Abstract:
In this work, the first-principles calculations are used to study the gas-solid compatibility between new environment-friendly insulating gas CF
3SO
2F and the solid surfaces of common electrician equipment from a microscopic perspective. Firstly, the potential sites where the CF
3SO
2F molecule are prone to interact with solid surfaces are identified based on the frontier molecular orbital theory. Then, the interaction strength and charge transfer between CF
3SO
2F and five typical equipment solid surfaces are studied by computational simulation. At the same time, SF
6 is studied as the control group. Secondly, the origin of the similar gas-solid compatibility of CF
3SO
2F and SF
6 is revealed by further analysis. Finally, the dynamic compatibility of CF
3SO
2F with typical solid surfaces is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The results indicate that CF
3SO
2F has excellent compatibility similar to SF
6 because of similar electronic structures of active atom, especially in the electrical equipment whose contact surface is Cu, CuO, Al
2O
3 and epoxy resin coatings. Besides, CF
3SO
2F has poor compatibility with pure aluminum metal surface. The experimental results demonstrate the excellent compatibility of CuO and Al
2O
3 surfaces and support the validity of the selected computational method.