Oslo Airport Opens First European Infrared De-Icing Hangar

SAS Ground Services Norway AS (SGS Norway) has opened Europe's first infrared de-icing hangar at Oslo Airport.

Departing aircraft taxi into a specially built hangar, where infrared heat waves melt snow and ice from their surfaces.

SGS Norway, along the airport's administration, Oslo Airport AS, and Radiant Energy Corporation, that developed the system called InfraTek, will evaluate its effectiveness, economics, and environmental effects for the remainder of this winter season as a supplement to ordinary glycol deicing.  Assuming success, the facility will be put into permanent use at Oslo.

Radiant says its existing facilities in the U.S., at Newark and Wisconsin's Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport, have shown that the system is economically superior, faster, and uses 70% less glycol than the current method used around the world.  The company anticipates another deicing facility later this winter at New York's Kennedy airport.

InfraTek is the only non-glycol based alternative to the conventional pre-flight ground deicing that has been approved by the FAA, according to Radiant.  01-21-2006.

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