a better understanding of chemical deicing facts and myths
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A Better Understanding of Chemical Deicing
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Facts and Myths
Scott Koefod
Goals
• Take the mystery out of chemical deicers• How do deicers work?• What makes a deicer work better at lower
temperatures?
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p• What is the eutectic and what does it tell us?• What do deicer freezing point curves tell us?• How effective are corrosion inhibitors?
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How do we make ice melt?
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Method 1: Raise the ice temperature above the freezing point
Temp = 40 0FFreezing Point = 32 0F
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Temp = 20 0FFreezing Point = 32 0F
Method 2: Lower the freezing point below the ice temperature!
Temp = 20 0FFreezing Point = 32 0F
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Temp = 20 0FFreezing Point = 15 0F
All deicers work the same way
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• Deicer molecules “interfere” with water molecules• Makes it harder for them to lock together and freeze• Freezing point drops• The more deicer dissolves, the more the freezing point drops
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ice water
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How can we control how much we drop the freezing point?
• Easy! • More chemical dissolved = more
“interference” = lower freezing point
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• Lowest freezing point is limited by how much chemical will dissolve
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Freezing Point = 32 0F
Freezing Point = 22 0F
Freezing Point = 12 0F
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+Freezing Point 12 F
+ Freezing Point = 2 0F
Sooner or later no more salt will dissolve – liquid is saturated
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F.P. = - 6 0 F
The freezing point lowering from salt bottoms outSalt cannot possibly melt ice below -6 0 F
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-10 0 10 20 30 40 50% NaCl by Weight
Liquid is saturated23% NaCl @ -6 0F
Eutectic = lowestpossible freeze pointa deicer can give
Some chemicals can lower the freezing point more than others
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Deicer Eutectic Temperatures
salt magnesium chloride
calcium chloride
Potassiumacetate
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Not all deicers are created equal
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Ice Melting Capacity
saltCaCl2
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25 15 5 -5 -15 -25Temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)
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Fact: deicers work by lowering the freezing point of water
• Myth: the lower the freezing point of a liquid deicer, the better it will work at low temperatures.
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• From wikipedia: “Deicing fluids work best (surprisingly) when they are diluted with water.”
• An anti-freeze will work best when diluted, but not an ice-melter.
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1 tablespoon salt melts ~ ½ cup ice
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Dissolve that salt in ½ cup water first,And the “liquid deicer” can’t melt any more ice.
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So – we have to add more salt to our liquiddeicer to make it melt any ice
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The more salt we add, the more ice it can melt
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Calcium Chloride Solution
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0 10 20 30 40 50% Calcium Chloride
Best working concentration = 30%?
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Ice Melting Capacities 15 degrees FAfter 60 Minutes
Eutectic dilution
Highest concentration providesmost ice melting capacity
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44.5 35 29.6 20 10% Calcium Chloride
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How do we understand this?
• Need to be careful with freezing point charts!• Important thing is freezing point of water (to
form ice)• Above eutectic concentration, the “freezing” is
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not of water• It is excess deicer chemical crystallizing
because liquid is saturated!
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Liquid NaCl
Freezing point of
“freezing” is excesssalt crystallizing fromsaturated liquid
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-10
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-10 0 10 20 30 40 50% NaCl by Weight
Freezing point of water drops as more salt is dissolved
Liquid is saturatedno more salt can dissolve
f.p. of water no longer changing
saturated liquid
So what happens if we put “too concentrated” liquid on cold road?
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Excess solid deicing chemical crystallizes outWill solid deicer still melt ice? Of course!
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Deicer dilution can have some value
• Better low temperature storage stability– 26.4% salt brine “freezes” at 32 0F– 23.3% salt brine stable to – 6 0F
• But higher concentrations will always give
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• But higher concentrations will always give more ice melting capacity
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Fact: certain additives can lower the freezing point of chloride deicer brines
Myth: this will make the brine melt
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ice to lower temperatures
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1.431% MgCl2 Brine + Organic Liquid Additive
Freezing Point Ice Melting Capacity
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% Organic Liquid Additive
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Why didn’t it work??• Some organic additives (e.g. sugars, glycols,
certain proteins) behave as “cryoprotectants”• Cryoprotectants inhibit the freezing of water
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Used in ice cream to prevent ice crystals, they occur naturally in arctic fish, plants, etc.
Cryoprotectants do not work the same way as deicers
• Cryoprotectants inhibit freezing by slowing it down immensely
• They do not cause a true drop in the actual freezing point of water
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freezing point of water• They have a “glass transition temperature”
rather than a freezing point• They can inhibit freezing, but can’t melt ice• They can “fool” the freezing point test
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How do we measure freezing points?
Standard method for deicers is ASTM D1177
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Cool liquid at a steady rate
Look for break in cooling curve
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Well defined freezing 40
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Plain Deicer BrineNo Additive
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gpoint = 19 0F
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ASTM D1177 Cooling Curves
plain brinebrine + 25% organic liquid
freezing point = 19 0F
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freezing point = -35 0F??
Freezing Point vs. “Glass Transition”
Normalf.p. curve is“V” shaped
“glass transition”Curve has no “V”
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MgCl2 Brine + 25% Organic LiquidMgCl2 Brine + No Additive
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35% Magnesium Chloride
Plain MgCl2 brine showswell defined eutectic “V”shaped curveAddition of organic
liquid causes typicalglass transition curve
Potential Organic Additive Value
• Improved residual effect• Corrosion inhibition• Leaching inhibition• Lower temperature ice melting???
– Unlikely
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y– Must be verified by a performance test – Lower liquid “freezing point” does not indicate
lower temp ice melting– ASTM D1177 is not accurate for f.p. of liquids
containing cryoprotectant type additives
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“Exothermic Deicers”
• Calcium chloride is a well known “hot” deicer
• How does it work?• How important is the heat released for
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pice melting?
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When chemicals dissolve, they either release heat (get hot)
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Or they absorb heat (get cold)
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Heat Released by 1 Pound Solid Deicer
Magnesium Chloride (pure)
CalciumChloride (pure)
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PotassiumAcetate
Magnesium Chloride (flake)
salt urea
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How Important is the Heat Released?
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Ice Melting Capacity at 25 degrees F
salt
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Heat Released in Perspective
• Calcium chloride is an excellent ice melter• The “hot” contribution is relatively unimportant• Remember – the environment is an enormous heat
sink– Like trying to heat an entire house with a candle!
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y g– Heat released by deicer dissipates very quickly!
• Also – liquid deicers have no heat to release– Once dry chemical dissolves, heat is quickly lost
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Fact: corrosion inhibitors reduce the corrosiveness of chloride deicers
• Caution: this must also be understood in perspectiveI t t t d t d i t t
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• Important to understand corrosion tests• At best corrosion tests provide a relative
ranking of corrosiveness for a specificexposure condition
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Corrosion Rates of Deicer Solutions (0.513 M)PNS Test Method
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7H2O NaCl CaCl2 MgCl2 KCl urea KAc
Current Industry Corrosion Standard
• PNS Test Method• Simulates a moderately aggressive exposure
condition– 10 minutes wet/50 minutes “aeration” cycle– Simulates repeated deicer brine “splash” on
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Simulates repeated deicer brine splash on exposed mild steel
– Cannot be extrapolated to other metals– Cannot be extrapolated to concrete rebar
• Standard spec is at least 70% less corrosive than salt
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PNS Corrosion Tester
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PNS Corrosion Tester
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Distinguishing PNS Categories 1,2, and 4
• PNS categories 1 and 2 are for liquidmagnesium and calcium chloride.– These are commonly used to pre-wet salt
• PNS category 4 is for corrosion inhibited solid
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• Pre-wetting liquid specs generally require meeting PNS specs 1 or 2
• Blending a PNS 1 liquid with salt does not necessarily make a PNS 4 deicer!
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Meets PNSSpec
Meets PNSSpec
F il PNS Fails PNS
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PNS Corrosion TestTwo Commercial MgCl2 + OBPE Products
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Liquid LiquidTreatedSalt
TreatedSalt
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Fails PNSSpec
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“Simulated Equipment Corrosion” Test
• We have developed our own test to estimate equipment corrosion
• Steel coupons directly immersed in piles of treated salt
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• Salt pre-wetted with corrosion inhibited liquid ~ 70% less corrosive than salt wet with plain salt brine
Corrosion Conclusions
• All chlorides will be aggressive to mild steel –not a huge difference between them
• Corrosion inhibited chlorides probably always more corrosive than non-chloridesC i i hibit d d i ff iddl
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• Corrosion inhibited deicers offer a middle ground option
• Corrosion protection of standard pre-wetted products is probably primarily restricted to equipment
Questions?• Feel free to contact me with any
technical deicer questions• Scott Koefod, Principal Scientist• Cargill Deicing Technology
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