Examining the degradation process of the heat/cold protecting insulation applied for construction of cooling bodies under the influence of water

摘要

Contemporary transport of perishable food and other cargoes sensitive for temperature changes is carried out basing on specialist isothermal and cooling bodies. The reason of the deterioration of the body insulation condition is the penetration of water into the heat/cold protecting material and the further destruction of the insulation properties by moisture which in the insulating material is subject to cyclic freezing and defrosting processes depending on the temperature of the transported goods. The paper presents the test results on the destruction of the insulating material under the influence of cyclic freezing and defrosting of water introduced into the insulating material. The effects of servicing the damp insulating material were examined depending on the quantity of cycles of freezing and defrosting getting much worse deterioration of insulating properties than in case of entering water into the dry insulating material.