Production of Environmentally Friendly Roofing Tiles Using Palm Oil as a Binder

• DOI: 10.1680/jgrma.17.00011
• Publication Date: 2017-08-22T10:48:45Z
• Authors: Humayun Nadeem; Noor Zainab Habib; Ng Choon Aun; Salah Elias Zoorob; Zahiraniza Mustaffa; Sumaira Nadeem
• Keywords: Environmentally Friendly; Building material; Embodied Energy

Conventional roofing tiles, composed of either clay or concrete, are considered as environmentally unfriendly since a substantial quantity greenhouse gases is being discharged in their production. In this study, an alternate approach utilizing vegetable oil proposed to produce tiles called ‘green tiles’. It believed that extended heat curing may convert into rigid binder after undergoing series complex autocatalytic oxy-polymerization reactions. These green have flexural strength up approximately 11·5 MPa and successfully fulfilled the criteria for water absorption permeability tests were conducted accordance with ASTM standards. Additionally, leachate characteristics these novel also investigated, it was discovered negligible leachate. Remarkably, embodied energy carbon dioxide requirements found be 1·96 MJ/kg 0·38 kg equivalent, respectively, which relatively low compared values traditional binders. Conserving existing resources enable sustainable construction one remarkable outcomes research.