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Figure 1:
Point to connect the circuit breaker to the ion mobility spectrometer
sensitivity and relatively low technical Faraday plate to the ionization region is used
expenditure with high speed data acquisition. to protect the drift region from chemical
The main advantage over other common reactions between the analyte molecules and
detection methods is the fact, that the to allow only ions of the analyte formed to
instrument can work on-line, continuously and enter the drift region but no uncharged
unsupervised. All these advantages also apply molecules of the analyte. One of the
to the application introduced here. However, preconditions of IMS operation is that
there are some essential differences because (hopefully) no charge transfer reactions occur
of the application in the industry here to the in the drift region of the IMS.
traditional operation of the ion mobility In our case, however, an application in
spectrometer (IMS). This shall be made clear in industrial area is considered. Therefore, no
the following. drift gas is available in the substation
The instrument is based on the drift of ions at investigated. In contrast to the common
ambient pressure under the influence of an operation of the IMS a low resolution IMS not
electric field. The ions undergo a separation protected against analyte molecules entering
process based on various drift velocities due to the drift region was build. Here, the real start
different masses and charges on the way position of the ion swarm is unknown.
towards the Faraday plate. A so called drift gas Normally, a Bradbury-Nielsen shutter opens for
(clean air or nitrogen), which flows from the short time intervals between some µs and
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J.I. Baumbach et al.: „Monitoring of Circuit Breakers using ...”, IJIMS 2(1999)1, 35-39, p. 37
comparable conditions
reference spectra of pure SF6
Peakshift Phase C were taken on-site and they
Peak Position / ms
1,0 Phase C 29.5 showed no significant
Phase B 29.1 difference to the spectra taken
Phase A 28.4
Reference 27.1 in the laboratory. It is notable
that the data acquisition time
Signal / V
1.0
A
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B
with SF6 filled circuit breakers under Ph
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ase
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