Disclosed are compositions comprising HCFC-243db, HCFO-1233xf, HCFC-244db and/or HFO-1234yf and at least one additional compound. For the composition comprising 1234yf, the additional compound is selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFO-1243zf, HCFC-243db, HCFC-244db, HFC-245cb, HFC-245fa, HCFO-1233xf, HCFO-1233zd, HCFC-253fb, HCFC-234ab, HCFC-243fa, ethylene, HFC-23, CFC-13, HFC-143a, HFC-152a, HFC-236fa, HCO-1130, HCO-1130a, HFO-1336, HCFC-133a, HCFC-254fb, HCFC-1131, HFO-1141, HCFO-1242zf, HCFO-1223xd, HCFC-233ab, HCFC-226ba, and HFC-227ca. Compositions comprising HCFC-243db, HCFO-1233xf, and/or HCFC-244db are useful in processes to make HFO-1234yf. Compositions comprising HFO-1234yf are useful, among other uses, as heat transfer compositions for use in refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump systems.

The present application discloses compositions comprising hydrogen fluoride and fluorinated compounds (e.g., hydrochlorofluorocarbons), wherein the fluorinated compound is present in the composition in an amount effective to form an azeotrope composition or azeotrope-like composition with the hydrogen fluoride.

The present invention relates to the use of a linear octafluorobutene as a dielectric compound in an environmentally safe dielectric-insulation or arc-extinction fluid for an apparatus for the generation, the transmission, the distribution and/or the usage of electrical energy.

The present invention relates to the use of a linear octafluorobutene as a dielectric compound in an environmentally safe dielectric-insulation or arc-extinction fluid for an apparatus for the generation, the transmission, the distribution and/or the usage of electrical energy.

A method and a facility for filling a high- or medium-voltage gas-insulated electrical apparatus in which the insulating gas comprises a mixture of heptafluoroisobutyronitrile ((CF.sub.3).sub.2CFCN) and carbon dioxide. The method and the facility using a mixture of (CF.sub.3).sub.2CFCN and CO.sub.2 in pressurised liquid form which is heated to a temperature no lower than the critical temperature of the mixture.

A method and a facility for filling a high- or medium-voltage gas-insulated electrical apparatus in which the insulating gas comprises a mixture of heptafluoroisobutyronitrile ((CF.sub.3).sub.2CFCN) and carbon dioxide. The method and the facility using a mixture of (CF.sub.3).sub.2CFCN and CO.sub.2 in pressurised liquid form which is heated to a temperature no lower than the critical temperature of the mixture.

The invention concerns methods for dielectrically insulating electrical active parts using certain sulfofluoridates, preferably fluorinated alkyl sulfofluoridates, as well as compositions and apparatus comprising such compounds.

The invention concerns methods for dielectrically insulating electrical active parts using certain sulfofluoridates, preferably fluorinated alkyl sulfofluoridates, as well as compositions and apparatus comprising such compounds.

Methods for dielectrically insulating electrical active parts The invention concerns methods for dielectrically insulating electrical active parts using certain fluoroamines as well as compositions and apparatus comprising such compounds.

Methods for dielectrically insulating electrical active parts The invention concerns methods for dielectrically insulating electrical active parts using certain fluoroamines as well as compositions and apparatus comprising such compounds.