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Trial Number 0

Trial Purpose:

To evaluate supplied products for ASTM D4488-95 or GS 37 standard to qualify for EPA DfE program

Date Run:

11/20/2008

Experiment Procedure:

Two of the supplied cleaning products were diluted to the requested concentrations (25% and 20% by weight) and the third requested product was used at full strength.

Preweighed ceramic, plastic G-10 and painted steel coupons were coated with Hucker's Soil Formulation (Jif Creamy Peanut Butter 9.2%, Salted Butter 9.2%, Arrowhead Mills stone ground wheat flour 9.2%, Egg Yolk 9.2%, Evaporated milk 13.8%, Distilled water 45.8%, Printer's ink with boiled linseed oil 0.9%, Shaws saline solution 2.7%) using a handheld swab and allowed to dry for 24 hours at room temperature. The contaminated coupons were weighed again to determine the amount of soil added.

Three coupons were placed into a Gardner Straight Line Washability unit. A Kimberly-Clark Wypall reinforced paper towel was attached to the cleaning sled and soaked with 5-7 sprays of cleaning solutions. Each coupon was sprayed 7-10 times with the same cleaning solution. The cleaning unit was run for 20 cycles (~33 seconds).

At the end of the cleaning, coupons were wiped once with a dry paper towel. Final weights were recorded, efficiencies were calculated and recorded.

Trial Results:

The two supplied products removed over 85% of the Hucker's soil using manual wiping. All three products performed comparably to the selected industry standard product. The table lists the substrate cleaned, the amount of soil added, the amount remaining and the efficiency for each coupon cleaned.

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
Green Force - ceramic 0.5077 0.0049 99.03
  0.2808 0.0090 96.79
  0.1597 0.0088 94.49
Green Force - painted steel 0.2510 0.0191 92.39
  0.9002 0.0093 98.97
  0.1734 0.0133 92.33
Green Force - plastic 0.1524 0.0060 96.06
  0.2127 0.0053 97.51
  0.1565 0.0096 93.87
5261 - ceramic 0.1724 0.0098 94.32
  0.2865 0.0167 94.17
  0.1674 0.0062 96.30
5261 - painted steel 0.1627 0.0181 88.88
  0.3113 0.0254 91.84
  0.1822 0.0256 85.95
5261 - plastic 0.1890 0.0156 91.75
  0.1657 0.0063 96.20
  0.1925 0.0043 97.77
Green Works - ceramic 0.2425 0.0083 96.58
  0.2274 0.0143 93.71
  0.1945 0.0047 97.58
Green Works - painted steel 0.2086 0.0316 84.85
  0.1625 0.0409 74.83
  0.2931 0.0106 96.38
Green Works - plastic 0.2028 0.0085 95.81
  0.3177 0.0102 96.79
  0.2606 0.0130 95.01

Success Rating:

A follow up test, usually based on company input.

Conclusion:

Two products had overall average efficiencies greater than 85% and would be considered effective based on the SSL testing methodology.

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