Thermal degradation and fire behaviour of thermal insulation materials based on food crop by-products
Natural thermal insulation materials developed from renewable crop by-products and natural binders are analysed in terms of their thermal degradation and fire behaviour. A Pyrolysis Combustion Flow Calorimetre (PCFC) is used to characterise some kinds of crop by-products, including rice husk, corn p...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/26981 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/26981 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.01.028 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Fire testing Building materials - Fire testing Crop by-products Natural thermal insulations Fire behaviour Flammability Pyrolysis Combustion Flow Calorimetry Assaigs de comportament davant el foc Materials de construcció--Assaigs de comportament davant el foc Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria dels materials |
| Sumario: | Natural thermal insulation materials developed from renewable crop by-products and natural binders are analysed in terms of their thermal degradation and fire behaviour. A Pyrolysis Combustion Flow Calorimetre (PCFC) is used to characterise some kinds of crop by-products, including rice husk, corn pith and barley straw. This technique is complemented with a TG analysis. Six thermal insulation materials, formulated with such crop by-products and two kind of natural binders, corn starch and sodium alginate, are developed and analysed. PCFC results show an improvement when sodium alginate is incorporated, especially in the corn pith composite. Fire reaction tests are also performed that yield results which are in qualitative agreement with the small-scale tests |
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