Sulphur Hexafluoride SF6

High Voltage Circuit Breaker

Power Transmission and Distribution

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Sulphur Hexafluoride, SF6

Is a colourless, odourless, nontoxic, non-flammable, insulating and cooling gas.

It is five times heavier/denser than air and one of the heaviest known gases.

1900 First operation (France)

1937 First patent as insulating gas (Cooper)
1938 First patent as arc quenching gas (Grosse)
1948 Start of technical production (USA)
1960 First SF 6-Power circuit breaker (Westinghouse)
1964 First Siemens-SF6-Power circuit breaker ( puffer type )
1968 First Siemens-GIS with SF 6-Insulation
1974 First Siemens-GIL
1995 First Siemens-SF 6 –Power circuit breaker ( self compression )

Advantages : - High dielectric strenght

- Regeneration capacity
- Low pressure increase in the case of breakdown
Packaging: Specifications in accordance to DIN IEC- 60376
Steel cylinders of 5, 10, 20, 40 or 50 kg
Container with 460 or 600 kg

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Electrical properties
50 Hz breakdown voltage of SF 6 in a homogeneous field as a function of the
distance between electrodes

breakdown voltage SF6, 5 bar

kV

Öl
200
vacuum
SF6, 1 bar

150

100
air, 1 bar

50

distance between electrodes

0
0 10 20 mm 30
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Vapour pressure curve lines of equivalent gas density
of SF6

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SF6 filling and operating values of density monitor

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Density monitor, cross section

at 20°C
1 Signal 1: 5,0 bar
Microswitches 2 Signal 2: 5,0 bar
3 Signal 3: 5,2 bar

SF6-Referencevolume
6 bar at 20°C
Bellow

SF6-Gas breaker

Body

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Density monitor, cross section

Ambient Indoor

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Check of the operating values of the density
monitor

Density monitor Density monitor

Breaker Breaker filling device

test connection W2 test connection W2

from filling flange W1 from filling flange W1

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SF6 connections

W2 test connection

W1 filling connection

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SF6 filling device A101

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SF6 filling device A101

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SF6 filling device A101 in use

SF6 gas testing SF6 gas filling

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Watercontent in ppmv

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Conversion diagramm

Diagramm for conversion of the dew point

temperature to water vapour content. The
measurement with the 3-031-R002 is always
made under atmospheric prssure
(pe 0 bar/psi).

ppmvol = ppmmass x 8.11

Example:
The measured dew point of -32°C (-26°F) is
about ppm-mass. This correspondends to
about 350 ppm-Vol.

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