Sunday, November 27, 2016

The Advantages And The Disadvantages Of A CO2 Refill

By Arthur Meyer


CO2 or the carbon dioxide is a type of gas which is odorless and is colorless and this is considered to be vital in the lives on Earth. The most common natural resources are hot springs, geysers, and volcanoes. And since carbon dioxide is water soluble, it may occur naturally in rivers, ice caps, seawater, groundwater, lakes, and glaciers. It is also present in the deposits of natural gas and petroleum.

In Chicago, CO2 has been widely used in most industries today including chemical, food, and oil industries. The compound is varied in different used commercially and one most common use is as a chemical in producing carbonated beverages. The compound produces the sparkles of carbonated beverages such as the soda water. Systems such as the CO2 refill Chicago became popular now because of some advantages.

The purpose of these refilling systems is for the people to easily refill this compound into any uses such as for flat tires. Some of the advantages of these systems would include fast because it can fill up the tire faster compared to a pump, less effort, possibly having lesser weight, and lower value for initial investment because valves and cartridges are cheaper than pumps. However, this may also have some disadvantages.

Consumable cartridges. To fill up more often may possibly end up to frequently changing the cartridge, thus, costs will become higher. There is no provided back up. There are times when your flat tires are being patched and the processes are not not done properly, this may cause you to not fill up the tire anymore. Carrying one extra cartridge may be done, but may result to not taking an advantage of losing weight.

Usually, this compound has a limitation on its use such as for specific tires only. Tires having large sizes will get a lesser amount of pressure. Another disadvantage is not being friendly. There might be cases when you have a friend and his or her tire was flat and for sure, you will have doubts on letting your cartridge to be loaned by a friend. But if you acquire a pump, then better. And lastly, it will go low faster. This carbon dioxide is going to seep faster to the tubes than air.

Aside from those mentioned, CO2 has also some other uses. One is as precursor to the chemicals. In a chemical industry, this is consumed mainly as one ingredient in urea production. Smaller fractions of this is utilized for the production of methanol and some other range of products.

It is also an additive to foods in a food industry. It is used as acidity regulator and propellant. This can be produced also from yeast during the fermentation of sugar in the dough then the chemical leaveners like baking soda and baking powder release a carbon dioxide if heated or exposed into acids.

This is also one main ingredient in producing the soda water and the carbonated drinks. Traditionally, sparkling wines and beer carbonation come from the natural fermentation. The manufacturers are mostly carbonating drinks with a CO2 which is recovered in the fermentation.

In the process of wine making, CO2 in a form of a dry ice will be used for cooling down the grape clusters quickly right after picking. This can help in the prevention of spontaneous fermentation due to wild yeast. The advantage of dry ice is cooling the grapes without the need to add water that can decrease the concentration of sugar and alcohol.




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