Self-extinguishing behavior of Kerosene Spray Fire in a Completely Enclosed Compartment

The self-extinguishing behavior of kerosene spray fire was investigated in a completely enclosed compartment with the size of 3 m× 3 m × 3.4 m. The spray was generated by locating one BETE nozzle at the center of the bottom wall. A series of spray fire videos were obtained by changing BETE nozzle type and injecting pressure. The results show that spray ftre undergoes four stages： the growth stage, the quasi-steady stage, the stretch stage and the self-extinguishing stage. Consumption of large quantities of oxygen causes spray fire to first be stretched and then quench. In this process, fire base migrates away from spray region and leads to the emergence of ghost- hag fire. Ghosting fire promotes the instability of spray fire and large fluctuation of its height, which provides help to its self-extinguishing. With increasing the injecting pressure or the nozzle diameter, the self-extinguishing time decreases. It is found that the self-extinguishing time is approximately in inverse relation with injecting flow rate. Additionally, we also observed the occurrence of two-phase de flagration just after ignition, and it accelerates the spray fire growth and induces a larger fire height than the following quasi-steady spray fire. The deflagration turns stronger with increasing the injecting pressure.

Self-Blowing Non-Isocyanate Polyurethane Foams Based on Hydrolysable Tannins

ABSTRACT Non-isocyanate polyurethane(NIPU)foams using a hydrolysable tannin,also vulgarly called tannic acid,namely here commercial chestnut wood tannin extract was prepared.Compression strength did not appear to depend on the foam apparent density while the formulation composition of the NIPU foams has been shown to be more determinant.These NIPU foams appeared to be self-extinguishing once the high temperature flame is removed.The ignition time gave encouraging results but for improved fire resistance the foams may need some fire-retardant addition.FTIR spectrometry showed the formation of non-isocyanate urethane linkages.Thermogravimetric analysis indicated a good thermal resistance of these foams,with thermal degradation following four phases.First in the interval 25℃–120℃ range,mainly evaporation of water occurs with a maximal loss of 10%weight.In the 150℃–450℃ temperature range foams mass loss is of almost 70%.In particular in the 125℃–275℃ range occurs the degradation of some small molecular weight substances.In the 500℃–790℃ temperature range the foams do not present any further large degradation.

Research on the effect of the common flame retardant in reducing the flammability of the bitumen

The bituminous defect that the binder is flammable will bring road safety risk.Once it catches fires,large quantities of heat,smoke and poisonous gas are produced,released and spread quickly,which seriously hinder escape and rescue and harms heavily traffic safety.The common flame retardant system is used to modify the asphalt.Cone Calorimeter is adopted to evaluate the burning property of asphalt.The performance of the flame retardant is evaluated by limiting oxygen index and orthogonal design method.The paper analyzes the synergism of the asphalt and flame-retardant,and analyzes the effect of the flame on preventing the smoke to spread and demonstrates that the use of common flame retardants which is added into binder is good at reducing the flammability of the binder.This way can increase the safety of asphalt pavement when fire occurs in the tunnel.The study suggests that flame retardancy of asphalt can be evaluated by Limit Oxygen Index (LOI) and the flame retardancy property of asphalt has marked change according to the content of flame retardant.SB has perfect flame retardancy property,and ATH is better than MH in the effect of flame retardant.

STUDY OF MODIFIED AROMATIC POLYAMIDE SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CHLORINATED PPTA

Super pure 2,5-dichloroterephthaloyl dichloride (DDC) was prepared by chlorination andcontrolled by Gas Chromatography(GC) method. As a third monomer, DDC waspolycondensated into chlorinated PPTA together with terephthaloyldichloide (TPDC) andparaphenylene diamine (PPDA). The polycondensation conditions and the relationship betweenthe thermal behavior, viscosity, solubility, phase transition temperature of the modifiedpolyamide and the third monomer content discussed in this paper.

Flame-retardant properties of in situ sol-gel synthesized inorganic borosilicate/silicate polymer scaffold matrix comprising ionic liquid

This paper focuses on the superiority of organic?inorganic hybrid ion-gel electrolytes for lithiumion batteries(LiBs)over commercial electrolytes,such as 1 M LiPF6 in 1:1 ethylene carbonate(EC):dimethyl carbonate{DMC){1 M LiPF6-EC:DMC},in terms of their flame susceptibility.These ion-gel electrolytes possess ionic liquid monomers,which are confined within the borosilicate or silicate matrices that are ideal for nonflammability.Naked flame tests confirm that the organicinorganic hybrid electrolytes are less susceptible to flames,and these electrolytes do not suffer from a major loss in terms of weight.In addition,the hybrids are self-extinguishable.Therefore,these hybrids are only oxidized when subjected to a flame unlike other commercial electrolytes used in lithium-ion batteries.Supplementary analyses using differential scanning calorimetric studies reveal that the hybrids are glassy until the temperature reaches more than 100℃.The current results are consistent with previously published data on the organic-inorganic hybrids.