Technical seminar: Heat protection textiles (webinar)

Two mornings, 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. incl. 30-minute break.

Online via MS Teams, participation with the camera switched on is desired.

Costs:
485.00 € plus VAT

Target group:

  • Professional, plant and volunteer fire department personnel
  • Police
  • Employees who are exposed to high heat in industrial fields (e.g. aluminum plants, blast furnaces)
  • Purchasing
  • Occupational health and safety officer

Seminar objective:

This seminar provides practical knowledge about heat protective clothing that serves to protect the persons concerned. It is aimed not only at the wearers of the protective clothing themselves, but also at purchasers, health and safety officers and decision-makers who are responsible for selecting the right products.

The aim is to give participants a basic understanding of the materials, construction and performance limits of heat protective clothing so that they can make informed decisions in everyday life.

Seminar contents:

Development of heat protection clothing to date
Materials & understanding of materials

  • Requirements for heat protection materials
  • Basic understanding of the polymer structure
  • Material properties from the chemical structure

Structure of the heat protection cladding

  • multilayer clothing concepts: Function & Development
  • Typical material combinations in the layer structure

Requirements and tests

  • Overview of relevant standards and tests
  • Important test criteria in practice

Performance limits & unresolved challenges

  • For which risks are there currently no optimal solutions?

 

Seminar lecturer:

Prof. Dr. Robert Groten

Professor of Technical Textiles and Head of the Innovatorium at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences

Notes:

Admission requirements:
No admission requirements are necessary for this seminar.

To the registration

Contact:

Clara Hermsen
weiterbildung@textilakademie.de
+49 173 5316464