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Calculated values of viscosity, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, density and specific enthalpy of plasma formed in five different insulators vapours (PE, POM, PMMA, PC and PA66) are presented. The calculations, which assume local thermodynamic equilibrium, are performed for three pressures (1 atm, 10 atm, 100 atm) in the temperature range from 5000 to 30000 K. The results for PE, PMMA and PA66 are compared with those of other authors at atmospheric pressure. Significant discrepancies are found; these are attributed both to differences in the collision integrals and to the formulation used in calculating the transport coefficients. We give all the data for the potential interaction and the formulation necessary to obtain reliable values of transport coefficients

We measure some characteristic parameters to investigate the electrical discharge in different types of insulators in the energy range 150-500 J. By varying the type of insulator and the confining geometry, we quantify their specific influence on the pressure, the dissipated energy, and the ablated mass. These considerations are useful to increase the knowledge of the physical mechanisms which play a role in the high-current plasma-wall interaction. In agreement with previous theoretical works, we show two opposite behaviors between polyethylene and polyoxymethylene in terms of ablated mass and graphite formatio

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