Photocatalytic degradation of soot deposition: Self-cleaning effect on titanium dioxide coated cementitious materials

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 222, Issue , 2013, Pages 411-418

  Smits, Marianne ^a   Chan, Chun kit ^b   Tytgat, Tom ^a   Craeye, Bart ^a,c   Costarramone, Nathalie ^d   Lacombe, Sylvie ^d   Lenaerts, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Karel de Grote University College   (Belgium)

^c Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Building materials; Carbon; Photocatalysis; Self cleaning; Soot; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL BUILDINGS; CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; COLORIMETRIC MEASUREMENT; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; SELF-CLEANING; SELF-CLEANING EFFECTS; SELF-CLEANING PROPERTIES; DIOXIDE;

AIR CLEANERS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLEANING; COATED MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; DEPOSITION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORTAR; OXIDATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SOOT; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; BUILDINGS; MATERIALS; TITANIUM;

DUST;

EID: 84875591033     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.02.089     Document Type: Article

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