The Reference Period for Predicting Long-Term Thermal Performance of Thermal Insulating Foams

With the advent of thermal insulating foams manufactured with alternative blowing agents, the need for estimating their long-term thermal performance became evident. Two predictive techniques (slicing and scaling [1,2] or slicing and modelling [3,41]) are now considered for different foam products. However, the selection of the reference period for which the thermal performance is evaluated has not received sufficient attention. In this paper, …