hydrophilic materials

Cooling roofs through low temperature solar-heat transformations in hydrophilic porous materials

Submitted by on Mon, 05/05/2014 - 18:28

The principle of roofs cooling through the water vapour adsorption-desorption cycle in porous materials is presented. In order to study the effect, porous materials of natural origin or synthesized at our lab, were characterized at the micro-scale with SEM, XRD, UV-VIS-NIR spectrometry, thermal and water-vapour adsorption measurements and tested at the urban scale in a wind tunnel of controlled environmental conditions and simulated sun.