Environmentally friendly, dry ice blasting, is an industrial cleaning service brought to Wisconsin by Glacier Blast Inc.
Dry ice is carbon dioxide (CO2) in its solid form. Unlike water ice, solid carbon dioxide passes directly from a solid to a gas. It has no liquid state. This characteristic is called sublimation.
With no liquid state, there is nothing to carry pollutants into drainage systems or the ground water. This makes containment of the material being removed much easier. It also keeps cleanup labor, transportation and disposal costs to a minimum.
In today's environmental and climate conscious world, the aspect of having a cleaning process without a secondary waste stream is very appealing. The public eye seems to be focused on industrial businesses with the consensus that all business owners and operators will conduct themselves in an environmentally responsible manor.
The dry ice blasting process is similar in concept to the other media blasting methods, it delivers the cleaning media, dry ice pellets, by a pressurized air stream. The accelerated pellets impact the surface being cleaned and instantly expand into a gas almost 800 times greater than their original solid volume.
Kinetic energy, thermal shock and these miniature explosions are the principles at work while dry ice blasting. The miniature explosions are very advantageous when removing heavy elastic coatings. Rather than abrading the top of the coating, the blasting stream is aimed under an edge and the miniature explosions are used to lift or peel the coating from the surface it is adhered to.
Perhaps you are a power plant operator and have industrial cleaning applications that need to be addressed. Maybe there is a turbine, boiler or a generator scheduled for maintenance during your next outage and dry ice blasting is being considered.
You might be a plant engineer at a refinery and have some issues with a piece of equipment, getting it cleaned could solve all the problems you've had with it over the past several years but, you are not sure of the best way to approach the cleaning. There are many industrial cleaning applications in refineries that dry ice blasting is best suited to clean.
There could be a machine on your shop floor that is missing its quotas. After closer examination it is determined that the machine has lost efficiency due to down time caused by adhesive or resin buildup on the actuators and moving parts. Dry ice blasting is a very effective way to remove resin and adhesive.
If there are questions about our industrial cleaning service or the dry ice blasting process, don't hesitate to give us a call at 320-275-5479 or use the forum on our Contact Us page.
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