Assessing the Feasibility of Removing Graffiti from Railway Vehicles Using Ultra-Freezing Air Projection

Autor: Aina Vega-Bosch, Virginia Santamarina-Campos, Pilar Bosch-Roig, Juan Antonio López-Carrillo, Vicente Dolz-Ruiz, Mercedes Sánchez-Pons
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 14, Iss 10, p 4165 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app14104165
Popis: Unauthorised graffiti is a challenge in urban environments, affecting railway structures, stations, tracks, and vehicles. Inefficient cleaning methods increase the costs and downtime of railcars, limiting passenger transport. In turn, they are harmful to the operator’s health and the environment, due to the VOCs they release. This study focuses on the feasibility of dry-ice blasting, replacing carbon dioxide with ambient air as an innovative and sustainable solution to remove graffiti from rail vehicles. Experimental tests have been carried out with 13 different aerosols, controlling the temperature (
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