Abstract
Bio-insulations have gained great interest in recent years due to their potential to reduce energy consumption without negative environmental impacts. Fique is one of the most important crops in Co...
Highlights
Nowadays our society faces the great challenge of Global Warming, which has caused serious problems such as droughts, natural disasters, heat waves and global sea level rise
Fique is a plant of great importance for Colombia, recent studies have shown that thermal conductivity of materials derived from the fique can be compared with that of the common commercial insulators, other important thermal properties have not been studied
In order to deepen the knowledge of the fique as a thermal insulator, in the present work a thermal study of three fique samples is presented, namely, natural fique without treatment, fique washed with a commercial softener and fique after having been soaked for 24 hours in the same softener
Summary
Nowadays our society faces the great challenge of Global Warming, which has caused serious problems such as droughts, natural disasters, heat waves and global sea level rise Common thermal insulators are materials made from petrochemical products, such as polystyrene, or from natural sources processed with high-energy consumptions, such as rock wool and fiberglass This causes environmental problems, due to the high energy consumption, pollutant emissions and waste generation, mainly in the production stage (Liu et al, 2017; Asdrubali, D’Alessandro, & Schiavoni, 2015) and serious human health problems caused by its harmful components (Binici, Aksogan, & Demirhan, 2016; Mati-Baouche et al, 2014; Mounika, Ramaniah, Ratna Prasad, Rao, & Reddy, 2012). It is presented a morphological analysis and the results of Thermogravimetry (TGA) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) tests of the samples
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