de-icing system

...When the temperature is between 0 and -20°C and an aircraft flies through clouds containing supercooled water droplets, ice forms on the front of the aircraft, which changes the wing shape and increases resistance, and ice fragments can fly into the jet engine, causing other problems. There are two types of systems to prevent this: anti-icing systems, which prevent icing by heating, and de-icing systems, which intermittently remove the ice that has built up. For ice on the leading edge of the wing, anti-icing systems use a part of the hot air compressed by the engine compressor to guide it to the leading edge, and de-icing systems use rubber boots attached to the leading edge that are raised and lowered by high-pressure air to remove the ice. In addition, some aircraft use de-icing liquids such as glycol to flow along the leading edge. ...

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…気温が0～－20℃程度で過冷却状態の水滴のある雲の中を通ったりすると，機体の前面の空気の当たる部分に氷が着き，翼型が変わって抵抗が増したり，ジェットエンジンに氷の破片が飛び込むなど不つごうなことが多い。これを防ぐための装置には加熱で着氷を防ぐ防氷装置anti‐icing systemと，付着した氷を間欠的にはがす除氷装置de‐icing systemの二つがある。翼の前縁の着氷に対してはエンジンの圧縮機で圧縮され高温になった空気の一部を前縁に導く防氷装置や，前縁にゴムブーツを張り高圧空気で起伏させて氷をおとす除氷装置が用いられるが，このほかグリコールなどの除氷液を前縁に流す機体もある。…

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