Breathing walls: The design of porous materials for heat exchange and decentralized ventilation

greenTEG: Researchers at Harvard University studied how pores in building materials can be designed, such that incoming fresh air can be efficiently tempered while conduction losses are kept to a minimum. With the use of gSKIN® Heat Flux Sensors they could determine the total convective heat transfer in blowing and sucking mode through porous materials.

Published in Energy and Buildings
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.05.036