Hello arctic1-ga,
CO2 (carbon dioxide) has a wide range of uses. Here are a few lists
of uses:
"Some uses for carbon dioxide are for fire extinguishing, for beverage
dispensing, as a shielding gas for welding, for food freezing and as
dry ice (in solid form)."
"High pressure gas cylinders for the carbon dioxide beverage market",
by Jim Barker (April 11, 2002) [under "Carbon Dioxide Gas"]
Luxfer Gas Cylinders
http://www.luxfercylinders.com/support/bulletins/20020411.shtml
"Some Typical Uses for Carbon Dioxide:
Gas Turbine Generators / Diesel Generators / Oil Quelching / Paint
Spray Booths / Transformer Vaults / Hydraulic Oil Cellars / Rolling
Mills / Record Storage / Hydo-Electric Generators / Fur Storage Vaults
/ Dip Tanks / Newspaper Production / Oil Circuit Breakers / Food
Processing."
"Carbon Dioxide Systems" [under "Some Typical Uses for Carbon
Dioxide"]
Ace Fire & Security
http://www.acefiresecurity.com/water.html
"The uses of CO2 Cleaning are wide and varied but applications can
include cleaning:
AIRCRAFT INTAKE FILTERS
PERFORMANCE AUTOMOTIVE ENGINES
FUEL INJECTORS & AUTOMOTIVE PARTS
SMALL DIAMETER TUBING
PRECISION BEARINGS & GYROSCOPES
POLYMERIC SUBSTRATES
CERAMIC, GLASS & SILICON SUBSTRATES
WELDING TIPS
PEN TIP (BALL IN TIP)
ROD, BARSTOCK & TUBING
ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICES
BIO-MEDICAL IMPLANTS
300MM SILICON WAFERS"
"CO2 Cleaning Systems: The Power-Sno"
Epak Electronics Ltd
http://www.epakelectronics.com/co2cleaningsystems.htm#powersno
This is only the tip of the iceberg. The following web pages indicate
many other uses for CO2:
"New Uses for Carbon Dioxide", by Christopher M. Rayner
chemsoc [The Royal Society of Chemistry]
http://www.chemsoc.org/pdf/gcn/WRCarbon.ppt
[If you can't view this page, you can see the Google cached page at:
http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:3MLFsjdC-ksC:www.chemsoc.org/pdf/gcn/WRCarbon.ppt
]
"Carbon Dioxide: Natural Sinks, Chemistry & Uses"
IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG)
http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/util2.htm
"Why Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in Fire Suppression Systems?", by Norb
Makowka [under "Uses of Carbon Dioxide"]
National Association of Fire Equipment Distributors [NAFED]
http://www.nafed.org/library/whyCO2.cfm
"Green Chemistry"
Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/science21/GreenChemistry.pdf
"Tire Mold Maintenance With Engineered CO2 Blasting Systems"
Cold Jet
http://www.coldjet.com/dry-ice-tech-tire.html
"Carbon dioxide studied as a way to heat, cool homes", by Rick Barrett
(November 15, 2002)
Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/realestate/renews/carbon15_20021115.htm
"NSB approves science and technology center"
University Gazette [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]
http://gazette.unc.edu/archives/99aug18/file.52.html
"Pulp & Paper" [under "Applied gases for Pulp and Paper"]
Praxair Technology, Inc.
http://www.praxair.com/praxair.nsf/1928438066cae92d85256a63004b880d/46d69ca85f7cadaa49256c330008c27e?OpenDocument=
"BOC Secondary Recovery and Enhanced Oil Recovery"
The BOC Group
http://www.praxair.com/praxair.nsf/1928438066cae92d85256a63004b880d/46d69ca85f7cadaa49256c330008c27e?OpenDocument=
"Binary Oxides – Compounds of oxygen" [pages 4-5]
University of British Columbia Chemistry Department
http://www.chem.ubc.ca/courseware/250/Binary_Oxides.pdf
"Carbon Dioxide as a Feedstock", by Carol Creutz and Etsuko Fujita
Fischer-Tropsch Archive
http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/DOE/DOE_reports/bnl_68111/bnl_68111.pdf
"Supercritical CO2 Extraction", by Leslie Harrison, Tracie Mustain,
and
Bryan Williams (March 7, 1997)
California Polytechnic State University
http://www.calpoly.edu/~ceenve/enve/supercrit.html
"Supercritical CO2 Uses", by Maria A. Lester (1/1/2002)
Semiconductor International
http://www.e-insite.net/semiconductor/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA187874&pubdate=1/1/2002&industryid=3027
"BOC Edwards and Micell Integrated Systems to Jointly Commercialize
Supercritical CO2 Systems and Process Technology" (02 January 2003)
BOC Edwards
http://www.bocedwards.com/news/nws_detail_5.cfm?article=191
I hope that this information is helpful.
- justaskscott-ga
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Clarification of Answer by
justaskscott-ga
on
15 May 2003 19:01 PDT
In addition to the ones that you have listed, here are uses of C02 in
various industries:
Fire equipment industry for fire supression
Tire manufacturing industry (dry ice) for cleaning tire mold sidewalls
Chemical industry for polymerization, solvent replacement, etc.
Dry cleaning industry as solvent
Pulp and paper industry for controlling pH levels, washing, etc.
Oil and gas industry for enhanced oil recovery
Agriculture for making urea (nitrogen fertilizer)
Pharmaceutical industry for making salicytic acid (used in medicines)
Perfume industry (supercritical CO2) for extracting perfume from
flowers
Food and beverage industry (supercritical CO2) for extracting caffeine
from coffee beans, fat from processed snack foods, and flavor oils
from hops
Semiconductor manufacturing industry (supercritical CO2) for wafer
drying, cleaning, photoresist stripping, etc.
Incidentally, I made a mistake with one of the links. The page
entitled "BOC Secondary Recovery and Enhanced Oil Recovery" is at:
http://www.boc.com/htmls/oil_recovery/secondary_and_eor.cfm
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