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CONDITIONS & RESULTS
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Firestop System for Cable Floor Penetrations
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Underwriters Laboratories INC U.S.A
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For the three-hour testing period, the Flamemastic Firestops proved as effective means to contain fire within a given area. The Flamemastic Firestops subjected to fire exposure and hose stream tests in accordance with the proposed standard, Through Penetration Firestops, UL 1479 dated May, 1982 - ASTM E814, were still physically intact at the end of tests.
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Flame Propagation on Telephone Cables
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Fire Research Station, Melrose Avenue, Boreham Wood, Herts. England, Dept. of Ministry of Technology
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Ten foot vertical sections of grouped telephone cables were subjected to a fire. Uncoated cables were totally destroyed, but cables coated with Flamemastic prevented the propagation of fire.
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Fire Protection of Power, Control and Instrument Cables
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Gulf Oil Refining, Ltd., Great Britain
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Extensive fire testing showed that Flamemastic would have prevented the earlier fire damage caused by flame propagation along cables.
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Fire Barrier for Cable Wall Penetrations
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Fire Research Laboratories, University of Ghent, Belgium
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For the two-hour testing period, the Flamemastic fire barrier proved an effective means to contain a fire within a given area. The Flamemastic fire barrier, on the exterior side of the wall, was still physically intact at the end of the test.
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Cable Protection from Molten Steel
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Thyssen Steel, Germany
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When subjected to molten steel at a mean temperature of 1500oC, unprotected cables shorted out almost immediately and were completely destroyed, while cables protected with Flamemastic continued to function and remain completely operable.
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Effect on Ampacity
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The Okonite Company, Passaic, New Jersey
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Cable in a 12" covered cable tray with open sides (30% filled) required 245 amperes to reach a 90oC hot spot temperature. When the same cable was coated with approximately 100mils of Flamemastic, it required 238 amperes to reach the 90oC hot spot temperature; thus, the ampacity was only reduced by less than 3%.
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Fire Spread and Excessive Operating Temperatures
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The Factory Mutual Research Corpl, Norwood, Mass.
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Flamemastic complies with Factory Mutual requirements and is approved for the protection of grouped insulated cables against self-spreading fire originating within the cables or from exposure to an external ignition source of moderate intensity.
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Flame Resistance of Irradiated & Non-Irradiated Electrical Cables
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The Franklin Institute Research Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Flamemastic was tested to determine the effect of irradiation on their fire protective properties. After exposure to 2 x 108 rads of gamma radiation, the sample showed no significant difference in appearance or fire protective properties from those of non-irradiated samples.
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