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Due to lifestyle changes, people spend most of their time indoors at present; thus, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is a matter of utmost importance. Multi-functional and innovative finishes can help to passively improve the IAQ, benefitting the health and comfort of occupants. For this study, reference and pre-mixed commercial mortars are compared to a new multi-functional hydraulic lime mortar for indoor finishes, in which conventional aggregates are substituted by a highly porous adsorbent material and biomass waste ashes. The up to 20% higher accessible porosity of the multi-functional finish led to lower density (30%), higher thermal insulation properties (30%), higher water vapor permeability (more than 40%), and improved moisture buffering capacity (three times higher), when compared to the reference mortar. Different types of photocatalytic agents (TiO2) were also added into the new multi-functional hydraulic lime mortar, in order to investigate their effect on the de-polluting properties of the finish. Even if the photocatalytic efficiency remained unexpressed under indoor conditions, due to the predominance of the adsorption process, the de-polluting properties of the new mix were more than 30% higher than that of the reference mortar. The obtained results confirm that the developed innovative multi-functional finish—besides fulfilling the ordinary requirements—is better than commercial mortars, as it can improve the IAQ passively, thus benefitting the health and comfort of occupants.
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Authors (7)
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Chiara Giosuè
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Costanzo di Perna
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Barbara Citterio
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Gianmarco Mangiaterra
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Maria Letizia Ruello
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Francesca Tittarelli
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
- Published in:
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BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
no. 233,
ISSN: 0360-1323 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2023
- Bibliographic description:
- Giosuè C., Pierpaoli M., di Perna C., Citterio B., Mangiaterra G., Ruello M. L., Tittarelli F.: Properties of an innovative multi-functional finish for the improvement of indoor air quality// BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT -Vol. 233, (2023), s.110091-
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110091
- Sources of funding:
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- Free publication
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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