Industrial Fire Safety
Steel plants run hot by design, which makes the line between normal operation and a serious incident narrower than in almost any other heavy industry.
Synergistic water-and-foam anti-fire coatings
The same surfaces that have to survive furnace temperatures also have to shed heat efficiently, and those two demands usually pull against each other. NilTech develops synergistic water-and-foam anti-fire coatings for exactly that conflict.
The system is engineered to insulate furnace structures, improve cooling efficiency where heat needs to leave, and raise the margin of safety around both — rather than treating fire protection as a layer added once the thermal design is finished.
Objectives
Insulation performance that holds at furnace-adjacent operating temperatures
Improved cooling efficiency where heat is meant to be removed, not retained
A measurable increase in the safety margin around routine operations
Durability under the thermal cycling a working furnace imposes
Achievements
Water-and-foam coating system developed for steel-industry conditions
Insulation and cooling treated as one engineering problem rather than two
Next milestones
Thermal and fire-resistance testing to standard
Furnace-side plant trials
Durability under full thermal cycling
First steel-industry partner
Programme
Disciplines: Advanced Materials, Polymer Engineering
Stage: coating system developed, preparing for plant trials
Target sectors: steel, foundry, heavy process industry
Commercial enquiries: hello@niltechs.com
