ZALLAN KHAN

2017511

PE 448

ASSIGNMENT 01
INTRODUCTION

SF6 is a scentless, non-combustible compound with high synthetic strength. It is shaped by the
compound responses among sulfur, and fluorinated gas created by the electrolysis of
anhydrous hydrofluoric corrosive (HF). It is a compound, which has an amazingly high electrical
security with exceptional dielectric strength and bends quenching execution under high
voltages. Regardless of whether it were to be presently separated or ionized by a circular
segment, it has the property of getting back to stable SF6 once the bend is stifled. SF6 has
generally high idle warmth of vaporization, and a low sublimation temperature, and recognizes
even the follow sums by halogen spill finders. Its significant level of synthetic solidness and
remarkable electrical properties are applied in its utilization as a protecting material for
electrical hardware. It won't break down in anhydrous conditions up to 500°C. Regardless of
whether huge amounts of water are available among it and metallic materials, it won't
deteriorate in conditions up to 150°C. It has incredible dielectric strength that is 2 to multiple
times that of air at a similar weight, and execution at similar level as protecting oils at 3 to 4 airs
of weight. Likewise, dissimilar to protecting oils, it won't create conductive carbon stores. It has
a high broad warmth move coefficient, and magnificent cooling impacts, empowering it to
diminish energy misfortunes from hardware and increment their yield. These properties can
permit hardware to decrease and require less support, for huge likely decreases in expense.
With such remarkable properties, SF6 is accepted to be a substance that will be additionally
considered for a different scope of utilizations later on.

LITERATURE SURVEY

Sulfur hexafluoride was first integrated in the labs of the Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris in 1900
by Moissan and Lebeau. Fluorine, acquired by electrolysis, was permitted to respond with sulfur
and an emphatically exothermic response, offering ascend to a strikingly steady gas.
Continuously from that point the physical and compound properties of the gas were set up,
with distributions by Pridaux (1906), Schlumb and Gamble (1930), Klemm and Henkel (1932-35)
and Yest and Clausson (1933) concerning especially the substance and dielectric properties.

The initial examination into modern applications was by the General Electric Company in 1937
who understood that the gas could be utilized for protection in electrical plant. In 1939
Thomson-Houston licensed the standard of utilizing SF6 for protecting links and capacitors.
Following the second world war, distributions and applications started to show up in fast
progression:
Towards 1947, chip away at transformer protection, advancement of modern assembling of SF6
in the USA in 1948 by Allied Chemical Corporation and Pennsalt, huge scope commercialization
of SF6 fabricate for use in electrical plant development

In 1960 in the USA and in Europe, matching with the presence of the primary SF6 circuit-
breakers and switches at High Voltage – HV – and Extra High Voltage – EHV.

At Merlin Gerin, the examination work, concerning the use of SF6 gas for protection and circuit-
breaking was started around 1955. This coincides with the appearance of the main mechanical
items in the U.S. The principal mechanical applications from Merlin Gerin were at EHV, at that
point in Medium Voltage – MV – applications following:

1964: the main SF6 – protected substation, requested by EDF and put into administration in the
Paris locale in 1966.

1967: the FA electrical switch was dispatched and logically supplanted the packed air gear
which had set up its situation in France and somewhere else during the past 25 years.

1971: changes in the requirements of the business drove Merlin Gerin to dispatch the Fluarc
SF6 MV circuit breaker.

All the more as of late, SF6 has been received for use in MV switches, ring primary units,
contactors and circuit-breakers, GIS, covering all the requirements of the electrical circulation
industry.

SF6 AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Atmospheric pollutants produced by human activity are divided into two major categories
according to their effects:

 stratospheric ozone depletion (hole in the ozone layer),

 global warming (greenhouse effect).

SF6 does not contribute significantly to stratospheric ozone depletion because it contains no
chlorine which is the main agent in ozone catalysis, or to the greenhouse effect because
quantities present in the atmosphere are very small.

CONCLUSION

The adoption of SF6 in switchgear for all operating conditions has brought advantages in
performance, size, weight, global cost and reliability. The cost of ownership, which includes
maintenance costs, can be much lower than for older types of switchgear: for instance, in the
case of MV CBs, EDF has reduced the total cumulated maintenance time per CB from 350 hours
to 30 hours. Many years of service experience have substantiated the assertions made in this
document that the use of SF6 does not constitute any threat to personnel or to the
environment, as long as elementary working practices are employed.