Mixtures fire retardant

Mixed mono- and dialkyl are used as catalysts for resin curing and as intermediates for fire retardants, oil additives, antistatic agents (qv), and extraction solvents. An equimolar mixture of mono- and dialkyl acid phosphates are formed at a 1 6 mole ratio of oxide to alcohol. 

As weU as imparting improved fire retardancy these materials may also result ia volume cost savings if they can be purchased for a lower price than the commodity phthalate. Precise knowledge of the compatibiHty between standard plasticizers and chlotinated paraffins is requited because some mixtures become iacompatible with each other and the PVC resias ia use at certain temperatures. Phthalate—chlotinated paraffin compatibiHty decreases as the molecular mass of the phthalate and the plasticizer content of the PVC formulation iacrease. Many compatibiHty graphs are available (1). 

Inorganic boron compounds are generaHy good fire retardants (59). Bode acid, alone or in mixtures with sodium borates, is particularly effective in reducing the flammabHity of ceUulosic matetials. AppHcations include treatment of wood products, ceUulose insulation, and cotton batting used in mattresses (see Flame retardants). 

PBB mixtures have been used as fire retardants. Many of their constituent congeners are highly persistent, and there was a major environmental accident in the United States in which farm animals and humans became heavily contaminated by them. 

SFC-FID is widely used for the analysis of (nonvolatile) textile finish components. An application of SFC in fuel product analysis is the determination of lubricating oil additives, which consist of complex mixtures of compounds such as zinc dialkylthiophosphates, organic sulfur compounds (e.g. nonylphenyl sulfides), hindered phenols (e.g. 2,6-di-f-butyl-4-methylphenol), hindered amines (e.g. dioctyldiphenylamines) and surfactants (sulfonic acid salts). Classical TLC, SEC and LC analysis are not satisfactory here because of the complexity of such mixtures of compounds, while their lability precludes GC determination. Both cSFC and pSFC enable analysis of most of these chemical classes [305]. Rather few examples have been reported of thermally unstable compounds analysed by SFC an example of thermally labile polymer additives are fire retardants [360]. pSFC has been used for the separation of a mixture of methylvinylsilicones and peroxides (thermally labile analytes) [361]. 

The feedstreams can consist of either neat reactants or their solutions. When the feedstreams consist of solutions, the reaction mixture is pumped into a polymerization vessel where the reaction that started in the mixing head proceeds to its conclusion. The polymer is subsequently precipitated from solution, separated, dried, and pelletized. Solvent-free mixtures of reactants are pumped directly to a mold where polymerization proceeds. In this case, other additives, such as, fillers or fire retardants, are co-mixed with the reactants in the mixing head. These additives are permanently incorporated into the finished molding. 

A basic scientific investigation of fire retardancy, however, remained to be initiated by Gay-Lussac in France at the request of King Louis XVIII in 1821 who was again interested in reducing the flammability of theater curtains. This researcher noted that the ammonium salts of sulfuric, hydrochloric and phosphoric acids were very effective fire retardants on hemp and linen and that the effect could be improved considerably by using mixtures of ammonium chloride, ammonium phosphate and borax. This work has withstood the test of time and remains valid to this day. Thus the basic elements of modern fire retardant chemistry had been defined early in recorded history and remained the state of the art until early in the twentieth century. The most effective treatments for cellulosic materials being concentrated in Groups III, V and VII elements. 

L. Costa, G. Camino and L. Trossaarelli, "Thermal Degradation of Fire Retardant Chloroparaffin - Metal Compound Mixtures - Part I. Antimony Oxide,"Polym. Degradation and Stability, 5, 267 (1983). 

Figure IS. Arrhenius plots for the initial maximum rate of heat release versus the inverse absolute temperature for a laboratory hardboard of groundwood with and without added fire retardants, a 50/50 mixture of borax and boric acid respectively diammonium phosphate. (Reproduced with permission from ref. 10. Copyright 1989 De Gruyter.)...

Uses Plasticizer in lacquers, varnishes, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, nitrocellulose waterproofing agent hydraulic fluid and heat exchange medium fire retardant for plastics solvent mixtures synthetic lubricant gasoline additive to prevent pre-ignition. 

The studies of fire-retardant action of halogenated compounds in the condensed phase were performed mostly on mixtures of chloroparaffin with vinyl polymers such as polyethylene,... 

Camino, G. Costa, L. Trossarelli, L. Thermal degradation of polymer-fire retardant mixtures Part III— Degradation products of polypropylene-chlorinated paraffin mixtures, Polymer Degradation and Stability, 1982,4(2), 133-144. 

Costa, L. Camino, G. Luda, M. P. Effect of the metal on the mechanism of fire retardance in chloroparaffin-metal compound-polypropylene mixtures, Polymer Degradation and Stability, 1986, 14(2), 113-123. 

Camino, G. Mechanism of fire retardancy in chloroparaffin-polymer mixtures. In Developments in Polymer Degradation, Vol. 7, Grassie, N., Ed., London, U.K. Elsevier Applied Sciences, 1987, pp. 221-269. 

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