[1] SF6 tracer release experiments (TREs) have provided fundamental insights in many areas of Oceanography. Recently, SF6 has emerged as a powerful transient tracer, generating a need for an alternative tracer for large-scale ocean TREs. SF5CF3 has the potential to replace SF6 in TREs, due to similarities in their properties and behavior, as well as techniques for injection, sampling, and analy...

SF6 is the main mode of insulation in a GIS. However, in recent years, the future use of SF6 has been debated throughout the world in spite of it having all the desirable properties of a good insulating and arc quenching medium. Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) has been used as a gaseous dielectric (insulator) in high voltage equipment since the 1950s. It is now known that SF6 is a potent greenhouse w...

Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) has been widely used in substations. The insulating medium used in GIS is sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) gas. However, the internal insulation defect existed in GIS would inevitably lead to partial discharge (PD), and cause the composition of SF6 to SOF2, SO2F2 and SO2 and other characteristic component gases. The decomposition phenomenon would greatly reduce the insul...

The photoionization of He droplets doped with SF6 was investigated using tunable vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) synchrotron radiation from the Advanced Light Source (ALS). The resulting ionization and photofragmentation dynamics were characterized using time-of-flight mass spectrometry combined with photofragment and photoelectron imaging. Results are compared to those of gas-phase SF6 molecules. We ...

We present pressure-dependent and temperature-dependent subthreshold photoionization spectra of pure CH3I (up to 200 mbar) and CH3I doped into SF6 (up to 1 bar). At the high pressures studied, no temperature effect is observed for the subthreshold structure, thus ruling out vibrational autoionization of CH3I as an ionization mechanism. Moreover, analysis of photocurrent intensities as a functio...

We present photoionization spectra of C2H5I and C6H6 doped into Ar and SF6, and photoabsorption spectra of C2H5I doped into Ar. The observation of subthreshold photoionization in C2H5I/SF6 and C6H6/SF6 is discussed in terms of dopant (D)/perturber (P) interactions involving the excited state processes of D + P 6 D + P and D + P 6 [DP] + e, where D is a discrete Rydberg state of the dopant. The ...

The aim of the study was to assess how deep into the acinar region the airway response to cold dry-air hyperventilation challenge (CACh) reaches in subjects with asthma of different severity. Peripheral airway function was measured using a single-breath sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and helium (He) washout test and overall airway function by forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) at rest, a...

Reactions of bare and ligated uranium ions with sulfur hexafluoride were studied in a quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer. Bare U+ was found to react rather efficiently with SF6 (k/kADO ∼ 0.4) to produce both UFn (n ) 1, 2, 3, 4) and SFn (n ) 1, 2, 3). Whereas the UF/SF6 reaction rate was essentially the same as that for U/SF6, both UF2 and UF3 were inert; this is attributed to a repulsive in...

An advantage of using chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) as tracers of ocean circulation is that the time-dependent source functions permit calculation of rates for ocean processes. These compounds are also sensitive indicators highlighting interior ocean regions where surface-derived anomalies can be transported on timescales of decades. Significant applications for CFCs ...

Four typical types of artificial defects are designed in conducting the decomposition experiments of SF6 gas to obtain and understand the decomposition characteristics of SF6 gas-insulated medium under different types of negative DC partial discharge (DC-PD), and use the obtained decomposition characteristics of SF6 in diagnosing the type and severity of insulation fault in DC SF6 gas-insulated...