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PLASMA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 690-694Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/9/6/11
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breakdown electric field; hot dissociated SF6; high voltage gas-circuit-breaker
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The critical electric fields of hot SF6 are calculated including both electron and ion kinetics in wide ranges of temperature and pressure, namely from 300 K up to 4000 K and 2 atmospheres up to 32 atmospheres respectively. Based on solving a multi-term electron Boltzmann equation the calculations use improved electron-gas collision cross sections for twelve SF6 dissociation products with a particular emphasis on the electron-vibrating molecule interactions. The ion kinetics is also considered and its role on the critical field becomes non negligible as the temperature is above 2000 K. These critical fields are then used in hydrodynamics simulations which correctly predict the circuit breaker behaviours observed in the case of breaking tests.
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