Design och tillverkning av fossilfria isoleringsmaterial för byggbranschen (Fossilfri isolering)

The commercially available insulation materials are fossil-based with a high carbon footprint and some of them are recognized as harmful to human health.

The development of the insulation materials from natural minerals, wood, and biomass resources would offer a great advantage since they would provide a way to reduce carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequestrate it in the building insulation.

The overall goal of the project is to contribute to the green buildings by generating sustainable natural minerals and woody biomass-based thermal insulation materials that will minimize environmental pollution but provide high energy efficiency and support a circular carbon-neutral economy.

The research and innovation competence at the Engineering Materials at the Luleå University of Technology and MoRe Research AB on the green insulation materials together with the commercial actors Nouryon AB and Lindepac AB will develop and evaluate the scale-up of the production of fossil-free insulation materials in form of I) insulation panels and II) pumpable insulation granules.

The project will produce hierarchically porous inorganic additives from biomass (e.g., forest harvesting residues, lignin, straw, etc.) for integration in the cellulose networks obtained from residues of the forest industry to design highly efficient thermal insulation materials generated from woody biomass and sustainable precursors with high performance, durability, and fire retardation properties.