Patented innovation in the use of Cactus as thermal insulation by professor Dr. Amani Awad
Prof. Amani Awad Assistant dean of the faculty of the female section and accompanied by a scientific team have own patented of new innovations from the patented innovation European Office on 15/04/2015
The scientific team consists (King Saud University) Dr Riham Meligy (Faculty of Science) student Sarah Al-Qahtani (Faculty of Medicine) and student Hesa Dahlan (Faculty of Pharmacy)
Innovation, which was obtained can used as a protective screen from the sun for car bodies. The idea of innovation came from the reality of global and local problems where the Gulf countries are suffering and most of the Arab areas of very high temperatures in summer, what a negative impact on traffic vehicles so that cause the warming of the internal components of the vehicle, therefore it reduces the efficiency of the vehicle work, because it increases fuel consumption, In addition, the insulators currently used are not highly efficient.
It is here found that the discovery of a natural source of good isolation property will be of great interest, and found the desert cactus plant which contains the juice of a substance mostly consisting Alkyotan