Abstract:
Method and apparatus for cooling and insulating high voltage electrical equipment. Method comprises bathing the equipment in a fluidized bed comprising an anhydrous particulate solid dielectric material preferably having an intrinsic dielectric strength greater than 100 kilovolts per cm. fluidized with a dielectric gas having an intrinsic dielectric strength of at least about 0.9 relative to dry air. Apparatus comprises a housing for holding a particulate solid dielectric, the housing having gas tight bottom and side walls, means for suspending a unit of high voltage electrical equipment in electrically insulated spaced relationship therewith, means for passing an electric current through said unit, an inlet for gas proximate the bottom of the housing, an outlet for gas at the top of the housing, an apertured plate disposed above the gas inlet, means for passing the gas at fluidizing velocity upwardly through the apertured plate, means for removing particulate solid dielectric from the housing, means for cooling the removed particulate solid dielectric and means for returning the cooled particulate solid dielectric to the housing.
Abstract:
Copolymers of chlorotrifluoroethylene and vinylidene fluoride, optionally together with tetrafluoroethylene, are dissolved in hexafluorobenzene. The solutions may be used for coating, casting films and for seaming metals and plastic films.ALSO:Substrates, e.g. of metals and plastics, may be coated with solutions in hexafluorobenzene of copolymers of chlerotrifluoroethylene and vinylidene fluoride, optionally together with tetrafluoroethylene. In Example (XI) a polyethylene substrate and a sand-blasted steel panel are coated with hexafluorobenzene solutions of chlorotrifluoroethylene/vinylidene fluoride copolymers.