Deiceing

[Chris W]

I just saw this story on slashdot about deicing technology, the
submitter of the story mentions deicing plane windscreens but I don't
think they realized how much more valuable it could be to deice wings if
it is a good as it sounds like it could be.

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/16/007227

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[Chris W]

opps, wrong link

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/16/007227



Chris W wrote:

> I just saw this story on slashdot about deicing technology, the
> submitter of the story mentions deicing plane windscreens but I don't
> think they realized how much more valuable it could be to deice wings
> if it is a good as it sounds like it could be.
> http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=06/04/16/007227
>


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[Peter Duniho]

"Chris W" > wrote in message
news:TTF0g.947$9c6.897@dukeread11...
>I just saw this story on slashdot about deicing technology, the submitter
>of the story mentions deicing plane windscreens but I don't think they
>realized how much more valuable it could be to deice wings if it is a good
>as it sounds like it could be.

Link to the actual article:

http://news.com.com/A+high-tech+way+to+defrost/2100-11395_3-6061333.html

The submitter's "mention" is simply a quote from the article.

From the article:

"The difficulty with PETD lies in power delivery. The surface only has to be
heated to about 1 to 2 degrees Celsius, but a broad surface has to be heated
simultaneously"

It may be that a surface the size of a wing would be substantially too
difficult to apply this technology to.

There are already related technologies being used. Columbia is using
electrically heated deicing, and I have read of a technology more like the
one you've referenced, in which an pulsed electro-magnetic field is used to
knock ice off mechanically (but it doesn't require heating the surface, if I
recall correctly).

Pete

[Robert M. Gary]

If they ever did get it "airplane ready" though the price would be
quite high, simply because its for airplanes. It's hard to imagine
anything more simple than TKS de-icing but even that is about $30,000
for a light single.

-Robert