Utilization of Indian Coarse Wool as insulating Material for Building Construction as a Green Buildin Material and Comparison of such coarse wool based developed products against conventional materials like glass wool/rock wool.

Objectives of the Proposal

• To Explore the possibility to utilize coarse Wool for Building for Insulation as Green building Material
• To further Explore the possibility of coarse Wool for Building as Acoustic
• Comparison of above wool based products against conventional materials like glass wool/rock wool.

Project Progress :

• Literature Survey of existing insulation products like rock-wool, glass-wool, etc. and their performance as thermal insulators & Acoustic - ongoing
• Industry interaction initiated and attended round table conference on building insulation materials conducted by Centre of Pastoralism at Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi
• Consumables purchased – partly
• Initial sampling of insulation material is being carried out.
• Testing of developed panel w. r. t. Thermal Insulation properties as per ASTM D 1518 – ongoing
• Testing of developed prototype panel against moth proofing (Bio-assay)
• Mothproofing treatment to loose scoured wool fibre using (Permethrin) for durable finish
• Designing the wool-based insulation panels using natural bio-degradable honeycomb structured solution, which will be ready to fit in the building.
• Initial test results show that developed prototypes of thermal insulation panels need to be modified.
• Redesigning of panels are ongoing using 3D corrugated light weight box which will be customised and ready for installation.
• Enhancing the thermal insulation of wool with graphene involves creating Graphene Oxide (GO) with particle sizes of 10.82 microns and over 54.29 microns.
• Assessing the particle sizes, transforming GO into Reduced Graphene Oxide (rgo) and applying it to a nonwoven material.
• Test: Particle size analysis Beckman Coulter LS13320 Laser Diffraction Particle size Analyzer (Wet module)