Rotary vane vacuum pump (referred to as rotary vane pump) is an oil-sealed mechanical vacuum pump. Its working pressure range is 101325~1.33×10-2(Pa), which belongs to low vacuum pump. It can be used alone or as a backing pump for other high vacuum pumps or ultra-high vacuum pumps. It has been widely used in the production and scientific research departments of metallurgy, machinery, military industry, electronics, chemical industry, light industry, petroleum and medicine.

The rotary vane pump can pump out the dry gas in the sealed container. If it is equipped with a gas ballast device, it can also pump out a certain amount of condensable gas. But it is not suitable for pumping out the gas with high oxygen content, corrosive to metal, chemical reaction to pump oil and particulate dust.

Rotary vane pump is one of the most basic vacuum obtaining equipment in vacuum technology. Rotary vane pumps are mostly small and medium-sized pumps. There are two types of rotary vane pumps: single stage and double stage. The so-called double-stage is to connect two single-stage pumps in series in structure. Generally, it is made into double-stage to obtain higher vacuum degree. The relationship between the pumping speed and the inlet pressure of the rotary vane pump is as follows: when the inlet pressure is 1333Pa, 1.33Pa and 1.33×10-1 (Pa), the pumping speed value shall not be lower than 95% of the nominal pumping speed of the pump, 50% and 20%.

Rotary vane pump is mainly composed of pump body, rotor, rotary vane, end cover, spring, etc. A rotor is eccentrically installed in the cavity of the rotary vane pump, the outer circle of the rotor is tangent to the inner surface of the pump cavity (there is a small gap between the two), and two rotary vanes with springs are installed in the rotor groove. When rotating, the top of the rotary vane is kept in contact with the inner wall of the pump chamber by centrifugal force and the tension of the spring, and the rotor rotates to drive the rotary vane to slide along the inner wall of the pump chamber.