Smog Eating Roof Tiles

The key ingredient is titanium dioxide said kayla kratz product manager for boral roofing.

Smog eating roof tiles. The secret is to spray a coating of titanium dioxide on the clay roofing tiles so popular in southern california. Boral roofing s smog eating roof tile line includes titanium dioxide a chemical that clears the air of nitrogen oxide pollution. In 2018 alone homeowners added the smog reducing capacity of more than 100 000 trees by choosing shingles with smog reducing technology. Illustration 2 shows smog eating tile whose surface has been treated with titanium oxide responding to ultraviolet light by breaking down mono nitrogen oxides found in vehicle exhaust.

When the tiles are installed they break down 88 97 of the nitrogen oxide smog and air pollution that they come in contact with into non photo reactive elements thereby reducing the formation of smog. A catalyst in the concrete tiles reacts with sunlight to reduce. One roof coated with titanium dioxide could offset the nitrogen oxide emitted by driving a gasoline powered car 11 000 miles. Give your roof the smog reducing power of two to three trees.

Uc riverside researchers say they have demonstrated an inexpensive roof coating that gobbles up smog forming pollutants and if widely adopted could clean tons of air pollution from southern. Over 141 million americans more than four in 10 lived in counties with unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution from 2015 to 2017. California based boral roofing is marketing a new smog eating roofing tile that they hope can help make pollution a thing of the past. Built into it is a catalyst so when the.

The science behind the tiles is simple.