Patent ID: 8062544

Claim:
A deicing and/or anti-icing composition consisting essentially of at least 5 percent by weight of (a) plus (b) wherein (a) consists essentially of glycerol; and (b) consists essentially of potassium lactate and/or sodium lactate and, optionally, (c) water, and/or (d) an effective freezing point lowering amount of a deicing material selected from the group consisting of glycols, citrate salts, amino acids, amino acid salts, boric acid, boric acid salts, lignin components, gluconic acid salts, monosaccharides, hydrocarbyl aldosides selected from the group consisting of furanosides, maltosides, maltotriosides, glucopyranosides, non-alkyl glucosides and sorbitol, and mixtures thereof, and/or corrosion inhibitor(s).