Affiliation:
1. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Abstract
In this study, experimental measurements of porous polypropylene (PP) using the DTC-25 TA laboratory equipment and a hot box test are compared. The thermal conductivity of building materials indicates their insulation capability. Excellent building materials will have a lower thermal conductivity value as well as other building insulator performance metrics. While results show that increasing the volume fraction of fluid in porous PP has an inverse association with the thermal conductivity of the material, as predicted by porous media theories, there is a marked difference in the measured values of thermal conductivity using the two methods. The thermal conductivity values of porous PP from the DTC-25 and the hot box test were 0.21 and 0.0033 W/mK, respectively. The difference in the thermal conductivity values was due to the misapplication of the Fourier’s guarded heat flow model in the DTC-25 device to a convective fluid porous medium.
Subject
Building and Construction,Civil and Structural Engineering,Architecture
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