Project Profiles/ Case Histories
Pittsburgh Corning FOAMGLAS® Insulation
The New Doha International Airport is not compromising when it comes to sustainability, fire safety, and system performance, using FOAMGLAS® insulation on perhaps one of the largest chilled water systems ever built.
BASF, a major global chemical producer, has addressed its moisture, fire, and corrosion issues with the FOAMGLAS® Insulation XP System.
The Sea Rose, a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) ship is insulated with FOAMGLAS® insulation for fire safety.
Solvay, a multi-national corporation and long time user of Pittsburgh Corning FOAMGLAS® insulation, fights corrosion under insulation (CUI) potential with the FOAMGLAS® Insulation Terostat PC FR system.
Solvay chilled water_Letter.pdf
Major mechanical insulation problems are solved by replacing the failed insulation with FOAMGLAS® insulation. Read about Minute Maid Park in Houston in this impressive project profile.
MinuteMaid_Park_ProjectProfile_v01.pdf
Chilled Water lines are successfully insulated with FOAMGLAS® insulation, providing additional fire protection in a Solar Energy facility.
This first LNG receving terminals in Thailand, and Southeast Asia for that matter, involve the development of a deepwater port, a five-million-ton regasification (vaporiser) train with two 160,000 m3 LNG storage tanks, a jetty, a boil-off gas recondensor, a sent out station and LNG pump.
FOAMGLAS® insulation once again proves its significant value in cold and cryogenic work at Adriatic LNG. Please click on the project profiles below to review this "mission critical" project and how Pittsburgh Corning assists in providing the best possible process control.
FOAMGLAS® insulation remains a high level performer for protecting companies and their people in a potentially dangerous service, hot oil. This project was recently completed, significantly reducing the threat of wicking and potential fire damage.
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Chilled Water / Atlanta International Airport (USA)
The issues of condensation and fire safety are best addressed for the airport's massive chilled water distribution system with FOAMGLAS® insulation.
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Hot Tank Base / Rubis Terminals
Hot tank base insulation issues are solved with FOAMGLAS® S-3 (HLB) Insulation for the Rubis Terminal.
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Lyondell Basell Styrene Tank
Corrosion Under Insulation problems solved with the selection of a FOAMGLAS® Insulation system for Lyondell Basell.
Styrene tank roof LyondellBasell Letter.pdf
Styrene tank roof LyondellBasell_A4.pdf
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Ayers Rock Resort / Australia
Imagine a huge resort in the Australian outback with massive lengths of hot water, chilled water, and steam lines. The need for FOAMGLAS® Insulation is understood and its success noted protecting the energy distribution and savings on this high profile project.
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TVK Shipyard
Fire safety has always been a concern in shipbuilding. The use of FOAMGLAS® insulation helps reduce the threat of catastrophic fire damange and loss of life on large seagoing vessels.
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M. D. Anderson Cancer Center / Houston, Texas
A multitude of problems associated with chilled water pipe insulation is solved by the selection of FOAMGLAS® Insulation. See why the PC solution is the only solutiion for M.D. Anderson.
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Atlantic LNG / Trinidad
The Atlantic LNG project is one of the pre-eminent LNG facilities in the western hemisphere. The use of FOAMGLAS® insulation is critical to the owner's long term performance expectations.
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The Brussels Subway System selected FOAMGLAS® Insulation to keep its fire water pipes safe from corrosion, fire, and freezing during its ongoing renovation and expansion.
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The Dublin International Airport selected FOAMGLAS® Insulation for its chilled water system in its new state of the art terminal.
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Capitol visitor center - Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Capital Building's engineers selected FOAMGLAS® Insulation to protect its steam and chilled water pipes in an intricate tunnel system.
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Le Tonkin LNG
Insulation failure is serious in cryogenic service. Learn how failure can be turned into success by replacing failed insulation with FOAMGLAS® Insulation.
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The Snøvhit LNG terminal offered many technical challenges for construction. Read all about the excellent teamwork required to successfully complete this high critical high profile facility.
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LNG Projects in China
FOAMGLAS® Insulation is used in China for both tank bases and pipe insulation because of its superior moisture and fire resistance.
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Isle of Grain / LNG Receiving Terminal
FOAMGLAS® Insulation and Terostat Coating were selected because of both safety and ease of installation considerations.
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FOAMGLAS® Insulation is again selected as the solution for the underground steam system at the University of Massachusetts, after over two decades of successful history.
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Faster installation with
FOAMGLAS® TEROSTAT® insulation system
FOAMGLAS® - TEROSTAT® system (PDF, 1.2MB)
Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida: Even when the action heats up, sports fans stay cool.
Raymond James Stadium (PDF, 105KB)
