Understand the Chemical Mechanism of Brine

compared to applying granular salt and the reason here's the reason why you might be wondering how is this possible is this some kind of magic it's not it's actually really simple so when we spread salt on Stone and Ice Let's Pretend This is a patch of snow and ice granule of salt hits the snow and ice these are granules of salt sorry my art is poor as those granules of salt hit that snow and ice they create what's called an endothermic reaction an endothermic reaction is when the sodium chloride draws heat from the atmosphere of the environment to create melting as melting is created it creates a puddle of brine pretend that's a puddle of brine that's spread and as all these puddles of brine connect together now we have patches of bare pavement the problem is that takes a long time 48 Hours it can take 48 hours if the granules Sal are 10 in apart so what contractors do is they apply way more granules right so they're getting this many granules so that the puddles only have to spread a tiny little amount to get a bare patch of pavement and what's left at the end is a bare parking lot with a bunch of extra salt left behind on it what we're doing when we apply brine as a post treatment is we're skipping that phase change and we're applying the puddle so this is the puddle we're applying the puddle directly to the parking lot because we're skipping that phase change we're only putting down the scientifically necessary amount of salt and that's why we save so much salt by using Brian we are creating the chemical reaction during the mixing process that's where the efficiency comes from and then we're eliminating all of the excess waste got it so we talk about these numbers here so let's write this down too since I already said it average applying 1,000 pounds per acre post treat post treatment granular product okay so these are Big these are Big differences here 1,000 lbs per acre versus 182.5 and 91.2 it's a massive amount of salt savings good for you as the contractor in Saving cost on salt good for your customers saving salt damage to their properties good for your customers and not tracking into the buildings and good for your customers aesthetically because you don't have those stained white parking lots Left Behind after a snow event you have nice clean parking lots after a snow event okay what other numbers do do we need to know what other numbers do we need to know price let's talk about let talk about price let's talk about price so this is 2024 Yep…