KAGRA MIR (Absorption)
ManuelMarchio - 14:10, Tuesday 12 July 2016 (270)
Dust particle counting

Since one possible explanation of the  noise is dust, I used the particle counter to quantify the dust.

Instrument name: MET ONE Airborne Particle Counter HHPC6+

Acquisition time: 10 minutes

Volume: 28.36L

 

Inside the clean booth of Tama central room.

Size

cumulative

counts/L
0.3um 199489 7034
0.5um 15086 532
1um 2018 71
2um 740 26
5um 114 4
10um 57 2

Almost the same order of a normal room. Indeed I realized that the fans of the clean booth were OFF since a couple of month ago, when I checked whether the acoustic noise was important.

 

I switched ON the fan and wait half an hour

Size

cumulative

counts/L
0.3um 943 33
0.5um 65 2.3
1um4 4 0.14
2um 1 0.03
5um 0 0
10um 0 0

 

After one hour

Size

cumulative

counts/L
0.3um 139 5
0.5um 16 0.5
1um 1 0.03
2um 1 0.03
5um 0 0
10um 0 0

 

The morning after I came inside the clean booth and run the count

Size

cumulative

counts/L
0.3um 1018 36
0.5um 83 3
1um 3 0.1
2um 2 0.07
5um 0 0
10um 0 0

So it looks that an entire night doesn't clean the air much more than an hour.

 

Moving very gently I repeated the count

Size

cumulative

counts/L
0.3um 195 7
0.5um 21 1
1um 2 0.07
2um 0 0
5um 0 0
10um 0 0

I think there is some dust on the everything, so when I move the air, the dust flies and make the count higher.

 

Then I moved the particle counter in the small clean booth on the small optical table that is used for gluing work

Size

cumulative

counts/L
0.3um 2 0.07
0.5um 0 0
1um 0 0
2um 0 0
5um 0 0
10um 0 0

Very clean...

 

And then I went to clean room of ATC

Size

cumulative

counts/L
0.3um 6 0.2
0.5um 0 0
1um 0 0
2um 0 0
5um 0 0
10um 0 0
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