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Trial Number 1

Trial Purpose:

To evaluate the efficiency of Simple green and Super green cleaners in hucker soil from ceramics, plastics and painted steel coupons.

Date Run:

05/22/2013

Experiment Procedure:

Preweighed ceramic, plastic G-10 and painted steel coupons were coated with Hucker's Soil Formulation (Jif Creamy Peanut Butter,Salted Butter, Arrowhead Mills stone ground wheat flour, Egg Yolk, Evaporated milk, Distilled water, Printer's ink with boiled linseed oil, Shaws saline solution) using a hand held 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 in a Gardner Straight Line Washability unit. A Kimberly-Clark Wypal reinforced paper towel was attached to the cleaning sled and soaked with 4-6 sprays of cleaning solutions. Each coupon was sprayed 3-5 times with the same cleaning solution. The cleaning unit was run for 20 cycles (~33seconds). At the end of the cleaning; bottom part of the coupons were wiped once with a dry paper towel. Final weights were measured, efficiencies were calculated and recorded.

Trial Results:

Both products were effective at removing the Hucker’s soil from the three surfaces using manual wiping. There were no statistical difference in the removal rates for both products, each removing more than 92% of the Hucker’s soil. The table lists the amount of soil added, the amount remaining after cleaning and the calculated efficiency for each coupon cleaned.

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
SimpleGreen_Ceramics_HuckerSoil_05_28_13      
  0.1485 0.0013 99.12
  0.1141 0.0177 84.49
  0.0981 0.0078 92.05
SimpleGreen_Plastics_HuckerSoil_05_28_13      
  0.0833 0.0122 85.35
  0.1321 0.0056 95.76
  0.1067 0.0112 89.50
SimpleGreen_PaintedSteel_HuckerSoil_05_28_13      
  0.0483 0.0026 94.62
  0.0720 0.0026 96.39
  0.0491 0.0031 93.69
SuperGreen_Ceramics_Huckersoil_05_28_13      
  0.0789 0.0055 93.03
  0.0821 0.0046 94.40
  0.0705 0.0056 92.06
SuperGreen_Plastics_Huckersoil_05_28_13      
  0.0639 0.0052 91.86
  0.0755 0.0027 96.42
  0.0784 0.0041 94.77
SuperGreen_PaintedSteel_Huckersoil_05_28_13      
  0.0516 0.0039 92.44
  0.0663 0.0035 94.72
  0.0363 0.0078 78.51

Success Rating:

Results successful using TACT (time, agitation, concentration, and temperature, as well as rinsing and drying) and/or other cleaning chemistries examined.

Conclusion:

The supplied cleaning products were success on removing the soils from the surface of Ceramics, Plastics and Painted Steel.

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