Low Flame Smoke

• Main Authors: ERBACH PETER S, BANISH R. MICHAEL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.01.2014
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; AMMUNITION; BLASTING; CHEMISTRY; COLLECTION, PRODUCTION OR USE OF HEAT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; DYES; EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING, FIREWORKS, AMMUNITION; EXPLOSIVES; GAS-ATTACK COMPOSITIONS; GENERATION OF GAS FOR BLASTING OR PROPULSION (CHEMICAL PART); HEATING; LIGHTING; MATCHES; MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FORELSEWHERE; MEANS FOR GENERATING SMOKE OR MIST; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; PAINTS; POLISHES; RANGES; VENTILATING; WEAPONS

A smoke producing method and device of the present disclosure produces a non-incendiary, organic-polymerization based, smoke-producing reaction. The method of generating smoke comprises initiating a frontal polymerization reaction by heating a composition comprising a monomer compound that exothermically polymerizes upon initiation with an initiator compound and an initiator compound that initiates polymerization of the monomer compound present at a mass concentration that is at least five percent of the mass concentration of the monomer compound. The polymerization of the monomer compound is exothermic, and in one embodiment the concentration of initiator compound is at least five percent of the concentration of monomer compound. The smoke mainly comprises thermal decomposition products of the initiator compound.