Abstract
AbstractNowadays, developing advanced, highly insulating materials for minimizing heat losses in buildings is of utmost relevance. Thus, there is a constant research activity focused on developing new and enhanced solutions for thermal insulation. However, characterizing the behavior of new thermal insulation materials, usually produced at lab-scale with small dimensions, by a steady-state approach is a challenge. The reason is that commercial heat flow meters require large samples (hundred on mm side) to provide accurate results of thermal conductivity because they are based on international standards. In this work, a new methodology to measure the thermal conductivity of small prototypes of thermal insulating materials (as low as 50 × 50 mm2) is developed by using an external heat flow sensor placed into a standard heat flow meter apparatus. Four different thermal insulators were used to validate the developed methodology by performing measurements in the heat flow meter with and without the external sensor. From these results, a calibration curve that relates both methods was calculated. Furthermore, the effect of the sample size was studied to explore the limits of the technique. Results show that the self-developed method is an accurate procedure to determine the thermal conductivity of samples with small dimensions via a steady-state condition.
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Funder
European Regional Development Fund of the European Union and the of Castile and Leon
Consejería de Educación, Junta de Castilla y León
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Universidad de Valladolid
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics
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