Inhibit fire with molecules from nature – application on textiles
Anna-Carin Larsson, Chemistry of Interfaces, has been granted 850 kSEK by Brandforsk for the study Inhibit fire with molecules from nature – application on textiles. Participants in the project are Biplab Roy, Chemistry of Interfaces, Josefine Enman, Biochemical Process Engineering, Rhoda Afriye Mensah, Division of Structural and Fire Engineering, and Ragni Fjellgaard Mikalsen and Edvard Aamodt from RISE Fire Research, Trondheim, Norway.
The aim of the project is to find new environmentally friendly and non-toxic flame retardants from bio-based resources such as agricultural waste. The project builds on results from earlier Brandforsk projects with phytic acid as the main component of the flame retardant. Here phytic acid will be combined with purines which are naturally occurring in living systems such as humans, and which can also be consumed. Commonly known purines are caffeine, theobromine, and theophylline, which are found in coffee, tea and chocolate. Selected compounds will be studied from a molecular level up to fire demonstration scale, to assess their performance as flame retardants on various textiles.
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