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Preparation and characterization of vacuum insulation panels with super-stratified glass fiber core material

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  • Chen, Zhou
  • Chen, Zhaofeng
  • Yang, Zhaogang
  • Hu, Jiaming
  • Yang, Yong
  • Chang, Lingqian
  • Lee, L. James
  • Xu, Tengzhou

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VIPs (vacuum insulation panels) with super-stratified glass fiber core material were prepared by CSB (centrifugal-spinneret-blow) process. The fiber orientation of the super-stratified glass fiber core material was concentrated in the X–Z plane which was perpendicular to the heat transfer direction. The initial thermal conductivity of this novel VIPs was only 1.25mW/(m K) which performs up to two times more thermal insulation than conventional wet core material (2.62mW/(m K)). The thermal conductivity of VIP with CSB-3μm was significantly lower than that calculated from the theoretical curves with mean pore size of 10 μm. The results demonstrated that thermal conductivity of VIP with CSB-3μm attained 1.25, 1.76, 2.04, 2.91, 3.45, 4.58, 9.16, 13.03mW/(m K) under the pressure of 0.03, 0.06, 0.09, 0.3, 0.5, 0.9, 5 and 10 mbar, respectively. This is a great breakthrough to dramatically increase the service life-span of VIP with glass fiber core material. Their further advantages compared to conventional wet process are their lower energy consumption and cost.

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  • Chen, Zhou & Chen, Zhaofeng & Yang, Zhaogang & Hu, Jiaming & Yang, Yong & Chang, Lingqian & Lee, L. James & Xu, Tengzhou, 2015. "Preparation and characterization of vacuum insulation panels with super-stratified glass fiber core material," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 93(P1), pages 945-954.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:93:y:2015:i:p1:p:945-954
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.105
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