8 June 2017 took place the 25 Years LIFE Celebration Event organized by the IETcc (CSIC). Other LIFE projects were invited to attend, these were LIFE MINOx-Street and LIFE EquiNOx. Also, both LIFE Photoscaling project participants, which are Madrid City Council and ETSII (UPM), presented their current states and advances until today. Marta Castellote, IETcc director, opened the event. Then, she, as LIFE Photoscaling project […]
José Fermoso (LIFE EquiNOx) and Benigno Sánchez (LIFE MiNOx-Street) met Marta Castellote and Eva Jiménez (LIFE Photoscaling) to share experiences about their LIFE projects.
LIFE-PhotoScaling project was presented in the 13th PTEC Forum that took place in Valladolid on 31 May 2017. The topic dealt in the forum was «Innovation within the urban environment. The role of building sector in the descarbonation of the cities». More information about the forum and the PTEC.
IETcc would like to invite you to the Workday: «Helping the Environmental from de Building Sector by using Photocatalytic Technologies: LIFE PhotoScaling Networking». The workday will take place at: Intituto Eduardo Torroja · 8th June 2017, 10:00 am C/ Serrano Galvache, 4, 28033, Madrid The workday will be totally free previous registration by sending an email to actividades@ietcc.csic.es. For more information, click here.
Eva Jiménez presents LIFE-PhotoScaling project in TechnoHeritage 2017 in the «3rd International Congress Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage» which took place in Cádiz. The whole programme can be seen here.
José Fermoso from Cartif (LIFE EquiNOx project) has come today to Eduardo Torroja Institute for construction Science (IETcc) to test three different materials. These materials had been tested by us previously and are being tested by Benigno Sánchez from LIFE MiNOx-Street project. Thus, a correlation of our results can be done.
One of the photocatalytic characteristics checked is if they loose some kind of contaminant. This thing would become the photocatalytic material dangerous and pointless compared with the environmental damage. In order to control this hypothetical situation, one pit for each surface were built and the leachates inside them have been collected every time it has rained.
The LIFE Photoscaling poster will be presented at the 7th Open Meeting of the Nanocem Consortium, 2017, which will take place 25th April in Portland Forum, Leimen, Germany. More information here.
The common dirt in our sidewalks, pavements and roads are chewing gums from (filthy) people and grease from vehicles. In this project, besides the mentioned graffiti, gums and grease have been spread over the platforms to prove if the photocatalytic materials are able to remove them. In the photo below, they can be seen: the gum (small white circle on the left) and the grase (next […]
The removal of NOx test is the most typical test to know how powerful the photocatalytic material is. In LIFE Photoscaling project, it is pretended to scale from laboratory tests to real life surfaces. To do that, it was necessary to make a «in situ» meter available. So, this new meter was built, patented and used to perform every «in situ» test.
