{"id":308,"date":"2007-02-20T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T11:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpyro.com\/wp\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-02-20T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T11:27:38","slug":"evaluation-of-fire-and-explosion-hazards-for-a-non-azide-gas-generant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of Fire and Explosion Hazards for a Non-Azide Gas Generant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kazuo Hara, Mitsuhiro Kanazawa, and Tadao Yoshida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>ABSTRACT: <\/strong>A hazard evaluation has been carried out for the safety assessment of a new non-azide gas generant for automotive airbag inflators. The gas generant (UN) is composed of urazole (U) and a metal nitrate (MNO3;N) with other additives included to provide the required performance. The impact, shock, friction, electric spark, hot object and heat sensitivities were determined by the appropriate tests.&nbsp; Propagations of detonation, deflagration and combustion were examined using the United Nations gap test and VP 30 tube test. A mixture of urazole with KClO4 in a stoichiometric ratio propagated detonation as measured by the gap test and self-sustaining combustion as measured by the tube test. The mixture of urazole with KNO3 propagated combustion,&nbsp;but no detonation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> airbag, gas generant, urazole, hazard evaluation, test methods<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Ref:<\/strong> JPyro, Issue 4, 1996, pp15-24<br \/> (J4_15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazuo Hara, Mitsuhiro Kanazawa, and Tadao Yoshida ABSTRACT: A hazard evaluation has been carried out for the safety assessment of a new non-azide gas generant for automotive airbag inflators. The gas generant (UN) is composed of urazole (U) and a metal nitrate (MNO3;N) with other additives included to provide the required performance. The impact, shock, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=308\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evaluation of Fire and Explosion Hazards for a Non-Azide Gas Generant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}