Energy Conservation in Refrigerated Vehicles through Prospective Light Weight Insulated Panel

Oludaisi Adekomaya; Tamba Jamiru; Rotimi Sadiku; Zhongie Huan

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.864.157

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Energy Conservation in Refrigerated Vehicles through Prospective Light Weight Insulated Panel

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Sustaining the shelf life of fresh food remains a herculean task to most farmers as cold chain must remain unbroken in order to maintain the quality of fresh food. The concept of this research is to reduce energy consumption in refrigerated vehicles through light weight insulated panel as this medium could effectively reduce the payload of the entire vehicle. Part of the progress made in this work, is to develop five different composite cover sheet for insulated panel using fibre loading and orientation as manufacturing parameters and results show that oriented reinforced composite materials offer significant weight reduction compared to un-oriented composite cover sheet. The panel weight of these new materials were estimated using all the conceptual parameters of a refrigerated vehicle and the results indicate that composite reinforced with 10%wt. of fibre at 30^o orientation in the matrix, offers the best panel weight reduction with 5.2380Kg/m² and 6.7380Kg/m²for 50mm and 100mm insulation thicknesses, respectively.

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Oludaisi Adekomaya*, Tamba Jamiru, Rotimi Sadiku, Zhongie Huan

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Fibre Orientation, Insulated Panel, Refrigerated Vehicles, Shelf Life, Weight Saving

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