These pinfa Awards are the first time such prizes have been offered for presentations at FRPM. A total of 14 candidate oral presentations by young researchers were graded for scientific content, presentation quality and oral delivery by experts from fire research and...
Iben Hansen-Bruhn, Aarhus University, Denmark, and University of Central Lancashire, UK Two different ammonium phosphate based PIN flame retardants were applied to 12 mm pine plywood: vacuum impregnation of aqueous mono ammonium phosphate solution and intumescent...
Poster and Travel Awards were offered for the first time at FRPM, by the Ingeborg Foundation Germany, for posters from young researchers (51 candidate posters). Summaries below. For doctoral students: Poster 1st Prize (500 CHF): Jiuke Chen, Empa – Mechanical...
Jiuke Chen, Empa Extruded PET (polyethylene terephthalate) fibres neat or with two different phosphorus PIN FRs (DOPO derivate DOPO-PEPA, phosphonate compound) were tested for mechanical recycling, with twin-screw extrusion – quench – spin-melt – reprocessing cycles...
Nathalie Vest, Texas A&M University Nylon-cotton fabric (NYCO) was multi-layer coated with phytic acid, chitosan and tannic acid, achieving self-extinguishing with 17% weight added. NYCO is widely used in military uniforms and workwear, but has high flammability...
