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Vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) are highly insulative materials that have industrial applications. This study aimed to replace glass fibers (GF) and fumed silica (FS) in VIPs with diatomaceous earth (DE) and glass bubbles (GB) to reduce the production cost and lengthen the service life of VIPs. Three experiments were carried out using a thermal constants analyzer based on the transient plane source (TPS) method to determine the effectiveness of DE ...
Selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te) based glasses have unique physical and chemical characteristics that can be manipulated with by the addition of metal alloys. In this study, the thermophysical properties of Se80Te20 and Se80Te10M10 (where M = cadmium (Cd), indium (In), and antimony (Sb)) chalcogenide (containing one or more S, Se, or Te) glasses are investigated to test their use in industrial applications. The transient plane source (TPS) ...
Soft tooling processes use flexible polymeric materials to manufacture moulds. However, the malleable materials used for soft tooling, such as silicone rubber, have low thermal conductivities and take an extensive amount of time to cool. In this study, metallic (Aluminum fine powder, grey iron, copper, magnesium, titanium, zinc) and non-metallic (graphite, silicone, glass) thermally conductive filler particles were added to silicone rubber to condense the cooling time of soft tooling ...
Fiberglass is used inside car mufflers as a noise reducer and insulator. The insulating properties of the fiberglass eliminates the need for muffler heat shields, however to properly design vehicles without heat shields, it is important to know the thermal conductivity of fiberglass at high temperatures. A TPS Thermal Constants Analyzer was used to measure the thermal conductivity of glass fibers with diameters of 17 µm and 24 µm. Each sample was ...
