The Influence of Transitional Metal Oxides on the Smoke Suppression of Epoxy Resin/Intumescent Flame Retardant/Silane Couple Agent System

Author

Wu, Zhiping ; Chen, Meiqin ; Hu, Yunchu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Central South Univ. of Forestry & Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2010

fDate

24-26 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The smoke produced will do great harm on the public and environmental safety during polymer combustion. People lost their life during fire disaster mainly be attributed to the dense smoke and toxic gas under combustion, which hinder the escape of people and the rescue of firefighters under fire disaster. The influence of several kinds of transitional metal oxides on the smoke suppression of epoxy resin (EP) treated with intumescent flame retardant (IFR) and silane couple agent (EP/IFR/silane) systems have been investigated. The results showed manganese dioxide and cobalt oxide have small effect on the smoke suppression of EP/IFR/silane system, however cadmium oxide and titanium dioxide can decrease smoke density rate (SDR) of EP/IFR/silane system obviously, and especially copper oxide can decrease maximum smoke density (MSD) and smoke density rate of EP/IFR/silane system substantially. The MSD and SDR of EP/IFR/silane system can reduce 18.8% and 33.2% respectively when 2% of copper oxide is introduced.

Keywords

flame retardants; resins; safety; smoke; cadmium oxide; environmental safety; epoxy resin; intumescent flame retardant; maximum smoke density; metal oxides; public safety; silane couple agent system; smoke density rate; smoke suppression; Combustion; Copper; Epoxy resins; Fires; Flame retardants; Polymers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5325-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5326-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2010.5577419

Filename

5577419