wrote:
If I remember correctly the new DIA airport has a state of the art
recycle system for deice fluid. As I understand it the area where they
deice is a very large tapered bowl, kinda like the floor in your
shower, all excess stuff makes its way back into a sump underground,
then its pumped to a series of filters and separators, that fluid is
then recharged with new glycol to bring it back up to specs. It
supposably is able to reduce the need for new stuff by over 60%. But
then, this is the airport that spent hundreds of millions on a "state
of the art" baggage handling system that turned out to be the biggest
failure is dollars next to the "big dig" in Boston.


Good info there, Ben. I guess it makes sense to have such a system at
Denver as they probably use more glycol that any other US airfield. And
yes, it probably cost 10x more than it should have... Tax dollars hard
at work here rolls eyes