Thermal and fire performance
Heat has to be kept out in some places and moved away in others, and the material has to hold its behaviour through thermal cycling rather than on one pass.
Insulation and
cooling are one
problem, not two
Treating them separately is how plants end up with a coating that insulates where it should conduct. We design the thermal envelope as a whole, and test against the cycling a working furnace imposes rather than against a single steady state.
01
Thermal envelope definition
Operating and excursion temperatures established for each surface, including where heat is meant to leave.
02
Formulation for the envelope
Insulating and conductive phases specified against those targets, with the fire behaviour designed in rather than added on.
03
Fire-resistance testing
Reaction to fire and resistance measured to the standard the sector is held to.
04
Thermal cycling
Durability across repeated heating and cooling — the failure mode that only shows up after months of operation.
Where it is applied
Steady-state performance is the easy half. Cycling is what a plant actually does.
This capability sits within Advanced Materials. If it is the one your problem turns on, tell us the constraint and we will tell you whether it is worth starting.