Union Carbide Standard Thermal Insulation Manual, Volume 2: Insulation Design, with Appended Insulation Material Specifications (1968)

Excerpts from a Union Carbide Standard design manual for thermal insulation in company plants, dated May 1968. The pages sent hold the contents list, the introduction, heat-transfer theory and numerical tables, and four insulation material specification sheets dated July/August 1966 from the end of the exhibit. The specification sheets include asbestos fiber, bonded expanded silica reinforced with asbestos and glass fibers, and inhibited calcium silicate blended with asbestos fibers.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-3: Contents of Insulation Design manual, Sections I-IV (May 1968)
• Pages 4-5: Introduction: function of thermal insulation and description of the manual's four sections
• Pages 6-13: Section I theory of heat transfer: equations and figures
• Pages 14-40: Numerical tables for heat-transfer calculations (Tables 1-8)
• Pages 41-554: Pages not sent for cataloging
• Pages 555-556: Specification sheets 19-H (mineral wool with aluminum facing) and 19-J (aluminum-faced fibrous glass panels), July 1966
• Page 557: Specification sheet for asbestos fiber insulation (July 1966)
• Page 558: Specification sheet 22 for bonded expanded silica with asbestos and glass fibers (August 1966)
• Page 559: Specification sheet for inhibited calcium silicate with asbestos fibers (July 1966)

People and organizations

• Chemicals and Plastics Operations Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)

About this copy

This is document UC-4925 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 559 pages.