Biodegradable fibrous thermal insulation

Manohar, Krishpersad; Ramlakhan, Dale; Kochhar, Gurmohan S.; Haldar, S.C.

doi:10.1590/s1678-58782006000100005

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“…This article discusses the manufacture of thermal insulation from agricultural waste, thus creating a useful building material [10,11]. Coconut husk and bagasse were considered to be the raw materials offering greatest potential for manufacture of thermal insulation [12], particularly in the context of Thailand [13]. This is because these raw materials are available within Thailand, and reducing the transportation component of embodied energy gives the potential for an improved environmental profile compared with those that are imported from overseas.…”

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New thermal insulation boards made from coconut husk and bagasse

Panyakaew

Fotios

2011

Energy and Buildings

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New thermal insulation boards made from coconut husk and bagasse

Panyakaew

Fotios

2011

Energy and Buildings

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“…The 75% paper oil palm particle board shows slightly lower thermal conductivity 0.04158 W/mK at mean temperature of 20 o C compare to pure oil palm fiber particle board. According to previous study [11,12], it found that the materials that containing cellulose or so-called lignocellulosic fiber are good in acoustic and thermal insulation. Beside the oil palm fiber, paper is another lignocellulosic material that containing cellulose and it is the easiest materials that can be obtained.…”

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Thermal Performance of Oil Palm Fibre and Paper Pulp as the Insulation Materials

Ibrahim¹,

Sia²,

Baharun³

et al. 2014

JCEST

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Energy consumption for residential use in Malaysia is keep increasing yearly in order to maintain the internal thermal comfort of the building. Roof insulation material plays a vital role in improving the thermal comforts of the building while reduce the cooling load of the building. Oil palm industry in Malaysia had grown aggressively over the past few decades. Tons of oil palm waste had produced during the process such as empty fruit bunch fiber. Another waste material that available and easy to obtain is paper. Paper is a valuable material that can be recycled. Waste paper comes from different sources such as newspaper, office and printing papers. This study will take advantage of the available resources which could contribute to reduce the environment impact. The aim of this study is to investigate the thermal performance of roof insulation materials using mixture of oil palm fiber and paper pulp with different ratio and thickness. This study found that the thermal performance of the paper pulp is slightly better compare to the oil palm fiber. Thermal conductivity of the particle board reduces around 4.1% by adding the 10% of paper pulp into the total density of the particle board. By adding 75% of paper pulp, the thermal conductivity of the particle board could be reduced to 24.6% compare to the oil palm fiber board under the similar condition. Therefore, from this study, it could be concluded that paper pulp has high potential to be used as a building insulation material.

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“…Prior to the determination of thermal conductivity, thermal history of individual material was determined. The thermal conductivity tests ( Figure 7) was conducted in line with ASTM E1530-11 (Eeday et al, 2014;Rodriguez et al, 2011;Zhou et al, 2010;Satta & Steve, 2008;Manohar et al, 2006). The thermal properties of the materials were established using steady-state, one-dimensional condition.…”

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Investigation of Thermal Insulation Properties of Biomass Composites

Abdulkareem¹,

Ogunmodede²,

Aweda³

et al. 2016

IJTech

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This paper reports on the investigation of thermal properties of Kapok, Coconut fibre and Sugarcane bagasse composite materials using molasses as a binder. The composite materials were moulded into 12 cylindrical samples using Kapok, Bagasse, Coconut fibre, Kapok and Bagasse in the ratios of (70:30; 50:50 and 30:70), Kapok and Coconut fibre in the ratios of (70:30; 50:50 and 30:70), as well as a combination of Kapok, Bagasse and Coconut fibre in ratios of (50:10:40; 50:40:10 and 50:30:20). The sample size is a 60mm diameter with 10mm -22mm thickness compressed at a constant load of 180N using a Budenberg compression machine. Thermal conductivity and diffusivity tests were carried out using thermocouples and the results were read out on a Digital Multimeter MY64 (Model: MBEB094816), while a Digital fluke K/J thermocouple meter PRD-011 (S/NO 6835050) was used to obtain the temperature measurement for diffusivity. It was observed that of all the twelve samples moulded, Bagasse, Kapok plus Bagasse (50:50), Kapok plus Coconut fibre (50:50) and Kapok plus Bagasse plus Coconut fibre (50:40:10) has the lowest thermal conductivity of 0.0074, 0.0106, 0.0132, and 0.0127 W/(m-K) respectively and the highest thermal resistivity. In this regard, Bagasse has the lowest thermal conductivity followed by Kapok plus Bagasse (50:50), Kapok plus Bagasse plus Coconut fibre (50:40:10) and Kapok plus Coconut fibre (50:50).

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Biodegradable fibrous thermal insulation

Abstract: Biodegradable Fibrous Thermal Insulation

Cited by 48 publications

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New thermal insulation boards made from coconut husk and bagasse

New thermal insulation boards made from coconut husk and bagasse

Thermal Performance of Oil Palm Fibre and Paper Pulp as the Insulation Materials

Investigation of Thermal Insulation Properties of Biomass Composites

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