Why is ice blasting good for cleaning?
This is the most modern cleaning process at the moment, which is both environmentally friendly and fast. Dry ice blasting is a highly efficient cleaning technology, which uses solid carbon dioxide (CO2). It is an economical alternative to traditional surface cleaning procedures. Due to the thermal stress created, the layer causing contamination detaches from the substrate surface. There is no damage or wear on the substrate. No liquid remains. Falling dry material and dirt can be easily cleaned up.
Technological end result
The dry ice as a medium evaporates, leaving only the separated dirt that can then be collected using a conventional manual cleaning process
Technology Advantages
Environmentally friendly! Dry ice is a non-toxic natural material, it is not flammable, it does not conduct electricity, it only removes dirt. The safe disposal and storage obligation of chemicals and solvents generated during traditional processes will be eliminated.
The efficiency of the technology
Ice blasting cleaning is quick. Even hard-to-reach surfaces can be cleaned quickly thanks to the small size, easy transport and easy mobility of the ice blaster. The technology makes it possible to drastically reduce downtime, shorten downtimes, as most of the production equipment and components can be cleaned in a built-in condition, there is no need to dismantle the machines, thus reducing downtime and increasing the efficiency in production.
Areas of application
- cleaning of oil industry equipment and buildings
- Electronics, printing and food industry cleaning
- Graffiti Removal
- machine cleaning, degreasing
- Air duct and heat exchanger cleaning
- Air conditioning cleaning
Required infrastructure
In the cleaning process, we often need scaffolding construction, but our Teupen LEO 15 GT aerial platform (working height 15 m, max. load capacity 200 kg, lateral reach 6.40 m)
The process of dry ice blasting effect
Thermal effect: Pieces of dry ice collide with the contaminated surface at a low temperature, -78 degrees, the temperature difference cracks and loosens the dirt. Different materials have different contractile indexes. Thus, the connection between the surface and the material causing the contamination is lost as a result of the sudden thermal shock (the contaminant layer rolls up).
Kinetic effect: Pieces of dry ice are delivered to the surface to be cleaned with the help of an ice blasting device driven by compressed air, and the pieces of ice leaving the spray gun at a speed of 300 m/s hit the contaminated surface and loosen the deposited dirt.
Sublimation: The dry ice breaks through into the material to be removed and immediately sublimates and evaporates there, which causes a drastic increase in volume, explosively detaching the deposit from the surface.
