- Author
- Fristrom, R. M.
- Title
- Chemistry of Polymer Flames: Propagation and Suppression. Topical Report. Fire Problems Program.
- Coporate
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
- Report
- APL/JHU FPP TR4, September 1971, 32 p.
- Contract
- NSF-GI-12
- Keywords
- flame chemistry | flame propagation | fire suppression | fire science | information dissemination | flame physics | thermodynamics | combustion | pyrolysis | kinetics | soot formation | carbon monoxide | hydrocarbons | phosphorus compounds | chlorine compounds | bromine compounds | antimony compounds
- Identifiers
- hydrogen oxygen flame; inhibition by fillers; haloge inhibition in the gas phase
- Abstract
- The combustion of polymers involves a complex of reactions ranging from depolymerization to gas phase oxydation. The importance of the various competing and sequential steps depends upon the conditions of combustion: the state of division of the polymers, the available oxygen, external flow, and other variables. One method of developing an understanding of these flames is to begin with elementary flame chemistry and physics and systematically add the complexities in models of increasing realism. An attempt will be made in this paper to follow this pattern.