Using dry ice blasting to gently clean your processing and handling equipment
This article tells you how to use dry ice to clean material residue from processing and handling equipment. The dry ice blasting method is gentle, easy to use, and contaminant-free. Sections cover the method's benefits, operation, and air supply needs, as well as factors behind the method's efficiency and a typical application.
Processing and handling dry bulk material can be a messy business. Material builds up on conveyor belts and inside mixers, bag fillers, rotary mills, briquetters, and other process vessels. Getting rid of the residue has traditionally involved blasting it off with water, sand, or other media. But these methods have some problems.