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 |