Cellular  glass is a porous glass foam material. Its advantages as a building material include its lightweight, high strength, and thermal and acoustic insulating properties. It is made by heating a mixture of crushed or granulated glass and a blowing agent  such as carbon or limestone. Near the melting point of the glass, the blowing agent releases a gas, producing a foaming effect in the glass. After cooling the mixture hardens into a rigid material with gas-filled closed-cell pores comprising a large portion of its volume.

The first report of cellular glass as a construction material was made by the Soviet scientist, Professor I.I.Kitaygorodskiy at the All-Union Conference on Standardization and Manufacture of New Construction Materials in Moscow in 1932.

Despite the name, aerogels are solid, rigid, and dry materials that do not resemble a gel in their physical properties: the name comes from the fact that they are made from gels. Pressing softly on an aerogel typically does not leave even a minor mark; pressing more firmly will leave a permanent depression. Pressing extremely firmly will cause a catastrophic breakdown in the sparse structure, causing it to shatter like glass (a property known as friability), although more modern variations do not suffer from this. Despite the fact that it is prone to shattering, it is very strong structurally. Its impressive load-bearing abilities are due to the dendritic microstructure, in which spherical particles of average size 2–5 nm are fused together into clusters. These clusters form a three-dimensional highly porous structure of almost fractal chains, with pores just under 100 nm. The average size and density of the pores can be controlled during the manufacturing process.

Aerogel is a material that is 99.8% air. Aerogels have a porous solid network that contains air pockets, with the air pockets taking up the majority of space within the material. The dearth of solid material allows aerogel to be almost weightless.

Aerogels are good thermal insulators because they almost nullify two of the three methods of heat transfer – conduction (they are mostly composed of insulating gas) and convection (the microstructure prevents net gas movement). They are good conductive insulators because they are composed almost entirely of gases, which are very poor heat conductors. They are good convective inhibitors because air cannot circulate through the lattice.

Removable heat and noise insulating jackets offered by Piping Solution Group are designed to insulate equipment of complex geometric shapes that require periodic and prompt access, at temperatures of insulated surfaces from — 200 to + 1100 ° C.

The jackets can be used in the oil, gas, chemical and other industries for heat and noise insulation of technological equipment.

Jackets can be used outdoors.

The jacket layer is made of technical fabrics, and flexible heat-insulating materials (low-density basalt wool, foamed rubber, foamed polyethylene, thermal insulating materials based on aerogels). Jackets are equipped with fittings (eyelets, fasteners, zippers, etc.), which ensures their free installation and dismantling on equipment.

The scope of delivery of covers includes:

• jackets according to the customer’s specification;
• quality certificate for each type of shipped products;
• certificates of conformity or other documents confirming the quality and safety of covers;
• certification documents for the cover layer and filler used in the construction of covers.