Attic Insulation Chicken Feathers

Turn the feathers into building insulation.

Attic insulation chicken feathers. Feathers make up 5 of a chicken s bodyweight and 80 chickens can produce. Composite materials with chicken fibres reinforcing epoxy resin table 2. Around 900m chickens are slaughtered. In the age of bio design it s important to rethink the way we use waste.

The chicken feather fiber was blended with binder fiber sheath core construction and made. Aeropowder is an environmentally friendly insulation material made using old chicken feathers. 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. A fibrous material suitable for further textile processing and a residue containing large feathers and pieces of quill.

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. After the lightbulb moment masters student elena dieckmann ordered 10kg of chicken feathers and began to experiment using them as. 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. In particular the poultry industry generates a large amount of feather waste that would otherwise go unused.