Husk Insulation Abstract

Husk Insulation, LLC is an early-stage company devoted to energy efficiency and sustainability through the deployment of high-performance vacuum insulation. Husk will use a renewable agricultural waste byproduct to manufacture high-quality insulation that increases the energy efficiency in appliances by up to 50% while increasing their internal storage capacity by up to 20%. In addition to being environmentally friendly, Husk’s insulation is more cost effective than traditional petroleum-based insulation. Husk’s work has been recognized as a Sustainable Innovation by Dow Chemical and received MIT’s 2009 Clean Energy Grand Prize, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Husk Insulation is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Insulation

Husk Insulation will manufacture a special type of insulation called a vacuum insulated panel (VIP). VIPs take advantage of the insulating effects of a vacuum to produce significantly higher R-values (the standard for measuring thermal insulative effectiveness) than conventional insulation. VIPs are rigid panels comprised of a core material and a foil laminate membrane. The vacuum inside a VIP greatly reduces the conduction and convection of heat. While the R-values of conventional insulation are generally 4-8 per inch, VIPs have R-values between 30-50 per inch. As a result, VIPs can insulate better in 1 inch than conventional insulation can in 4-5 inches.

The Problem

Although VIPs have been around for more than 20 years, they have not taken off in the mass market because they are generally not cost competitive with conventional insulation. Typical core materials (precipitated silica, superfine fiberglass, etc.) are simply too expensive even though products using VIPs need far less insulation material by volume.

The Husk Solution

Husk will use a proven & proprietary process, developed at the University of Michigan, to convert rice husk ash (RHA) into the core material for our vacuum panels. RHA is the byproduct of agriculture and energy production and millions of tons of RHA are landfilled annually. As a result, Husk expects to dramatically reduce the cost of VIPs, making them cost competitive in the mass market.

Applications

VIPs have been successfully used in the following applications:

• Housing insulation

• Housing products

• Refrigeration (residential and commercial)

• Refrigerated transportation (rail cars, trucking, shipping containers)

• Water heaters

• Temperature sensitive shipping containers (e.g. medical)

Social & Environmental Return

Simply looking at residential refrigeration, Husk expects that it will cut energy use in these appliances by roughly 50%. If Husk VIPs were used in only 20 million residential refrigerators, Husk would reduce energy consumption by approximately 57 billion kWh over the lifetime of the refrigerators—the equivalent of removing 31 typical coal-fired power plants from the grid and reducing overall US CO2 emissions by 1.5%.

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