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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2018.32.3.008

Flammable Evaluation of Plastics for Living by Cone Calorimeter Test  

You, Jisun (Professional Graduate School of Disaster Prevention, Kangwon National University)
Chung, Yeong-Jin (Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering, Kangwon National University)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.32, no.3, 2018 , pp. 8-13 More about this Journal
Abstract
It was conceived from the realization that there was a lack of studies on the fire risk compared to utility and importance of plastic which is widely used. In this study, the fire hazard of five types of plastic products was measured by Cone Calorimeter (ISO 5660-1). As a result, the time to ignition (TTI) of polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) plate delayed TTI (196 s), and polystyrene (PS) plate had the shortest TTI of 19 s. The total heat release (THR) of PS plate was measured at 213.07 % higher than the lowest measured PVC plate. Also, the PS plate will have 1.45 to 4.21 times higher $CO_2$ than other plastics, resulting in the highest incomplete combustion and the greatest possible damage of life. Thus, assessing the risk of fire revealed that PS plate is the most dangerous and PVC is the safest.
Keywords
Plastic; Cone Calorimeter; ISO 5660-1; Fire hazard; Risk;
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