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Citation |
Suda M, Umemura T, Kamimura S, Ueda Y. JSAE Rev. 2001; 22(4): 577-580. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2001, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Publisher Elsevier Publishing) |
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Abstract |
Simulation studies of road snow melting by dropping hot water were carried out for three representative cities in Japan for the past 23 years. Watching a wheel track, hours for which snow and ice was cleared were calculated under conditions that hot water was dropping during the time from 6:00 to 21:00 at given rate. As a result, it was shown that the percentage of cleared time to non-cleared time in winter seasons decreases with increasing quantity of dropping hot water and begins to saturate to about 10% at 12 l/h hot water dropping, which corresponds to 30 vehicles/h at a crossing or a slope. |