Thermal degradation and fire behaviour of thermal insulation materials based on food crop by-products

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 34-39

  Palumbo, M ^a   Formosa, J ^b   Lacasta, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crop by products; Fire behaviour; Flammability; Natural thermal insulations; Pyrolysis combustion flow calorimetry

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; COMBUSTION; CROPS; FIRES; FLAMMABILITY; INSULATING MATERIALS; INSULATION; SODIUM; SODIUM ALGINATE; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS;

BARLEY STRAWS; CORN STARCH; FIRE BEHAVIOUR; FIRE REACTION TEST; PYROLYSIS COMBUSTIONS; PYROLYSIS-COMBUSTION FLOW CALORIMETRIES; SMALL-SCALE TESTS; THERMAL INSULATION MATERIALS;

THERMAL INSULATION;

EID: 84921415807     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.01.028     Document Type: Article

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