Alternative deicers for winter road maintenance—A review

LG Terry, K Conaway, J Rebar, AJ Graettinger - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2020 - Springer
The use of roadway deicers, typically made of sand or salt, is essential for achieving safe
roadway conditions by reducing ice and snow. Unfortunately, deicers can have detrimental …

A peony-leaves-derived liquid corrosion inhibitor: protecting carbon steel from NaCl

M Honarvar Nazari, MS Shihab, L Cao… - … Chemistry Letters and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A liquid mixture was developed from waste peony leaves through a zero-waste
chemical/biological process. The inhibition effect of different concentrations of peony leaves …

Improving the ice-melting capacity of traditional deicers

HU Sajid, DL Naik, R Kiran - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Deicers with low freezing point depression and rapid ice-melting capacity are ideal for winter
maintenance of pavements located in snow-prone regions. The current study aims 1) to …

Phyto-based sodium chloride hydrogel for highway winter maintenance of porous asphalt pavements

F Autelitano, S Longo, F Giuliani - Construction and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The need of the highway agencies to customize their winter maintenance operations on
porous asphalt pavements prompted the authors to develop an innovative anti-icing …

Machine learning-assisted chemical design of highly efficient deicers

K Ito, A Fukatsu, K Okada, M Takahashi - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The use of deicers in urban areas, on runways and aircrafts has raised concerns about their
environmental impact. Understanding the ice-melting mechanism is crucial for develo** …

Temporary clogging effects induced by a sustainable anti-icing hydrogel on the hydraulic conductivity and inertia coefficient of open-graded asphalt pavements

F Autelitano, D Petrolo, L Chiapponi, F Giuliani… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Open-graded asphalt pavements require special winter maintenance procedures to ensure
the effectiveness of anti-icing and deicing measures. A recently developed solution for this …

Effects of processed agro-residues on the performance of sodium chloride brine anti-Icer

M Honarvar Nazari, EA Havens… - ACS sustainable …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this laboratory study, the performance and impacts of several new types of anti-icer were
examined. A chemico-biological process was employed to prepare liquid extracts from two …

[책][B] Urban ecosystem justice: Strategies for equitable sustainability and ecological literacy in the city

S Kellogg - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Merging together the fields of urban ecology, environmental justice, and urban
environmental education, Urban Ecosystem Justice promotes building fair, accessible, and …

Wettability, droplet impact and anti-icing performance of micro-nano hierarchical structure on Ti6Al4V surface via integrating of chemical modification and laser …

H Chang, D Liu, Z Zhang, G Zhang - Surface and Coatings Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic functional surfaces are widely used in medical treatment, pipeline
transportation, and ship corrosion protection and have great potential in the field of anti …

Beetroot Juice Additive in Chloride Brines Reduces Damage of Concrete Exposed to Freeze–Thaw Cycles

L Fan, Z Li, S Du, X Shi - Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
This work investigated whether and how a common agro-based additive, beetroot juice,
alters the detrimental effects of chloride brines on the durability of cement concrete, by …