Gas insulated switchgear (GIS) plays a vital role in high voltage transmission of electrical energy due to its advantages of high reliability and performance, compact in dimensions and outstanding compatibility with the environment. It uses sulphur hexafluoride gas as its insulant and coolant because of its high dielectric strength and excellent arc quenching ability. Gas insulated switchgear i...

Metastable oxygen atoms and molecules have received increased interest because of their function in surface modification, bio-decontamination and many other industrial applications, in addition to the role in the upper atmospheric layer chemistry. We review work on production and detection of metastable oxygen and we describe our experiments, including the development of techniques for measurem...

Flame ignition by short-duration (≈ 50 ns) transient plasma, or corona, discharges was investigated for methane-air, propane-air and butane-air mixtures at atmospheric and elevated pressures. Such discharges produce a larger fraction of high-energy electrons, yield more spatially distributed energy and deposit energy in the gas more efficiently than conventional arc discharges do. We show that ...

Plasma jets produced by direct-current (dc) non-transferred arc plasma torches, at the core of technologies ranging from spray coating to pyrolysis, present intricate dynamics due to the coupled interaction of fluid flow, thermal and electromagnetic phenomena. The flow dynamics from an arc discharge plasma jet are investigated using time-dependent three-dimensional simulations encompassing the ...

Acoustic array bunching is an effective method to realize the directional radiation of underwater plasma sound source (UPSS). The prebreakdown time one decisive factors for performance acoustic bunching. working characteristics and process arc discharge are deeply analyzed. precondition given by analyzing waveforms electrical signals signals. Through experiments based on different aqueous solut...

In this paper, multi-walled carbon nanotubes are synthesized by arcdischarge and chemical vapor decomposition methods. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes are synthesized on thin film of nickel sputtered on silicon substrate by thermal chemical vapor deposition of acetylene at a temperature of 750°C. The flow of current in arc-discharge method varies in the range 50–200 A. Further arcsynthesized carb...

Arc fault is one of the important reasons of electrical fires. In virtue of cross talk, randomness and weakness of series arc faults in low-voltage circuits, very few of techniques have been well used to protect loads from series arc faults. Thus, a novel detection method based on support vector machine is developed in this paper. If series arc fault occurs, high frequency signal energy in circ...