPa at 140� C, while thorium trifluoracetyl acetonate (Th(tfa)4) has a vapour pressure of 1.3 hPa at that temperature. These compounds cannot be heated to a much higher temperature, as they then already start to decompose.
One of the most important conditions for the use of low-volatile pulverulent starting materials in the reactive deposition of layers from a gas phase at low pressures (LPCVD=low pressure CVD) is that an adequately high and constant energy flow of these materials must be obtained over prolonged coating periods, which are precisely the periods required for a low-volatile material. Almost all the known powder saturators and also fluid evaporators which no longer contain an adequately stable metal oxide compound show a comparatively significant drop in their efficiency and in the flow, although, as far as quantity is concerned, a very adequate quantity of material is available for evaporation and for transfer to the CVD reactor.
An arrangement of the type defined in the opening paragraph is disclosed in the DE-PS 1221520. In the interior of the evaporation vessel disclosed there is a sieve, on which, during operation, the pulverulent, low-volatile material is located in the form of a powder bed. A feed pipe leads from an inert gas storage container to the evaporation vessel, in which the feed pipe ends below the sieve. From the interior space of the evaporation vessel above the sieve a vapor discharge pipe leads to, for example, a reactor, in which vapour plating occurs, in which consequently a CVD-procedure is performed.
From DE-OS 3136895 another evaporator is known in which the feed and discharge pipes are each provided with a valve which is in the form of a non-return valve or a safety valve. From a formula mentioned therein it follows that the energy flow (designated vapour through-flow in said patent) is the higher the lower the overall pressure. In an approximation following therefrpom the overall pressure corresponds to the trigger value; the lowest differential trigger values being however located, for commercially available non-return valves, approximately 30 hPa, so that the overall pressure must not be less than 30 hPa. In addition, the approximation mentioned in the DE-OS 3136895 is not permissible, as the overall pressure corresponds to the sum of the trigger value and the reaction pressure, wherein reaction pressure must be understood to mean the pressure in the CVD reactor. However, also in LPCVD methods the reaction pressure is of the order of magnitude of some hectopascals.
A principal object of the invention is to provide an improved arrangement, in which during operation the gas flow is enriched up to the saturation point with the vapour of the low-volatile material, a higher energy flow of the low-volatile material is consequently obtained, a constant flow being obtained over a long period of time and thus typical phenomena which reduce the efficiency, such as chimney formation, contact sintering and obstructions, are prevented from occurring.
According to the invention, this object is accomplished by an arrangement of the type specified in the opening paragraphs in which,
the cross-sectional area of the interior space of the vessel is at least a hundred times larger than the cross-sectional areas of the feed and discharge pipes,
one of the two plates, the gas inlet plate, is arranged between the orifice of the feed pipe and the powder,
the other plate, the gas outlet plate, is arranged between the powder and the orifice of the discharge pipe,
at least one of the two plates is movable such, that, during operation, it is pressed onto the powder,
the thickness of the gas inlet plate, the thickness of the gas outlet plate, the pore size of the two plates and the spacing between the two plates or the thickness of the powder bed, respectively, in the interior space are chosen such that, during operation, the pressure drop in the gas inlet plate exceeds the pressure drop in the powder bed, the pressure drop in the powder bed is much higher than the pressure drop in the gas outlet plate and the pressure drop in the gas outlet plate is much less than the pressure in the reactor.
During operation of the powder saturator of the invention the discharge pipe, that is to say the pipe connecting the saturator to the reactor, is heated to at least the saturation temperature, as otherwise during the transfer of vapour a partial condensation of the low-volatile materials occurs in the discharge pipe.
For the same reason, that is to say the partial condensation, the entire saturator inclusive of its exterior walls must be kept at the same temperature, namely the saturation temperature. Temperature differences of as low as 5� C. result for compounds such as Th(tfa)4 or Th(fod)4 or Sc(tfa)3 in significant changes in the vapour pressure and consequently in recondensation.
The total vacuum-tight evaporation vessel is located, for example, in a thermostatically controlled liquid bath, which produces a uniform temperature, which depending on the material to be evaporated is between 30� and 300� C., also in the exterior regions, that is to say in the wall region of the powder bed parallel to the gas flow.
In the saturator according to the invention the total cross-section of the interior space is significantly increased relative to the cross-section of the feed and discharge pipes, which causes the flow rate in the interior space to be reduced.
As, has already been stated, low-volatile materials must be transferred with a sufficient flow force from the saturator to the reactor, the inert gas flows are as a rule approximately 100 times greater than the material flows. To achieve an adequate saturation, the high inert gas rates in the saturator must at least be reduced correspondingly. In accordance with the invention, this is accomplished by a significant increase of the cross-section of the interior space, put more accurately the overall pore-cross-sectional area of the saturator, in proportion to the cross-section of the remaining pipe system. As a lower limit for a variable saturation operation as regards setting range of the throughputs, it holds that the cross-sectional area is approximately 100 times larger than said pipes.
In the drawing
FIG. 1 is a schematical cross-sectional view of a powder saturator of the invention,
FIG. 2 is a schematical cross-sectional view of a honey comb shaped interior space of the vessel of a powder saturator of the invention,
FIG. 3 is a schematical longitudinal sectional view of a powder saturator of the invention in which the cross-sectional view of the interior space of the vessel increases towards the gas outlet, and
FIG. 4 is a schematical sectional view of semi-spherical shaped powder saturator of the invention.
The increase of the cross-sectional area in the saturator according to the invention amounts therefore, for example, to at least 40 mm (diameter of the inner space) to 4 mm (diameter of the pipes)=10:1, that is to say 100:1 in the cross-sectional area. For large gas flows a ratio of 100:1 (diameter) or 10000:1 (areas), respectively, is advantageous.
The additional solid inert component, for example quartz powder, stabilizes the powder bed and provides that a very large surface of the low-volatile material is offered to the inert gas.
Thus, the interior space is filled with a porous mixture of pulverulent material, for example, quartz powder, which, because of its porosity of approximately 40%, partly compensates for the reduction in the flow rate, but whereby simultaneously a small transverse dimension in the individual flow channels is obtained. This results in a bundling or parallel arrangement, respectively, of very many very fine flow capillaries and at the same time a large surface area with low-volatile material.
In order to avoid a channel or chimney formation in the powder bed (mole tunnels), a uniform distribution of the gas flow through the cross-section of the interior space is adjusted over porous metal plates or glass frit provided one each at the carrier gas inlet and carrier gas outlet. Then the condition must be satisfied, that the pressure drop over the powder bed is so small as to be disregarded compared to the pressure drop over the porous metal plate.
The porous plate at the gas inlet is, for example, at least 10 to 20 mm thick and has, for example, a porosity of approximately 30%. This provides a uniform rate distribution of the inert gas over the overall cross-section of the interior space and the stabilized powder bed is utilized to an optimum extent.
The average pore size of the inlet plate and the outlet plate must be at least a factor of 2 to 3 less than the average particle size of the inertial component of the powder bed (for example quartz powder). The thickness of the gas inlet plate must then amount to 5 to 100 times the thickness of the outlet plate, preferably 20 to 30 times as large. In coating operations with reactor pressures of not more than 10 hPa the thickness of the gas outlet plate must not exceed 1 mm.
Pressing at least one of the porous plates onto the powder bed is effected, for example, by the gravitational force and/or the gas flow or by at least one spring, so that also during the progressive evaporation no cavities of a larger size occur.
The arrangement according to the invention is preferably suitable for operation at underpressure, the vessel being connected via the discharge pipe to a reactor chamber, for example for CVD, in which during operation of the arrangement a still lower pressure as in the vessel prevails.
The particle sizes of the inert component of the powder are preferably in the range from 20 to 100 μm, while the pore sizes of the two plates are preferably in the range from 10 to 30 μm and the particle sizes of the low-volatile, pulverulent material is preferably in the range from 0.1 to 20 μm.
The low-volatile, pulverulent material is preferably at least a metal-organic compound, which, during operation of the arrangement, is heated to a temperature near its melting point. Organic compounds of the alkali-earth metals or the transition metals, more specifically of elements of the scandium group and the rare earth, metals may be used as the metal-organic compounds.
Preferably, the feed pipe for the gas flow, the gas inlet plate, the gas outlet plate and the discharge pipe for the enriched gas flow are arranged such relative to each other that, the arrangement being in operation, the gas flows through the arrangement in the direction of the gravitational force.
In a further preferred embodiment of the invention an arrangement for stirring the powder bed is provided, so as to avoid chimney formation. This can be performed by, for example, a stirrer inserted into the powder when the powder is not compressed, by a worm gear or by an ultrasonic generator. The use of such an ultrasonic generator is a very elegant solution, as it does not require constructional changes. For coating operations whose duration is in the order of magnitude of one hour, mechanical stirring (poking) of the powder in the coating intervals provides a significant improvement.
Precisely with pulverulent materials which in the saturator are heated to just below their melting point (m.p.), for example Th(tfa)4 (m.p. 134� C.), Th(fod)4 (m.p. 151� C.) or Sc(tfa)3 (m.p. 106� C.), a mechanical stirring or poking is advantageous. In these cases the powder to be evaporated in metered is mixed in metered quantites with dry quartz powder in a ratio 1:2, which is done with the object of stabilizing the powder bed. Nitrogen or argon are used as the inert gas. In the CVD reactor, which is arranged subsequent to the saturator, there is a pressure between 1 and 100 hPa, preferably 5 to 20 hPa, according to the purpose for which it is used. With carrier gas flows up to 500 sccm mass flows of the low-volatile materials of from 5 to 10 sccm can be obtained.
The pulverulent fill of the interior space is either stirred or poked during the operating intervals, or are stirred or kept in motion, for example mechanically or by means of an ultrasonic source during operation.
In a further preferred embodiment of the invention the stirring device is a device generating a magnetic field. In this case the inert component of the powder consists of magnetizable particles, for example magnetic iron balls, which are moved by an external magnetic field, or consist of magnetic iron filings, which are oriented and possibly moved in a magnetic field. Then, there are formed, flow capillaries having a cross dimension which advantageously influences the flow rate being generated in an inhomogeneous magnetic field.
The inert component of the powder has preferably a very small particle size distribution, the maximum fluctuation in the width of the particle diameter being less than 30% of the average particle diameter.
The inert component consists, for example, of small round balls, for example of quartz or high-grade steel, whose diameter is, for example, 0.5 mm.
In a further advantageous embodiment of the invention the pulverulent material is,--instead of being mixed with pulverulent inert material--inserted into the spacings between filaments (stretched in the transverse direction, stretched in the longitudinal direction or statistically interwoven) of inert material.
In a further embodiment according to the invention of the saturator, the interior space is formed by parallel separated conveyor channels, for example a member in the form of a honey comb, in which the powder to be evaporated is inserted, mixed with the inert powder component.
The efficiency of the saturator according to the invention can be influenced in that, because of the pressure drop over the powder bed, which in a first approximation is only linear, the flow rate at the inlet in the powder bed is much less than at the outlet in the thin porous plate. By an increase in accordance with the invention of the flow cross-section towards the gas outlet, this increase in the flow rate is optionally compensated for and a still further improved efficiency and flow being constant versus time is obtained. This increase in the cross-section is preferably achieved by increasing the cross-section of the interior space in the direction towards the gas outlet, or by giving the two porous plates and the interior space the shape of a semi-sphere.
FIG. 1 shows an evaporator vessel 1, which is arranged in a thermostat bath 2 containing a thermostat fluid 3.
An inert gas flow indicated by an arrow 4 enters an inlet chamber 9 via a mass flow control valve 5, a feed pipe 6 incorporating a manometer 7 and a close/open gas inlet valve 8, and flow with a pressure drop of ΔpE through a thick porous gas inlet plate 10, which is pressed by means of a spring 11 onto a powder bed 13 which fills an interior space 12, which powder bed contains a low-volatile material to be evaporated and an inert component, so that substantially no cavities of a larger size are produced.
The porous plate 10 has for its object to provide a uniform inert gas rate distribution over the transverse dimension of the powder bed 13, so as to avoid the formation of chimneys. The inert gas flows through the powder bed 13 with a pressure drop ΔpS, whereafter the inert gas which in the mean time has been saturated with the low-volatile material, is discharged with a pressure drop ΔpA through a thin porous gas outlet plate 14 into a gas outlet chamber 15. Thereafter, as is indicated by arrows 16 and 17, the gas flow arrives in a reaction chamber (not shown) via a close/open valve 18 and a discharge pipe 19 which is heated to at least the saturation temperature by a pipe heater 20 and a manometer 21. The manometer 21 has for its object to measure the pressure in the reaction chamber preact.
The exterior wall of the vessel 1 is provided in the region of the interior space 12 with an ultrasonic generator (not shown), which during prolonged operation prevents the formation of chimneys, as it keeps the powder in slight motion. It may be advantageous to effect in the intervals between two coating operations an additional mechanical stirring and poking of the powder bed 13 in the interior space 12. This is of particular advantage when the saturator is operated, to obtain higher energy flows, just below the melting point of the material to be evaporated.
The average pore sizes of the inlet plate 10 and the outlet plate 14 are at least a factor of 2 to 3 smaller than the average particle size of the inert component of the powder bed 13 (for example quartz powder; inlet plate 10 and outlet plate 14 are frits with fine pores or porous sintered metal plates).
The thickness of the gas inlet plate 10 is, as has been stated, 5 to 100 times the thickness of the outlet plate 14, preferably 20 to 30 times. For coating operations with reactor pressures of not more than 10 hPa the thickness of 14 is not more than 1 mm.
For each of the pressure drops ΔpE, ΔpS, ΔpA (=Δp of 10, 13, 14) the rule ΔpE >ΔpS >>ΔpA and ΔpA <<preact applies. This rule is efficiently satisfied when, for example, ΔpE =2 ΔpS =200 ΔpA and ΔpA =0.1 preact. This pressure condition is identical to the previously specified geometrical requirement, as will be explained hereafter.
When the thicknesses are denoted by dE, dS and dA, then it must be noted that at equal porosity dE ≳dS >>dA. When the powder bed in the saturator is less dense it may be that dE <ds, provided the rule of the pressure drops applies. For an average pore size δA in the plate 14 and δE in the plate 10 of 20 μm and an average particle size δS of the quartz powder of 50 μm (50 μm�20 μm distribution) the thicknesses dE ≈dS ≧40 dA or also already dE =0.5 dS ≧20 dA, provides an effective saturator. The relation
ds /vTr >δs /vd,B (1)
wherein vTr denotes the flow rate of the inert gas and Vd,B denotes the evaporation rate of a low-volatile material B, is a condition for the flow constant in time of the saturator. Since, as stated in the foregoing, low-volatile material must be transferred from the saturator with a still adequate flow into the reactor, the inert gas flows are as a rule approximately 100 times greater than the flows of material. To obtain an adequate saturation, the high inert gas rates in the saturator must be at least correspondingly reduced. As stated above, this is obtained by a significant increase in the pipe cross-section, put more accurately the overall pore-cross-sectional areas of the saturator FS,eff, in proportion to the cross-section Fpipe of the further portion of the pipe system. FS,eff is FS.ηp, wherein ηp denotes the porosity of the powder bed. FS,eff >>100 Fpipe holds as the lower limit for a variable saturator operation relative to the setting range of the throughputs, preact being approximately in the range of 10 hPa.
In general the condition
Fs,eff /Fpipe ≧po /preact (2)
must be satisfied, wherein preact <po =1000 hPa.
As a rule it is sufficient to use the rule of thumb FS /Fpipe ≈po /preact.
Now however a still further boundary condition for the geometrical dimensions of the saturator must be satisfied. Short cross-diffusion paths must be present, that is to say the time for the cross-diffusion of the instantaneous evaporizing surface in a flow capillary must be shorter than the overall through-flow time through the interior space through these flow capillaries. Only then an adequate saturation can be obtained. It is then a requirement for the evaporation rate from the surface to be higher than the diffusion rate, as otherwise the formula (1) would be valid. The further condition according to the invention is
δS 2 /4D≦ds /vTr (3)
wherein D is the diffusion constant.
As a check in a concrete example the typical values of the individual values for the stator will now be determined. From the formula ##EQU1## wherein f denotes the evaporation coefficient, Ro =62.3188.8.131.52 hPa.cm3 /K, i.e. the gas constant, T the temperature of the material B and M the molecular weight of the material B. With T=400 K, M=1412 for B=Th(fod)4 and f=1 one obtains an evaporation rate vd,B ≈2000 cm/s. For the path x which is covered on an average in the time t during the subsequent diffusion movement it holds also for the transverse component that ##EQU2## In accordance with an approximation formula published by F. Welding in ISPC 7, Eindhoven 1985, pp. 165 to 170, it is possible to calculate the diffusion constants as D1 =0.43 cm2 /s, D2 =0.5 cm2 /s and D3 =0.85 cm2 /s when TS =400 K and pS =50 hPa for B1 =Th(fod)4, B2 =Th(tfa)4 and B3 =Sc(tfa)3. In operation, the diffusion constants in the saturator are therefore between 0.2 and 1 cm2 /s for p≈50 hPa and between 1 and 5 cm2 /s for pS ≈10 hPa. Hence, D≈1 cm2 /s was the starting point. The diffusion rate vdiff =x/t=D/t is consequently of the order of magnitude of 1 cm/s and is consequently clearly less than the evaporation rate, so that vdiff is the limiting value. Not until from f<10-3, vd,B gradually takes over the role as the limiting factor.
If the inert powder component has, for example, a particle size distribution δS,min≦δS ≦δS,max, then as a rule the smaller dimensions are decisive. If an average inert particle size of 50 μm is inserted in δS 2 /4D, then an order of magnitude of approximately 3.10-5 s is obtained for a duration of the transverse movement. For QTr =500 sccm, pS =10 hPa, ηp =0.3 and Fs =4 πcm2, it now follows that vTr =vAr ≈300 cm/s and consequently dS /vAr ≈10-2 s, so that condition (3) is appropriately satisfied. Also the general constructional rule according to the invention for low-pressure evaporators having metal-organic compounds
δS2 ≦dS /100 (6)
wherein δS and dS in cm is then satisfied to an appropriate extent.
FIG. 2 shows an interior space 12 formed by parallel, separated conveyor channels, made of corrugated honey comb construction, in which the powder to be evaporated, mixed with an inert powder component.
For the manufacture of the channels of corrugated honeycomb construction, sinusoidally shaped corrugated sheets 22 of an inert material, with which the material to be evaporated does not react (for many uses high-quality steel corrugated sheets, tantalum or molybdenum sheets can, for example, be used), are shifted through 90� and welded together through the "maximums" 23 and "minimums" 24, so that a linear honey comb structure is obtained.
The exterior sides 25 of these sheets are each rigidly welded or clamped and bolted, respectively on both sides in a fixed wall 26, 27. Perpendicularly to the plane of intersection there are provided above and under this lamination a fitting, tightly covering and removable thick porous plate 10 at the gas inlet and a corresponding thinner plate 14 at the gas outlet. The powder bed 13 in the interior of the individual lamellae is kept dense by drawing apart the walls 26 and 27 (arrows 28 and 29) and/or by pressure or pressing, respectively, of the plates 10 and 14 (arrows 30 and 31) and the formation of chimneys or mole tunnels, respectively, in the powder bed is prevented. The pulverulent low-volatile material is poured in from above after removal, for example, of the porous gas inlet plate 10. The operating position of the interior space after closing of the vessel is at one's option, it may be in a perpendicular but alternatively also horizontal position. The great advantage of such a saturator is that the formation of wide chimneys is prevented and yet the flow resistance is low. An advantageous variant is to direct a portion of the lamellae in one direction and the other portion in the opposite direction, with a correspondingly tight separation at thee lamellae inlet and lamellae outlet (in accordance with the cascade circuit principle).
Before FIG. 3 is described, it should be noted that the efficiency of a saturator can also be influenced by the fact that because of the pressure drop ΔpS over the powder bed, which in a first approximation is only linear, the flow rate at the inlet at the pressure preact +ΔpA +ΔpS is much less than at the outlet in the thin porous plate with the pressure ΔpA +preact. at the boundary plane. By increasing in accordance with the invention the cross-section of the saturator up to the gas inlet, this increase in the flow rate can be compensated and a still better efficiency and flow constant versus time is obtained. FIG. 3 shows such a saturator, in which the reference numerals have the same meaning as in FIG. 1.
In addition to the increase in the cross-section towards the gas outlet, the impermeable wall 32 of the vessel 1, which is, for example, made of flexible sheet metal, is provided in at least one position with an annular corrugated bellow compensation zone, so that under pressure of the spring 11 the powder bed 13 a dense posed from above, that is to say without the formation of larger cavities.
FIG. 4 in which the reference numerals have the same meaning as in FIG. 1 and FIG. 3 shows a saturator of a semi-spherical structure.
Pressing the powder bed is achieved by a sort of ram having a gas inlet chamber 9 and a semi-spherical porous gas inlet plate 10, which is pressed from above onto a powder bed 13, which is indicated by double arrows 34. The saturated inert gas flows through a thin porous outlet semi-spherical cap 14 into a gas outlet chamber 15 and from there flows on to a reactor. Such an arrangement has the advantage that the flow rate in individual capillaries because of the integral cross-section increase remains approximately constant and the transverse diffusion at the outlet is higher, which means a lower effective pressure pS,eff in the saturator and consequently a higher energy flow.
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