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Trial Number 328

Trial Purpose:

Laboratory evaluations of alternative cleaning products

Date Run:

05/26/2004

Experiment Procedure:

Basic cleaning performance testing was conducted using ASTM G122 as the bases for cleaning. 

Each product was used at full strength in a 250 ml beaker and heated to 96 F on a hot plate. Fifteen preweighed aluminum coupons were coated with the Cargill, Inc Canola Oil (120962-03-0) using a handheld swab. Coupons were weighed a second time to determine the amount of soil added to each coupon. Three coupons were cleaned in each solution for 5 minutes using stir-bar agitation. After cleaning parts were allowed to sit for 10 minutes for drying at room temperature. The coupons were weighed a final time and efficiencies were calculated.

Trial Results:

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
Solvon PB 0.5513 0.0031 99.44
  0.2799 0.0026 99.07
  0.4849 0.0018 99.63
Solvon IP 0.2713 0.001 99.63
  0.2168 0.0003 99.86
  0.2806 0.0011 99.61
OS 10 0.4924 0.0013 99.74
  0.2903 0.0026 99.10
  0.3817 0.0014 99.63
OS 20 0.2670 0.0027 98.99
  0.3246 0.0006 99.82
  0.2212 0.0025 98.87
OS 30 0.1623 0.0273 83.18
  0.1865 0.0297 84.08
  0.2718 0.0206 92.42

Success Rating:

Preliminary compatibility tests on substrate coupons encouraging for at least one cleaning chemistry. More in-depth laboratory testing necessary.

Conclusion:

All five products removed over 85% of the canola oil.

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