Next generation anti icing technologies - addressing a quintessential Canadian problem

在寒冷气候下建造的基础设施注定要经历与冰点或冰点以下温度一致的压力。这些条件造成了更高的维护成本，有限的使用寿命，在生产设施（如石油和天然气钻井平台，管道或风力涡轮机）的情况下，收入损失基本上是肯定的。持续的积冰加剧了基础设施的停机，工人的健康和安全，最终造成经济损失，这个问题在寒冷的气候中普遍存在，这并不奇怪。目前唯一有效的消除/防止结冰的方法是主动技术，如对基础设施进行电阻加热或振动。这些都不是可持续的除冰方法，因为实施它们需要能源。市场上没有明显的新被动技术或新兴被动技术。

Infrastructure constructed in colder climates is destined to experience stresses consistent with freezing or below freezing temperatures. These conditions impose higher maintenance costs, limited lifetimes and in the case of production facilities (e.g. oil and gas rigs, pipelines or wind turbines) revenue loss is essentially assured. Continued ice build up exacerbates infrastructure downtime, worker health and safety and ultimately economic loss and this problem is, not surprisingly, ubiquitous to colder climates. The only effective methods currently employed for removing/preventing ice build up are active technologies such as resistive heating or vibration of the infrastructure. These are not sustainable deicing methods because of the energy required to implement them. There are no apparent new or emerging passive technologies on or coming to the market.