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Title: A Comparison of Alternative Chemicals for De-icing Operations
Accession Number: 01515943
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: This paper presents the results of an extensive field study on the comparative performance of alternative materials for snow and ice control of parking lots and sidewalks. Approximately 300 tests were conducted in a real-world environment, covering four alternative materials, and 21 snow events. Each of the alternatives is compared to regular rock salt in terms of snow melting performance - bare-pavement regain time. The study confirmed the relative advantage of these alternatives over the regular salt, but also showed that their performance varied largely depending on some external conditions. Performance models were calibrated and then used for developing application rate adjustment factors which can be applied by maintenance operations for determining the optimal application rates for specific weather events and pavement conditions.
Supplemental Notes: This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHD65 Winter Maintenance.
Alternate title: Comparison of Alternative Chemicals for Deicing Operations
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01503729
Report/Paper Numbers: 14-4797
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Hossain, S M KamalFu, LipingLake, RobertoPagination: 26p
Publication Date: 2014
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I62: Winter Maintenance; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-4797
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 27 2014 3:41PM
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