Principles and Advantages of Ultrasonic Belt Cleaning

In an ultrasonic belt cleaner, the solvent vibrates at ultrasonic frequencies. These ultrasonic waves cause extremely rapid pressure decreases and increases in the fluid. The sudden decrease develops instants where the water can no longer exist in a fluid state and, as a result, gas bubbles form. In other words, water can only exist in a liquid state above a minimum pressure (the threshold of cavitation). When the pressure decreases below the critical pressure, the water becomes a gas and evaporates. Then, at the ensuing increase in pressure, the gas bubbles will collapse again. This process of creating minute bubbles in the liquid is known as cavitation and it is responsible for the scrubbing effect that propagates ultrasonic cleaning.


Simply put, the advantages of using ultrasonic belt cleaning technology have to do with precision, speed, and consistency. Ultrasonic energy infiltrates obscure regions of the belt, which means that all areas of the belt will be categorically cleansed. Ultrasonic cleaning also works faster than any other conventional cleaning procedure in the elimination of contaminants. Due to the efficiency of ultrasonic antisepsis, the labor saving advantages designate ultrasonic technology as the preeminent economical design in cleaning furnace belts. And, unlike manual cleaning (like using a steel brush) ultrasonic technology offers incomparable cleaning consistency throughout the entire belt.

Using a steel brush as a tool for cleaning the belt, on the other hand, can often be time-consuming, imprecise, and inconsistent. A steel brush uses steel wire bristles to clean the surface area around the belt, however, due to its abrasive nature and inability to reach abstruse regions of the belt, it does not obtain the cleaning capabilities that an ultrasonic belt cleaner can easily handle.

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