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Research on a Composite Biomass Insulation Material with Geopolymers as Binders and Forestry Waste as Fillers

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A composite biomass insulation material, which uses geopolymers as adhesives and forestry waste as fillers, was proposed and experimentally tested. The orthogonal experimental method was adopted to analyze the optimum theoretical oxide molar ratios and the mass ratio of mixing water to binder (mw2/mB) for preparing geopolymers. The influences of curing regimes (including one-stage and two-stage curing methods) and mw2/mB ratios of the insulation materials on mechanical, thermal, and hydraulic performances were also studied by experiment. The results indicated that the optimum combination scheme of preparing geopolymers was molar ratio \(x_{\rm{SiO}_2}/x_{\rm{Na}_2{O}}=3.3\), \(x_{\rm{SiO}_2}/x_{\rm{Al}_2{O}_3}=3.2\) and mw2/mB =0.5 with the highest mechanical strength of 34.21 MPa. Besides, the best curing conditions of the composite material were the curing temperatures of 85°C and 70°C under the two-stage curing regime, which could achieve the low heat conductivity of 0.123 and 0.125 W/(m·K), and the high mechanical strength of 1.70 MPa and 1.71 MPa, respectively. The optimum mw2/mB ratios of the biomass material were 0.5 to 0.55 with heat conductivity of 0.114 to 0.125 W/(m·K). This novel composite insulation material has satisfying physical performances, which is helpful for achieving building energy conservation.

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Abbreviations

KX m :

sum value of the experimental results which contains the factors with m level

kX m :

mean value of experimental results containing m-level factors

R:

distance between extreme values of KXm and kXm

F:

surfactant

H:

H2O2 solution

S:

sawdust

w1:

mixing water added into the soluble silicate solution to make the alkali activator

w2:

mixing water contained in the adhesive

w3:

wetting water of the sawdust

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This study was funded by the Science and Technology Bureau of Changsha, China (No. kh1902239) and National Natural Science Foundations of China (No. 52076070; No. 52008166).

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  1. College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Hongqiang Li, Si Zou, Tiantian Liu, Shuang Wang & Guoqiang Zhang

  2. National Center for International Research Collaboration in Building Safety and Environment (NCIRCBSE), Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Hongqiang Li

  3. Key Laboratory of Building Safety and Energy Efficiency of the Ministry of Education, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Hongqiang Li

  4. State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

    Jun Zou

  5. College of Energy and Power Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, 410114, China

    Xiaofeng Zhang

  6. College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, 411201, China

    Lifang Liu

  7. Key Laboratory of Superlight Materials and Surface Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

    Chengying Bai

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Li, H., Zou, S., Liu, T. et al. Research on a Composite Biomass Insulation Material with Geopolymers as Binders and Forestry Waste as Fillers. J. Therm. Sci. 31, 590–605 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-020-1387-y

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