Technical Paper
Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Deicing and Anti-Icing Fluid Performances under Various Precipitation Conditions
1994-02-01
940082
Recognition of the need for safe ground aircraft anti-icing products with extended holdover times, and awareness of the related take-off perturbations, have been steadily growing during the 1980's. Standard laboratory testing procedures have been established by regulators to assess both holdover and aerodynamic performances of the commercial anti-icing fluids to be used on airports. Unfortunately, the standard laboratory evaluation procedures do not cover all the conditions encountered in natural cold precipitations which, at times, can vary with respect to the limited conditions simulated in laboratory. Therefore, a research work, on this subject, has been undertaken at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) with the main objective of identifying the response of deicing and anti-icing fluids under a wide range of icing conditions.
