Fire shelter
March 1st 2008

Intertec is supplying more than 100 fire protection cabinets to support Emerson Process Management's instrumentation solution for the new hydrocracker complex at the Kirishi oil refinery near St Petersburg.

The cabinets will provide the valve actuators with a minimum of 30min protection against fire, so the plant's emergency shut down systems can quickly isolate and minimise damage to protect employees, assets and the environment.

Cabinets have been fabricated using a sandwich construction of non-combustible insulation and long fibre reinforced GRP sheeting, a material that offers a high level of resistance to weather and the possible corrosive effects of the chemicals produced at the plant.