Sound of Ice brings together stakeholders in de-icing and anti-icing to discuss the latest innovations

The Sound of Ice project, a FET-OPEN project (new Pathfinder projects) coordinated by the Spanish National Research Council and funded by the European Innovation Council, has brought together more than 60 people involved in the development of de-icing and anti-icing technologies around the workshop entitled De-icing and anti-icing solutions for end users.

The event was held in Madrid at the CSIC headquarters, as the project coordinator, on November 28 and put the latest innovations regarding de-icing solutions, icing monitoring, anti-icing surface treatments, and ice-phobicity at the centre of the debate.

The main speakers were Ali Dolatabadi (University of Toronto) with the conference Durable anti-icing coatings by thermal spray process; Elma Bonaccurso (Airbus) with the talk Supercooled water droplets impacting on superhydrophobic surfaces – Open questions related to icephobicity and finally, the project coordinator Ana Isabel Borrás started the workshop.

Other companies and institutions involved in the research and application of new techniques in the sector also participated, such as Richard Fu (Northumbria University), Filomena Piscitelli (Italian Aerospace Research Centre, CIRA), Bruno Bernay (SONACA), Stefan Jacob (PTB, German National Metrology Institute), as well as representatives of the two partner companies in the EnerOcean project, with Salvador Pedraza, as well as Villinger with the involvement of its CEO, Markus Villinger.

The event was rounded off with a presentation by three of the project partners Andreas Winkler (IFW), Miguel Glz. del Val (INTA) and Heli Koivuluoto (TAU) of the technologies developed within the framework of Sound of Ice, as well as a demonstration of the different innovations developed in the last four years.

With the celebration of this workshop, the Sound of Ice project reaches one of its final milestones, given that the partners enter the final stretch of this initiative that includes up to seven institutions and two companies from five European countries around an increasingly broad line of research.