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Cleaning costs for European sheltered white painted steel and modern glass surfaces due to air pollution since the year 2000
NILU Norwegian institute for air research, Sweden.
CNRS Université Paris-Est, France.
RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden, Materials and Production, KIMAB.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3930-2551
2019 (English)In: Atmosphere, E-ISSN 2073-4433, Vol. 10, no 4, article id 167Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper reports estimated maintenance-cleaning costs, cost savings and cleaning interval increases for structural surfaces and windows in Europe obtainable by reducing the air pollution. Methodology and data from the ICP-materials project were used. The average present (2018) cleaning costs for sheltered white painted steel surfaces and modern glass due to air pollution over background, was estimated to be ~2.5 Euro/m 2 ·year. Hypothetical 50% reduction in the air pollution was found to give savings in these cleaning costs of ~1.5 Euro/m 2 ·year. Observed reduction in the air pollution, from 2002-2005 until 2011-2014, have probably increased the cleaning interval for white painted steel with ~100% (from 12 to 24 years), representing reductions in the single intervention cleaning costs from 7 to 4%/year (= % of one cleaning investment, per year during the cleaning interval) and for the modern glass with ~65% (from 0.85 to 1.3 years), representing reductions in the cleaning cost from 124 to 95%/year. The cleaning cost reductions, obtainable by 50% reduction in air pollution, would have been ~3 %/year for white painted steel and ~60%/year for the modern glass, representing ~100 and 50% additional cleaning interval increases. These potential cleaning cost savings are significantly higher than previously reported for the weathering of Portland limestone ornament and zinc monuments.

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MDPI AG , 2019. Vol. 10, no 4, article id 167
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Air pollution, Cleaning costs, Cleaning interval, Dose-response function, Facades, Maintenance costs, Modern glass, Soiling, Cleaning, Cost estimating, Cost reduction, Glass, Lime, Microalloyed steel, Pollution control, Cost saving, Dose-response functions, Glass surfaces, Maintenance cleaning, Maintenance cost, Painted steels, Structural surfaces, Air cleaners
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-38535DOI: 10.3390/atmos10040167Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85064068423OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-38535DiVA, id: diva2:1314321
Available from: 2019-05-08 Created: 2019-05-08 Last updated: 2024-07-04Bibliographically approved

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