Steag Power Minerals

Pollutant Reduction Forum: sunny outlook

It couldn’t really get any better: potential demand for the product being offered certainly exists, political framework conditions are right, and the public will not need much convincing of the feasibility of the offer. This should certainly be the case with the market introduction of Photoment – an admixture for concrete based on flyash with titanium dioxide content (TiO2 content) to reduce pollutants in urban air (see the article “Increasing efficiency in the degradation of airborne pollution by photocatalytically modified concretes, BFT International, 01/2015, pp. 50 ff.).

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Issue 04/2015 Submitted by/Eingereicht von: Steag

Innovation: Photoment

Photoment is a concrete admixture with photocatalytic activity. It consists of a combination of flyash particles and different titanium dioxides (TiO2). On a photocatalytic surface, under the action...

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Issue 01/2015

Increasing efficiency in the degradation of airborne pollutants by photocatalytically modified concretes

1. Introduction EU legislation increasingly defines limits for airborne pollutants as our awareness of the environment is growing, which directly influences our health and well-being [1]. Vehicle...

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Issue 03/2016 Steag

High-tech road pavements decompose nitrogen oxides

In summer 2015 the European Commission submitted a complaint to Germany due to several years of non-compliance with the threshold value of 40 µg/m³ stipulated for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a major...

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Issue 06/2016 Steag

Photoment wins GreenTec Award 2016

Steag Power Minerals has won the GreenTec Award for the innovative Photoment concrete additive for the decomposition of nitrogen oxides. Recently, general manager, Andreas ­Hugot, has received...

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Issue 09/2013 Helio Clean/Dyckerhoff

Research project on nitrogen oxide reduction

From 2009 to 2012, the “Helio Clean” project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research dealt with the catalytic disintegration of air pollutants under sunlight exposure using building...

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