Clear Roads II: Review and Summary of Pre-wet Methods and Procedures
This new Clear Roads project will maintain its focus on advancing winter highway operations nationally through practical, practice-ready research related to materials, equipment and methods. State departments of transportation are aggressively pursuing new technologies, practices, tools, and programs to improve winter highway operations and safety while maintaining fiscal responsibility. This project represents Phase I of a two-part project. Phase I will gather and synthesize existing knowledge, data, and current practices about pre-wetting solids for winter maintenance that will inform and underlie the work of a future Phase II. Pre-wetting refers to the application of liquid on solids (salt, abrasives or other materials) as the solids are being spread on the roadway from a winter maintenance vehicle. Pre-wetting may be used to reduce the bounce and scatter of solids, to activate solid salt as a melting agent, and to inhibit corrosive effects of salt on metal.
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Supplemental Notes:
- TPF-5(353)
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $74,721.00
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Contract Numbers:
1031544
- Sponsor Organizations: St. Paul, MN United States
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Managing Organizations:
Minnesota Department of Transportation
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St Paul, MN United States 55155 -
Performing Organizations:
Washington State University, Pullman
Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
PO Box 642910
Pullman, WA United States 99164-2910 -
Principal Investigators:
Shi, Xianming
- Start Date: 20190626
- Expected Completion Date: 20210630
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Deicing chemicals; Snow and ice control; Wetting; Winter maintenance
- Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01710349
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Minnesota Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 1031544
- Files: RiP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jul 2 2019 1:45PM