Why Dry Ice Blasting Is Gaining Popularity
In any industrial environment, the blasting process to clean and prepare surfaces is often time-consuming, challenging, and costly. If you've been exploring options for investing in a better blasting media, you might have discovered dry ice blasting. As the name suggests, dry ice blasting is a pressure-blasting process that uses high-pressure air and dry ice pellets as the blasting media. Before you choose a type of blasting media, here's a look at some of the reasons why many facilities opt for dry ice blasting.
Highly Effective
The very nature of dry ice makes it a highly effective media for blasting. As dry ice pellets touch the surface that's being blasted, the pellets rapidly freeze the dirt, debris, paint, and other surface contaminants that you're looking to remove with the blasting process.
Subsequent contact with dry ice through the blasting process will then create an expansion reaction that forces that deeply chilled surface contamination layer to crack and break apart, leaving the clean surface behind.
You'll get a clear surface with dry ice blasting in a fraction of the time that you might face with manual cleaning and scraping or using other blasting media.
Good For The Environment
The environmental footprint is an important consideration for every business these days. You want to be sure that you're doing the best that you can with what you have to work with. If you're looking to minimize your company's impact on the planet, dry ice blasting is a step in the right direction.
The dry ice pellets that you use for this blasting process turn back into carbon dioxide gas as they reach room temperature. That gas is then released back into the environment where the trees and other greenery will absorb it to complete their natural cycle of turning carbon dioxide into carbon and oxygen. That makes dry ice blasting a sustainable, environmentally friendly way to handle your company's blasting projects.
Less Cleanup
For many, the biggest single problem with the blasting process is the cleanup afterward. Even if you're working in a contained blasting booth, the fine particles that are used for blasting can pile up rapidly and can be very difficult to clean up.
If you use dry ice blasting, there's a lot less cleanup. You'll only have to clean up any physical debris that's been created by the surface layer of dirt and residue removed from the object being blasted. You won't have any blasting media to clean up because the dry ice converts back to a gas form at room temperature.
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