Aircraft Icing
Aircraft Icing
What are the Causes and Possible Solutions?
Richard C. Williams
Commercial Aviation Safety
Mr. Gary Tindall
February 28, 2009
Aircraft Icing
CONTENTS:
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3 …………………………………………Abstract 4 …………………………………………Introduction 4 …………………………..…………… Icing Causes: 4..………………………………………. Carburetor icing: 5………………………………………… Structural Icing 6…………………..…………………….. Types of Structural Icing 8…………………………………………. Icing protection systems 9………………………………………….Conclusion 10………………………………………….References
Aircraft Icing
ABSTRACT
Ice and aircrafts are
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A forced landing was subsequently made in a field, where the airplane collided with a utility pole and landed in a ditch. An examination of the engine revealed no evidence of mechanical failure or malfunction. An icing probability chart revealed that the reported weather conditions in the area were favorable for the formation of moderate carburetor icing at cruise power. The Cessna 172M owner’s manual notes that a gradual loss in rpm and eventual engine roughness may result from the formation of carburetor ice and prescribes the use of carburetor heat to clear the ice. (Civil Aviation Authority, 2006).
Structural Icing: The previous report refers to induction icing within the engine, but other forms of icing attach to the exterior of the aircraft called “structural icing”. Airframe or structural icing refers to the accumulation of ice on the exterior of the aircraft during flight through
Aircraft Icing
clouds or liquid precipitation when the skin temperature of the aircraft is equal to, or less than 0 deg C (Lester, 2004).
Types of Structural Icing: Structural icing takes on many forms depending on the size of the moisture that comes in contact with the aircraft. The types of structural ice are clear, rime and a combination of the two. The primary concern over even the slightest amount of structural ice is the loss of aerodynamic efficiency. The increase in drag caused by the additional ice also causes an increase in stall speed, instability and a decrease in
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Condensation As the evaporated water vapor gets colder rising into the atmosphere, it changes back into different levels of liquid clouds of different types.
Road salts are salts that are applied on roadways that are covered in snow or ice for the purpose of de-icing and/or anti-icing of the road. There are quite a few different types ranging from sodium chloride (rock salt) to magnesium and calcium chloride. In anti-icing, they work by preventing bonding between the snow-ice and the road surface, and in de-icing the salt dissolves into the liquid water in the ice creating brine and lowers its freezing point (DOT). Brine is water saturated or almost saturated with salt. It has a lower freezing point than water. The brine loosens the ice or snow from the pavement so that the snow and ice is transformed into a slush to be plowed (DOT). This can be seen in the Figure 1 in the Appendix. (DOT). Since salt water still freezes at −18 °C (0 °F) (Sodium Chloride), it does not function properly when the
Below freezing air is used to make snow and snowflakes. Moisture from lakes and oceans to form clouds.warm, rising air to form precipitation.
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As it “melts”, it evaporates to a harmless gas, eliminating puddles of water. Because dry ice starts off as a snowflake, it can be pressed into many forms. The most common form is a large block, but pellet sizes are available for smaller more complex uses. Besides the obvious use for refrigeration, its smoking affect is used in many different applications. A favorite to many is the school project volcano. Where dry ice is dropped into a hot canister of hot water, causing smoke to billow out of the top and run down the sides.
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Cloud falls into is the precipitation category. “Water vapor, droplets of water suspended in the air, builds up in the Earth 's atmosphere. Water vapor in the atmosphere is visible as clouds and fog” (http://nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/condensation/). Precipitation the process when water is released from clouds in different types such as rain, snow, hail or sleet.
A common de-icing chemical that is cast upon the snow and ice is a chemical named sodium chloride (NaCl), more commonly known as road salt. According to New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, the first step to melting ice is to brine, this is a process where salt crystals “pull out” water molecules from their ice formations. Once the brine is applied to the ice, it is able to expedite the melting process. However, this application can only be applied when the temperature is above 15° F. This
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With even more weight, these lower layers of ice began to flow and move were slowly.
They are known as rime and clear ice, and a mixture of the two is not uncommon. For rime ice to form, an aircraft needs to fly through an area of tiny super-cooled liquid drops. This super-cooled liquid is actually suspended in the cloud cover at temperatures already below freezing. Once the aircraft surface plows through this moisture, the drops are disrupted immediately adhere to and freeze before spreading out over the entire surface. This forms a rough and cloudy-white layer of ice known as rime. Even though the rime surface is rough and creates an airflow disturbance, it is lighter and easier to remove by deicing equipment than clear ice. For clear ice to form, larger sized super-cooled drops would need to be encountered. These larger droplets spread out over the surface and airfoils before freezing. This allows for the build-up of a clear, hard and slick layer of ice on the surface (Ahrens, 2009).