Attic Insulation Chicken Feathers

Cleaned feathers were mechanically worked to separate fibrous material from the quills and ultimately classified into two components.

Attic insulation chicken feathers.

Turn the feathers into building insulation. Around 900m chickens are slaughtered. Aeropowder is an environmentally friendly insulation material made using old chicken feathers. But two entrepreneurs from london have another potential use case.

A fibrous material suitable for further textile processing and a residue containing large feathers and pieces of quill. Inspired by chicken feathers and the way they effectively keep chickens warm during winter three students from imperial college london have come up with an impressive solution for energy saving indoor insulation. Results of thermal and acoustic insulation tests of chicken feather fibre reinforced epoxy composites sample epoxy resin mass fraction chicken feather fibre mass fraction thermal resistance r m2 k w 1 noise reduction at 500 hz db a1 20 80 0 175 â 0. The ability of chickens to stay warm in winter has inspired a new energy efficient home insulation product developed by students at imperial college london.

In particular the poultry industry generates a large amount of feather waste that would otherwise go unused. The chicken feather fiber was blended with binder fiber sheath core construction and made. In march 2016 elena and ryan were awarded the mayor of london low carbon entrepreneur award for their feather derived thermal insulation blocks which combined standard insulation materials with. Composite materials with chicken fibres reinforcing epoxy resin table 2.