Dry Ice Pellet Blasting A Cool Alternative （干冰颗粒爆破一个很酷的选择）.pdf

Dry Ice Pellet Blasting... - A cool alternative Michael L. SanGiovanni Add a little heat to an ice cube and what do the effect is negligible in cleaning a bridge, Editorial Director you get?A puddle of water. Continue to add it wouldn’t do to clean a delicate circuit heat and the water vaporizes. Three states board or an expensive injection mold with of matter. But add a little heat to dry ice and this medium, for obvious reasons. the stuff simply vanishes. A variety of materials have been used in Unlike most materials, dry ice-the solid blast cleaning, including plastic beads and form of carbon dioxide-passes from the evenminuscule sponges. In arelatively new solid state directly to the gaseous state approach, sodium bicarbonate makes an without ever changing to a liquid. This un- effective medium that offers ecologicalben- usual property is called sublimation and efits as well. that characteristic makes dry ice a highly Many materials must be cleaned without versatile blast medium. the possibility of introducing moisture or Many materials have been used as blast residue. Such would be the case with the media. Probably the best known application windings of an electric motor or generator,