Descripción del proyecto
Una innovadora barrera cortafuegos para materiales combustibles
El auge de productos sofisticados ha dado lugar a un aumento del uso de materiales combustibles, sobre todo orgánicos, que son muy inflamables. Para garantizar la seguridad de las personas en caso de incendio, es necesario desarrollar materiales ignífugos que puedan confinar los fuegos. El objetivo del proyecto FireBar-Concept, financiado con fondos europeos, es crear materiales y sistemas de ensamblaje de materiales que presenten baja inflamabilidad, protejan los sustratos y limiten la propagación del fuego. En el proyecto se diseñará una barrera contra el fuego que reaccione adecuadamente a las limitaciones térmicas, que se forme en el momento y lugar adecuados y que cambie de distintas maneras según la naturaleza química o la formulación del material. Este innovador proyecto implica un enfoque multidisciplinar, con expertos en ciencia de materiales, ingeniería química, química, ciencia térmica y física que colaboran para alcanzar los objetivos del proyecto.
Objetivo
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 flame
The 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.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitución de acogida
59000 Lille
Francia