Cold Jet i3 MICROCLEAN Operator's Manual page 4

WHAT IS DRY ICE CLEANING?
Dry ice cleaning is similar to sand blasting, plastic bead blasting or soda blasting
where a medium is accelerated in a pressurized air stream to impact a surface to
be cleaned or prepared.
However, instead of using hard abrasive media to grind on a surface (and
damage it), dry ice cleaning uses soft dry ice accelerated at supersonic speeds
to impact the surface and lift the undesirable item off the underlying substrate.
DRY ICE CLEANING:
• is a non-abrasive, nonflammable and nonconductive cleaning method
• is environmentally-responsible and contains no secondary
contaminants such as solvents or grit media
• is 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 active 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 as
aggressive as removing weld slag from tooling
• can be used for many general cleaning applications
Cold Jet dry ice cleaning uses compressed air to accelerate frozen carbon
dioxide (CO ) "dry ice" pellets to a high velocity. Dry ice pellets can be made
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on-site or supplied. Pellets are made from food grade carbon dioxide that has
been specifically approved by the FDA, the EPA and the USDA.
Carbon dioxide is a non-poisonous, liquefied gas, which is both inexpensive and
easily stored at work sites.