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A Study on Combustion Characteristics of Fire Retardant Treated Wood  

Park, Hyung-Ju (Department of Safety Engineering, Hoseo University)
Kang, Young-Goo (Department of Environment & Safety Engineering, Hoseo University)
Kim, Hong (Department of Environment & Safety Engineering, Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology / v.33, no.4, 2005 , pp. 38-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate the combustion characteristics of flame retardant treated wood by water-soluble flame retardants which are made from mixture of aqueous solution of monoammonium phosphate, sodium borate and zinc borate. The combustion characteristics for flame retardant treated wood were carried out using thermal analysis (TGA, combustion heat) and flame retardant test (LOI, flame propagation). The results of thermal analysis and flame retardant test are as follows; 1) The sample treated by F4 showed excellent flame retardant effects in almost all of combustion characteristics. 2) From TGA curves, all the samples undergo pyrolysis and oxidation in two main discrete steps. 3) The effect of flame retardant for softwood is higher than those for hardwood, and the combustion heat has decreased with increase of the content of flame retardant. 4) LOI values are almost similar in flame retardant treated wood samples. The range of LOI is from 24 to 30. However, these values are much higher than LOI value of non-treated wood sample. 5) The blended aqueous solution had a final in the range of about pH 8.4, and a slight odor of ammonia.
Keywords
combustion characteristics; fire retardant; TGA; LOI; combustion heat; flame propagation; fire retardant treated wood;
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