Dry Ice / CO2 Supply
Snow-Pack understands that the growing demand for high-quality products renders today’s economy a hotbed of potential businesses and we are ready to supply your needs in retail or wholesale basis. Carbon dioxide (CO2) and its solid form, dry ice, has many modern applications in a broad range of industries such as:
- Food and Beverage: CO2 is used to make carbonated drinks and soda water. Dry ice is an excellent refrigerant and coolant for food preservation and transport.
- Solvents: Liquid CO2 is an excellent dissolving agent for chemical compounds. For example, it can be used to separate caffeine from coffee beans.
- Industrial Cleaning: Dry ice blasting is a safe, efficient and innovative way of cleaning machinery, heavy equipment and facilities such as commissary and fast-food kitchens.
- Medicine: Dry ice can be a refrigerant for temperature-sensitive medicines as well as donor organs. CO2 is combined with pure oxygen to stimulate and promote deep breathing.
- Pressurized Gas: CO2 is one of the cheapest noncombustible gases. It has a wide variety of applications such as spray paint cans, airguns, and other pressurized consumer items.
- Fire Safety: CO2 is a natural fire extinguisher and can be loaded into commercial fire extinguishers.
- Engineering: CO2 is used as a shielding gas to prevent atmospheric contamination in electric arc welding.
- Oil Production: CO2 is injected into producing oil wells to draw lost traces of crude oil .
- Waste Water Treatment: CO2 can be used as a cost-effective and safe replacement of more harmful mineral acids used in pH reduction.
- Fumigation: Used to increase shelf life and remove infestations.
Image Credits: dry ice pellets and soda water images taken from the wikimedia commons.