Investigation On Thermal Performance Of Prospective Green Materials As Building Wall Insulation

Wong, Eu Lik (2018) Investigation On Thermal Performance Of Prospective Green Materials As Building Wall Insulation. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The building construction industry is recently changing focus in using sustainable and green materials.With the abundance of the resources,it is beneficial to utilize the application and observing its potential as wall insulation materials.This study is hoped to provide some prospect in using green materials as wall insulation. Building insulation is defined as any object in a building,such as roof and wall are used as insulation for any purpose.Thermal insulator in buildings is an important factor to achieve thermal comfort for its occupants.By installing the insulator in a building,it will reduce the unwanted heat loss or gain and can also decrease the energy demands of heating and cooling systems.Besides that,the study tends to set as a benchmark study for further application of green materials in building construction.In this project,green waste materials is chosen to analysis and perform the heat transfer test.Green materials used in this study are coconut fibres,cellulose and sugar cane wastes.The objective of this study is to analysis the behaviour and thermal insulation of the selected green materials.The measurement is conducted by installing the green materials samples in mini house model and infrared camera is used to record the temperature gradient in the mini house model under different conditions.Thermal conductivity of each insulator is calculate to determine the thermal behaviour of these insulators.

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