Polymer Green Flame Retardants

Polymer Green Flame Retardants covers key issues regarding the response of polymers during fire, the mechanisms of their flame retardation, the regulations imposed on their use, and the health hazards arising from their combustion. Presenting the latest research developments, the book focuses in particular on nanocomposites, believed to be the most promising approach for producing physically superior materials with low flammability and ecological impact. The fire properties of nanocomposites of various matrixes and fillers are discussed, the toxicological characteristics of these materials are analyzed, addressing also their environmental sustainability.

Edited by distinguished scientists, including an array of international industry and academia experts, this book will appeal to chemical, mechanical, environmental, material and process engineers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines, and generally to researchers developing commercially attractive and environmentally friendly fire-proof products.

1. Polymers on Fire (Constantine D. Papaspyrides Pantelis Kiliaris

2. Fire safety Performance of Flame Retardants Compared with Toxic and Environmental Hazards (David Purser)

3. Flame Retardant Additives in Polymers: When do the Fire Safety Benefits Outweigh the Toxicity Risks? (Vytenis Babrauskas, Rebecca Fuoco Arlene Blum)

4. Environmental Drivers for Replacement of Halogenated Flame Retardants (Richard Hull, Robin J. Law, Åke Bergman)

5. Reactive and Additive Phosphorus-based Flame Retardants of Reduced Environmental Impact (Gyorgy Marosi, B. Szolnoki, K. Bocz, Andrea Toldy)

6. Phosphorus-based and Intumescent Flame Retardants (Sebastian Hörold)

7. Novel Class of Eco-Flame Retardants Based on the Renewable Raw Materials (Andrei M. Sakharov, P. A. Sakharov , Sergei M. Lomakin, Gennady E. Zaikov)

8. Design and Utilization of Nitrogen Containing Flame Retardants based on N-Alkoxy Amines, Azoalkanes and Related Compounds (Carl-Eric Wilén, Rudolf Pfaendner)

9. Fire Retardant Fillers For Polymers (Roger Rothon, Peter R Hornsby)

10. Modelling the Endothermic Decomposition of Hydrated Solids (John Staggs)

11. Review of Recent Advances on the use of Boron-Based Flame Retardants (Kelvin K. Shen)

12. Organosilicon Compounds as Polymer Flame Retardants (Zhidong Han, Alberto Fina, Giovanni Camino)

13. (Photo)oxidative Stabilization of Flame Retarded Polymers (Rudolf Pfaendner)

14. Comprehensive Approach to Fire Retardancy Evaluation of Layered Silicate Nanocomposites (Alberto Fina, Sergio Bocchini, Giovanni Camino)

15. Polymer Nanocomposites as Ablative Materials (Ahmad Reza Bahramian, Mehrdad Kokabi)

16. Flame Retardant Thermoset Nanocomposites for Engineering Applications( Baljinder K Kandola, D.Deli)

17. Flame Retardancy of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites based on Nanoclays and Carbon Nanotubes (Celeste M. C. Pereira, Marta S. S. Martins)

18. Fire Retardancy of Elastomers and Elastomer Nanocomposites (Suneel Kumar Srivastava, Tapas Kuila)

19. Self-Extinguishing Polymer Blends Containing Organoclays (Seongchan Pack, Miriam H. Rafailovich)

20. Layered Double Hydroxides: An Emerging Class of Flame Retardants (Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan , Christopher J. Ellison)

21. Pathways to Biodegradable Flame Retardant Polymer (nano)composites (M. Murariu, F. Laoutid, Ph. Dubois, G. Fontaine, S. Bourbigot, E. Devaux, C. Campagne, M.Ferreira, S. Solarski)

22. Improving the Flame Retardancy of Plant Oil Based Polymers (G. Lligadas, J.C. Ronda, M. Galià, V. Cádiz)

23. Flame Retardancy and Protection Against Bio-Deterioration of Natural Fibres. State-of-Art and Future Prospects (Ryszard M. Kozlowski, Malgorzata Muzyczek, Judyta Walentowska)

24. Influence of Fire Retardants and Nanofillers on Fire Toxicity (Anna A. Stec, Richard Hull)

25. Recycling of post-industrial and post-consumer plastics containing flame-retardants (Martin Schlummer)

26. Methodology for Testing the Life Cycle Sustainability of Flame Retardant Chemicals and Nanomaterials (Marta Escamilla, Roshan Paul)

Chemists, chemical engineers, material scientists, polymer scientists working in industry, academia, government studying polymer properties and researching and developing of new polymeric materials

• Provides recent findings on the manufacture of environmentally sustainable flame retardant polymeric materials
• Covers legislation and regulations concerning flame retarded polymeric material use
• Includes tables containing the fire properties of the most common polymeric materials