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dry ice blasting vs abrasive ice blasting

Dry Ice Blasting vs. Sand Blasting vs. Abrasive Ice Blasting

Dry ice blasting, sand blasting, and abrasive ice blasting can all clean industrial facilities and equipment. Dry ice blasting uses compressed air to propel a high-velocity stream of dry ice pellets at a surface such as a wall, floor, or machine. Dry ice cleaning, as this process is also known, is effectively media-less because its […]

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Emergency Dry Ice Blast Cleaning in the Northeast

On Wednesday, March 2, 2011 we received a call for an emergency dry ice blast cleaning service in New York State from a major power company. Just the day before a fire had caused damage at one of their urban substations. A transformer had caught fire several feet above two cooling plants. A major fire […]

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Dry Ice Blasting Power Generators

The Cryogenic Institute of New England, Inc. provides its dry ice blasting service for power generators throughout New England and parts of New York. Power generators require cleaning from time to time as maintenance procedures require. The photograph above shows us cleaning a generator in upstate Vermont. There are many “accepted” methods for the cleaning […]

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