Impact of SiO<sub>2</sub> Particles in Polyethylene Textile Membrane for Indoor Personal Heating
Keeping the human body in a thermal comfort state inside a room has become a challenge in recent years. While the most common strategy is to heat buildings, it requires a lot of energy. Reducing this energy consumption will have positive impacts, both economically and environmentally. We propose her...
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| author | Mohamed Boutghatin Salim Assaf Yan Pennec Michèle Carette Vincent Thomy Abdellatif Akjouj Bahram Djafari Rouhani |
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| description | Keeping the human body in a thermal comfort state inside a room has become a challenge in recent years. While the most common strategy is to heat buildings, it requires a lot of energy. Reducing this energy consumption will have positive impacts, both economically and environmentally. We propose here to act directly on the personal thermal heating of the human body, by modulating the absorption and transmission properties of a synthetic polymer membrane in the mid-infrared (MIR). We show numerically that 5% SiO<sub>2</sub> submicron particles inserted in polyethylene (PE) and nanoporous polyethylene (nanoPE) membranes increase the radiative heating of the membrane, reducing the required ambient temperature of a room by more than 1.1 °C. The proposed membrane can be flexible enough to be easily integrated into conventional textiles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0942ae3b3f5c4a00aa73363095aa4bdb2023-11-20T16:03:25ZengMDPI AGNanomaterials2079-49912020-10-011010196810.3390/nano10101968Impact of SiO<sub>2</sub> Particles in Polyethylene Textile Membrane for Indoor Personal HeatingMohamed Boutghatin0Salim Assaf1Yan Pennec2Michèle Carette3Vincent Thomy4Abdellatif Akjouj5Bahram Djafari Rouhani6Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Université de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, FranceInstitute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Université de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, FranceInstitute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Université de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, FranceInstitute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Université de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, FranceInstitute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Université de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, FranceInstitute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Université de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, FranceInstitute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Université de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, FranceKeeping the human body in a thermal comfort state inside a room has become a challenge in recent years. While the most common strategy is to heat buildings, it requires a lot of energy. Reducing this energy consumption will have positive impacts, both economically and environmentally. We propose here to act directly on the personal thermal heating of the human body, by modulating the absorption and transmission properties of a synthetic polymer membrane in the mid-infrared (MIR). We show numerically that 5% SiO<sub>2</sub> submicron particles inserted in polyethylene (PE) and nanoporous polyethylene (nanoPE) membranes increase the radiative heating of the membrane, reducing the required ambient temperature of a room by more than 1.1 °C. The proposed membrane can be flexible enough to be easily integrated into conventional textiles.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/1968textile membranepolyethyleneSiO<sub>2</sub> particlesmid-infraredheatingthermal comfort |
| spellingShingle | Mohamed Boutghatin Salim Assaf Yan Pennec Michèle Carette Vincent Thomy Abdellatif Akjouj Bahram Djafari Rouhani Impact of SiO<sub>2</sub> Particles in Polyethylene Textile Membrane for Indoor Personal Heating Nanomaterials textile membrane polyethylene SiO<sub>2</sub> particles mid-infrared heating thermal comfort |
| title | Impact of SiO<sub>2</sub> Particles in Polyethylene Textile Membrane for Indoor Personal Heating |
| title_full | Impact of SiO<sub>2</sub> Particles in Polyethylene Textile Membrane for Indoor Personal Heating |
| title_fullStr | Impact of SiO<sub>2</sub> Particles in Polyethylene Textile Membrane for Indoor Personal Heating |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of SiO<sub>2</sub> Particles in Polyethylene Textile Membrane for Indoor Personal Heating |
| title_short | Impact of SiO<sub>2</sub> Particles in Polyethylene Textile Membrane for Indoor Personal Heating |
| title_sort | impact of sio sub 2 sub particles in polyethylene textile membrane for indoor personal heating |
| topic | textile membrane polyethylene SiO<sub>2</sub> particles mid-infrared heating thermal comfort |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/1968 |
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