RiSE report concludes EV fires have similar heat release to conventional vehicles, but specific additional toxicity risks. The report presents full scale fire tests comparing two electric vehicles to a comparable diesel model, battery fire tests and data from a...
A review of 150 papers shows the high variability of LiB fires, importance of battery chemistry and of state of charges (SOC). Batteries with lithium iron phosphate cathodes show significantly lower peak temperature and lower risk of thermal runaway than those with...
A combination of ammonium polyphosphate and magnesium-iron-LDH halved smoke density and toxicity of polyurethane. Thermoplastic polyurethane was PIN flame retarded with APP (ammonium polyphosphate) and magnesium iron layered double hydroxide (MgFeLDH) at 20% loading...
Phosphorus PIN FRs tested in carbon-fibre reinforced epoxy reduced generation of respirable fibres in fire tests. Samples were produced using epoxy resin* and carbon fibre fabric, with 0 – 15% loading of three different phosphorus PIN FRs** and also a combination of...
A review of over 4 000 publications 2014-2020 identified 90 articles with useable data on organophosphate esther (OP) exposure covering OP’s used in many applications (lubricants, food packaging, plastics, plasticisers, flame retardants, glues …) and exposure via air,...
