Thermal Properties of Intumescent Passive Fire Protection Materials

Intumescent materials have been applied for a long time to protect equipment and structure against fire exposure in chemical and petrochemical industry. In need of optimising use of protection, simulation by use of computer codes has been more and more applied. These codes are dependent on reliable property data as input to the code; data that are partly highly unreliably and partly non existent. The reason is that there is not yet developed a test method for testing of intumescing materials that can give reliable property data applicable in computer codes.