Discover the 7 selection criteria for choosing the right dry ice blasting equipment for your needs… Part 1 of 2

 

Are you making the mistake of believing that buying a very expensive ice gun will allow you to cover all dry ice blasting applications?

Did you know that for 50% of the price of a very expensive dry ice cleaner, you can today:

• Perform
  all
  dry ice blasting services,
• for up to 50% lower dry ice consumption for the same type of work?

The choice of your dry ice cleaner should match your needs.

So there’s no need to invest:

• in a “small cryogenic blaster” if you want to be able to perform all types of cleaning,
• in a “big cryogenic blaster” if you want to do small technical work on small areas…

Here is the list of the 7 criteria that your dry ice cleaner must meet to meet your needs…

C – Kinetic energy

The effectiveness of dry ice cleaning is based on the interaction of 3 phenomena, including kinetic energy:

Ec=1/2mv2

The greater the projection speed (v) (supersonic>, subsonic), the greater the kinetic energy, and therefore the efficiency of dry ice cleaning

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Conclusion :

As a service provider, small or large dry ice cleaner, your equipment must be a single-tube equipment to be able to offer you the maximum aggressiveness.

For so-called “soft” applications, you will want to make sure that your dry ice cleaner is equipped with a pressure regulator as standard , so that you can reduce the impact force of the dry ice.

A fragmentation nozzle (dry ice crushing device) will reduce the mass (m) of dry ice for gentler treatments.

Conclusion :

A dry ice cleaner should be able to allow you to change the dry ice consumption, depending on the application, and a maximum dry ice consumption of 75 kg (+50% compared to firing at 50 kg/h) is sufficient.

The volume of water (high-pressure cleaner) and the volume of air (cryogenic cleaner) correspond to the force accompanying the pollution.

Example…

Defoaming with a pressure washer at 130 bar 17 liters/min is much faster than treatment with a cleaner at 130 bar 8 liters/min only…

The greater the amount of water, the easier it is to accompany the dirt, and the greater the yield.

The same will be true with a dry ice cleaner, with the same pressure, but with three times the volume of air and dry ice consumption.

Conclusion:

If your goal is to be able to perform all possible and imaginable services:

• from “soft” operations to
• recurrent and preventive cleanings to,
• so-called “curative” services

In this article, you have discovered 3 of the 7 criteria to observe when choosing the right dry ice blasting equipment for your needs.

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