Walnut Shell Blasting: Better for Your Machinery

Machinery is expensive to purchase, and it’s even more expensive to replace machinery that hasn’t been properly maintained. When it comes to heavy equipment, the environment most machinery operates in is dirty, dusty, and damp. Over time, this damages protective coatings. If that damage isn’t repaired, the costs from corrosion and rust can really add up.

 

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For that reason, virtually all businesses that operate heavy machinery repaint their equipment from time to time. The process requires sandblasting the machine, then applying a new protective finish. But sandblasting via silica media can also damage equipment. That’s why using crushed walnut shells for sandblasting offers a much better alternative.

Using crushed walnut shells for sandblasting removes the risk that the equipment will be damaged. Plus, because it’s not a silica-based product, the health risks of inhaling silicate is non-existent. This makes it a healthy, eco-safe alternative that is equally as effective as traditional sandblasting media.

Further, because walnut shells can be ground to the requested size, it’s easy to tailor the size of the particulates. This allows you to select the right size media for the piece of machinery that is being cleaned. This is one of the reasons that it’s easy to use crushed walnut shells for sandblasting truck engines, oil rigs, storage tanks, farm equipment, etc.

Most importantly, it stays dry. Because it is non-porous, crushed walnut shells won’t absorb moisture. This means they won’t lose effectiveness and will continue to provide high-grade sandblasting properties longer than other media will. This reduces the need to replace the media you are using, which in turn reduces your overall maintenance costs. That’s something that we are sure will most certainly make everyone in the company smile.

Flowspec has a number of crushed walnut shell options for you to select from. Whether you require a fine, or a coarse grain, for use in your sandblasting operations, we would be happy to tell you all about them. We invite you to contact us with your questions, and we’ll be happy to give you the answers you are searching for.

Making Use of Exfoliants: Walnut Shells for Healthier Soaps

Consumers are increasingly making eco-friendly decisions when they shop. Not only are they concerned with the quality of the environment, but they are concerned with the sheer number of chemicals being used as ingredients in the products they utilize. To that end, it’s a wise idea for your business to begin using ground walnut shells for soap production.

Ground walnut shells are available in a variety of particulate sizes, which means they can be used for everything from facial scrubs to foot scrubs. This versatility makes it possible to incorporate them within a wide range of cosmetic products that will appeal to your clientele.

 

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In fact, using ground walnut shells for soap comes with the following benefits that your customers are sure to appreciate:
1.They are non-toxic. Because they are a natural product that will biodegrade in the environment, consumers don’t have to worry about them polluting waterways or damaging sewer systems as they pass through them.
2.They are gentle, but effective. Because shells have a hardness of 4-5 on the MOHS scale, they are capable of removing dead skin without damaging the healthy skin beneath it. This means that your clients will enjoy healthier, more vibrant skin without worrying about over-exfoliating.
3.They are an eco-friendly dream. Because ground walnut shells are the natural byproduct of nut production, using them in soap production just makes sense. It keeps them out of landfills while giving your clients one more reason to select products manufactured with walnut shells.
4.They won’t affect other ingredients. Ground walnut shells are stable when mixed within the soap formula. In fact, they help stabilize the overall formula which prolongs the products shelf life and gives your clients a soap they don’t have to worry about spoiling during storage.

In the end, using ground walnut shells for soap production simply makes sense. It also makes dollars and cents for your business while you create products with a fabulous sense of scent. In fact, to find out how much sense and cents it makes to use ground walnut shells, we invite you to contact Flowspec with your questions.

Clean Up Oil Residue with Crushed Walnut Shells

Figuring out how to effectively clean up oil residue has been a problem engineers have grappled with ever since the first oil wells were drilled in the 1850′s. Over the years, a variety of methods and technologies have been employed, but many of these caused just as many messes as the oil itself.

 



 

What engineers didn’t know was that the solution to the problem of oil residue was quite literally growing on trees all around them.  Through a process of trial and error, it was determined that crushed walnut shells were highly effective at removing oil and suspended solids from produced water, waste, and refinery effluent. In fact, crushed walnut shells are more efficient at this task than traditional sand filters. Further, crushed walnut shell filters are lighter than sand filters, which means that they are easier to install and leave a smaller footprint behind them. This makes them ideal for offshore drilling operations, and for drilling in remote areas on land.

Crushed walnut shells are able to clean up oil residue because of the following attributes:
•Walnut shells provide a superior effluent quality and allow for longer filtration runs. This allows for the removal of up to 98% of contaminants and suspended solids.
•A walnut shell filter utilizes raw processed water and/or gas for back washing. This removes the need for additional equipment.
•Walnut shell filters function at twice the flux rate of traditional sand filters.

Combined, these attributes make crushed walnut shell filters highly attractive. Not only are they more efficient, but they are more cost effective to operate. Further, because walnut shells are chemically inert, they will not react with the oils or solids they come into contact with. This means that they can be used, cleaned, and reused many times over before they need to be replaced.

While drilling for oil will always be a dirty business, crushed walnut shell filters make that process considerably cleaner and a lot less harmful on the environment. That’s why we invite you to contact Flowspec to learn more about our crushed walnut shell filters and their industrial applications.