Renewable materials to reduce building heat loss: Characterization of date palm wood

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 491-497

  Agoudjil, Boudjemaa ^a   Benchabane, Adel ^b   Boudenne, Abderrahim ^c   Ibos, Laurent ^c   Fois, Magali ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATNA   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BISKRA   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Building heat loss; Date palm; Insulating material; Permittivity; Thermophysical properties

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT LOSSES; IMPURITIES; INSULATING MATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL INSULATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WOOD;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DATE PALM; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPIES (EDS); EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; NATURAL MATERIALS; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; RENEWABLE MATERIALS; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS;

THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; HEAT LOSS; IMPURITIES; INSULATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL PROPERTIES; WOOD;

EID: 78651436736     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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