Dry Ice Cleaning

What is Dry Ice Cleaning?

• a non-abrasive, nonflammable and nonconductive cleaning method

• an environmentally-friendly and contains no secondary contaminants such as solvents or grit media

• a clean and approved for use in the food industry

• allows most items to be cleaned in place without time-consuming disassembly

• can be used without damaging electrical or mechanical parts or creating fire hazards

• can be used to remove production residues, release agents, contaminants, paints, oils and biofilms

• can be as gentle as dusting smoke damage from books or aggressive enough to remove welding slag from tooling

• can be used for many general cleaning applications

The combined impact energy and low temperature (-110deg. F) of the CO2 particles produces a thermal-kinetic effect that removes contaminates and coatings from the inside out, as opposed to the chiseling, abrasive effects of grit blasting. As the dry ice pellets impact the surface, they instantaneously sublimate and return to the atmosphere in their original gaseous state, leaving no residual blast media, thus eliminating grit entrapment and additions to the waste stream.

Additionally, with proper conditioning of supply air, the dry nature of cryogenic cleaning allows for on-site cleaning of electrical components and eliminates the need for drying prior to re-energizing electrical apparatus.

Crossroads can provide the standard dry ice cleaning services as well as specialized services such as High Pressure Dry Ice cleaning.

Call Crossroads when you are thinking about using Dry Ice to complete a cleaning project.