Abstract:
A foamed heat-insulating material for cold storage and refrigerator, wherein the amount of a fluorocarbon blowing agent is reduced, which is prepared by stirring a mixture of a carbon dioxide adsorbent having a hydrophobic surface with a water-containing premix component and an isocyanate component. The amount of a fluorocarbon blowing agent can be reduced by using water as the blowing agent. Carbon dioxide generated by the reaction of water with the isocyanate is removed by adsorption with the carbon dioxide adsorbent after the foaming to thereby obtain purified fluorocarbon gas from gases enclosed in the cells.
Abstract:
The thermal insulating foamed material 4 comprises a foamed polyurethane resin composition having closed cells filled with a volatile blowing agent, and having an alkali metal carbonate 7 or an alkaline-earth metal carbonate 7, formed by a reaction of an alkali metal hydroxide or an alkaline-earth metal hydroxide with carbon dioxide, and a water adsorbent 10 having a moistened water-absorbing substance 8 covered with a resinous coating film 9, enclosed in said thermal insulating foamed material 4, respectively.