WO1999034897A1 - Throughflow gas storage and dispensing system - Google Patents
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- KnoUmueller utilizes thermal desorption to effect dispensing of the arsine at elevated pressures.
- An optical sensor or spectrophotometer is described in the patent as being used to monitor arsine concentrations.
- the KnoUmueller system operates at pressures that are > 15 psig and at temperatures in excess of 60 2 C to dispense arsine at concentrations of 15-60% by volume.
- the gas storage and dispensing system of the Tom et al. patent comprises an adsorption-desorption apparatus, for storage and dispensing of gases, including a storage and dispensing vessel holding a solid-phase physical sorbent medium, and arranged for selectively flowing gas into and out of the vessel.
- a sorbate gas is physically adsorbed on the sorbent medium.
- a dispensing assembly is coupled in gas flow communication with the storage and dispensing vessel, and provides, exteriorly of the vessel, a pressure below the vessel's interior pressure, to effect deso ⁇ tion of sorbate gas from the solid-phase physical sorbent medium, and flow of desorbed gas through the dispensing assembly.
- Heating means may be employed to augment the deso ⁇ tion process, but it is preferred to operate the Tom et al. system with the deso ⁇ tion being carried out at least partially by pressure differential-mediated release of the gas from the sorbent medium.
- the storage and dispensing system of the Tom et al. patent embodies a substantial advance in the art, relative to the prior art use of high pressure gas cylinders.
- Conventional high pressure gas cylinders are susceptible to leakage from damaged or malfunctioning regulator assemblies, as well as to rupture and unwanted bulk release of gas from the cylinder if the internal gas pressure in the cylinder exceeds permissible limits.
- Such over-pressure may for example derive from internal decomposition of the gas leading to rapid increasing interior gas pressure in the cylinder.
- the fluid storage and dispensing system of the Tom et al. patent thus reduces the pressure of stored sorbate gases by reversibly adsorbing them onto a sorbent medium, e.g., a zeolite or activated carbon material.
- a sorbent medium e.g., a zeolite or activated carbon material.
- a fluid storage and dispensing system of the general type disclosed in the Tom et al. patent, hereafter referred to as an "FSDS," is commonly used in association with low pressure end use applications, such as ion implantation in semiconductor
- near-ambient pressure of the FSDS vessel's interior volume may for example be on the order of 600 to 800 torr, and the pressure of the downstream process may for example be below 500 torr.
- the sorbate fluid from the FSDS vessel, including the fluid in the head space and in the interstices of the bed of sorbent material (typically present as a bed of particulate, pelletized, bead, granular or other finely divided material having affinity for the sorbate gas species of interest), as well as effecting deso ⁇ tion of the sorbate fluid from the sorbent material by virtue of the pressure differential.
- the bed of sorbent material typically present as a bed of particulate, pelletized, bead, granular or other finely divided material having affinity for the sorbate gas species of interest
- this pressure differential driving force (for mass transfer of the sorbate gas from the sorbent material into the surrounding gas phase of lower concentration of the sorbate species) is by itself inadequate to achieve the desired rate of dispensing of the sorbate gas.
- An alternative means of achieving the desired deso ⁇ tion is the use of heat inputted to the sorbent material to mediate thermal deso ⁇ tion. Heating of the sorbent material in the storage and dispensing vessel of the FSDS shifts the equilibrium isotherm of the sorbent material so that the so ⁇ tive capacity of the sorbent material for the sorbate fluid is reduced. This in turn facilitates the deso ⁇ tion of the sorbate fluid from the sorbent material as the sorbent material is heated.
- the sorbent material has a finite heat capacity, and this "thermal mass" prevents the sorbent material from being instantly cooled when the input of heat is terminated at the finish of the dispensing operation.
- fluid continues to desorb from the hot sorbent material and remain in the desorbed state, causing an ove ⁇ ressure in the FSDS vessel.
- pressure increase is at odds with the desired low pressure condition for the FSDS vessel interior volume, and the pressure increase may with significant heating create a hazardous high pressure level in the FSDS vessel. It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved fluid storage and dispensing apparatus and method which overcome the aforementioned difficulties of the prior art.
- the present invention relates to a system for the dispensing of a sorbate fluid, e.g., a gas or vapor, from a fluid storage and dispensing system, comprising a sorbate fluid storage and dispensing vessel constructed and arranged to hold a solid-phase physical sorbent medium having a so ⁇ tive affinity for the sorbate fluid, and for selectively flowing sorbate fluid into and out of such vessel.
- a solid-phase physical sorbent medium having a so ⁇ tive affinity for the fluid is disposed in the storage and dispensing vessel at an interior fluid pressure.
- the sorbate fluid is physically adsorbed on the sorbent medium.
- a dispensing assembly is coupled in gas flow communication with the storage and dispensing vessel, for discharging desorbed fluid from the vessel.
- the present invention facilitates the dispensing of the sorbate fluid by coupling a carrier gas source to the sorbate fluid gas vessel in gas flow communication with the sorbate fluid vessel.
- the carrier gas source is constructed and arranged for flowing carrier gas on demand into the vessel for uptake of the sorbate fluid in the carrier gas to yield a sorbate fluid-containing carrier gas, and discharge of the sorbate fluid-containing carrier gas from the vessel to the dispensing assembly for discharge from the system.
- the invention relates in one aspect to a system for the storage and on-demand dispensing of a fluid that is physically sorbable on a selected physical sorbent and that subsequent to so ⁇ tion is desorbable from the sorbent by a concentration gradient mass transfer driving force, with means for selectively flowing a carrier gas through the sorbate gas vessel to take up and entrain sorbable fluid held in the vessel in association with the sorbent medium, i.e., as physically adsorbed fluid on the surface and interior porosity of the sorbent medium, or as interstitial fluid in the void spaces of the sorbent medium bed held in the vessel, or as fluid held in the head space of the vessel, above the bed of the sorbent medium (typically provided as a particulate or other finely divided material).
- a specific embodiment of the invention effects the diffusional release of sorbate gas from the adsorbent medium to the bulk gas phase by creation of an enhanced concentration gradient within the vessel between the sorbent medium and the fluid phase per se.
- the term "enhanced" in reference to the concentration gradient achieved with use of a carrier gas in accordance with the present invention means that the concentration gradient for mass transfer from the sorbent material to the gas phase environment of such sorbent material is quantitatively increased in relation to the concentration gradient present in a corresponding fluid storage and dispensing system lacking the carrier gas throughflow feature of the present invention.
- the carrier gas source may be introduced into the FSDS through appropriate piping, tubing, conduits, channels, or other suitable flow passage means, connected to a port or inlet of the sorbate fluid dispensing vessel.
- a port may for example be located at the lower end of the sorbate fluid dispensing vessel in spaced relationship to the main dispensing vessel valve, so as to prevent or minimize the occurrence of carrier gas short-circuiting, bypassing, or other anomalous flow behavior.
- the carrier gas is introduced through the port or inlet into the sorbate fluid- containing vessel, and may be flowed through the sorbent medium to maximize the uptake (pickup) of sorbate fluid from the sorbent in the vessel, for subsequent discharge from the vessel into the discharge means associated with the vessel, such as piping, manifolding, or other flow discharge means, associated with a discharge port or outlet of the vessel.
- the vessel may take the form of a conventional gas cylinder, with an opening at its upper end, to which a valve head assembly is leak-tightly joined, to provide egress of fluid from the cylinder in a well- known manner.
- the present invention in a specific aspect contemplates the provision of a storage and dispensing system of the type more fully described in U.S. Patent 5,518,528 and U.S. Patent Application Nos. 08/650,634 filed May 20, 1996 in the names of Glenn M. Tom and James V.
- the source of carrier gas in a specific embodiment may usefully comprise a supply tank of the carrier gas, optionally having flow control means operatively coupled therewith, with associated piping, to flow the carrier gas on demand from the supply tank, at a rate determined by the flow control means when provided, to the vessel containing the sorbate fluid and the sorbent media.
- the flow control means may comprise any suitable means for regulating the flow of the carrier gas into and through the vessel, such as for example: a flow valve; a mass flow controller; a cycle timer or metering assembly; a valved manifold coupled to a multiplicity of carrier gas components for make-up of a multicomponent carrier gas; a selectively actuatable bypass piping arrangement, a valve head regulator assembly on a pressurized cylinder of carrier gas; etc.
- the flow control means may comprise or be associated with an automatic control system, including for example a microprocessor, microcontroller, computer or microelectronic circuitry, for supplying the carrier gas to the vessel holding the sorbent and fluid to be dispensed, to effect dispensing of the sorbable fluid from the storage and dispensing vessel at a rate and/or in an amount which is determined or controlled by process conditions (e.g., pressure, temperature, composition of the downstream carrier gas and desorbed fluid, rate of deso ⁇ tion of the sorbable fluid from the sorbent in the storage and dispensing vessel, concentration gradients, comparison of sorbate gas concentrations with a setpoint concentration value, etc.). Employment of a sorbate gas analyzer or other appropriate monitoring means may be appropriate for determining deso ⁇ tion rates and sorbate concentration levels.
- an automatic control system including for example a microprocessor, microcontroller, computer or microelectronic circuitry, for supplying the carrier gas to the vessel holding the sorbent and fluid to be dispensed,
- the carrier gas which may for example comprise a gas such as hydrogen, argon, helium, nitrogen or any other suitable gas species, including multicomponent gas mixtures as well as single component carrier gas species, is flowed through the vessel of the FSDS, there is produced a mass flux (flow of molecules per area) of sorbate gas into the bulk fluid phase comprising the carrier gas stream.
- a mass flux of the sorbable fluid into the carrier gas will depend on the specific so ⁇ tive affinity of the sorbent medium for the sorbable fluid (binding affinity), as well as process conditions, including carrier gas volumetric flow, temperature and pressure.
- the carrier gas medium may also include process gas species for effecting in-situ doping or other operations involving the dispensed gas.
- An illustrative example is silane, which may for example be utilized to carry out silicon doping of epitaxial thin film materials and structures.
- the carrier gas medium may include co-source reagents that entrain and mix with the desorbed sorbate gas in the dispensing operation as the carrier gas medium is flowed through the vessel containing the adsorbent to which the sorbate gas is so ⁇ tively bound.
- co- source reagents may for example each comprise organometallic precursors for downstream chemical vapor deposition, wherein the metal constituents of the precursors are deposited on a substrate to form a metal-containing film comprising such constituents.
- the flow of the carrier gas through the FSDS is preferably controlled by a flow control means yielding the desired concentration for the desired end use application in which the dispensed fluid is utilized.
- a flow control means may for example comprise a thermal mass flow control (TMFC) device or, alternatively, a fixed orifice located at the inlet of the storage and dispensing vessel to regulate carrier gas flow through the FSDS system, or other efficacious flow control elements and/or assemblies.
- TMFC device determines flow fluctuations by sensing heat transfer changes in a heated element placed in the gas stream.
- TMFC devices are readily commercially available for such pu ⁇ ose, from manufacturers such as Porter, S-TEC (Division of Horiba Instrument), Unit Instruments, Tylan General, Aera, Brooks Instruments, MKS Instruments, etc.
- the use of a TMFC device as a gas concentration sensor for one component of a two component FSDS ("two component” here referring to a carrier gas as one component, and the sorbable gas being dispensed as the other component) can be accomplished by the TMFC device relating the temperature rise of a slipstream of gas to a desired or pre-determined heat flux set point.
- Cp defined heat capacity
- Q defined heat flux
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- Mj represents the flow of the sorbate gas and M 2 represents the flow of the
- Heat capacity data for sorbate gases and inert gases are available in the literature as a function of temperature and pressure conditions.
- a TMFC can be used to monitor the flow of sorbate gas dispensed from the FSDS by reference to the constant carrier gas flow. Appropriate manipulation of the incoming flow of carrier gas or the temperature of the FSDS by an automated control means can be established to control the sorbate gas concentration and, therefore, the flow rate of dispensing of the sorbate gas.
- thermal mass flow controller devices or analogous thermal conductivity-based devices
- FTIR Fastier transform infrared spectrometry
- ultrasonics taking advantage of the fact that the speed of ultrasound in a cavity is directly proportional to the mass of gas in the cavity
- Quartz microbalance gas sensing and monitoring systems potentially useful for such pu ⁇ ose are described in United States Patent Application No. 08/785,342 filed January 17, 1997 for "PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR FOR HYDRIDE GASES, AND FLUID MONITORING APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME;" United States Patent Application No. 08/678,572 filed July 12, 1996 for "PIEZOELECTRIC END POINT SENSOR FOR DETECTION OF BREAKTHROUGH OF FLUID, AND FLUID PROCESSING APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME;" and United States Patent Application No.
- a feedback loop is advantageously employed in connection with such sensing and monitoring devices, to either alter the concentration or change the mass flow, in order to maintain the desired concentration of the dispensed gas in the downstream use of the gas, e.g., for doping or other concentration-dependent application thereof.
- the flow of the carrier gas may be approximately 0.1-10 seem (>95 vol%) at ⁇ 5 psig from the FSDS vessel, with a nominal operating pressure of 1 psig, or 52 torr gauge.
- the FSDS vessel is slightly pressurized during the operation of the carrier gas flow dispensing; however, this nominal pressurization is due mostly to the carrier gas partial pressure rather than that of the sorbate gas.
- the partial pressure of sorbate species should not exceed atmospheric pressure as defined by the isothermal equilibrium and, in most cases, will be ⁇ 100 torr.
- the sorbate gas from a FSDS vessel at a static equilibrium of 50 torr and operated at a pressure of 1 psig, or 812 torr will have a theoretical concentration of no more than 5.8% in the sorbable fluid-containing carrier gas stream.
- the carrier gas at this concentration can be further diluted to yield a concentration of sorbable fluid in the 50-100 parts-per-million by volume (ppmv) range with the addition of up to 100 standard cubic centimeters per minute (sccm) diluent gas, given the controlled flow of the carrier gas at 0.1 seem from the FSDS.
- the FSDS vessel capacity varies depending upon the particular sorbate gas dispensing requirements. For example, in the case of silicon epitaxy, which requires 50-5000 ppmv gases at 100-200 sccm flows, a "WY" size vessel would provide sufficient yearly capacity when filed to only 50 torr. For other potential applications such as in-situ doped (ISD) polysilicon deposition, FSDS vessel pressures of > 100 torr are required. Generally speaking, the use of carrier gas extraction allows for FSDS extraction to below 10 torr (static) of sorbate gas for applications requiring very dilute gas mixtures.
- the system comprises:
- a storage and dispensing vessel containing the physical sorbent medium; a supply tank for holding carrier gas; first flow passage means joining the supply tank in flow communication with the storage and dispensing vessel; second flow passage means for discharging carrier gas and desorbed fluid from the storage and dispensing vessel; and flow control means operatively coupled with the second flow passage means, to selectively control flow of fluid from the storage and dispensing vessel through the second flow passage means.
- the above-described system may also comprise a motive fluid driver associated with the first and/or second passage means for providing fluid flow therethrough at a predetermined rate.
- Such motive fluid driver may for example comprise a blower, fan, compressor, ejector, eductor, pump, or any other suitable fluid flow-effecting means.
- flow passage means is intended to be broadly construed to include any means by which fluid flow is accommodated between the specified locations in the system, including pipes, conduits, channels, passages, lines, tubes, hydraulic circuitry, hoses, manifolds, orifice structures, inlets, plenum chambers, ports, etc.
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of a sorbate fluid storage and dispensing system and carrier gas supply means, including a carrier gas source and associated flow circuitry, according to one embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 2 is a schematic representation of a sorbate fluid storage and dispensing system integrated with a carrier gas supply, showing associated flow circuitry according to another embodiment of the invention.
- the invention will be described with reference to a gas as the sorbate fluid, however, it will be recognized that the invention is broadly applicable to liquids, gases, vapors, and multiphase fluids, and contemplates storage and dispensing of fluid mixtures as well as single component fluids.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a storage and dispensing system 10 comprising storage and dispensing vessel 12.
- the storage and dispensing vessel 12 may for example comprise a conventional gas cylinder container of elongate character, having an aspect ratio of height to diameter which may for example be in the range of from about 3 to about 10.
- a bed 14 of a suitable sorbent medium 16 In the interior volume 11 of such vessel 12 is disposed a bed 14 of a suitable sorbent medium 16.
- the vessel 12 is provided at its upper end with a conventional cylinder head fluid dispensing assembly 18 leak-tightly coupled with the main body of the dispensing vessel 12 at the port 19.
- the port 19 allows fluid flow from the interior volume 11 of the cylinder into the dispensing assembly 18.
- the port 19 may be provided with a frit, screen, grid or other filtration means therein.
- a thermal heating jacket 15 is provided for inducing thermal deso ⁇ tion, if desired, but in accordance with the objects of the invention, it is preferred that the deso ⁇ tion of the sorbable fluid from the sorbent material in the vessel be carried out with thermally mediated deso ⁇ tion being kept to a minimum, and most preferably without any heating of the sorbent medium.
- the storage and dispensing vessel may be maintained at ambient conditions, e.g., an operating pressure less than 15 psia and a temperature of less than 42 2 C.
- the sorbent medium 16 may comprise any suitable so ⁇ tively effective material, having so ⁇ tive affinity for the fluid to be stored and subsequently dispensed from the vessel 12, and from which the sorbate fluid is suitably desorbable.
- suitable so ⁇ tively effective material having so ⁇ tive affinity for the fluid to be stored and subsequently dispensed from the vessel 12, and from which the sorbate fluid is suitably desorbable.
- crystalline aluminosilicate compositions e.g., a micropore aluminosilicate composition with a pore size in the range of from about 4 to about 13 A, and/or a mesopore crystalline aluminosilicate composition with a pore size in the range of from about 20 to about 40 A
- carbon sorbent materials such as bead activated carbon sorbents of highly uniform spherical particle shape, e.g., BAC-MP, BAC-LP, and BAC-G-70R bead carbon materials (Kreha Co ⁇ oration of America
- Preferred sorbent materials in the practice of the invention include zeolites and carbon sorbents.
- Preferred forms of carbon sorbent materials include: carbon formed by pyrolysis of synthetic hydrocarbon resins such as polyacrylonitrile, sulfonated polystryrene- divinylbenzene, etc.; cellulosic char; charcoal; and activated carbon formed from natural source materials such as coconut shells, pitch, wood, petroleum, coal, etc.
- a preferred carbon sorbent material is activated carbon, a highly sorbent form of carbon produced by heating granulated charcoal to appropriate elevated temperature.
- activated carbon a highly sorbent form of carbon produced by heating granulated charcoal to appropriate elevated temperature.
- bead carbon forms of activated carbon where the beads, i.e., highly uniform diameter spherical particles, may have a diameter in the range of from about 0.1 to about 1 centimeter, and more preferably from about 0.25 to about 2 millimeters diameter.
- the sorbent material may be suitably processed or treated to ensure that it is devoid of trace components that may deleteriously affect the performance of the fluid storage and dispensing system.
- the sorbent may be subjected to washing treatment, e.g., with hydrofluoric acid, to render it sufficiently free of trace components such as metals and oxidic transition metal species.
- a carrier gas source 20 is provided for the pu ⁇ ose of facilitating dispensing of sorbate fluid from the SFDS.
- the carrier gas source 20 may be in the form of a pressurized vessel or a generating source of inert gas to provide the carrier gas.
- the carrier gas is preferably inert in nature and may include nitrogen, helium, argon, etc.
- the carrier gas supply source 22 is joined by line 24 to the sorbate gas dispensing vessel 12 through carrier gas entry port 27, thereby establishing gas flow communication of the carrier gas supply source 22 with the dispensing vessel 12.
- the gas entry port 27 is located at the opposite end of the sorbate fluid dispensing vessel from dispensing port 19 in order to maximize the through-flow effect and the extent of carrier gas contact with the sorbent medium 16.
- Means may be provided in the vessel, such as nozzles, spargers, distributors, flow spreaders, dispersers, etc., serving to distribute the carrier gas flow in the interior volume of the FSDS vessel, to thereby achieve maximum extraction of the sorbable fluid from the sorbent material in the FSDS vessel and uptake of same in the carrier gas stream.
- a carrier gas dispensing assembly 28 in the embodiment shown is associated with means for regulating the flow of the carrier gas from supply source 22 through the FSDS.
- the carrier gas dispensing assembly 28 may suitably comprise a monitoring and flow regulating means.
- the carrier gas dispensing assembly 28 is used to monitor carrier gas flow rate through line 24 into sorbate fluid dispensing vessel 12 via carrier gas insertion tube 25.
- An isolation valve 26 is provided on line 24 as a alternate means of shutting off carrier gas flow to the sorbate gas dispensing vessel 12.
- Carrier gas entry port 27 is equipped with a tube coupling means (not shown) to facilitate exchange (change- out) of the carrier gas supply source 21.
- Both the carrier gas dispensing assembly 28 and the sorbate fluid dispensing assembly may be controllably linked to a microprocessor 21 or other suitable control means, as shown, for regulating fluid flows depending on the desired sorbate fluid concentrations in the gas mixture of carrier gas and sorbate fluid that is discharged from the vessel through the discharge port 19.
- An additional microprocessor link may be made to the heating jacket 15, as shown, to effect selective actuation or deactuation of the heating jacket for the pu ⁇ ose of selectively controlling thermal deso ⁇ tion, if and as desired.
- the carrier gas stream containing the sorbable fluid entrained therein is discharged from the vessel 12 as shown in Figure 1 into discharge line 9, which may comprise a conduit, tubing, piping, flow channel, or other flow passage means for dispensing fluid exteriorly of the storage and dispensing vessel.
- discharge line 9 may comprise a conduit, tubing, piping, flow channel, or other flow passage means for dispensing fluid exteriorly of the storage and dispensing vessel.
- the carrier gas mixture may be passed to a downstream locus of use (not shown in Figure 1), such as an ion implant chamber or doping apparatus or other process system in which the sorbate fluid component of the carrier gas stream is utilized.
- FIG. 2 a schematic representation of an SFDS is depicted, according to another embodiment of the invention.
- the illustrated system includes a carrier gas source 60, which may take the form of a pressurized gas cylinder.
- a cylinder valve 62 is provided for the carrier gas source 60, for releasing the carrier gas into line 61.
- a pump 68 may be located downstream therefrom.
- a filter and purifier 63 may be provided for attenuating particulates that may be present from the carrier gas source 60, or which are otherwise generated in the pump 68.
- the pump 68 may be of any suitable type, but preferably is a double-stage all-metal sealed diaphragm pump. Such pumps are preferred in the practice of the invention for safety and purity reasons, and are characterized by low leak rates and capability of high pumping speeds.
- the carrier gas supply source 60 is joined by line 61 to the storage and dispensing vessel 30, thereby establishing flow communication of the carrier gas supply source 60 with the storage and dispensing vessel 30.
- the flow of carrier gas through line 61 may be controlled by a flow control means, which may for example comprise a flow control valve 64 and associated fixed orifice or mass flow controller schematically represented by box 66.
- Line 61 has disposed therein an absolute pressure regulator 64, a filter and purifier 63, and a fixed orifice or mass flow controller 66, for controllably flowing the carrier gas to the storage and dispensing vessel 30 at a desired process flow rate and pressure appropriate to the end use of the storage and dispensing system.
- the purifier 63 downstream from the absolute pressure regulator 64 serves to purify the carrier gas being supplied, to chemiso ⁇ tively remove any deleterious or unwanted components from the carrier gas stream, e.g., water and oxidants.
- the purifier 63 also serves to provide filtration of the dispensing fluid stream.
- the purifier 63 may be of any suitable type, including purifiers commercially available from Millipore Co ⁇ oration (Bedford, MA) under the trademark "Wafe ⁇ ure".
- the storage and dispensing vessel 30, containing the sorbent material which so ⁇ tively holds the fluid to be dispensed is subjected to the introduction of the carrier gas flow from the carrier gas source 60 through line 61.
- the carrier gas enters the storage and dispensing vessel 30 through bottom entry port 67.
- the carrier gas passes through the storage and dispensing vessel 30 causing sorbate gas to pass into the bulk gas phase by the associated concentration gradient.
- the resulting gas mixture then exits the storage and dispensing vessel via manifold 31.
- the dispensing vessel 30 has associated therewith a cylinder valve 32 for controllably releasing the gas mixture from the vessel 30, together with an isolation valve 16 that may be selectively actuated to close gas communication between the dispensing vessel 30 and manifold 31.
- the manifold 31 has a branch fitting 36 therein, by means of which manifold is coupled in gas flow communication with a branch purge line 37 having inert gas purge isolation valve 38 therein.
- the manifold may be purged with inert gas, prior to initiating active operation for delivery of gas from dispensing vessel 30.
- the manifold Downstream from the branch fitting 36, the manifold contains two successive gas filters 42 and 44, intermediate of which is disposed a pressure transducer 46 having a pressure operating range appropriate to the system operation.
- the gas manifold 31 is connected downstream of gas filter 44 with a branch fitting 54.
- a bypass conduit 51 having bypass isolation valve 58 therein is coupled to the branch fitting 54.
- the gas manifold 31 downstream of fitting 54 has a gas flow on-off valve 56 therein, downstream of which is disposed a mass flow controller 52 for controllably adjusting the flow rate through manifold 31 of the carrier gas stream comprising the sorbable fluid and the carrier gas.
- the manifold 31 is connected by coupling fitting 64 to dispensing line 71 having flow control valve 72 therein.
- the manifold is also coupled in gas flow communication with bypass line 51 via coupling fitting 62.
- the discharge line 71 is as shown joined to an ion source generating means, schematically shown as element 42.
- the other end 61 of discharge line 71 may be suitably coupled in gas flow communication with another gas dispensing and carrier gas means, as desirable or necessary in a given end use application of the FIG. 2 sorbate fluid storage and dispensing system apparatus.
- the system of the invention may be variously configured and constituted to carry out same in accordance with the broad disclosure herein.
- the pressure transducer 46, pump 68, pressure regulator 64, mass flow controllers 66 and 52, and valves 62, 34, 56, 58 and 72, as well as any inlet valve associated with the pump may all be operatively interconnected in a manual or automatic control system circuit, for controllably operating the storage and dispensing system, to provide dispensed fluid at a predetermined rate, or in accordance with a cyclic demand under the control of suitable cycle timer means.
- the carrier gas may be supplied to the storage and dispensing vessel holding the sorbate gas, at an appropriate superatmospheric pressure, so that the pressurized carrier gas provides sufficient flow through the storage and dispensing vessel to avoid the use of pumps or compressors for supply of the carrier gas.
- the dispensing circuitry associated with the storage and dispensing vessel may include an extractor, eductor, pump (e.g., cryopump), or other means to effect flow in the system, and to draw the carrier gas from the source thereof into the storage and dispensing vessel for flow therethrough to discharge desorbed fluid in the carrier gas stream.
- system of the invention may be widely varied, to provide a flow-through of carrier gas, for achieving deso ⁇ tion of the sorbate from the sorbent material in the storage and dispensing vessel and entrainment of the desorbate gas in the carrier gas stream.
- the storage and dispensing system of the invention may be utilized to provide gases for industrial processes, such as semiconductor manufacturing, ion implantation, manufacture of flat-panel displays, medical treatment, water treatment, emergency breathing systems, welding operations and space-based as well as terrestrial and underwater applications, wherein a dispensed gas is required.
- the sorbent-based storage and dispensing system of the invention permits the gas to be supplied from a compact, portable and readily fabricated apparatus, in a readily modulated fashion, to provide gas on demand for such applications.
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