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Effects of Zinc Borate on the Flame Retardancy Performance of Aluminum Diethylphosphinate in Polyamide-6 and its Composites
Date
2019-03-01
Author
Polat, Özlem
Kaynak, Cevdet
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In this study, the flame retardancy contribution of zinc borate when used together with a traditional flame retardant (aluminum diethylphosphinate compound) was investigated for neat polyamide-6 and for 15 wt% short glass fiber reinforced composite. Melt mixing with twin-screw extrusion was the compounding method while injection and compression molding were the shaping methods of specimens. Three different flammability tests (limiting oxygen index, UL-94 vertical burning, mass loss calorimetry) indicated that many flame retardancy parameters could be improved significantly by replacing a certain amount of aluminum diethylphosphinate with zinc borate. For example, using aluminum diethylphosphinate alone resulted in only 32% suppression in the value of the peak heat release rate for neat polyamide-6, while it was 82% (more than two-fold) when used together with zinc borate. It was revealed by evolved gas analyses, char analyses, x-ray diffraction and thermogravimetry that the main contribution of zinc borate to aluminum diethylphosphinate was in terms of a barrier mechanism via formation of additional boron phosphate inorganic content in the barrier layer.
Subject Keywords
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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Materials Chemistry
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General Chemical Engineering
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Polymers and Plastics
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42990
Journal
INTERNATIONAL POLYMER PROCESSING
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3139/217.3579
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Department of Modern Languages, Article