Development of a semi-global reaction mechanism for thermal decomposition of a polymer containing reactive flame retardant

作者：Ding, Yan; Kwon, Kyungok; Stoliarov, Stanislav I.^*; Kraemer, Roland H.

来源：Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2019, 37(3): 4247-4255.

DOI：10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.073

• Material flammability
• Pyrolysis
• Thermal analysis
• Inverse modeling
• Nylon 66

To enable intelligent design of fire resistant polymeric materials, it is highly important to have a quantitative understanding of the relation between the composition of these materials and chemical and physical properties that control the process of fire growth. This paper presents a methodology that provides a capability to determine the core subset of these properties including the kinetics and thermodynamics of the thermal decomposition of the condensed-phase constituents and enthalpy of combustion of gaseous pyrolyzates. This methodology is based on three experimental techniques - Thermogravimetric Analysis, Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Microscale Combustion Calorimetry - and inverse numerical modeling of the results of these tests. The material system analyzed in this study is polyamide 66 reinforced with chopped glass fiber and flame retarded with red phosphorous. This system shows a complex decomposition behavior that is highly dependent on the phosphorus concentration. First, a semi-global thermal decomposition mechanism consisting of a set of first- and second-order (two components) reactions was developed using three material specimens containing different phosphorus concentrations. Subsequently, the extrapolative power of the developed reaction model was demonstrated by accurately predicting the experimental measurements obtained for several compositions not used in the model development process.

• 出版日期2019