TY - JOUR
T1 - Traditional, state-of-the-art and renewable thermal building insulation materials
T2 - An overview
AU - Abu-Jdayil, Basim
AU - Mourad, Abdel Hamid
AU - Hittini, Waseem
AU - Hassan, Muzamil
AU - Hameedi, Suhaib
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by the College of Engineering at the UAE University (Project # 31N092 ) and the Emirates Center for Energy and Environment Research (Project # 31R041 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/7/30
Y1 - 2019/7/30
N2 - Energy saving has become a strategic goal in the whole world, that will lead to protect the environment and conserve natural resources. The energy consumption in buildings for heating and cooling is considered as one of the major sources of energy consumption in a lot of countries. Therefore, there is an ongoing search for finding the proper alternatives to preserve energy and minimize energy losses. Subsequently, heat insulators, part of building materials, are steadily getting their importance as a means of saving energy. Although, a lot of insulation materials are used commercially, this part of building construction still faces different difficulties and challenges such as the cost, thermal and mechanical properties, health problems, etc. Current insulation materials used in construction industry are generally polymer based materials such as polystyrene and polyurethane foam. Although these materials have a high performance in thermal insulation, but the environmental impacts in their production processes are significant. Consequently, the researchers find that there is a necessity to develop and come up with insulating materials that possess excellent properties and at the same time, they have less environmental impacts, and are relatively cheap. In this review paper, the researches carried out in the formulation and development of different kinds of thermal insulation in the last decades are presented. The focus was placed on researches utilized of renewable resources and wastes in thermal insulations development. In addition, the light was shed on the composites materials which was developed as a construction material with high thermal insulation capacity.
AB - Energy saving has become a strategic goal in the whole world, that will lead to protect the environment and conserve natural resources. The energy consumption in buildings for heating and cooling is considered as one of the major sources of energy consumption in a lot of countries. Therefore, there is an ongoing search for finding the proper alternatives to preserve energy and minimize energy losses. Subsequently, heat insulators, part of building materials, are steadily getting their importance as a means of saving energy. Although, a lot of insulation materials are used commercially, this part of building construction still faces different difficulties and challenges such as the cost, thermal and mechanical properties, health problems, etc. Current insulation materials used in construction industry are generally polymer based materials such as polystyrene and polyurethane foam. Although these materials have a high performance in thermal insulation, but the environmental impacts in their production processes are significant. Consequently, the researchers find that there is a necessity to develop and come up with insulating materials that possess excellent properties and at the same time, they have less environmental impacts, and are relatively cheap. In this review paper, the researches carried out in the formulation and development of different kinds of thermal insulation in the last decades are presented. The focus was placed on researches utilized of renewable resources and wastes in thermal insulations development. In addition, the light was shed on the composites materials which was developed as a construction material with high thermal insulation capacity.
KW - Construction material
KW - Energy saving
KW - Polymer
KW - Renewable resources
KW - Thermal insulation
KW - Wastes
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U2 - 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.04.102
DO - 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.04.102
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85064629965
SN - 0950-0618
VL - 214
SP - 709
EP - 735
JO - Construction and Building Materials
JF - Construction and Building Materials
ER -