The effect of chlorine constituents and polymer additives on oxidative pyrolysis of chlorinated polymers

✍ Scribed by Mordechai Pasternak; Ben T. Zinn; Russell O. Gardner; Richard F. Browner

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 227 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(84)90154-8

✦ Synopsis

Chemical aspects of smoke production, resulting from the combustion of chlorinated [1,2] and nonchlorinated [3,4] polymers, are the subject of ongoing investigations by this group. Our earlier efforts have concentrated on analyzing the chemical composition of the particulate matter (PM) of the smoke in both flaming and nonflaming combustion. However, it is generally accepted that various volatile (V) molecules (gases and condensable products) are the building blocks that lead to particulate formation. Therefore considerably more insight into the mechanism of smoke formation [5,6] might be obtained from the combined composition profiles of both the volatile and particulate fractions of generated smoke. We have developed a special experimental arrangement that allows the chemical composition profiles of the gaseous smoke components to be measured separately from the particulates [7,8].