Fire and Polymers
Hazards Identification and Prevention
Published on 1. January 1990
Book
Hardback
610 pages
978-0-8412-1779-9 (ISBN)
Description
As the focus of fire research shifts from improvements in flame extinguishing to the development of fire-retardant and fire-resistant materials, polymers are playing an increasingly important role. This new volume provides an examination of this important research. Among the topics covered in its 34 chapters are: toxic smoke and particulate matter; fire retardants and fire retardant commodity plastics; fire retardancy in engineering plastics; fire and cellulosics;
and fire performance, testing and risk. Contributions come from sources as diverse as the Center for Fire Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Swedish National Testing Institute, the USDA Forest Products Lab, as well as major universities all over the world.
and fire performance, testing and risk. Contributions come from sources as diverse as the Center for Fire Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Swedish National Testing Institute, the USDA Forest Products Lab, as well as major universities all over the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
997 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8412-1779-9 (9780841217799)
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Person
Content
Toxic Potency of Fire Smoke Measurement and Use ; Toxicity of Smoke Containing Hydrogen Chloride ; Role of Hydrogen Cyanide in Human Deaths in Fire ; Chemical Analysis of Fire Effluents ; Toxicity of Particulate Matter Associated with Combustion Processes ; Toxic Hazard and Fire Science ; Historical Aspects of Polymer Fire Retardance ; Prospective Approaches to More Efficient Flame-Retardant Systems ; Ternary Reactions Among Polymer Substrates, Organohalogens, and Metal Oxides in the Condensed Phase under Pyrolytic Conditions ; A Novel System for the Application of Bromine in Flame-Retarding Polymers ; Flame-Retardant Latices for Nonwoven Products ; Zinc Borate as a Flame Retardant, Smoke Suppressant, and Afterglow Suppressant in Polymers ; The Design of Flame Retardants ; Inorganic Tin Compounds as Flame, Smoke, and Carbon Monoxide Suppressants for Synthetic Polymers ; Mechanism of Thermal Degradation of Fire-Retardant Melamine Salts ; Fire Resistance in Advanced Engineering Thermoplastics ; Brominated Phosphate Ester Flame Retardants for Engineering Thermoplastics ; Polymers with Improved Flammability Characteristics ; Char Formation in Aromatic Engineering Polymers ; Effects of Coatings on the Fire Performance of Plastics ; Synergistic Fire Performance between a Zinc-coating and a Modified Poly(phenylene oxide) Substrate ; Effect of Crystallinity and Additives on the Thermal Degradation of Cellulose ; Influences of Oxygen Chemisorption and of Metal Ions in Ignition and Combustion of Wood ; Rate of Isothermal Heat Evolution of Lignocellulosic Sheet Materials in an Air Stream ; Heat Release from Wood Wall Assemblies Using Oxygen Consumption Method ; Self-Heating of Lignocellulosic Materials ; Use of Highly Stabilized High-Expansion Foams in Fighting Forest Fires ; General Principles of Fire Hazard and the Role of Smoke Toxicity ; Harmonization of Fire Testing in the European Community ; British Regulations for Upholstered Furniture: Combustion-Modified Polyurethane Foam ; Heat Release Equipment to Measure Smoke ; Flammabaility Characteristics of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials ; Room Fires and Compustible Linings ; Fire Hazard in a Room Due to a Fire Starting in a Plenum: Effect of Poly(vinyl chloride) Wire Coating