Emission Factors for the Burning of Decking Slabs Made of Wood and Thermoplastic with a Cone Calorimeter

Smoke is an important component of wildfires. Specifying the combustion process different materials allows scientists to better prevent and adopt public health measures. This experimental study contributes a characterisation smoke emitted by two types decking, wood thermoplastic, commonly used in terraces. Emission factors were characterised using cone calorimeter for incident fluxes ranging from 10 50 kW/m2. The showed that compared wooden (pine) thermoplastic (polypropylene) decking produces more gases aerosols, less VOCs, but with chemical composition carcinogenic.