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Trial Number 335

Trial Purpose:

Laboratory evaluations of alternative cleaning products

Date Run:

05/27/2004

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. Nine preweighed silver plated copper coupons were coated with the Lanson Oil Co Vanish 6912 (6742-48-9) 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 weighed a final time and efficiencies were calculated.

Trial Results:

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
Vertrel MCA 0.1071 0.0074 93.09
  0.0366 0.0055 84.97
  0.0661 0.0124 81.24
Heavy Duty Degreaser C 0.0682 0.0036 94.72
  0.0364 0.0072 80.22
  0.0731 0.0064 91.24
Flux Remover C 0.0357 0.0156 56.30
  0.0504 0.0140 72.22
  0.0766 0.0098 87.21

Success Rating:

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

Conclusion:

Two of the three removed over 85%.

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