Dr. Jürgen Troitzsch
About us
Since 1983, the consulting company Fire and Environment Protection Service FEPS provides international consultancy and scientific expertise on topics related to the fire behaviour of plastics, flame retardants, the environment and other issues. FEPS helps planning and carrying out fire tests (focus on membrane roofing systems) and provides expert opinions. In addition, FEPS builds particularly robust and easy-to-handle flammability testing equipment.
Curriculum vitae
Dr. Jürgen Troitzsch
Dr. Juergen Troitzsch graduated in chemistry in Marburg, and gained his doctorate from Aachen Technical University. After one year with DuPont in Frankfurt, he joined Hüls AG (now Evonik) in Marl, where he worked for 10 years on plastics, flame retardants, additives and fire testing in research and R&D. In 1983, he founded the consulting company FEPS in Wiesbaden.
Dr. Troitzsch is a member of national and international committees, working world-wide as an expert with industry, associations, academic institutions, governmental authorities and organisations. He has completed several comprehensive studies, participates in research projects, has published numerous articles and reviews, organised and led many seminars and conferences. He has presented worldwide more than 200 papers at conferences on all aspects of fires, fire safety, plastics, flame retardants and the environment. He is the author of the "Plastics Flammability Handbook" (More info under publications).
Besides a number of consultancy agreements with organisations and industry, Dr. Troitzsch has been and is active in various fields, as shown in the following excerpt:
- Expert opinion on transparent ETFE-film roofing systems, July 1985, May 1986, July 1997
- Expert opinion on fire tests with roofing systems made of PTFE und Silicon coated glass fibers, December 1986
- Expert opinion on building materials for roofing systems of the AELTC-tennis courts in Wimbledon, England, November 1988
- Report of Environmental Conference of Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany. Expert in the Working Group “Brominated flame retardants”, Bonn, September 1989
- Expert opinion on fire tests with rubberised fabrics for a simulated dirigible in Euro-Disney-Land in Champs-sur-Marne, France, July 1991
- Report on the fire of a PVC plant in Lengerich, North-Rhine Westphalia, October 1992
- Evaluation of reaction to fire of construction products and of fire tests as an expert to the Commission of the European Communities, DG XII, Brussels, September 1992 and December 1995
- Consultancy and publications on the Düsseldorf Airport Fire, April 11th , 1996
- Committee Member and author in Environmental Health Criteria EHC for Flame retardants. UNEP, ILO, WHO, IPCS. EHC Publication No. 192, Geneva, 1998
- Feasibility study on the fire behavior and testing of power cables following the Düsseldorf Airport Fire on behalf of the German Building Ministry of the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia, Düsseldorf, 1998
- Study on the fire behavior of TV-sets and PC-monitors with the German State Building Materials Testing Establishment MFPA, Leipzig, Germany, 1998
- Expert opinion on fire tests on the façade connection of the Olympic Hall Munich, May 2003
- Expert opinion on the fire loss of 5 October 2000 of the Gilde-Brewery, Hannover, September 2003
- Expert Opinion on fire tests on the membrane roofing system of the New Bangkok International Airport NBIA, Bangkok, June 2004
- Expert Opinion on fire tests on the membrane roofing system of Meilenwerk, a vintage car center in Düsseldorf, August 2005
- Consortium member of the European Union FP 6 Research Project: Predicting Fire Behaviour of Nanocomposites (PREDFIRE), 2005-2008
- Project coordinator for VDE round-robin Glow Wire Ignition Test to IEC 60695-2-13, 2006-2008
- Consortium member of the European Union FP 7 Research Project: Processing and Upscaling of Fire-Resistant Nano-Filled Thermosetting Polyester Resin (POLYFIRE), started in September 2009