Evaluation of 6 modified salt spreaders.

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• Creators:
  Colson, Stephen
• Corporate Creators:
  Maine. Dept. of Transportation. Transportation Research Division
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Winter maintenance
  • Snow and ice control
  • Spreaders
  • Salts
  • Brines
  • Evaluation
  • Equipment tests
  • Cost effectiveness
• Publication/ Report Number:
  71
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Maine
• Corporate Publisher:
  Maine. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  In the Summer and Fall of 2006, the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) began a retrofitting ; process on six of their conventional salt spreaders. MaineDOT contracted with H.P Fairfield of ; Skowhegan, Maine to complete this work. ; The intent of the retrofit ; was to modify the spreaders to allow for a 70 percent granular salt/30 ; percent salt brine application. MaineDOT’s previous experience with the SchmditSTRATOS ; Spreader ; (Report Available – Evaluation of the SchmidtSTRATOS ; Spreader, July 2005), which is manufactured ; in Germany, showed much promise using this combination of materials. Preliminary results from the ; STRATOS spreader evaluation indicated that the potential for material and monetary savings exists when ; using the 70/30 mixture. The theory behind significantly increasing the amount of liquid used to treat the ; granular salt is that the salt begins reacting faster with the presence of additional liquid and the material ; stays on the roadway better with the increased saturation.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28027/dot_28027_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.11 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:130ae32d232b479b7b36845d59432c902eb5dd8b6ec0cf7e867a3ae9dbad5017