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Airgas
Blasting Ice
What is Dry Ice Cleaning?
Cleaning with Dry Ice is Clean and Safe. Dry ice
cleaning (also known as dry ice blasting, dry ice blast cleaning,
and dry ice dusting) is similar to sand blasting, plastic bead
blasting, or soda blasting where a medium is accelerated in a
pressurized air stream to impact a surface to be cleaned or
prepared. But that's where the similarity ends.
Instead of using hard abrasive media to grind on a surface (and
damage it), Dry ice cleaning uses soft dry ice, accelerated at
supersonic speeds, and creates mini-explosions on the surface to
lift the undesirable item off the underlying substrate. If you want
to read all the technical details, see the How CO2 Blasting Works
page.
Dry ice cleaning has many unique and superior benefits
over traditional blasting media.
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Dry Ice Cleaning...
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is a
non-abrasive, nonflammable and nonconductive cleaning method
- is environmentally-friendly and contains no secondary
contaminants
such as solvents or grit media
- is clean and approved for use in the food industry
- allows most items to be cleaned in place without time-consuming
disassembly
- can be used without damaging active electrical or mechanical
parts or creating
fire hazards
- can be used to remove production residues, release agents,
contaminants, paints,
oils and biofilms
- can be as gentle as dusting smoke damage from books or as
aggressive as
removing weld slag from tooling
- can be used for many general cleaning applications
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High
Density Blasting Ice
2.9 mm Diameter
Pellets |
Dry
ice cleaning uses compressed air to accelerate frozen carbon dioxide
(CO2) "dry ice" pellets to a high velocity. A compressed air supply
of 80 PSI/50 scfm can be used in this process. Dry ice pellets can
be made on-site or supplied. Pellets are made from food grade carbon
dioxide that has been specifically approved by the FDA, the EPA and
the USDA.
Carbon dioxide (CO2)is a non-poisonous, liquefied gas, which is both
inexpensive and easily stored at work sites.
Top 10 Reasons
Dry Ice Blasting is superior
1. Superior clean: fewer cleaning cycles = less downtime
2. Machines can be cleaned in place: dry ice blasting is a dry
process and requires
no disassemble/reassembly which means much less downtime
3. Quicker clean: less resource = more runtime = more profits
4. Non-abrasive, nonflammable and nonconductive: dry ice blasting
won't damage
most substrates and can be used safely on electrical
components
5. No secondary waste cleanup: this not only saves additional
cleanup labor and
expense, but also means temporary containment areas can
possibly be reused
- an additional cost savings
6. Can get into tight spaces that many other methods can not
7. Environmentally friendly: meets USDA, FDA and EPA guidelines
8. Operator safety: no exposure to chemicals or grit media
9. Operator efficiency: not as labor intensive as traditional
cleaning methods
10. Clean enough for the food industry, strong enough(1) for
everything else
 Rent
a Cold Jet Dry Ice Cleaning Unit through Airgas
Red-D-Arc Welderentals
Airgas
provides high density Blasting Ice and
Airgas
Red-D-Arc provides Cold Jet Dry Ice Blasting equipment on a rental
basis throughout the continental United States.
Airgas
selected to partner with Cold Jet because they are the global
industry leader in Dry Ice Blasting. Cold Jet's Dry Ice Blasting
equipment is designed to be used in a wide range of cleaning and
product finishing processes.
Through
Airgas
Dry Ice specializes in high density blasting ice for the toughest
jobs.
Airgas
Red-D-Arc offers rental equipment programs, try-before-you-buy and
rent-to-own state of the art Cold Jet blasting equipment. Click on
the link
www.reddarc.com/iceblast for more information how to rent
blasting equipment and contact
Airgas
Dry Ice for purchasing high density blasting ice. For more
information about Cold Jet, clink on the link
www.coldjet.com.
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