Energy Savings by Using Insulating MicrosphereS Ceramic paint

Abstract

This thesis aimed to test the performance of the heat reflected in the small building which is coated by the insulated paint that has the Microspheres ceramic atom as a main composition and compare with the performance without the paint coating of the small building as well as compare the solar reflectance and heat emission of the gypsum board coated with heat insulated paint which has ceramic atom as a main composition and conventional paint. The performance of the heat reflected in the small building which is coated by the Insulating Microspheres Ceramic Paint is tested in the building which is simulated from general building pattern, constructed with gypsum boards, and installed a 1 Ton size (12000 BTU) air conditioner inside. The surface temperatures are recorded from different 11 points of small building, including both inside and outside of the middle point of the walls and the roof (10 points) and the center point of the room inside the building, for different temperature measurement in each position. The K type thermocouple is installed for surface temperature detection on each wall and roof and, then, the temperature data is recorded by DATA LOGGER. In addition, the electric energy loss per day (kWh/day) in air conditioner is recorded to compare the energy saving value of the air conditioner under 2 conditions. Total test period of both conditions is 14 days on February. Each day takes 10 hours for testing (07.00 am – 05.00 pm). The solar reflectance and heat emission measurement found that the gypsum board coated with heat Insulating Microspheres Ceramic Paint can provides the maximum of solar reflectance and heat emission, 94.7% and 0.89 respectively. When compare with another board, the solar reflectance of the heat Insulating Microspheres Ceramic Paint coating gypsum board are 7.4% and 55.2% more than the gypsum board coated with conventional paint and the uncoated respectively. Likewise, the heat emission of the heat Insulating Microspheres Ceramic Paint coating gypsum board are 0.06 and 0.04 more than the gypsum board coated with conventional paint and the uncoated respectively. The heat performance measurement of small building coated with heat Insulating Microspheres Ceramic Paint with ceramic particles as main ingredient found that the average room and ceiling temperatures, both inside and outside, of the coated building are lower than the uncoated building. These caused by the coated building can reflect almost 100% of sunlight energy, when it incidents into the building, as well emit the heat. The coated building can save the electric energy at 28.3% of the uncoated building electric energy consumption. Therefore, building coating with this paint is one of the methods to save the energy consumption of air condition system because it can reduce the heat energy transferred through the building and the load of air conditioner.