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A team of physicists and engineers at Dartmouth College led by Dr. Victor Petrenko have unlocked the secrets of ice and perfected a number of ways to make ice work for us instead of against us.

Dr. Victor F. Petrenko Go to website

Director, Ice Physics Research Lab Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA 54 patents, 116 pending worldwide

M.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Ph.D., U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, Moscow 1974 D.Sc., Physics and Mathematics, U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, Chernogolovka 1983 Publishing: Physics of Ice Physics of Semiconductors Over 150 scientific publications (See video interview)

Photo Courtesy of Gary Braasch. All Rights Reserved

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SPECIAL NOTE: Nov 16, 2010 Petrenko PETD (as IceCode) was chosen from among 3800 entries as one of five innovation award winners of the GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid

Five years of successful development and deployment in commercial aviation for in-flight and engine inlet deicing. Boeing has selected PETD for future generations of aircraft

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60 Patents & 114 Pending Worldwide*

*USA, Canada, Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Brazil, Mexico

We Cracked It

PETD technology breaks the ice bond almost instantaneously, inexpensively and with dramatically less energy than current technology.

Where can we break ice? Ice makers Power lines Windshields Wings and wind blades Bridges, buildings and ships Refrigerators and air-conditioning ...and more

Premise Ice Making

PETD Ice Makers use 40% less energy

It takes almost as much energy to release ice from the tray as it does to freeze it

Energy consumption

Premise Auto
PETD equipped windshield clears ice in seconds
Click to see a car windshield deiced in seconds

Premise Wind blades

PETD wind blades eliminate wind turbine down-time due to icing

See video SPECIAL NOTE: On November 16, 2010 PETD was named one of five innovation award winners of the GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid.

World wide, lost power production due to wind blade icing averages 10% in cold climates.

Premise Power Grid

VRC technology melts ice from power transmission lines without service interruption. There is no other known solution.

Today, the US power grid is over-capacity causing massive loss of heat energy. VRC means higher capacity lines can be employed improving transmission efficiency by up to 25% for over 50% of the grid worldwide.

(VRC Technical Paper) (Patent) Full VRC presentation

Premise: Refrigerator

Commercial refrigerators retrofitted with PETD evaporators use up to 25% less energy Watch evaporators defrost in seconds (video)

Energy consumption

Case Study : Refrigerator

PETD saves $525 dollars per year, per unit.

Electricity Cost Per Year See Video

25% less energy

Cost Existing evaporator PETD Evaporator

Day 5.76 4.31

Year 2,102 1,575

*Energy Cost @ .12 cents/kWhr)

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Pulse Electro-Thermal Deicing (PETD) (technical paper)

PETD concentrates a smart, precise, high power pulse to the ice/substrate interface for between .01 - 4 seconds to heat a minimal layer of interfacial ice to just above the melting point causing the ice to slide off a resulting thin water film.

SPECIAL NOTE: On Nov 16, 2010 PETD technology was named one of five innovation award winners of the GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid For wind turbine blade deicing.

"An ice surface has a high electric charge. Ice doesn't simply cake onto surfaces, it bonds in three ways: via the hydrogen atoms themselves, via an electrostatic bond caused by the current and via comparatively weak van der Waals forces. There is no surface coating which can suspend those three forces. That is why the search for ice-phobic coatings has failed. PETD melts just a few microns of the ice interface and gravity does the rest." - Dr. Victor Petrenko

State of Technology

Plane Deicing

PETD will replace chemical deicing

The chemicals normally used to deice aircraft - ethylene glycol and propylene glycol are both deadly substances even in small quantities. Ethylene glycol causes central nervous depression and kidney and liver damage and propylene glycol is just as toxic. While no studies have been done on its effects on humans, each winter large amounts of fish and wildlife are poisoned to death by aircraft deicing chemicals. Additional pollutants, including fuels and other toxic substances, are also washed off the planes during deicing procedures. Compared to the rest of components of aircraft pollution, this is a minor one, though it could have harmful effects on those few who perform this activity, and on some unfortunate fish and fowl. This aspect of aircraft pollution has not received much attention so far.- Source

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Marine

PETD technology can be used to prevent the formation of ice on almost anything with a power source.

Surface Areas Bridge Windows Air Inlets Overstructures Decks & Rails

United States Department of Defense (DOD) & Mission Critical Department of Energy (DOE) Applications

PETD technology provides solutions for a number of mission critical challenges.

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) Sikorsky Helicopters

:Uddevalla Bridge: Current Projects

Uddevalla Bridge, Sweden

PETD technology was tested in Sweden in 2006 where a 1712meter-long "cable stayed" bridge has major problems with icing and must be closed down for significant periods of time during the winter months due to dangerous chunks of ice falling at random off the towers and cables from heights of up to 140 meters.

The first tests of PETD demonstrated instant deicing action with minimal energy investment.

Each steel cable is covered by a thin polymer tube (wrapped in stainless steel foil) to prevent rusting. "We apply [an] electric pulse to either end of the cable for about one second," Petrenko says, "and all ice attached to it falls down." - Scientific American article

Moscow Shopping Mall :Current Projects

Moscow City Mall, Russia

PETD is used to clear ice and snow from the 100,000 square-foot glass atrium roof of the Moscow City Mall. Scientific American article

60 Patents 112 Pending ...Worldwide

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Contact: Cliff Lyon 801.895.2977 USA