Beschreibung:
Handbook of Flame Retardants contains an extensive evaluation of the existing literature, products and patents related to flame retardance. As a perfect complement to The Databook of Flame Retardants, this book explains the roles, selection, mechanisms of action, use in different polymers and products, and health and environmental issues of over 350 different products. Chapters highlight the fundamentals of material burning and the associated stages of heat, flame and smoke, properties and mechanisms, and preventive, delaying and extinguishing attributes of 27 chemical groups of flame retardants. Examples of synergistic and antagonistic actions of various additives are discussed next, along with testing methods.
1. Introduction2. Fire ignition and spread3. Combustion, pyrolysis, and smoke and char formation4. Typical groups of flame retardants and intumescent additives5. Mechanisms of action of flame retardants6. Selection of flame retardants for different polymers