By Joseph Green (auth.), Menachem Lewin, S. M. Atlas, Eli M. Pearce (eds.)
Flammability has been well-known as an more and more vital social and medical challenge. fireplace facts within the usa (Report at the nationwide fee on hearth Prevention and keep watch over, "America Burning," 1973) emphasised the immense devastation to existence and property-12,000 lives misplaced each year because of hearth and those deaths are typically as a result of breathing in smoke or poisonous gases; 300,000 hearth accidents; eleven. four billion cash in hearth price of which 2. 7 billion funds is expounded to estate loss; one billion cash to burn damage therapy; and three. three billion funds in productiveness loss. it really is visible that a lot human and financial distress should be attributed to fireside events. relating to this, polymer flammability has been well-known as an more and more very important social and medical challenge. the advance of flame-retardant polymeric fabrics is a present instance the place the initiative for significant clinical and technological advancements is encouraged by way of sociological strain and legisla tion. this is often a part of the real development towards a more secure setting and units a trend for destiny instance. Flame retardancy offers with our easy daily life situations-housing, paintings components, transportation, garments and so on the "macroenvironment" tablet in which "homosapiens" reside. therefore, flame-retardant polymers at the moment are rising as a selected classification of fabrics resulting in new and diverse clinical and technological ventures.
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These data are consistent with what had been shown above with LDPE (Fig. 6). Once again, th,e alicyclic compound, specifically, Dechlorane Plus, shows a maximum and minimum. Also, Chlorowax seems to be a very effective flame-retardant additive. Its application in high-density polyethylene is severely limited since most applications require high-temperature processing. Once again, it would appear that aromatic bromine-containing compounds are the additives of choice. J ~ > )( 0 24 22 20 18 0 2 4 6 8 PERCENT HALOGEN 10 12 FIGURE 10.
Since oxidation to carbon oxides is competitive with soot formation, oxygen-containing fuels generally show a decreased tendency for soot formation. On the other hand, halogens may promote soot formation through dehydrohalogenation, assisting ring closure and the formation of olefins and polyenes. ,,(25) Smoke points of some representative compounds are listed in Table 1. These results show an obvious distinction between aliphatic, olefinic, and aromatic fuels in their propensity toward smoke formation.
Thus flexible urethane foam ranks near high-impact polystyrene on an equivalent-initial-weight basis, although the maximum smoke intensities occur under different exposure conditions. Similar rankings on the basis of equivalent volumes for materials having the same end use may perhaps be more meaningful, but some common quantity, whether mass or volume, must be the basis for comparison. The presence of fillers or other compounding additives can also have a substantial effect on measured smoke levels.