Effect of DPK flame retardant on combustion characteristics and fire safety of PVC membrane

In this work, the performances of PVC membrane with DPK flame retardant and without flame retardant were investigated under external radiation flux. The experimental results showed that the addition of DPK flame retardant can greatly reduce the peak heat release, total heat release of the material, and increase the time to peak heat release, time to ignition and the production of poisonous gas CO. By introducing the mathematical evaluation model and specifying the reliable evaluation indexes, the safety indexes of two kinds of materials are obtained. The results showed that by adding the flame retardant, the safety indexes of the PVC membranes were increased to 161% and 156% under 40 kw/m2 and 50 kw/m2 respectively, which is accordant to the result of experiments and suggest that the presence of DPK has a good flame retardant effect.