Dry Cleaning: Drying Clothes

Video Transcript

"So this way is our dry cleaning machine and we use percoethylene and the reason they call it dry cleaning is because there is no water involved. You still get the mechanical action of having a liquid go through your fabrics to remove the stain and you still get the tumbling action and stuff like a washing machine but you not using water its all solvent. On these machines they are a dry to dry cycle the clothes go in dry and they come out dry. The machine is all self contained and what it does it will extract the solvent out of here and then the drying process will heat the clothes up to one hundred and seventy five degrees. Which turns the solvent into a gaseous form and then it will go through a refrigeration unit and turn it back into a liquid. But before the clothes come out of the drum they will cool down to a nice eighty degrees slowly so you do not wrinkle your cloths or anything and it helps keep the wrinkles out of it like that. Alright you heat it up like that to turn the solvent into a gaseous form that way it goes through our refrigeration unit and our condenser and turns it back into a liquid by cooling down rapidly. It cleans as a liquid it goes in there as a liquid it extract as much liquid as possible but then it will heat up to one hundred and seventy five degrees. Which turns the percoethylene into a gaseous form and then it goes through a refrigeration unit turns it back into a liquid. Which will then go back into one of our holding tanks to be reused later."