Fire tests

Amerplastics Europa b.v. is committed consistently to provide products and services that meet the safety requirements of our customers. Amerplastics products will provide the highest level of performance that is useful to the customer and the highest level of appearance in the industry. The concept of the plastics wall- & floor-penetrations enables a fast and reliable installation and a corrosion free solution, which however, has to meet an acceptable fire safety level. The chosen material, self-extinguishing polyurethane, needs to survive a hydrocarbon fire.

On several Shell and NAM platforms wall and deck-penetrations have been installed in the past. Most of them are mounted without much room for eventual extra penetrations and do enable a practical inspection procedure. Amerplastics was asked by  AJS  (Amec-Jacobs-Stork) to develop an alternative based on a plastics concept, which could be adhesive bonded and is absolutely maintenance free.
A concept which enables an adhesive bonding (‘cold work’) on deck and which does not ask for a conservation protection, was to their opinion interesting. Amerplastics developed a polyurethane model, which will be marketed under the trade name Intercollar DPC®.
The field experience offshore mounting this collar penetration was very promising. The basic concept of the DPC’s showed a fire class rating V0, which normally is accepted in for industry and building applications.
Missing was a reference to a “pool-fire”-test. In dialogue with AJS project management it was decided to set up a so-called ad-hoc test situation at the offshore training site of Nutec in den Oever, the Netherlands.

On locations where a 15 minutes during pool-fire or flame-penetration from under a floor to above this floor may occur, the standard Intercollar® in combination met Promastop® can be mounted to increase the safety level on board of offshore oil and gas platforms.
Of course this application can offer same safety performance in refineries onshore.

Following concept improvements to be executed:

• Promastop® shall make a proposal for solid insulation rings incl. the required fabric in standard dimension to fill up the room between the DPC Intercollar® and the penetrating service pipe.
• Eventual upgrade by using the modified polyurethane concept to be discussed with the Principals

For detailed technical information or engineering advise, please contact our Sales Department.