CO2 (Dry Ice) Blasting
- The rising star in commercial, industrial and residential cleaning
applications
About Dry Ice Blasting
Dry ice blasting 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 is where the similarity ends.
Instead of using hard abrasive media to grind a surface (and damage it), dry ice blasting uses
soft dry ice, accelerated at supersonic speeds, and creates mini-explosions on the surface to lift
the undesirable item off the underlying substrate.
Dry ice blasting has many unique and superior benefits over traditional blasting media.
Dry ice blasting:
- is a non-abrasive, nonflammable and non conductive 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 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.
Dry ice blasting 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 is a non-poisonous, liquefied gas, which is both inexpensive and easily stored
at work sites.
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