A critical element of fielding advanced technology systems, especially those employing new physical principles, is that of field verification and testing. Robert L. Campbell was responsible for the design, construction, and employment of ultra-high power Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) systems to simulate the effects of nuclear weapons on the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System. Not only was the EMP generator state of the art, all the required verification and testing instrumentation and data reduction was also designed from basic physical principle and required the development of several new device technologies

To enable the construction of radically new, high efficiency seawater desalination systems based upon the vapor compression distillation cycle, Mr. Campbell directed the design and construction of laboratory verification apparatus such as the highly instrumented single cell evaporator/condenser/compressor assembly shown here. As a result of the testing of this verification apparatus, several new physical principles were applied to prototype systems which proved the concept on larger scale seawater desalination systems. Mr. Campbell is author of several related patents that were enabled by this apparatus.

Campbell Applied Physics has vast experience in the instrumentation and data reduction for the development and verification of complex thermodynamic, electromagnetic, and physical chemistry systems. Pictured here is the graphical synthesis of the optimization of the specific power consumption of a mechanical vapor compression system employed to desalinate seawater.