期刊
CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
卷 319, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.126082
关键词
Winter road maintenance; Permeable pavements; Salt brine; Antifreeze gel; Anti-icing; Spray application; Sustainability; Eco-friendly approach
资金
- Fondazione Cariparma
An innovative anti-icing technology based on hot liquid spray application of a saline hydrogel was developed to customize winter maintenance operations on porous asphalt pavements. This technology allows for filling surface voids, improving deicing effectiveness, and maintaining pavement frictional resistance.
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 technology based on the hot liquid spray application of a saline hydrogel. A bio-based (phyto-based) thermo-sensitive sodium chloride (NaCl) brine, that has the ability to form a gel simply by coming into contact with a very cold surface, was conceived. The increase in viscosity and the formation of a gel-like structure would make this anti-icing product able of filling the surface voids without permeating through the mixture (longer residual deicing effectiveness), while maintaining at the same time the pavement frictional resistance. In view of adopting sustainable winter maintenance strategies, this innovative blend was formulated by exploiting the thickening and gelling properties of wall-cell polysaccharides contained in seaweeds fibers. The mechanisms of gel formation were experimentally studied in laboratory, analyzing in detail the thermal and rheological properties of the salt hydrogel during the different phases of preparation, storage and application. On the basis of this characterization, a full-scale validation was carried out on an existing highway porous asphalt pavement. For this purpose, a tank truck prototype was equipped with a heating capacity tank and a customized specific spraying system.
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