Introduction:

How to understand aerogel more deeply and comprehensively? This article summarizes the development history, advantages, applications in petrochemical and rail transit fields of aerogel for your reference.
How hot is aerogel?
Recently, the wind of aerogel has not only blown into the market of thermal insulation materials, but also has become a knowledge point that candidates need to learn and research.
In fact, from the perspective of various national policies, "green" and "energy saving" are the key words in recent years, for example, a fresh point, is the Hangzhou Asian Games held a few months ago, whether it is architectural design or in the use of materials, it fully demonstrates the demand for green, energy saving and environmental protection.
Aerogel is meeting the needs of the dual-carbon policy, in line with the current trend of energy conservation and emission reduction. More importantly, it meets the fire prevention, heat preservation, heat insulation and other properties of other thermal insulation materials, and even gets better thermal insulation effect because of its own special structure.

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1, aerogels development history - four industrialization
Aerogel began its first industrialization process in the 1940s, and the third industrialization began its commercial prototype in the 1980s. Nowadays, we are experiencing the fourth industrialization of aerogel, and the aerogel market is in a stage of increasing maturity and popularity.

2. Several major factors in the development of aerogel in recent years
There are many factors driving the development of aerogel, and we have summarized four reasons: policy, standard specifications, technology and demand.

3, several forms of aerogel composite products
Aerogel matrix material itself has low strength and high brittleness, and composite with higher strength and toughness materials can improve the strength of the whole material system and expand more application fields. The existing aerogel composite products have felt, particles, coatings and other forms, which meet the needs of fire prevention and heat insulation in many fields.

4. Advantages of aerogel
High specific surface area, high porosity, nanoscale pores, low density and other special microstructure characteristics, so that aerogel has stable chemical properties, low thermal conductivity, strong adsorption force, wide use temperature range, long service life and other excellent properties.

5. Aerogel application -- Architecture
In the field of construction, aerogel is also a big trend. After composite products such as aerogel coatings and aerogel felt have been proved to be feasible in building thermal insulation, more mature products, construction technologies and cases have been developed.

6. Aerogel application -- Rail Transit
According to the data, the proportion of aerogel in the downstream demand market in 2023 will increase by at least 13% in the transportation field. Due to its excellent thermal insulation and sound insulation properties, aerogel composite products are widely used in automobile fire insulation and noise reduction layer, battery pack fire protection and other scenarios.

7. Application of aerogel -- Petrochemical industry
There are already a number of domestic petroleum and petrochemical enterprises using aerogel to act on the insulation of pipelines, such as Sinopec, petrochina and other leading enterprises.

8, aerogels application - Industrial insulation
Industrial pipelines carry a variety of temperatures and media, and excellent thermal insulation can effectively reduce heat loss, reduce energy consumption, and improve operation efficiency. The thermal insulation effect of aerogels is 2-5 times that of traditional thermal insulation materials, and the service life is also longer.

Summary
Above is the whole content of this aerogel topic, the advantages of aerogel, application, development status and other content, there is still a lot of room for discussion. As a new material that has attracted much attention, aerogel naturally needs a certain amount of time to precipitate before it can be accepted and promoted by the market.
In the future, Aiyota will continue to provide you with high-quality aerogel-related products and content, and witness the development of aerogels with you!