Project description DEENESFRITPL Innovative fire barrier for combustible materials The rise of sophisticated products has led to an increase in the use of combustible materials, particularly organic materials that are highly flammable. To ensure people’s safety in case of fire, it is necessary to develop flame-retardant materials that can confine fires. The EU funded FireBar-Concept project aims to create materials and assembly materials that exhibit low flammability, protect substrates, and limit the spread of fire. The project will design a fire barrier that reacts appropriately to thermal constraints, formed at the right time and location, and developed in different ways according to the material’s chemical nature or formulation. This innovative project involves a multidisciplinary approach, with experts in material science, chemical engineering, chemistry, thermal science, and physics collaborating to achieve the project’s objectives. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The development of science and technology provides the availability of sophisticated products but concurrently, increases the use of combustible materials, in particular organic materials. Those materials are easily flammable and must be flame retarded to make them safer. In case of fire, people must be protected by materials confining and stopping fire. It is one of the goals of the FireBar-Concept project to design materials and assembly of materials exhibiting low flammability, protecting substrates and limiting fire spread. The objective of FireBar-Concept is to make a fire barrier formed at the right time, at the right location and reacting accordingly against thermal constraint (fire scenario). This fire barrier can be developed in several ways according to the chemical nature of the material and/or of its formulation:- Heat barrier formed by inherently flame retarded materials (e.g. mineral fibers, ceramic …) and exhibiting low thermal conductivity (note the assembly of those materials can also provide low thermal conductivity controlling porosity and its distribution)- Evolution of reactive radicals poisoning the flame and forming a protective ‘umbrella’ avoiding the combustion of the material- Additives promoting charring of the materials and forming an expanding carbonaceous protective coating or barrier (intumescence)- Additives forming a physical barrier limiting mass transfer of the degradation products to the flameThe FireBar-Concept project is multidisciplinary and it requires expertise in material science, chemical engineering, chemistry, thermal science and physics. The approach is to make 5 actions linked together by transverse developments (3) according to this scheme: (i) fundamentals of fire barrier, (ii) multi-material and combination of concepts, (iii) modeling and numerical simulation, (iv) design and development of experimental protocols and (v) optimization of the systems. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringfibersengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and filmsengineering and technologychemical engineering Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-ADG-2014 - ERC Advanced Grant Call for proposal ERC-2014-ADG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITE DE LILLE Net EU contribution € 2 222 937,50 Address 42 rue paul duez 59000 Lille France See on map Region Hauts-de-France Nord-Pas de Calais Nord Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITE DE LILLE France Net EU contribution € 2 222 937,50 Address 42 rue paul duez 59000 Lille See on map Region Hauts-de-France Nord-Pas de Calais Nord Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Third-party Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure. ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE CHIMIE DE LILLE France Net EU contribution € 207 050,00 Address Cite scientifique avenue mendeleiev 59650 Villeneuve d'ascq See on map Region Hauts-de-France Nord-Pas de Calais Nord Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
