EnviroTech Services’ Steve Bytnar to Present New Research on De-Icer Performance Measurement at APWA 2011 Snow Conference

Greeley, Colo. — Steve Bytnar, director of research and quality for EnviroTech Services, Inc., a road maintenance and safety solutions company, will be a featured speaker at one of the key educational sessions at the American Public Works Association’s 2011 Snow Conference. The conference is being held at the Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, Washington from April 10–13.

WHAT: The presentation, “Performance Measures for De-icing Products,” will focus on new technologies and test methods that may be able to better predict the true performance of a de-icing product on the road. Today, winter maintenance professionals face many challenges. Making the job more difficult, there are now regulations and expectations regarding corrosion and the environment that did not exist 20 years ago. To meet these new challenges, the winter maintenance professional had to seek out new technologies. We now have ground speed control to precisely manage the application rates of products. We have instrumentation on trucks to monitor the friction of the road surface. We have RWIS systems reporting road and weather conditions at remote locations. Finally, we have a vast array de-icing products to choose from.

But what criteria are we using to choose the de-icing product? What data are we analyzing in order to determine which product is best? What attributes are the most important, and what test methods are we using to measure performance?

PRESENTER: Steve Bytnar, director of research and quality for EnviroTech Services

WHEN: Tuesday, April 12 at 1:45pm

LOCATION: Room 111 - C