Preliminary assessment of greenhouse gas emissions for atactic polypropylene (APP) modified asphalt membrane roofs

Vaz, Warren S.; Sheffield, John

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.04.019

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“…New material and designs such as photovoltaic glasses (Sdringola et al, 2014), double glazing with a circulating water chamber (Gil-Lopez and Gimenez-Molina, 2013) and combinations of sucrose and PMMA (Gutierrez and Zohdi, 2014) have a good effect on the thermal insulation of the building, which can save energy consumption of the building and thus reduce carbon emissions. In addition, some natural material such as sugar construction products (Gopinath et al, 2018) and natural insulation material (Sagbansua and Balo, 2017) and artificial material such as PEX (Asadi et al, 2016), transparent silica aerogel (Dowson et al, 2012) and Atactic polypropylene (Vaz and Sheffield, 2014) have a better green performance in the construction industry.…”

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A holistic review of research on carbon emissions of green building construction industry

Wei

Tam

Chen

et al. 2020

ECAM

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Purpose Addressing global warming challenge, carbon emissions reduction potential of the construction industry has received additional attentions. The decoupling of construction industry and carbon emissions through policies, technologies and model innovations is an effective way for reducing environmental pollution and achieve eco-urban target. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Within the scope of green building carbon emissions (GB-CO2) research, a large number of scientific literature has been published in construction discipline over the past few decades. However, it seems that a systematic summary of strategies, techniques, models and scientific discussion of future direction of GB-CO2 is lacking. Therefore, this paper carries out data mining on authoritative journals, identified the key research topics, active research areas and further research trends through visualization studies. Findings This study contributes to the body of knowledge in GB-CO2 by critically reviewing and summarizing: professional high-quality journals have a greater influence in the scope of research, developed countries and developing countries are all very concerned about sustainable buildings, and the current hot topics of research focus on the application of the life cycle models, energy efficiency, environmental performance of concrete material, etc. Moreover, further research areas that could expand the knowledge of cross-national long-term carbon mechanisms, develop comprehensive life cycle carbon emissions assessment models, build technical standards and tests for the sustainable building material and systems, and exploit multi-objective decision models considering decarbonizing design and renewable energy. Originality/value This study is of value in systematic insight the state-of-the-art of GB-CO2 research in the more recent decade. A more vividly and effectively method is documented in extending the traditional bibliometric review to a deeper discussion. This study can also benefit construction practitioners by providing them a focused perspective of strategy and technologies innovations for emerging practices in green building projects.

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A holistic review of research on carbon emissions of green building construction industry

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Tam

Chen

et al. 2020

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“…Emission factors in the manufacturing of asphalt [1] were devised by the Asphalt Roofing Manufacturing Association (ARMA). A measurement of 75.2 kg CO 2 per roll was done [2] and determined that the responsible for the greater number of those emissions was the installation stage. Six million tons of asphalt per year are used in this installation process, which produces a large amount of CO 2 , SO 2 , and other non-eco-friendly emissions.…”

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New Trends in Industrial Equipment for the Improvement of Asphalt Roofing Process

Barragán-García¹,

Fernández-Muñoz²,

Vidal-Sanchez³

et al. 2024

Energy Consumption, Conversion, Storage, and Efficiency

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Roofing techniques are the key for weather resistance and energy efficiency of buildings. Installing asphalt roofing rolls is one of the most popular roof protection methods. This is usually carried out manually. Workers apply heat to the rolls by means of burners. Operators must follow quite a few steps to roof: place the rolls on the ground, unroll, apply energy, and secure. From 20 to 25 rolls per day can be installed by an operator using this manual procedure (200–250 m2). So, the fact that manual installation means such a reduced work capacity has pushed the development of industrial equipment. Besides, requirement for reduction of CO2 emissions is forcing to develop systems that optimize the fuel consumptions or even to replace fuel burners by other types of electric heating devices. In this chapter, a review of the state of the art and market of equipment for accelerating asphalt roofing process is presented. A detailed description of some systems and patents is given. The main geometric, physical, and performance parameters will be described and compared. Two new systems based on torches and infrared heating show double installation speed that is the usual manual roofing rate.

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“…The influence of roofing material on concentrations of pollutants in roof runoff waters and how they are concentrating time were investigated in [14]. Another ecological aspect is the estimation of the greenhouse gas emissions during the production of roofing materials these aspects are presented in [15] for bitumen modified atactic polypropylene (APP). Another rarely discussed way to reduce energy consumption is presented in [16], where a significant impact of the roofing material on the total energy consumption is noticed.…”

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Experimental Analysis of Mechanical Anisotropy of Selected Roofing Felts

2021

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In this work, four representatives of roofing felts are under consideration. Special attention is paid to the mechanical behaviour under the tensile load of the samples. The results of strength tests for the entire range of material work, from the first load to sample breaking, are shown with respect to a specific direction of sample cutting. Moreover, a unique study of the microstructure obtained with the scanning electron microscope and chemical composition determined by energy dispersive spectroscopy of the tested materials is presented. The significant mechanical material anisotropy is reported and moreover argued by microstructure characteristics. In perspective, the outcomes can give comprehensive knowledge on optimal usage of roofing felt and proper mathematical modelling.

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Preliminary assessment of greenhouse gas emissions for atactic polypropylene (APP) modified asphalt membrane roofs

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

A holistic review of research on carbon emissions of green building construction industry

A holistic review of research on carbon emissions of green building construction industry

New Trends in Industrial Equipment for the Improvement of Asphalt Roofing Process

Experimental Analysis of Mechanical Anisotropy of Selected Roofing Felts

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