Cryogenic cleaning is an industrial cleaning method
through which small pellets of dry ice at a temperature of about -79 °C,
produced by CO2, with a diameter of 3 mm are
shot, by means of the cryogenic sandblaster,
at a speed of about 300 m/sec. on the surface
to be cleaned.
The impact of the pellets on the surface, which pass from the solid to the gaseous state, causes the expansion of their volume and causes the encrustations to detach from the surface to be cleaned.