| Abstract: | A comparative approach to the determination of smoke emission from burning polymers has been attempted, and a number of combustion conditions and detection devices have been tried to choose a test method for measuring the smoke proiduction of materials. The combustion apparatus adopted is a hot-air quartz furnace that permits the measured by dynamic method from combustion of PAN, PVC and PVC mixed with some metal oxiders, have been compared with those obtained by an accumulation mode. For PVC the intensity of the light scattered from the evolving smoke has been measured as an alternative to smoke density. |
