Enhancing deicing performance

Treating your stockpile with six-to-10 gallons of SOS per ton of granular material powerfully enhances the performance of your salt stockpile.

Enhancing deicing performance of salt and brine

EnviroTech Services is a leader in the technology of deicing enhancers. These enhancers are additives to salt brine or granular salt and help to significantly improve deicing or anti-icing effectiveness. EnviroTech has introduced two industry-leading enhancers, AMP ® and SOS ™ , with key benefits that can improve your deicing program.

AMP ® is one of EnviroTech’s latest product releases and it brings technical innovation and outstanding product quality to the salt brine additive market. Salt brine is a great tool for snowfighters, as it can be used for pre-treating, deicing, and antiicing. But salt brine alone has some performance limitations; for example, salt brine is prone to drying out and being blown from the surface by the wind; the melting point of salt brine is often not low enough to be effective in many storms; and, salt brine is among the worst options in terms of the corrosion it will cause.

AMP® is designed to respond to each of those limitations: 1) It’s tackified, increasing how

effectively the product bonds to the surface and thus preventing it from being blown from the surface by wind after pretreatment. 2) Boosting melting power by lowering the product’s freezing point (1:1 ratio) from 18°F to 11°F. 3) Decreasing corrosion by over 70 per cent compared to salt brine alone, which places the product on the PNS – QPL (Pacific Northwest

Snowfighters - Qualified Product

List).

Another important attribute is the opportunity to lower salt usage and introduce less chlorides into the environment as a result. AMP ®

has undergone extensive testing to validate its effectiveness and clearly define the best way to utilize the product.

Glacier Snow Management Company started using AMP ® as a way to continue liquid treating surfaces, but at a lower cost than with an inhibited magnesium or calcium chloride liquid brines. AMP ® Enhanced Salt Brine has been used numerous times by Glacier at sites such as hospitals, retirement homes, and commercial business campuses. AMP ® was added at 10 per cent by volume to the salt brine that was made using a purchased salt brine system.

“Glacier has used EnviroTech products for 10 years now and we have always been impressed with their products and new innovations,” says Don Nelson, head of Glacier Snow Management. “This year we purchased a brine maker and we are currently using brine for anti-icing and supplemental deicing. Our concern with using brine in our geographic location is with the extreme low temperatures we deal with (the possibility of refreeze). This dilemma kept us from going to straight liquids for some time now. But, after spiking our brine with 10 per cent AMP ® , we were truly impressed with the results. We were even using the brine for deicing at temps down to 10 degrees below zero air temperature. AMP® gave us the peace of mind to use brine for more the just anti-icing.”

AMP ® is also used as a deicer to clear the snow and ice from sidewalks, parking lots, and roadways. AMP ® is

a favoured solution, whether it’s being used at 10 per cent or 20 per cent add rates, whether it’s being used for pretreating salt to reduce bounce and give the salt a little more bite, or if it’s being used as an anti-icer to pre-treat ahead of a storm allowing the customer to more easily remove snow from the pavement. Organizations throughout the country found that utilizing AMP ® in their salt brine allowed them to have a cleaner/easierto-use additive (without the odours or solids seen with beet juice), gave them a product that was easy to blend, offered lower corrosion rates and worked at lower temperatures. The product can help reduce chlorides by up to 75 per cent due to the improved effectiveness of the product (AMP at 20 per cent has 75 per cent more melting capacity than salt brine alone).

Why use SOS™?

SOS ™ is an offering from EnviroTech that is designed to pre-treat stockpiles of sand or salt to increase melting efficiency, reduced corrosion, and eliminates the need for pre-wetting. Using treated salt rather than untreated salt can save you both time and money. By reducing bounce and scatter, SOS ™ gets more salt applied where intended and where it’s the most effective. This allows you to acheive a higher level of service, safer surfaces, and reduced environmental impact by adding SOS ™ to your stockpiles of salt and sand.

Enhanced performance of treated salt at a lower cost with SOS™ This pre-treatment can happen throughout the year due to its design to minimize leaching in stockpiles, especially in higher humidity conditions. This gives you the flexibility to prepare materials well in advance when salt costs are lower and plan more effectively for winter operations. Treating a stockpile with six to 10 gallons of SOS ™ per ton of granular material powerfully enhances the performance of your salt stockpile, particularly at colder temperatures. SOS ™ can be applied to a stockpile in advance or as it is being delivered. Treating the entire stockpile prior to application to the roadway eliminates the need for pre-wetting saddle tanks.

We can provide you with the SOS ™

liquid allowing you to treat your own salt. As an alternative for those customers without the equipment to treat their own stockpiles, EnviroTech has a mobile salt treatment unit that provides this as a convenient service.

Whether you have a granular or liquid deicing program, EnviroTech has an enhancer that can improve your results. If you would like to talk to a representative about optimizing your deicing or anti-icing program, feel free to contact EnviroTech at 1-800-369-3878. •