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Thermogravimetry of wood treated with water‐insoluble retardants and a proposal for development of fire‐retardant wood materials
Author(s) -
Hirata Toshimi,
Kawamoto Sumire,
Nishimoto Tetsuya
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/fam.810150106
Subject(s) - thermogravimetry , fire retardant , cellulose , combustion , pyrolysis , charring , materials science , green wood , carbonization , chemical engineering , pulp and paper industry , composite material , waste management , chemistry , moisture , organic chemistry , wood drying , scanning electron microscope , engineering
Abstract The combustion of wood and methods for the fire retardacy of wood are reviewed briefly first, and then a study on thermogravimetry (TG) and derivative thermogravimetry (DTG) of water‐insoluble retardants and wood treated with retardants is presented. In the review of the flaming combustion of wood supported by cellulose, three categories of fire‐retardant methods, namely (1) chemical modification of the wood pyrolysis, (2) inhibition of the flaming combustion in the gas phase, and (3) thermal effects to restrain the increase in the temperature of wood and assumed temperature profiles in the heated wood are described. The results of TG and DTG, discussed in terms of kinetics, indicate three kinds of action of the retardant tested: (1) acceleration of dehydration and carbonization, (2) thermal stabilization of the chemical structure of cellulose, and (3) inhibition of the flaming combustion by halogen products. In conclusion, models of fire‐retardant wood materials for interior and exterior use are proposed, which contain retardants for the dehydration and the stabilization in the outer layer and those for the inhibition in the inner layer, respectively.