Pool Burning of Silicone Fluids.
Pool Burning of Silicone Fluids.
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Buch, R. R.; Hamins, A.; Shields, J. R.; Borthwick, P.;
Baum, R. T.; Nyden, M. R.; Kashiwagi, T.
NISTIR 5499; September 1994.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 77-78 pp, 1994.
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Keywords:
fire research; silicones; pool burning; transformers
Abstract:
Siloxane fluids have a number of industrial applications
including use as transformer fluids. The objective of
the present study was to improve our understanding of
the burning of siloxane fluids. The fluids studied are
octamethylcyclotetra siloxane, [(CH3)2SiO]4 which is
known as D4, and trimethylsily end-blocked polydimethyl
siloxane, [(CH3)3Si-O[-Si(CH3)2-O]n-Si(CH3)3 ], where n
indicates the polymer chain length and the number of
silicon atoms in the molecule. These fluids are ranked
by viscosity which is related to the average polymer
chain length as shown in Table 1.
