With increasingly stringent air pollution control regulations, it has become more and more difficult to conduct full-scale fire tests to evaluate the effects of exterior fires on insulated pipes and vessels. The available information on such tests performed in the past therefore be comes increasingly valuable. This paper reviews some full-scale fire tests on polyurethane foam insulated pipes and vessels and discusses them in retro spect.
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