Residual Gas Analysers are amazing instruments. RGA applications have been used in research for well over 25 years, and throughout the last 10 years of the Residual Gas Analyser, their usage has been almost entirely changed. These analysers can increase product yield and reduce costs – even more so with the usage of flexible heating jackets which work to maintain the temperature of the surface of which it is applied. Originally, Residual Gas Analysers were known as simply research instruments, but within the last 10 years, RGAs are now used as production tools in their own right.

Flexible heating jackets have been a large part of the changing mindset around residual gas analysers. A flexible heating jacket is used to cover surfaces, and benefits industrial and scientific settings by having a series of sensors fitted within. These sensors encompass a surface in order to provide accurate and clear readings of the surface. In the fields of chemistry, this results in increased productivity and quality via a higher quality and better yield, as well as reduced costs and increased profits.

Carefully managing the heat of a surface is very important when it comes to raising quality, but flexible heating jackets have another important use. A flexible heating jacket is designed to raise and maintain an elevated temperature, which means that optimal base pressure is achieved without the risk of creating excessive desorption – ensuring that there is significantly less risk of pressure measurements of gases within the system being misread.

Flexible Heating Jackets have application in very many sciences. Vacuum applications benefit significantly from periodic bakeouts in order to maintain the optimal performance (especially through quadrupole sensors) needed to get the very most out of processes which are expensive to perform.

It is very advised to utilise flexible heating jackets in Ultra High Vacuums as well, after the system has been exposed to atmospheric pressure. Performing a bakeout using a flexible heating jacket allows the system to be purged from background gases, as well as reduces residual gas background buildup.