After posting the blog about Brooks’ history with NASA this morning, I realized that this blog post about our Quantim’s in space must have been mistakenly deleted at some point, so here it is! Enjoy!
Delivering saline solution to a clinic for medical needs … sounds simple enough, right? Not when that clinic is on the International Space Station, the moon or even Mars. Transporting medical fluids that are manufactured on Earth into space is expensive and logistically challenging. NASA Johnson Space Center knew there had to be a way to manufacture medical fluids in space to alleviate the transportation problems and to make spacecraft more self sufficient, so they called on the microgravity science expertise and spaceflight hardware development know-how of Cleveland, OH based NASA Glenn Research Center and ZIN Technologies, Inc.
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While we were cleaning out our offices a few weeks ago a co-worker of mine handed me a great Norman Rockwell oil painting that we used to have hanging in one of our hallways. It was taken down when we were updating our facility. He wasn’t sure what to do with it. The reason we used to have it hanging up in the walls at Brooks (and the reason I’m going to find it another nice home on our walls) is because in the background of the picture you can see some Brooks Sho-Rate variable area flow meters between the two men on the left. Brooks provided Sho-Rate flow meters to NASA for some of the first missions into space. Read more…
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We always like to take the opportunity to share our customer success stories. Here’s one from the land Down Under where Brooks worked with Measurement Plus Pty. Ltd. to install a new gas mixing system at a research institute in Melbourne.
Researchers at the institute were using N2, CO, CO2 and Ar to stabilize a reaction chamber. However, at some point during the process, they wanted the ability to flow in a mixture of these gases. At the time, the institute was using older Brooks thermal mass flow meters inside a self-designed panel. The panel and its components were about 30 years old, rusted and looked like a bird’s nest. Read more…
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This has been a product that we have been working on and perfecting on over the past several months and I’m extremely excited to finally formally launch the new GF40 and GF80 thermal mass flow controller and flow meter! These mass flow controllers provide outstanding performance, reliability and flexibility in many gas flow measurement and control applications. One of the best features of this new mass flow controller is the patented 4th generation MultiFlo gas and range configurability. MultiFlo programming is simple and fast – a new gas and range can be programmed under 60 seconds plus the device can be programmed without removing it from service or disconnecting the device from any process or tool control system.
The GF40/GF80 Series mass flow controllers features fast sub one second settling times and corrosion-resistant Hastalloy sensor tube for long-term stability. The superior valve technology provides minimum leak-by, maximum turndown and fast response which reduces overall gas panel cost and increases throughput. Additionally, the measurement accuracy of every device is verified using traceable primary calibration standards.
Want to learn more? Download the datasheet or contact your local sales engineer.
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Brooks is excited to announce that customers can now control up to 30 mass flow meters / mass flow controllers at the same time with the new Brooks Smart Interface (BSI) 0260 software and tabletop hardware module. This Windows®-based software application expands your control and monitoring capabilities for Brooks’ thermal mass flow meters and controllers.
The BSI 0260 eliminates the need for multiple secondary electronics boxes. This will help you save space, simplify monitoring and reduce overall costs in lab and research environments.
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Later this week we’ll be hanging out with our local sales agent in Puerto Rico, MR Franceschini (MRF) at the Interphex Puerto Rico trade show. Each year Brooks partner’s up with MRF to exhibit. Boy does this trade show do it right. It’s on Thursday and Friday and starts each day at 1pm and ends at 8pm. The show has a party atmosphere and everyone that comes truly seems to have a good time. It’s the best way to mix business with pleasure. I had the pleasure of attending this trade show myself years ago, but our regional sales manager for this territory, Rich Fravel, will be in attendance this year, as he is every year … lucky guy! Read more…
Categories: About Brooks, Coriolis and Thermal Mass Flow Tags: flow meter, flowmeter, Interphex, IP66, mass flow controller, mass flow meter, NEMA4X, pharmaceutical, Puerto Rico, trade show
We’re proud to announce that Brooks is the recipient of another award this year. The 2011 Innovation Award from Flow Control magazine joins our Golden Gas Award and Control Readers’ Choice Awards from earlier this year. Read more…
Brooks has unveiled the next era of its GF Series mass flow controllers. Our GF120 mass flow controllers now come with a Safe Delivery System (SDS®).
The GF120 SDS is a low-pressure drop mass flow controller that delivers sub-atmospheric SCS gases used in implant and etch processes. They are available in full-scale flow ranges of 4 to 25 sccm (GF120XSL) or >25 sccm to 1 slpm (GF120XSD). Read more…
At Pittcon this week in Atlanta, Gases and Instrumentation International presented Brooks with a 2011 Golden Gas Award. We took home top honors in the “Mass Flow Measurement/Press Measurement and Control” category for our GF Series Thermal Mass Flow Controllers.
GF125 Thermal Mass Flow Controller
The GF Series is a highly modular, user programmable, ultra high purity mass flow controller designed for advanced semiconductor and thin-film processes. Through proactive monitoring of the worlds largest install base of MultiFlo™ and pressure transient insensitive mass flow controllers, the GF Series combines exceptional flow repeatability, market-leading 300ms flow control response time, the most comprehensive gas and flow range programmability, and long-term reliability in a highly configurable platform.
“The GF Series is a single platform, process-wide solution for the challenging and diverse needs of the modern semiconductor manufacturing facility,” said Shaun Pewsey, director of field marketing at Brooks Instrument. “We are honored to be recognized by Gases and Instrumentation International’s Golden Gas Awards for this innovation to the semiconductor industry.”
Brooks previously won a Golden Gas Award in 2008 for our 4800 Series mass flow products. For more information on the GF Series, click here.
Brooks and Polycontrols Technologies have been working together to support NASA research that will send a new exploratory module to Venus. Polycontrols is integrating Brooks’ SLA series mass flow controllers with a gas mixing system and chamber that NASA will use for materials testing at the John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
Sending a new exploration module to Venus’ surface will require NASA to ensure the module and its electronic components can withstand the planet’s harsh environment. The gas mixing system and chamber will simulate high thermal stress and Venus’ corrosive atmosphere to test materials needed to make the new module.
Polycontrols’ team selected Brooks’ SLA series mass flow controllers because it proved that it could accurately produce proper gas concentrations to the parts per million (PPM) precision that NASA needs to achieve in the test chamber.
View the full case study here.
