TY - CHAP
T1 - Reducing Electric and Thermal Energy Needs in Buildings by Using Innovative Envelope Materials
AU - La Gennusa, Maria
AU - Costanzo, Silvia
AU - Peri, Giorgia
AU - Rieradevall, Joan
AU - Rizzo, Gianfranco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/10/16
Y1 - 2018/10/16
N2 - The life style of building occupants is continuously arising towards conditions that are more comfortable involving, on turn, the growing of the electric energy consumptions for climatization purposes. This calls for the improvement of the efficiencies of equipment along with environmental performance of building materials. Laboratory analyses of samples of mixed materials, utilizing tomato stems harvested in Sicily and Cataluña, have been conducted Thermal conductance and mechanical properties have been detected for different rates of bio-component and inert materials. First results of the thermal properties seem to situate such bio-composites among the insulating building materials, for all the analyzed percentages of the presence of tomato stems. On the other hand, measurements regarding mechanical properties of the same samples suggest that further analyses are certainly required in order of getting definitive judgments concerning the optimal rate of tomato fibers.
AB - The life style of building occupants is continuously arising towards conditions that are more comfortable involving, on turn, the growing of the electric energy consumptions for climatization purposes. This calls for the improvement of the efficiencies of equipment along with environmental performance of building materials. Laboratory analyses of samples of mixed materials, utilizing tomato stems harvested in Sicily and Cataluña, have been conducted Thermal conductance and mechanical properties have been detected for different rates of bio-component and inert materials. First results of the thermal properties seem to situate such bio-composites among the insulating building materials, for all the analyzed percentages of the presence of tomato stems. On the other hand, measurements regarding mechanical properties of the same samples suggest that further analyses are certainly required in order of getting definitive judgments concerning the optimal rate of tomato fibers.
KW - Renewable thermal insulation material
KW - Thermal conductivity
KW - Tomato plant stem
KW - Urban agriculture wastes
KW - Renewable thermal insulation material
KW - Thermal conductivity
KW - Tomato plant stem
KW - Urban agriculture wastes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056546147&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EEEIC.2018.8494210
DO - 10.1109/EEEIC.2018.8494210
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85056546147
T3 - Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe, EEEIC/I and CPS Europe 2018
BT - Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe, EEEIC/I and CPS Europe 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ER -
