Dry Ice Blasting Overview

Dry ice blasting is a relatively new cleaning process using solid CO2 pellets (dry ice pellets). It is primarily used for industrial use in a variety of applications. The pellets sublimate (convert directly from solid pellet to a vapour (CO2) leaving no residue. The dry ice blasting process is superior to blasting with sand or glass bead and other types of cleaning methods for numerous reasons (see Dry Ice Blasting Comparison Chart).

Dry ice blasting is quickly becoming favoured for environmental and production reasons. Due to increasing environmental regulations industry has needed to minimise waste. There is a growing consciousness of the environmental impact of production practices. Dry ice blasting also offers production performance gains - minimal production downtime, quality of clean and minimised damaged to equipment.

What Is Dry Ice?

Dry ice pellets are made by taking liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) from a pressurised storage tank and expanding it at ambient pressure to produce snow. The snow is then compressed through a die to make hard pellets.

Compare Dry Ice Blasting with other Cleaning Methods