Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials
Waste heat accounts for 20-50% of industrial energy use, with Southeast Asia processing 40 million tonnes of oil equivalent. Heat losses especially in engines can reduce efficiency, leading to extensive studies to reduce heat loss and improve thermal performance. Heat recovery systems are being stud...
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| author | Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Kechik Mujahidah Saadon, Syamimi Raja Muhammad Azhan Shah, Raja Eizzuddin Shah Abu Talib, Abd Rahim Gires, Ezanee Salleh, Hanim Abdellatif, Nasser |
| author_facet | Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Kechik Mujahidah Saadon, Syamimi Raja Muhammad Azhan Shah, Raja Eizzuddin Shah Abu Talib, Abd Rahim Gires, Ezanee Salleh, Hanim Abdellatif, Nasser |
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| description | Waste heat accounts for 20-50% of industrial energy use, with Southeast Asia processing 40 million tonnes of oil equivalent. Heat losses especially in engines can reduce efficiency, leading to extensive studies to reduce heat loss and improve thermal performance. Heat recovery systems are being studied for recovering lower-grade energy, but not many of them are suitable and economically effective for low temperature waste heat. The objectives of this study are to develop low thermal conductivity agricultural-based material for thermal insulation and investigate the agricultural-based materials' impact on heat transfer rate. The agricultural-based materials that were used in this experiment were coconut husk and kenaf fibre due to their practically low thermal conductivity. The specimens were prepared using two different methods which were needle felting method and fibre-resin blending method. The experiment revealed that coconut husk fibre reinforced with resin (CHER) has the lowest thermal conductivity value of 0.0410 W/m.K and the lowest overall heat transfer rate of 2.85 W, making it an ideal thermal insulation material to be used for low-temperature applications. |
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| spelling | upm-1115422024-08-04T09:48:18Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/111542/ Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Kechik Mujahidah Saadon, Syamimi Raja Muhammad Azhan Shah, Raja Eizzuddin Shah Abu Talib, Abd Rahim Gires, Ezanee Salleh, Hanim Abdellatif, Nasser Waste heat accounts for 20-50% of industrial energy use, with Southeast Asia processing 40 million tonnes of oil equivalent. Heat losses especially in engines can reduce efficiency, leading to extensive studies to reduce heat loss and improve thermal performance. Heat recovery systems are being studied for recovering lower-grade energy, but not many of them are suitable and economically effective for low temperature waste heat. The objectives of this study are to develop low thermal conductivity agricultural-based material for thermal insulation and investigate the agricultural-based materials' impact on heat transfer rate. The agricultural-based materials that were used in this experiment were coconut husk and kenaf fibre due to their practically low thermal conductivity. The specimens were prepared using two different methods which were needle felting method and fibre-resin blending method. The experiment revealed that coconut husk fibre reinforced with resin (CHER) has the lowest thermal conductivity value of 0.0410 W/m.K and the lowest overall heat transfer rate of 2.85 W, making it an ideal thermal insulation material to be used for low-temperature applications. Semarak Ilmu Publishing 2024-05 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/111542/1/JARFMTS%20%28Nik%20Mujahidah%29%20-%202024.pdf Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Kechik Mujahidah and Saadon, Syamimi and Raja Muhammad Azhan Shah, Raja Eizzuddin Shah and Abu Talib, Abd Rahim and Gires, Ezanee and Salleh, Hanim and Abdellatif, Nasser (2024) Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials. Journal of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences, 117 (1). pp. 60-70. ISSN 2289-7879 https://semarakilmu.com.my/journals/index.php/fluid_mechanics_thermal_sciences/article/view/4346 10.37934/arfmts.117.1.6070 |
| spellingShingle | Nik Abdul Rahman, Nik Kechik Mujahidah Saadon, Syamimi Raja Muhammad Azhan Shah, Raja Eizzuddin Shah Abu Talib, Abd Rahim Gires, Ezanee Salleh, Hanim Abdellatif, Nasser Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials |
| title | Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials |
| title_full | Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials |
| title_fullStr | Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials |
| title_short | Thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials |
| title_sort | thermal performance study on coconut husk and kenaf fibre as thermal insulation materials |
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