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having to pay compared to other airports in
the area that weren't affected by environmental or regulatory situations," Thurlow
says. "Knowing that all those costs eventually trickle down to the flying public, we
looked collectively to do something so that
wouldn't happen."
Thus, PWM and Inland Technologies
turned to the next step - full distillation.
"We brought in distillation to take the
recycling process further than we were
initially intending to do here in Portland,"
An aerial view of the construction
currently underway for Memphis
International Airport's central
deicing facility.

Thurlow says. "So, Portland became the
first airport to close the loop on deicing.
We contain it, we clean it up, we recycle it
right back to pure industrial grade glycol,
then remanufacture it into Type I deicing
fluid for reapplication onto an airplane."
"...which was really an amazing point for
us," Bradbury adds. "And we remain the only
producer of Type I SAE approved ADF from
recycled effluent."
The ability to recycle glycol to industrial
strength also allows PWM to resell it to any
market that uses propylene glycol.
Today, PWM brings in spent ADF and
glycol from outside sources. Bradbury and
Thurlow count among their sources Bradley International Airport, Newark Liberty
International Airport, LaGuardia Airport,
Washington Dulles International Airport,
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Baltimore Washington International,

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
and Pittsburgh International Airport.
Bradbury estimates PWM will bring in
550,000 gallons of offsite fluid to process
on top of the 600,000 gallons of their own
fluid this year. Since 2010, PWM has recycled approximately 6.5 million gallons of
fluid and reclaimed 1 million gallons of pure
glycol, with 47 percent of that coming from
outside sources.
Though there's a cost to operate the recycling facility, the environmental credits
PWM receives along with what they make
selling the recycled glycol offsets that cost.
Bradbury said they've been able to offset
roughly $58,000 so far this season He estimates the total deicing recovery revenues
to the PWM will be $135,000 by season
close which offsets $763,980 in estimated
recycling expense.
The ultimate goal for PWM is what Brad-

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