Fluids (Nov 2017)

Thermal Jacket Design Using Cellulose Aerogels for Heat Insulation Application of Water Bottles

  • Hai M. Duong,
  • Ziyang Colin Xie,
  • Koh Hong Wei,
  • Ng Gek Nian,
  • Kenneth Tan,
  • Hong Jie Lim,
  • An Hua Li,
  • Ka-Shing Chung,
  • Wen Zhen Lim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids2040064
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
p. 64

Abstract

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Thermal jacket design using eco-friendly cellulose fibers from recycled paper waste is developed in this report. Neoprene as an outmost layer, cellulose aerogels in the middle and Nylon as an innermost layer can form the best sandwiched laminate using the zigzag stitching method for thermal jacket development. The temperature of the ice slurry inside the water bottle covered with the designed thermal jackets remains at 0.1 °C even after 4 h, which is the average duration of an outfield exercise. Interestingly, the insulation performance of the designed thermal jackets is much better than the commercial insulated water bottles like FLOE bottles and is very competition to that of vacuum flasks for a same period of 4 h and ambient conditions.

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