June 2022
IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Substations Committee’s Gas Insulated Substations Subcommittee and its K19 Working Group has a new guide currently being written entitled: PC37.122.10 Guide for Handling Non-SF6 Gas Mixtures for High Voltage Equipment.
The guide is being created to support the Transmission and Distribution Electrical Power Utility, Power Generation, and Industrial Power sectors where SF6 GIE may be replaced with new technologies such as SF6 gas alternatives to mitigate impact on climate change.
There are some existing and on-going IEEE PES materials related to this topic as follows:
Active Committees/Task Forces of Interest
- The IEEE PES Substations Committee K19 Working Group is currently in the process of creating this new guide and encourages your participation if this topic is of interest to you. To learn more or to get involved, please visit: https://cmte.ieee.org/pes-substations/sck0/wgk19/
- IEEE PES Meetings will be scheduled for the coming year with an expectation that the guide may be completed within the next 24 to 48 months. For a list of upcoming IEEE PES Substations Committee meetings, please visit: https://cmte.ieee.org/pes-substations/meetings/
Technical Reports & Applicable Papers or Presentations
The new IEEE PES guide is being designed to be in line with other non-IEEE standards and guides such as:
IEC Standard & Guides
- IEC 60376:2018
- IEC 60480:2019
- Future Ed1 of IEC 63359 (work in progress) – Fluids for electrotechnical application: Specifications for the re-use of mixtures of gases alternative to SF6
- Future Ed1 of IEC 63360 (work in progress) – Fluids for electrotechnical application: Mixtures of gases alternative to SF6
CIGRE Technical Brochures
- 723 SF6 Measurement guide
- 802 Application of non-SF6 gases or gas-mixtures in medium and high voltage gas-insulated switchgear
- 849 Electric performance of new non- SF6 gases and gas mixtures for gas-insulated systems
Related IEEE Papers
- ESSB tutorial, March 2022, Engineering Large-Scale Battery Energy Storage Systems
- ESSB NextEra tutorial, August 2018, Software and the Need for a Complete Energy Storage Management System