Effect of vermiculite on fire protectiveness of water-based acrylic fire retardant coating

Fire retardant coating (FRC) is vital in construction building as its function is to insulate heat or fire from underlying substrate. The concern of a coating also focuses on the toxicity of the material to occupants during fire hazard. Thus, in this research, water-based acrylic was used as a binde...

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Main Authors: Zaharuddin, Wan Amalina Wan, Ariwahjoedi, Bambang, Hussain, Patthi
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Coatings
component
Degradation
fire protection test
fire retardant coating
Fires
Flame retardants
Presses
Substrates
vermiculite
water-based acrylic
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Summary:Fire retardant coating (FRC) is vital in construction building as its function is to insulate heat or fire from underlying substrate. The concern of a coating also focuses on the toxicity of the material to occupants during fire hazard. Thus, in this research, water-based acrylic was used as a binder with addition of vermiculite. This paper presents the effect of vermiculite on the improvement in fire resistant of the ammonium polyphosphate-pentaerythritol-melamine (APP-PER-MEL) coating which investigated using fire protection test and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The detail compositions of acrylic media and vermiculite were analyzed by using X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The temperature-time curve and SEM image for formulations with vermiculite show the temperature is 150°C lower than formulations without vermiculite and better char structure is observed.
DOI:10.1109/SCORED.2010.5704044