Publication: Development of transparent and opaque vacuum insulation panels for energy efficient buildings
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Küçükpınar, Esra
Miesbauer, Oliver
Carmi, Yoash
Fricke, Marc
Gullberg, Leif
Caps, Roland
Rochefort, Malcolm
Moreno, Araceli Galvez
Delgado, Clara
Koehl, Michael
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One reason for heat losses in buildings is inadequate insulation. Vacuum Insulation Panels (vips) is emerging as a promising solution, being more energy efficient than conventional insulation materials, thinner and lighter. A VIP is made by placing a core insulation material inside a gas-barrier envelope and evacuating the air from inside the panel. The limitations to wide-scale VIP commercialization lie in lack of low-cost and high-volume processes to turn them into products suitable for use in buildings, and their short in-service lifetimes. These drawbacks were researched in a European funded project "nanoinsulate", and this paper gives an overview of results.
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Physics, Construction and building technology
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Energy Procedia
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10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.685