Bitumen and coal tar stripping by dry ice cleaning
Among the dry ice blasting applications, bitumen and coal tar stripping is extremely impressive. Discover in this video an excerpt from an intervention on a furnace frame for steel manufacturing.
Dry ice blasting of a mixture of bitumen, coal and fibers on a furnace door (steel manufacturing)
- Industry : Steel industry
- Treatment purpose : Furnace frame
- Equipment used : ATX80 replaced by ATX25
Le bitumen and coal tar stripping by dry ice blasting, is fast and extremely effective.
The most commonly used method for cleaning furnace frames (steel manufacturing) is sandblasting.
Extremely polluting, this process generates a significant amount of dust and waste to be recycled.
Dry ice cleaning for bitumen and coal tar stripping generates no secondary waste. Moreover, the process respects the treated surfaces
List of advantages of dry ice cleaning on bitumen and coal tar
- Dry process : the media used is CO₂ in solid form, highly compressed
- Respectful of surfaces : the hardness of dry ice is only 2 Mohs, the hardness of dry ice
- No secondary waste : unlike sandblasting, dry ice cleaning removes dirt from surfaces without adding media (garnet, corundum...). On impact, dry ice transforms into gas
