Data suggests that hybrid cars are more than twice as likely catch fire as gasoline engine cars, whereas fully electric vehicles show a much lower risk of fire. The information published by is based on US data for 2020 and 2021 from the National Transportation Safety...
Review of physical and solvent recycling of automotive plastics underlines complexity of sorting and technical challenges. An average car today in 2019 contained already c. 160 kg of plastics (nearly 9% of its weight), of which around 50% in the car interior, nearly...
Magnesium dihydroxide (MDH) recovered from seawater salt production wastewater tested as PIN flame retardant in epoxy. China alone generates some 30 million m3/year of ‘bittern’, the wastewater from salt production from seawater. Over three quarters of this is...
Research review discusses flame retardants for electrolytes in current and possible future battery technologies. Current lithium ion battery technologies use liquid organic electrolytes, which are flammable and can react with cathodes, as well as polymer separator...
Reacted melamine in polyurethane, with metals and graphite, for fire safety and reduced smoke emission. Melamine was not used as such but was reacted into the polyol. This melamine derived polyol was combined into rigid polyurethane foam at 30 %w/w, with 0 – 5 % w/w...
