Summarization of Airport Runway Lights Cleaning Methods

DOI

10.2991/icsd-17.2017.17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cause of dirt, Cleaning method, Discussion of effect

Abstract

The dirt on the lens surface of runway lights makes the projective light darker, affecting the aircraft's taking and landing, so it needs to clean runway lights regularly. It analyzed the cleaning efficiency, cleaning effects, environmental performance and operational safety performance of several cleaning methods, including manual cleaning, dry ice blasting, high pressure water jet, steam jet cleaning and dry powder blasting. Manual cleaning is inefficient and may be harmful to the environment. The cleaning effect of high pressure water jet, steam jet cleaning and dry ice blasting on tire rubber layer is not ideal, while dry powder blasting can wash out different kinds of dirt effectively.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wei-Wei Hu
AU  - Xiao-Hong Ge
AU  - Wei-Rong Ye
PY  - 2017/07
DA  - 2017/07
TI  - Summarization of Airport Runway Lights Cleaning Methods
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd 2017 International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 114
EP  - 117
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsd-17.2017.17
DO  - 10.2991/icsd-17.2017.17
ID  - Hu2017/07
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