Our Thermal Vacuum chambers are capable of being designed and manufactured to test lunar stimulants specifically Regolith. Our TVAC systems are designed and produced for use in laboratory production and testing applications that require an exposure to or process within a controlled vacuum environment. With this system Abbess’ engineers really pushed the boundaries as to what is possible with one of our Thermal Vacuum Systems. Having six separate proportioning valves to control the flow of LN2 to each side of the systems thermal plate and shroud. By doing this our Engineers were capable of significantly increasing the cool down rate within the chamber with rates of 5°C/min with it capable of handling rates up to 10°C/min.
-With integrated controls from Abbess’s custom PC/GUI system allowing us to achieve temperatures of +150°C and –150°C.
Uniformity specs:
– Heat:: +/- 1°C -Cold: +/- 3°C (without a phase separator)
With this rendition of our Thermal Vacuum chamber the customer needed slow pump down times to eliminate “boiling” of the regolith. With the integration of a soft pump filter to the roughing pump we were able to still achieve the desired vacuum range of 10^-7 Torr without agitating the test matter.
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– Using our custom PC/GUI to integrate a custom ramp down rate utilizing specific gauges that monitor the regolith to ensure that it is not agitated.
Additional Features
Atmospheric back pressure option also available if desired plus many other additional options can be included into your system. Our systems have been proven to be reliable and low maintenance in industry leading simulation systems for years and have earned a reputation for quality, performance and, control that is simply unmatched by any of our competitors.
Thermal Vacuum Chambers
Thermal components can be integrated into any system in the temperature range of (cold)-320F/-196C to (Hot)+300F/150C with vacuum from atmosphere to 10-9 torr.
Satellite Testing Vacuum System
Satellite Testing Vacuum Systems engineered and built for the satellite industry. These systems can be customized for your desired test procedure. The inner Thermal Shroud can be coated with AeroGlaze® to further improve your testing environment.
Thermal Vacuum Solar Simulation System
Abbess Thermal Vacuum and Solar Simulation Chamber Systems are designed and produced for use in laboratory production and testing applications requiring an exposure to or process within a controlled vacuum environment at specific temperature involving solar simulation.
Thermal Vacuum Gas Mix Test Chamber
The Abbess Thermal Vacuum Custom Gas Mix System allows articles under test placed inside the chamber to be exposed to high vacuum pressure as well as various temperatures via a heated and cooled Main Thermal Plate Assembly.
Multi-Plate Thermal Vacuum Chambers
Multi-plate thermal vacuum systems are built to customer specifications, testing requirements, and budget.
These Vacuum Oven Systems are designed and built to be rugged and efficient systems for use in production or testing.
Vacuum Oven Systems—Custom configured to your requirements. Complete systems with pumps, controllers and other options
This custom high vacuum chamber with thermal inserts is capable of being used as a large-scale space simulation/thermal vacuum chamber.
The Abbess Thermal Vacuum Chamber System shown facilitates thermal and vacuum profiles consistent with altitudes to 200K feet. Â Customer defined devices are supported with an array of 25 pin D-sub, BNC and SMA feedthrus.
Automated Space Simulation System with -80C Cascade Refrigeration
This system allows articles under test placed inside to be exposed to high vacuum pressure as well as various temperatures via the heated and cooled Thermal Plate Assembly. A Thermal Vacuum Cycle Controller (TVCC) is used to automate and control functions.
High Vacuum System with Thermal Shroud
This 48 inch cube system (thermal vacuum chamber) allows items placed inside to be exposed to vacuum down to 10^-7 Torr. A Vacuum Cycle Controller (VCC) is used to automate control functions.
Abbess offers fully custom designed and engineered  systems in order to meet customer specification. The system allows articles under test placed inside to be exposed to high vacuum pressure as well as various temperatures via the heated and cooled Thermal Plate Assembly (thermal vacuum chamber).
High Vacuum – Thermal Vacuum System
The Abbess Thermal Vacuum Chamber System shown allows Article(s) Under Test placed inside to be exposed to high vacuum (10e-8 range) as well as heated and cooled via conductive contact with the Gold Plated Copper Thermal Plate.
Multimode Cooling, Thermal Vacuum Chamber System
The Abbess Multimode Thermal Vacuum Chamber System serves as the flexible platform for a range of thermal vacuum testing and experimentation methods. Multimode is cooling using 2 different methods.
Each vacuum chamber with thermal plates can be built to customer requirements (thermal vacuum chamber)
Replicate atmospheric conditions within the vacuum chamber system. This vacuum chamber sytem is ideal for space simulation testing. 6 heated and cooled thermal plates.
Overview of Vacuum Oven Systems
Dry in our manual or automatic, data-logged or not, single or multi-chambered, Vacuum Oven systems.
Low Vacuum – Thermal Vacuum System
The Thermal Vacuum System allows items placed inside of the thermal vacuum chamber to be exposed to vacuum as well as heat or cooled via the Thermal Plate.