DRY ICE BLASTING/ Frozen carbon dioxide

DRY ICE BLASTING

Triventek has since the beginning of this millennium been offering high performance and affordable cleaning machines. The latest Triblast-2 is offering all features from soft cleaning using low pressure and low dry ice consumption (20 kg/hour) to aggressive cleaning at high pressure and if needed with increased dry ice flow to reduced cleaning time (up to 250 kg/hour). Dry ice cleaning in short is:

* Cleaning with no mess
* Cleaning without water or chemicals
* Cleaning without abrasivenessDry Ice is frozen carbon dioxide, a normal part of our earth's atmosphere. It is the gas that we exhale during breathing and the gas that plants use in photosynthesis. It is also the same gas commonly added to water to make soda water. Dry Ice is particularly useful for freezing, and keeping things frozen because of its very cold temperature: -109.3°F or -78.5°C. Dry Ice is widely used because it is simple to freeze and easy to handle using insulated gloves. Dry Ice changes directly from a solid to a gas -sublimation- in normal atmospheric conditions without going through a wet liquid stage. Therefore it gets the name "dry ice."

As a general rule, Dry Ice will sublimate at a rate of five to ten pounds every 24 hours in a typical ice chest. This sublimation continues from the time of purchase, therefore, pick up Dry Ice as close to the time needed as possible. Bring an ice chest or some other insulated container to hold the Dry Ice and slow the sublimation rate. Dry Ice sublimates faster than regular ice melts but will extend the life of regular ice.

It is best not to store Dry Ice in your freezer because your freezer's thermostat will shut off the freezer due to the extreme cold of the Dry Ice! Of course if the freezer is broken, Dry Ice will save all your frozen goods.

Commercial shippers of perishables often use dry ice even for non frozen goods. Dry ice gives more than twice the cooling energy per pound of weight and three times the cooling energy per volume than regular water ice (H2O). It is often mixed with regular ice to save shipping weight and extend the cooling energy of water ice. Sometimes dry ice is made on the spot from liquid CO2. The resulting dry ice snow is packed in the top of a shipping container offering extended cooling without electrical refrigeration equipment and connections.

This informative site is supported by the manufacturers and sellers of Dry Ice. Thank you for supporting If you want to purchase dry ice, try our growing Dry Ice Directory for a dry ice store near you! We try to maintain as much accuracy as we can, but often a dry ice store will run out temporally or possibly decide its too much trouble to carry dry ice. Feedback is always welcome.

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