But there are some serious advantages to foam that can make a TreeHugger think twice, especially when one is talking Passive House, where one needs a lot of insulation and avoiding thermal bridges ...

Every year the world produces 14 million tons ofnon-biodegradablepolystyrene foam ... polystyrene (EPS) insulation boards. That is, the material builders sometimes use as thermal insulation ...

Insulation may not ... a great insulator is its low thermal conductivity (14 mW/m-K) and results in an R-value of 10.3 per inch, which is twice as much as rigid foam board. In fact you can light ...

Most of the enquiries are from producers of thermal insulation materials which supply furnace manufacturers in the areas of steel, cement or glass production. Gonzenbach says, "We can now make foam ...

Traditional fossil-fuel-derived insulation materials such as expanded polystyrene and polyurethane have thermal conductivities that are too high for retrofitting or for building new, surface ...

The industry has started installing thermal insulating material for deepwater subsea equipment, flowlines, and pipelines to ensure hydrocarbon flow under adverse conditions. The industry has ...