Project design emergency procedures

All potential points of leaks and other hot spots have to be identified in the stage of design. The decontamination procedures in case of accident have to be elaborated. The specification of the equipment for eventual decontamination and the means of decontamination are defined in laboratory instructions and manuals. All necessary safeguards and security systems are the elements of the project design. In case of emergency all means limiting the decontamination spreading out have to be used. 

An EC funded project has been examining the various test methods that are used to evaluate electric cables and their fire performance. This was funded by DG XII of the Commission and is designated as Fire Performance of Electric Cables (FIPEC). Various levels of testing have emerged from the project ranging from a small-scale, cone ealorimeter test procedure especially developed for cables and their constituent materials, a full scale proeedure based on lEC 60332-3, but utilising heat rate release and smoke production rate (SPR) measurements, and a real scale test for mock cable installations. 

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