Fire Sleeve
Fire sleeves are the unsung heroes in fire safety, protecting critical components that are susceptible to extreme heat and potential fires. These specialized sleeves are engineered to shield wires, hoses, and pipes. This ensures they perform under pressure and high temperatures and prevent a flame from spreading in the event of a fire.
How Does a Fire Sleeve Work?
Fire sleeves are an essential component of any electrical system safety protocols within an industrial building. These simple but effective coverings provide a layer of protection around wires and cables, preventing them from catching fire or spreading flames. They work by eliminating exposure to fire and reducing heat and smoke spread, which allows more time for evacuation and response.
Fire sleeves are designed to be highly resistant to extreme temperatures, making them ideal for applications where high levels of heat are present. They’re constructed from durable materials such as fiberglass or coated silicone, which can withstand temperatures exceeding 1000°F (538°C).
Additionally, fire protection sleeves provide robust protection against molten metal splash, a common hazard in metalworking industries. The specially engineered fabrics repel molten splashes, preventing the material from adhering to and damaging the cables or wires a sleeve covers. Furthermore, the sleeves’ flame-resistant properties mean they act as a barrier against direct flame impingement, ensuring the integrity of critical electrical systems and reducing the risk of spreading fire.
Advantages:
Heat Resistance and Insulation
Fire sleeves can withstand extreme temperatures, often exceeding 1000°F (538°C), making them ideal for protecting wires, cables, and hoses in high-temperature environments. This ensures the continuous operation of critical systems by preventing overheating and subsequent malfunctions.
Durability and Flexibility
Constructed from rugged materials like fiberglass and silicone, Fire Sleeves can endure harsh conditions and prolonged use without significant wear and tear. Furthermore, their flexibility allows them to accommodate various shapes and sizes of cables and hoses, ensuring protection without compromising and ease of installation.
Enhanced Safety and Compliance
Fire sleeves significantly enhance the overall safety of any facility by mitigating the risks associated with fire hazards. What’s more, they also help facilities comply with rigorous fire safety regulations and standards, with the potential of lowering insurance premiums and avoiding any penalties associated with non-compliance.
Improved Operational Efficiency
Fire sleeves minimize downtime caused by cable and hose failures due to overheating or damage from environmental factors. By providing reliable protection, they ensure that critical systems remain operational, enhancing productivity and reducing the costs linked to system failures and repairs.
Versatility
Available in various sizes and configurations, fire sleeves provide a one-size-fits-most solution for fire protection needs, making them suitable for several industries, including automotive, manufacturing, maritime and construction.
APPLICATION
Insula provides one-stop thermal insulation solutions for applications in different fields and industries. Specific for fire sleeves:
High temperature fire sleeves provide wire harness protection on the arm of an intelligent robot arm.
Equipment in the metallurgical industry is always running in a high temperature working environment. The long-term high heat will easily burn the internal wires, cables, lines and hoses of the equipment, and even cause short circuits of cables and wires, leading to equipment shutdowns. Meanwhile, the equipment with high temperature is also a potential safety risk to the personnel working around.
Fire Sleeve, is to protect the fuel, transmission and brake lines from the problem of heat and abrasions damaging as a fireproof solution, providing the ultimate in heat insulation and protection from continuous heat up to 260°C.
In modern power systems, large, interconnected power grids may be disrupted completely, while power system relaying provides a complete power plant.
Thus, they can respond to these disturbances quickly, quickly and correctly. The use of fire protection sleeve can protect the electric pipe from long service life and excellent electrical performance
High thermal deformation temperature and low temperature impact resistance, durable, safe and reliable operation of the line. Good rigidity, good toughness, smooth and smooth inner wall and good wear resistance, Strong corrosion resistance, tensile and bending.
As we know, Glass is made and formed under high temperature furnace, which generate a lot of heat, glass molten splashes or sparks affecting the surrounding equipment. Thus, professional thermal insulation products are necessary to deal with those high-temperature problems.
Fire sleeve, withstanding short-term exposure up to 1650°C, serves an important role in protecting the nearby cables and hose from the high temperature hazards, such as high heat, fire and molten glass splashes generated during the production process.
Fire resistant high temperature sleeving is made of high expansion glass fiber or special E-glass fiber woven sleeving, covered with a thick iron oxide red / blue silica gel, which prevents melting.
Iron is not damaged by high temperature and flame, and has the properties of flame retardance, heat insulation, heat preservation, electricity resistance and softness. These characteristics make it suitable for hose protection in harsh environment,
Cables and pipes. Can be continuously exposed to 260 degrees of high temperature without damage, can withstand 1000 degrees of high temperature, 1000 degrees of destructive test can last for half an hour, half an hour later
The outside coating began to be carbonized, and the glass fibers were intact.
The utility model can be applied to protect pipelines under various abominable environments, such as petroleum chemical industry.
High temperature fire sleeves with high and low temperature resistance, flame retardant, energy saving, ozone resistance, voltage resistance, arc re he history of transport, many serious accidents were caused by engine fire. It can be said that fire resistance is related to safety of the top priority. All external pipes, joints, and other parts for retention or conveyance of flammable liquids must be fire-resistant; tanks and supports must be protected by fireproof insulation materials or insulation shields.
Fire sleeves offer a range of benefits in marine engine rooms, which are critical areas of ships where engines, generators, fuel systems, and various machinery are housed. Here’s an overview of the advantages of fire sleeves in marine engine rooms:
FIRE PROTECTION
Marine engine rooms are susceptible to fire hazards due to the presence of flammable fuels, lubricants, and high-temperature machinery. Fire sleeves provide a crucial layer of protection by containing and suppressing fires, preventing them from spreading to other areas of the ship and minimizing the risk of catastrophic incidents at sea.
HEAT INSULATION
The operation of marine engines and machinery generates significant heat, which can pose risks to nearby components, cables, and wiring. Fire sleeves offer thermal insulation, reducing heat transfer and protecting critical systems from thermal damage, ensuring the safe and reliable operation of engine room equipment.
MECHANICAL PROTECTION
Engine rooms are dynamic environments with machinery, pipes, and hoses subjected to constant movement, vibration, and mechanical stress. Fire sleeves act as durable protective covers, shielding hoses, cables, and wires from abrasion, impact, and wear, extending their lifespan and minimizing the risk of mechanical failures and downtime.
OIL AND CHEMICAL RESISTANCE
Marine engine rooms often contain hydraulic systems, fuel lines, and lubrication systems that handle oils, fuels, and chemicals. Fire sleeves are resistant to oil, fuel, and various chemicals, providing an additional layer of protection against corrosion, degradation, and leakage, ensuring the integrity and safety of critical systems.
ELECTRICAL SAFETY
Electrical systems and components are essential for the operation of marine vessels, powering navigation systems, lighting, communication equipment, and automation systems. Fire sleeves offer insulation and protection against electrical faults, short circuits, and arcing, reducing the risk of electrical fires and ensuring the safe operation of electrical systems in engine rooms.
COMPLIANCE WITH SAFETY REGULATIONS
Maritime regulations and classification standards require ships to maintain stringent safety measures to protect personnel, passengers, and the environment. Fire sleeves help ships comply with safety regulations by reducing fire risks, enhancing safety protocols, and mitigating potential hazards associated with engine room equipment and systems.
WEATHER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Ships encounter diverse weather conditions and marine environments, including saltwater exposure, humidity, and temperature fluctuations. Fire sleeves are resistant to moisture, UV radiation, and environmental factors, ensuring the reliability and performance of critical components under harsh marine conditions.
