At St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI), with the support of the St. Petersburg Housing Committee, a device has been developed to protect the roofs of apartment buildings from icicles and snow. It will not only save pedestrians and motorists from trouble, but also extend the service life of roofs and facades of buildings suffering from icicles and ice.
According to the university's press service, the development was created by GUAP graduate student Daniele Casadio under the guidance of teachers. The device consists of a circulation pump and a system of heating plastic pipes that are installed along storm drains, receiving funnels and gutters. Warm air is collected in the ventilation shafts of houses, and then driven through pipes under the eaves of roofs, preventing ice from forming on the edges.
With this method, the snow melts smoothly in a natural way, in contrast to existing analogues in the form of power heaters, which do it too abruptly and do not solve the problem of icicles and ice properly.
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