Products
From a single parking lot to an international airport, there's a Trecan Snowmelter sized for the job.
Product line
Contractors · Parking lots · Municipal sites
Trailer-mounted, quick to deploy and move between sites. Melt snow where it's cleared instead of trucking it away.
Airports · Cities · Large facilities
High-capacity permanent installations for continuous, heavy-volume melting at central snow disposal sites.
Entrances · Walkways · Stairs · Driveways
Hands-off snow removal using efficient far-infrared technology. One unit melts snow and ice for an area over 100 ft² (10 m²), lowering property maintenance costs and slip-and-fall risk.
Portable Snowmelters
Trecan Portable Snowmelters are an economically and environmentally attractive alternative to trucking snow away. They're fuel-efficient and can be towed from site to site, and most are equipped with an Engine Room Enclosure that suppresses noise and adds further durability to key components. Our Remote Communications Package enables diagnostic testing 24/7 anywhere in North America — and every Trecan Snowmelter has a life span of over 25 years.
The CT-15-LP was originally designed to allow operation on the top deck of a parking structure. Ideal for property managers or snow contractors with small ground-level lots up to 60,000 sq ft — condo and apartment parking, cul-de-sacs and strip mall lots. Trailer-mounted with rear loading and a Snowstart burner; can be towed up a ramp or helix and loaded with a skid steer loader.
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The choice of many cities, municipalities, large snow contractors, universities and shopping malls. The melting tank is available in a narrow 8'6" width or a standard 10' width, and it can be loaded with a typical front end loader and towed with a dump truck or other heavy-duty truck. Pictured: a customized unit for DSNY.
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A favorite choice of snow contractors, shopping centers and malls. Melt water can be discharged on either side of the unit. Pictured: a unit in operation in Quebec.
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Two 13.3 million BTU/hr burners (26.6 million total). The choice of many airports, municipalities and snow contractors.
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A left side loading Snowmelter designed for use at airports, parking lots and snow dumps. Two 16 million BTU/hr burners (32 million total).
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A dual side loading Snowmelter designed for use at airports, large parking lots and city snow dumps.
Full datasheet (PDF) →The largest portable in the line — built for large airports and large city snow dumps.
Full datasheet (PDF) →Dual (two) side loading is standard on the 150-PD, 250-PD and 350-PD — it allows loading of the melting tank on either side of the machine for more flexibility when positioning prior to melting operations.
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Stationary Snowmelters
Trecan stationary Snowmelters offer a unique alternative to portable units: fixed, in-ground installations that cost less to operate and maintain. They can be designed to run on natural gas, diesel fuel or fuel oil, and are strategically placed at the top of parking garages and at various points around an airport or parking lot — in sizes and capacities using multiple burners arranged side-by-side.
Commonly used in hospital, university and commercial parking garages and other parking structures with parking on the top deck. In a double-T structure the equipment module sits on the deck below, with a chute from the top deck directing snow into the melting tank; in cast-in-place construction the tank top sits flush with the deck surface.
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An excellent choice for airports, universities, parking lots, strip malls and shopping plazas. Uses 9,000 SCFH (255 cubic meters) of gas per hour. Pictured: a unit in the top deck of a cast-in-place parking structure with a customized melting tank top with two hinged tank covers, where the typical tank would have a single hinged cover.
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A 13.5 million BTU/hr burner melts 150 to 300 cubic yards of snow per hour at average snow density, using 13,500 SCFH (382 cubic meters) of gas per hour. Pictured: the burner and equipment module ready to ship to a customer.
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Two 9 million BTU/hr burners. Pictured: an installation on the top deck of a cast-in-place parking structure where the melting tank was custom designed to load snow from two directions — typically snow is loaded from one direction with a single hinged tank cover.
Two 9 million BTU/hr burners. One of the big advantages of this model is the reduced civil work and shorter installation time — and if necessary, the equipment can be moved from one site to another. Pictured: the 80-SG-M after installation and commissioning in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Two 13.5 million BTU/hr burners. Fast becoming the choice of large shopping centers and malls. Pictured: a 120-SG being loaded with snow on an airport apron.
Three 13.5 million BTU/hr burners in a common concrete melting pit. Pictured: the 180-SG at the Port of Montreal.
Four 13.5 million BTU/hr burners arranged side by side, melting 600 to 1,200 cubic yards of snow per hour at average snow density. Pictured: inside the equipment module, showing the burners, gas piping, and control panel.
Five burner systems mounted in a common melting tank — the width of the tank allows full-width (over 30') airport plows to directly load snow during each pass of the apron. Pictured: one of the two 300-SG Snowmelters installed at LaGuardia Airport Terminal C.
Snowmelter models
Principles of operation
Snow is dumped into a tank filled with water.
Water is drawn through a heated cylinder, creating a warm melting spray.
The warm water spray melts the snow. A combustion air fan agitates the water to speed up melting.
Water spills through the overflow drain and into sewers after passing through a filter that blocks large debris.
In the field
Standard on every unit