New halogen‐free fire retardant for engineering plastic applications

Abstract A comparative study of the fire‐retardant efficiency of three commercial aryl phosphates—triphenyl phosphate (TPP), resorcinol bis(diphenyl phosphate) (RDP) and bisphenol A bis(diphenyl phosphate) (BDP)—in PC/ABS blends was carried out. The thermal and hydrolytic stability of the fire‐retardant resins, as well as their physical properties, was also studied. The use of RDP and BDP is preferred over TPP because of superior properties, whereas BDP shows better fire‐retardant efficiency, hydrolytic stability, and thermal stability than RDP.