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Handbook of Flame Retardants
- 1st Edition - January 25, 2021
- Author: George Wypych
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 9 2 7 8 8 5 - 6 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 9 2 7 8 8 5 - 7 0 - 3
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… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHandbook 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.
The book concludes with chapters providing guidance on optimal selection of flame retardants for various polymers and information on the toxicity of flame retardants and their effects on the environment.
- Evaluates the existing literature, products and patents related to flame retardance
- Covers the fundamentals of material burning and associated stages of heat, flame and smoke
- Outlines and evaluates the properties of 27 chemical groups of flame retardants
- Provides examples of synergistic and antagonistic actions of various additives
- Looks at methods of testing flame retardants and quantifies their effect on products
Researchers in materials science and engineering (chemical; mechanical); professional material scientists and engineers
1. Introduction
2. Fire ignition and spread
3. Combustion, pyrolysis, and smoke and char formation
4. Typical groups of flame retardants and intumescent additives
a. Antimonates
b. Borates
c. Brominated
d. Carbon nanotube
e. Chloroparaffin
f. Fluoropolymers
g. Graphene
h. Graphite
i. Hydroxides (aluminum, magnesium)
j. Hydroxystanates and stannates
k. Inorganic complex
l. Melamines and triazines
m. Molybdates
n. Organophosphorous
o. Organotins
p. Oxides
q. Peroxides
r. Phosphates
s. Phosphazenes
t. Phosphinates
u. Phosphonates
v. Phosphites
w. Red phosphorus
x. Silicates
y. Siloxanes
z. Silsesquioxane
aa. Other
5. Mechanisms of action of flame retardants
6. Selection of flame retardants for different polymers
- No. of pages: 260
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 25, 2021
- Imprint: ChemTec Publishing
- Hardback ISBN: 9781927885697
- eBook ISBN: 9781927885703
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George Wypych
George Wypych has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. His professional expertise includes both university teaching (full professor) and research and development. He has published 18 books, 47 scientific papers, and he has obtained 16 patents. He specializes in polymer additives, polymer processing and formulation, material durability and the development of sealants and coatings.
Affiliations and expertise
ChemTec Publishing, Ontario, CanadaRead Handbook of Flame Retardants on ScienceDirect