Improving Indoor Air Quality by Using Sheep Wool Thermal Insulation
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NIRD URBAN-INCERC Cluj-Napoca Branch, 117 Calea Floreşti, 400524 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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MINET S.A., 12 Depozitelor Street, 240426 Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania
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NIRD URBAN-INCERC Bucharest, 266 Şoseaua Pantelimon, 021652 Bucharest, Romania
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Faculty of Material Science and Engineering, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, 41 D. Mangeron St., 700050 Iasi, Romania
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Academic Editors: Gabriele Milani and Andrei Victor Sandu
Materials 2021, 14(9), 2443; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14092443
Received: 8 April 2021
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Revised: 5 May 2021
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Accepted: 7 May 2021
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Published: 8 May 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Obtaining and Characterization of New Materials, Volume II)
Currently, the need to ensure adequate quality of air inside the living space but also the thermal efficiency of buildings is pressing. This paper presents the capacity of sheep wool heat-insulating mattresses to simultaneously provide these needs, cumulatively analyzing efficiency indicators for thermal insulation and indicators of improving air quality. Thus, the values obtained for the coefficient of thermal conductivity, and its resistance to heat transfer, demonstrate the suitability of their use for thermal insulation. The results of the permeability to water vapor characteristics on the sorption/desorption of water, air, demonstrate the ability to control the humidity of the indoor air and the results on the reduction of the concentration of formaldehyde, demonstrating their contribution to the growth of the quality of the air, and to reduce the risk of disease in the population.
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Keywords:
sheep wool thermal-insulating mattresses; air quality; water vapor permeability; formaldehyde
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Hegyi, A.; Bulacu, C.; Szilagyi, H.; Lăzărescu, A.-V.; Meiţă, V.; Vizureanu, P.; Sandu, M. Improving Indoor Air Quality by Using Sheep Wool Thermal Insulation. Materials 2021, 14, 2443. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14092443
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Hegyi A, Bulacu C, Szilagyi H, Lăzărescu A-V, Meiţă V, Vizureanu P, Sandu M. Improving Indoor Air Quality by Using Sheep Wool Thermal Insulation. Materials. 2021; 14(9):2443. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14092443
Chicago/Turabian StyleHegyi, Andreea, Cezar Bulacu, Henriette Szilagyi, Adrian-Victor Lăzărescu, Vasile Meiţă, Petrică Vizureanu, and Mihaela Sandu. 2021. "Improving Indoor Air Quality by Using Sheep Wool Thermal Insulation" Materials 14, no. 9: 2443. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14092443
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