VIG helps coping with global energy crisis

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale armed attack on Ukraine, and global energy prices rose sharply.

On the day the war broke out, NYMEX crude oil and Brent crude oil surged to $100 a barrel, hitting new highs since June 2014 and September 2014, respectively. The price of natural gas in Europe rose by more than 52%, and the price soared to US$1,560/thousand cubic meters

In past months,global natural gas and oil price increased sharply and has affected most people’s daily life.

global gas and oil price was affected by Russian-Ukraine war

Energy in the life of the average citizen means the availability of fuel for private cars and public transport, the supply of electricity to homes and workplaces, and the supply of natural gas and petroleum materials to run production plants.

To cope with the coming heating season,many European importers are sourcing pellet fuel in thousands of tons in China ,which also caused the pellet fuel price increase in next months.

The vacuum insulating glass is an ideal solution to decrease your energy consumption in winter,Especially during this times when oil and gas in becoming more and more expensive.

Thermal calculation of Vacuum insulating Glass

Energy-saving glass includes normal insulating glass, solar control coated insulated glass,low-emissivity coating (Low.E) insulating glass, low-emissivity coating vacuum glass.

Vacuum glass is two or more glass separated by micro supports, with sealed edges and creating a vacuum space between the glass Layers.

Typical vacuum space structure

Typical vacuum glass structure is shown in above figure,with the development of processing technology,evacuation holes can be removed to further increase the vacuum insulating glass performance.

• No evacuation holescan ensure that every piece glass has the same U value. For other VIG manufacturers,there’s always some air back into the glass before sealing the hole,as glass size&area are different,so it’s hard to ensure the same stable U value.
• No evacuation holescan ensure uniform glass strength. For others,manufacturers have to drill holes on glass which will result in high stress around the holes and cause higher glass breakage ratio.
• The end caps bring difficulty in packing,handling and installation and always become the main reason for glass failure.

Typical thermal insulation performance of different energy saving glass are in below table.

Vacuum glass,whose thickness is equivalent and even thinner than laminated glass,achieve much better thermal insulation performance of 42mm triple glass units with 2 layer dual silver low-E coating.

Triple glass units are always used in passive house windows ,it’s heavy,thick and low light transmittance,but VIG units has below improvement:

• Light transmittance increase by 12%
• Thickness is 75% thinner.
• Glass is 50% lighter.
• U value is 20% better.

Vacuum insulating glass is much lighter and thinner and with better thermal conductivity than triple glass units

Thermal calculation of windows &doors

As glass area account 70% of total windows area,so glass U value greatly affect the overall windows U value.

Below table shows typical thermal break aluminium windows thermal U value:

Typical thermal break aluminium windows U value with insulated glass

With 95 and even more thick thermal break aluminium windows,combining with triple glass units,the overall windows U value can achieve the passive house standard  <1.1W/M2.K .

With hybrid vacuum insulating glass (U value reach 0.4w/m2.k) ,combing with only 65 series fibre-reinforced windows （FRP windows),U value can achieve 0.89W/M2.K. 30-40% costs can be saved as well.

FRP windows with hybrid vacuum insulating glass can reach 0.89 W low thermal conductivity

HaanGlas is your turnkey vacuum insulating glass manufacturer and supplier,kindly contact us for your next great building.