Abstract:
Vacuum insulation panels have higher efficient materials than the insulation materials
which have known their heat insulation properties. Heat insulation could be provided by vacuum
insulation panels ten times according to conventional insulation materials. The most important
difficulty of growing up for vacuum insulation panels is high production costs at present. When
this situation was analyzed, it is known that core materials are most important elements which
affect to cost. Production of core material at more economical conditions will reduce vacuum
insulation panels’ production costs significantly, and then VIP’s usage will be growing up
increasingly. Expansion of applications brings about energy efficiency and economy and will
create significant added value to Turkey’s economy, in addition this it will be more positive
contribution to the environment. VIP is not widely used as insulating material in our country. The
main reasons for this situation, VIP‟s are unknown, its core can’t produce domestically, and its
imports are not economical for using in industrial. In addition, scientific researches and studies
have been limited about VIP. Using of the VIP will become widespread in our country with the
production of economic core. Wide spreading of the application will provide energy efficiency and
conservation. In addition the country's economy will create significant added value, energy
conservation will also be a very positive contribution to the environment. In this paper, scientific
research findings about VIP's physical, structural, performance characteristics and production
methods of VIP have been presented in summary so far in order to contribute to the scientific and
industrial research. VIP's performance and costs have been compared with conventional thermal
insulation materials.
