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Flame Retardants 2002 


Flame Retardants 2002 Conference Proceedings


Publication Date:
February 2002
Hardback, 281 pages with 72 tables and 121 illustrations, ISBN 0 9541216 0 0. 
Price £30 including p+p

The 10th international conference in the series provides a forum for manufacturers, users, legislators, fire test experts and fire scientists to exchange ideas about what is needed and what is possible and practicable in the control of fire in polymeric materials.  

The chapters contain: Regulatory & Sustainability Issues (6), Commercial FR Formulations (8), FR Research (4), Testing (4), Applications (4).

   
TABLE OF CONTENTS    
Recent actions within Europe in respect of the use of chemical flame- retardant    
FIRESEL - A new approach to fire safety in electronics    
International fire statistics and the potential benefits of fire counter-measures    
Flame-retardant plastics and sustainable product specification    
How to decide if a material is suitable for an application where fire safety is required    
The new features of EG based fire retardants    
Phosphorus containing flame retardants – Compounding and material properties    
Sustainable fire safety in electrical and electronic equipment    
Environmentally-friendly tin-based flame retardants    


•Creating value through flame retardants – the role of melamine based FR’s

   
New application developments in halogen free flame retardant polyolefins and polyamide engineering plastics using Firebrake zinc borate    
Antimony free flame retardant systems containing Flamestab NOR 116 for polypropylene molding    
Halogen free flame retardant polyolefins technology: Studies on various synergistic systems based on APP    
Evolution of an intumescent system for man made flame retardant    
PA-6,6 formulations using melamine polyphosphates as FR agent for electrical applications. Influence of glass fibres    
Improved thermal stability of crown ether and imidazolium treatments for flame retardant polymer layered-silicate nanocomposites    
The role of flame retardant additives in the fracture toughness of high impact polystyrene    
A new method for measuring polymer flammability    
Developing an open-flame ignition standard for residential mattresses    
Fire effluent analysis using two fire models: tubular furnace and smoke chamber    
Fire performance of plastics in car interiors    
Nanocomposites – A new flame retardant system for polymers    
Comparative research on the reaction-to-fire classification of building products using current national and future harmonised European test methods    
The need for a small scale screening test for major Euroclass test methods    
Fire performance assessment of cables – The future    
The future of flame retarded products in Europe    
Waste management of plastics containing brominated flame retardants    
Author Index    
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