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Publication
Date:
January 1998
Hardback,
275pp with 105 tables and 125 illustrations,
ISBN 0953212 0 8.
Price £30 incl
p+p
Over
320 delegates attended this event - the eighth in the series
of conferences dedicated to practical applications of flame
retardants and polymers. The proceedings contain the following
headings and papers: Research Developments in Europe (25),
General FR Policy (3), FR Formulations (11), General Testing
& Science (3), FR Applications (3) |
| TABLE
OF CONTENTS |
| Evolution
of the Single Burn Item (SBI) test. |
| SAFIR
Project - Fire gas analysis using FTIR technique. |
| The
FIPEC Project - Fire testing of electric cables. |
| The
FIRESTARR Project - Fire protection of railway vehicles |
| Special
Interest Paper: The role of polymers in the Düsseldorf Airport
Fire |
| The
role of flame retardants in reducing fire hazards |
| New
and existing products: at which price? |
| Risks
and benefits in the use of flame retardants in Consumer products.
Mg(OH)2 - Optimization of formulations. |
| Inorganic
flame retardants - alone and in combinations. |
| Bromine/Chlorine
synergism to flame retard plastics and stability of FR- polyamides |
| Special
Interest Paper: Fire performance of Poly(Vinyl Chloride) - Update
and recent developments. |
| Optimization
of flame retarded thermoplastics for engineering applications |
| Competitive
advantages of brominated epoxy oligomers in styrenics |
| Huntite/Hydromagnesite
- Mineral flame retardants as alternative and complement to
metal hydroxides |
| The
use of a new zinc borate as a flame retardant synergist in engineering
plastics |
| Colloidal
antimony pentoxide in flame retardant ABS. |
| Flame
retardants based on ammonium polyphosphate and combinations
for plastics Intumescent systems for polyolefins - |
| Performance
in electrotechnical applications. |
| Flame
retardant plastics and E&E equipment fire safety.Requirements
and studies. |
| Fire
safety improvements in the combustion toxicity area: Is there
a role for LC50 tests? |
| How
to assess the effect of an individual product on the fire hazard
in a real occupancy. |
| Design
of low fire hazard wire for rolling stock applications.The impact
of the type of insulation on overall cable fire Retardancy.
Reaction-to-fire behaviour of thermoplastic diffuser panels
in lighting assemblies. |
| Authors
Index |
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