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To elucidate the gaseous heat transfer in open porous materials with pore sizes below 10 μm, an experimental setup for hot-wire measurements at high gas pressures was designed and tested. The samples investigated were organic, resorcinol–formaldehyde-based aerogels with average pore sizes of about 600 nm and 7μm. The range in gas pressure covered was 10 Pa to 10 MPa. To avoid effects due to mass transport along the inner surface of the porous backbone of the samples, He and Ar, i.e., gases with very low interaction with the sample surface at ambient temperature, were chosen. The study reveals a significant contribution of coupling effects to the thermal transport in nanoporous media. A model has been developed that qualitatively describes the observed gas pressure dependence of the heat transport.
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Swimm, K., Reichenauer, G., Vidi, S. et al. Gas Pressure Dependence of the Heat Transport in Porous Solids with Pores Smaller than 10 μm. Int J Thermophys 30, 1329–1342 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-009-0617-z
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