SUN Guanglei, LIN Xin, XIA Yalong, et al. Study on Breakdown Characteristic of Hot SF6/CF4[J]. High voltageapparatus, 2021, 57(3): 65-70. DOI: 10.13296/j.1001-1609.hva.2021.03.011.
The converted critical breakdown field strength of the hot medium is the basis for judging whether thepost arc medium of the switchgear has re-strike.To obtain the converted critical breakdown field strength of the hotSF
6
/CF
4
is of great significance in evaluating and optimizing the interruption characteristic of
SF
6
/CF
4
high voltageswitchgear.In this paper
the composition content of SF
6
/CF
4
plasma at pressure intensity of 0.1~1.6 MPa is calcu-lated by the law of mass action and the variation process of 50%SF
6
/50% CF
4
gas mixture in the temperature between300 K to 4 000 K is analyzed.Two approximations are used to solve the Boltzmann equation and calculate the varia-tion of critical breakdown field strength(E/N)
cr
of hot SF
6
/CF
4
with temperature at different intensity of pressure.Itis shown by the result that when the temperature is lower than 1 500 K
(E/N)
cr
remains almost unchanged and isabout 268.3 Td(1 Td=1×10
-21
Vm
2
).While
when the temperature is higher than 2 000 K
the gas mixture(E/N)
cr
ishigher than pure SF
6
due to the influence of CF
4
decomposition product CF
x
(x=1
2
3).With the continuous in-crease of temperature
(E/N)
cr
is stabilized around 40 Td.Finally
the effective ionization coefficients of differentproportions of cold SF
6
/CF
4
at 0.7 MPa are calculated and compared with the existing literature value so to verify thevalidity of the calculation method and parameter.