• DocumentCode
    1216523
  • Title

    Investigations of Nozzle Materials in SF6 Circuit Breakers

  • Author

    Meier, R. ; Kneubühl, F.K. ; Coccioni, R. ; Wyss, H. ; Fischer, E. ; Schötzau, H.J.

  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1986
  • Firstpage
    390
  • Lastpage
    394
  • Abstract
    With a puffer and a self-blast type SF6 circuit breaker (CB), various nozzle materials have been investigated. In addition, a small-scaled model SF6 breaker has been attached to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) in order to study the exhausted gas contaminated with ablated material. The experimental results clearly show an influence of the nozzle material on the interrupting capability of the SF6 CB. The observed nozzle ablation is mainly determined by the geometry of the arcing device. The erosion of the nozzle and the chemical composition of arced SF6 gas depend slightly on the quality of the PTFE nozzles only.
  • Keywords
    Chemicals; Circuit breakers; Composite materials; Corrosion; Dielectric materials; Electrodes; Geometry; Mass spectroscopy; Sulfur hexafluoride; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.1986.4316566
  • Filename
    4316566