What is heat insulation?
Heat insulation can be defined as methods, which are used to decrease the heat transfer between two different environments with different temperature.
Is heat insulation necessary?
Heat transfers from the warmer places to colder ones continuously. This phenomenon causes unwanted heat in summer and energy loss in winter.
Heat insulation is necessary because it provides and economical solution against energy losses caused by unwanted heat transfer.
What are the benefits of heat insulation?
- Heat insulation reduces the energy consumption
- Heat insulation provides comfort
- Heat insulation is environment friendly
- Heat insulation creates a healthy environment
- Heat insulation reduces the operating costs
What are the costs of heat insulation?
Of course heat insulation has a cost. This costs is mostly around 2 – 5 % of the construction cost of the whole structure. As it reduces the energy costs, the heat insulation can pay off in 2 to 8 years.
What are the materials for heat insulation?
According to European Union (EU) standards, the materials which have coefficient of heat conductivity under 0,06-0,10 W/m.k are heat insulation materials.
Those materials are generally used for roofs, walls, pavements and foundation structural elements and utility systems.
Heat insulation materials and their standards:
Isı yalıtım malzemeleri ve standartları;
- Glass fiber [TS 901 / TS 901-1 EN 13162]
- Rock wool [TS 901/ TS 901-1 EN 13162]
- Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) [TS 7316 EN 13163]
- Extruded Polystyrene (XPS) [TS 11989 EN 13164]
- Polyurethane (PUR) [TS EN 13165]
- Phenol foam [TS EN 13166]
- Glass foam [TS EN 13167]
- Wood wool plates [TS EN 13168]
- Expanded perlite (EPB) [TS EN 13169]
- Expanded cork (ICB) [TS EN 13170]
- Wood fiber plates [TS EN 13171]