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Dry ice blasting is a form of carbon dioxide cleaning, where dry ice, the solid form of carbon dioxide, is accelerated in a pressurized air stream and directed at a surface in order to clean it.
The method is similar to other forms of media blasting such as sand blasting, plastic bead blasting, or soda blasting in that it cleans surfaces using a media accelerated in a pressurized air stream, but dry ice blasting uses dry ice as the blasting medium. Dry ice blasting is nonabrasive, non-conductive, nonflammable, and non-toxic.

Advantages
— Reduce downtime Significantly quicker process leads to increased production time.
— Increase efficiency Clean equipment online, while eliminating need for cooldown and disassembly.
— No secondary waste Dry ice blasting does not produce secondary waste streams, residue or moisture.
— Non-abrasive Dry ice is a soft media that will not harm substrates.
— Improved part quality and reduced scrap Cleaner machinery and tooling results in higher quality products.
— Environmentally responsible Dry ice is made of reclaimed CO2 and does not add additional CO2 to the atmosphere.

Cleaning Effectiveness
The cleaning method used in wet-ice blasting falls under three steps:

Bulk Removal: The stage where major contamination is first removed. Typically this is a physical removal by displacement (i.e.. Momentum transfer). This step is therefore best achieved with a material that transfers its momentum efficiently to contamination. Solids, like ice, have better momentum transfer than liquids as they do not flow around strongly adherent contamination.

Detail Cleaning: The stage where some form of mechanical agitation such as scrubbing or polishing is provided to remove minute quantities of the remaining contamination from the surface. By definition, scrubbing means two solids moving relative to each other under applied pressure. Water as a blast-cleaning agent therefore cannot offer this property.

Final Rinse: The removed contamination is rinsed away. Water is a universal solvent for this action. Many alternatives to ice blasting require an additional rinse on top of the blasting action.