Handbook of Flame Retardants

Evaluates products and patents related to flame retardance, covering fundamentals of material burning and associated stages of heat, flame and smoke

George Wypych (Author)

9781927885697, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 29 January 2021

260 pages, Approx. 500 illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.53 kg

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. Introduction
2. Fire ignition and spread
3. Combustion, pyrolysis, and smoke and char formation
4. Typical groups of flame retardants and intumescent additives
5. Mechanisms of action of flame retardants
6. Selection of flame retardants for different polymers

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM], Physical chemistry [PNR]