Vacuum insulation panel core materials and modelling the thermal conductivity of granular materials
Two potential alternative core materials, diatomaceous earth (DE) and glass bubbles (GB), were considered for cost effective and long life-time vacuum insulation panels (VIP). The pore size distribution of the DE was determined quantitatively by mercury porosimetry and nitrogen sorption. The majority of pores in DE centered around 1 μm. The average pore size of GB was estimated to be 50 μm via scanning electron microscopy. Subsequently, the relationship between pore size and gaseous thermal conductivity was established using the Kaganer relation. Composites of DE and fumed silica (FS) showed remarkable insulating performance whereby thermal conductivity only rose by 11 mW/m.K as pressure increased to 10,000 Pa. A similar analysis on composites of GB and fumed silica showed an increment of 16 mW/m.K. It was estimated that the duration for a typical VIP to reach 10,000 Pa is approximately 50 100 years depending on the type of barrier used. [30] Hence, both composites are capable of providing long vacuum insulating service life. Furthermore, DE/FS composites would greatly reduce the cost of VIPs because of the inexpensive nature of DE. Both composites show superior life-time when compared to glass fibers, which are already commercially used in VIPs.
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The Internet and the Changing Beijing-Taipei Relations: Toward Unification or Fragmentation?
Information and its technologies facilitate the exercise of what has been called “soft power,” a concept that differentiates information from the conventional dimensions of “hard power,” which is mainly associated with military force and economic influence. Soft power, according to Nye, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States, means that “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because other countries want to follow it, admiring its values, emulating its example, aspiring to its level of prosperity and openness. In this sense it is just as important to set the agenda in world politics and attract others as it is to force them to change through the threat or use of military or economic weapons.”1