Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Mycelium-Based Thermal Insulation Materials Produced With Locally Available Organic Waste Products As Substrate

Current steady-state methods have long test-times than transient methods and are often not suitable for low-k materials due to heat applied through the sample material being lost to the surrounding environment instead of traveling through the sample. Here, a low-cost design seeks to demonstrate measurement of the thermal conductivity of mycomaterial samples accurate within 10% using steady-state methods. This design is different from but inspired by the “hot-wire” and conductive disks approaches, and closely resembles a coaxial cylinders approach used for thermal properties assessment of molten salts. [1]