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Title:

Highway Deicing: Comparing Salt and Calcium Magnesium Acetate (Special Report 235)

Abstract:

Deicing chemicals are important tools for highway snow and ice control. The National Research Council conducted a study to examine the full economic costs of using salt and CMA for highway deicing. The report defines the true cost of salt; estimates of monetary costs involved in mitigating environmental damage from road salt; summaries of the field performance, infrastructure and environmental impacts, production technologies and costs of CMA.

Source(s):

Transportation Research Board, Committee on the Comparative Costs of Rock Salt and Calcium Magnesium Acetate (CMA) for Highway Deicing

Date: 1991

Author:

Iowa State University

Keywords:


Anti-icing/deicing
Anti-icing/deicing chemicals
Safety
Productivity

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