Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) has the potential to be a valuable transient racer for dating of young ground water. However, near urban areas, there are typically numerous point sources of SF6 which have a significant impact on the temporal evolution of its atmospheric mixing ratio, thereby complicating its use as an age-dating tool. Here, we present and discuss a 12-month record of atmospheric SF6 ...

A series of porous organic cages is examined for the selective adsorption of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) over nitrogen. Despite lacking any metal sites, a porous cage, CC3, shows the highest SF6/N2 selectivity reported for any material at ambient temperature and pressure, which translates to real separations in a gas breakthrough column. The SF6 uptake of these materials is considerably higher th...

A lifecycle environmental impact analysis was conducted for SF6 used as an insulating gas in electrical devices. Eight scenarios with different forms of usage as an insulating gas (pure SF6 and gaseous mixture of SF6 with nitrogen) and treatment processes of waste SF6 (e.g., reproduction after decomposition, reuse after purification) are assumed. Energy consumption and emission of pollutants an...

Solvay has launched its SF6 ReUse Program in the USA, offering utility companies in particular the opportunity to dispose of their used SF6 gas in a manner consistent with environmental awareness and protection. The program addresses the analysis, transport and reclaiming of used SF6 gas to the point where it is ultimately fed back into the production stream. This paper illustrates the logistic...

PURPOSE The authors conducted in vivo assessment of corneal endothelial toxicity of air and SF6 in the feline model. This research was motivated by the increased use of air in anterior segment surgery in human subjects. METHODS This was a prospective masked study. The eyes of 16 healthy adult cats were randomly assigned for the injection of 0.7 mL air into the anterior chamber of one eye and ...

Local emissions of SF6 are of interest for studying their impact on the use of SF6 as a groundwater-dating tool near source regions as well as for investigating the spatial distributions of (inert) gaseous compounds spreading from urban or industrial centers. A precondition for the use of SF6 in such studies is the capability to document the temporal and spatial evolution of SF6 in and around s...

Spectroscopic studies of the SF6- and c-C4F8- anions are reported to provide experimental benchmarks for theoretical predictions of their structures and electron binding energies. The photoelectron spectrum of SF6- is dominated by a long progression in the S-F stretching mode, with an envelope consistent with theoretical predictions that the anion preserves the Oh symmetry of the neutral, but h...

The research on decomposition characteristics of SF6 and its by-products have great significance to the operation, maintenance, condition assessment fault diagnosis power equipment. In this paper, particle composition models SF6, SF6/polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), SF6/PTFE/O2, SF6/PTFE/H2O, SF6/PTFE/O2/H2O were established by using Gibbs free energy minimization method, effects trace H2O O2 im...

Lung cancer is one of the most common malignancies with a high rate of mortality. Lung cancer stem-like cells (CSCs)/ cancer-initiating cells (CICs) play major role in resistance to treatments, recurrence and distant metastasis and eradication of CSCs/CICs is crucial to improve recent therapy. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are major effectors of cancer immunotherapy, and CTLs recognize antigen...

The gas SF6 has become of interest as a negative ion drift gas for use in directional dark matter searches. However, as for other targets in such searches, it is important that radon contamination can be removed as this provides a source of unwanted background events. In this work we demonstrate for the first time filtration of radon from SF6 gas by using a molecular sieve. Four types of sieves...