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Studies of the Chemical Effecting on Road Environment and the Environment-friendly Winter Deicing
Chloride-based deicing material is excellent to dissolve ice and snow in economical but they accelerate deterioration of concrete or corrosion steel reinforced concrete. Chlorine ions contained in the chloride-based deicing material currently used act as catalysts for accelerating corrosion when the air-void level is above a concentration level, even if the airvoid retain the proper alkali level. Environment-friendly CMA based deicing material has been difficult to use due to high unit prices in the past, but recently prices have stabilized. As an environment-friendly deicing material agent citric acid, which is a typical organic acid in citrus fruits, plays a role of controlling pH and preventing oxidation. This is effective against reducing steel corrosion and concrete deterioration. In the long term, environment-friendly deicing material is economical considering the damages of structures due to existing chloride-based deicing material. Although environmnet-friendly deicing material has these various advantages, they are inferior in performance to existing chloride-based deicing material. This study suggests proper utilization methods through analyzing the effects of existing chloride-based and environmentfriendly deicing material. Experimental results show that some environment-friendly products a similar level of ice-melting effects of existing chloride, but the effect of chloride-based deicing material is relatively good. This suggests that the performance of ice-melting is inferior only with the use of the environment-friendly deicing material. Therefore, it is necessary to improve deicing methods using with environment-friendly deicing material such as sand and other friction material. Further, it is considered that if the frozen area is predicted in advance and spraying is possible, the environment-friendly deicing material can be used more effectively.
