Dry Ice Blasting Turbine cleaning
Dry Ice Blasting Turbine cleaning
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I work at a plant that is always looking for new and innovative ways to make things work. With this in mind I come from a Military and Commercial aircraft background were we used Dry Ice Blasting to clean parts and aircraft engines. I suggested this as an alternative to cleaning our 3600 rpm turbines that we use in our production. These are not gas but mechanically spun using electrical motors. Has anyone out there used the Dry Ice Blasting method to clean parts or something of this type? Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.





RE: Dry Ice Blasting Turbine cleaning
I think the answer to your question lies in what exactly you are attempting to clean off the parts.
For example, I think SPOP 700 is used on hot section parts. High carbon build, soot, etc... If you parts are not this "dirty" then I am sure there are a multiple handful of other cleaning methods that are less agressive with respect to base metals.
RE: Dry Ice Blasting Turbine cleaning
You know, I should red-flag my own post. There should be no concern to base metals using a CO2 blast process. Somehow I had a specific example of part damage confused with the CO2 process I am familiar with, but after reviewing my notes of the subject this was not the case.
RE: Dry Ice Blasting Turbine cleaning
RE: Dry Ice Blasting Turbine cleaning
RE: Dry Ice Blasting Turbine cleaning
RE: Dry Ice Blasting Turbine cleaning
hope this helps if it doesnt i may be able to help in other ways just contact me at deon7@scott-randallsystems.com
best of luck
deon