Mustafa, BG, Mat Kiah, MH, Andrews, G orcid.org/0000-0002-8398-1363 et al. (2 more authors) (2020) Toxic Gas Emissions from Plywood Fires. In: Osvaldova, LM, Markert, F and Zelinka, SL, (eds.) WFS 2020: Wood & Fire Safety. 9th International Conference on Wood & Fire Safety 2020, 01-04 Nov 2020, Strbske Pleso, Slovakia. , pp. 50-57. ISBN 978-3-030-41234-0
Abstract
Toxic emissions from four construction plywoods were investigated using a freely ventilated cone calorimeter with raw predilution hot gas sampling. Each plywood sample was exposed to the conical heater of the cone calorimeter radiating at 35 kw/m². Rich mixtures occurred in some of the tests, these rich mixtures produced high concentrations of toxic gases. The 4 samples had different peak heat release rate HRR, but similar steady state HRR. The elemental analysis of the four samples showed that they had different nitrogen content, indicating different glues were used. Plywood B had the highest N content of 6.43%, which resulted in the highest HCN concentration. The most important toxic species were CO, HCN, acrolein, formaldehyde and benzene on both an LC₅₀ and COSHH₁₅min basis.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a conference paper published in WFS 2020: Wood & Fire Safety. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41235-7 |
Keywords: | Toxicity, Wood Fires, FTIR |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemical & Process Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 May 2020 11:00 |
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2021 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-030-41235-7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160414 |