Fire and Polymers Hazards Identification and Prevention

by Nelson, Gordon L.

• ISBN13: 9780841217799
• ISBN10: 0841217793
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-05-05
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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 inthe 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 Suppressantin 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 Combustionof 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(vinylchloride) Wire Coating

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