Studies on Thermal Performance of Advanced Aerogel-Based Materials

The present work describes the development and assessment of aerogel-based brick fillings, as well as aerogel blow-in insulation with optimized thermal performance. The brick filling was developed within the EU Horizon 2020 project Wall-ACE. The focus of this work was the assessment of the brick filling developed by the industrial partners in the project to present a new class of bricks with outstanding thermal performance. Within the EU-project EFFESUS, an aerogel-based blow-in insulation was developed by an industrial partner and tested by several research partners. A feasibility study at a heritage building in Glasgow and large-scale laboratory tests were performed to assess the material with respect to thermal performance, applicability and removability.