Industrial
Vacuum in Industrial Applications
Reliable vacuum solutions for critical industrial processes
Vacuum technology is integral in providing industrial processes with precision, cleanliness, and environmental control. ANCORP supports industrial heating, cryogenics, gas handling, and extraction with the components that enable reliable operation within these requirements. With components such as valves, traps, flanges and fittings, we help keep systems running clean and controlled.
Heating
Vacuum bakeouts improve system cleanliness by completing heat cycles to eliminate microscopic impurities. Vacuum drying evaporates moisture from materials by lowering vapor pressure. Vacuum metal processing combines high heat with vacuum to ensure grain purity during brazing, tempering, and annealing creating powerful alloys.
ConFlat Flanges and Fittings
The ConFlat, CF, flange system is most compatible with the temperature ranges required for heating and bakeout procedures. Due to its all-metal construction, when utilized with a metal gasket, a CF flange or CF fitting can create component joints capable of withstanding temperatures up to 450°C.
Vacuum Valves
Due to the varied stages within bakeout, drying, and heating cycles, most systems require vacuum valves to create segmentation within a system. This allows the valves to regulate the introduction of gas or other materials during heating cycles and maintain isolation during the temperature cycles.
Vacuum Traps
Vacuum traps such as cold traps using liquid nitrogen or molecular sieve media help condense and capture outgassed volatiles. This protects pumps and improves process throughput by preventing contamination and reducing backstreaming.
Industrial Cryogenics
Industrial applications that involve extreme cooling utilize vacuum and cryogenics for their processes to run.
Cryogenics are also used in various research and development applications such as quantum computing and superconductors. Learn more about these cryogenic R&D applications on our Research and Development page.
Freeze Drying
Industrial freeze dryers serve universities and labs, farmers, pharmaceutical companies, and food and beverage industries by preventing structural decomposition and preserving nutritional content and appearance. Vacuum environments push moisture into sublimation, preserving texture, nutrition, and chemical composition.
LN2 Traps
Liquid nitrogen traps reduce vapor loads and protect pumps as high-efficiency cold traps during processes like freeze drying. By reaching cryogenic temperatures, LN₂ traps condense water vapor, organic solvents, and backstreaming pump oils.
Cryogenic Feedthroughs
ANCORP cryogenic feedthroughs are equipped with shaft shielding to deliver cryogenic cooling agents into high and ultra-high vacuum chambers. They are available in single or double tube arrangements with multiple tube-flange style pairings available.
Gas Handling
Cryogenic gas handling supports plant infrastructure and distribution systems used to power tools, store critical components, and preserve intermediate products. This advances the efforts of alternative fuels and energy, extraction/distillation, and pharmaceuticals
Flexible Hosing
Vacuum hosing creates connections between dynamic components or vibration-prone parts of your system ensuring misaligned ports can maintain vacuum performance. Stainless steel hosing is commonly used in gas delivery lines and pump connections providing excellent fatigue resistance and corrosion protection. These hoses are available in ISO, CF, and weldable ends for integration into various industrial setups.
Vacuum Valves
Industrial processes requiring gas handling depend on vacuum valves to isolate, control, or route gas and vapor flows without compromising vacuum stability. ANCORP supplies angle, inline, and gate valves built to maintain leak-tight performance and withstand aggressive cycling and varying temperature demands.
Burst Disks
Critical safety devices, burst disks prevent overpressure in vacuum and gas-handling systems. These one-time use components rupture within varying overpressure ranges protecting gas storage vessels, valves, and personnel from system failure.
Extraction
Cryogenic vacuum distillation extracts water from biomass samples by using a cryogenic trap to collect water vapor from samples heated under vacuum. Other forms of extraction include the use of vacuum chambers combined with heating to lower the boiling point for extractions of oils from solids such as pastes and powders.
Vacuum Chamber
Vacuum chambers provide a stable, controlled environment where pressure, temperature, and vapor behavior can be precisely managed. Custom chambers tailored to your specific extraction method eliminate the limitations often found in generic systems allowing you to maximize extraction yield, protect product quality, and streamline your setup.
Cold Traps
Liquid nitrogen traps, or LN2 traps, condense and immobilize water vapor and solvents. During cryogenic distillation, this provides security against impurities in the final extraction product and protects the vacuum pump from back streaming.
Leak Detection
Manufacturers and other industrial users rely on leak detection to verify vacuum seals.
During leak detection, technicians use tracer and noble gases to confirm that chambered components maintain hermetic sealing in vacuum. One of the most accurate methods of leak detection relies on a helium mass spectrometer—an instrument that itself depends on high vacuum to operate. This technique allows for the precise identification of even microscopic leaks within sealed systems. Industrial manufacturing requires leak detection for production machinery, automotive reservoirs, gas delivery lines, and refrigeration systems.
Custom Vacuum Chambers
While most leak detection systems operate without chambers, testing sealed components often requires a vacuum chamber to verify leak integrity. During this process known as helium bombing, a technicians tests sealed components in a helium enriched vacuum chamber to detect any leaks. ANCORP offers custom chambers of varying sizes to accommodate validating a wide range of equipment.
Sealing Kits for Vacuum Flanges
Reliable seals are the foundation of any industrial vacuum system. ANCORP’s sealing kits include high-quality O-rings, copper gaskets, and fasteners tailored to your flange system (KF, ISO, CF, ASA, or Wire Seal).
Vacuum Hoses
ANCORP offers stainless steel hoses that maintain vacuum integrity during helium leak detection procedures, tracer gas analysis, or routine system connections. Built to handle repeated flexing and evacuations, our hoses can be configured with your preferred flange system and length.