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 | Rahman N.K.M.N.A. Saadon S. Shah R.E.S.R.M.A. Talib A.R.A. Gires E. Salleh H. Abdellatif N. |
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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. ? 2024, Semarak Ilmu Publishing. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | my.uniten.dspace-366252025-03-03T15:43:29Z Thermal Performance Study on Coconut Husk and Kenaf Fibre as Thermal Insulation Materials Rahman N.K.M.N.A. Saadon S. Shah R.E.S.R.M.A. Talib A.R.A. Gires E. Salleh H. Abdellatif N. 57465812100 57192156205 59151872800 21741790100 55821840100 24067645400 6603314663 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. ? 2024, Semarak Ilmu Publishing. All rights reserved. Final 2025-03-03T07:43:29Z 2025-03-03T07:43:29Z 2024 Article 10.37934/arfmts.117.1.6070 2-s2.0-85194857273 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85194857273&doi=10.37934%2farfmts.117.1.6070&partnerID=40&md5=a5103020f9ace6205a674d8b402c6091 https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/36625 117 1 60 70 All Open Access; Green Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access Semarak Ilmu Publishing Scopus |
| spellingShingle | Rahman N.K.M.N.A. Saadon S. Shah R.E.S.R.M.A. Talib A.R.A. Gires E. Salleh H. Abdellatif N. 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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