Browse Client Types

Browse past lab clients by general industry sectors

Trial Number 0

Trial Purpose:

To identify possible alternatives to toluene for manual wax removal.

Date Run:

10/19/2009

Experiment Procedure:

Nine products were selected from the lab’s on-line database, www.cleanersolutions.org, based on client supplied information. All were used at room temperature. Five alkaline aqueous cleaners were diluted to 5% using DI water in 300 ml beakers. Four cleaners were used at full strength. Twenty-four preweighed aluminum coupons were coated with wax manually without heat gun and allowed to dry for 24 hours at room temperature. The contaminated coupons were weighed again to determine the amount of soil added.
Each cleaner tested with three coupons. Three coupons were placed into a Gardner Straight Line Washability unit. A Kimberly Clark Reinforced paper towel was attached to the cleaning sled and soaked with 5-7 sprays of cleaning solutions. Each coupon was sprayed 3 times with the same cleaning solution. Coupon was cleaned for 18 cycles (~30 seconds) straightly. At the end of the cleaning, coupons were dried at room temperature naturally. Final weights were recorded and efficiencies were calculated and recorded.

Trial Results:

Three products were effective in removing the wax with a manual wiping action. The table lists the amount of soil initially added and the amount remaining after cleaning and the product efficiency for each coupon cleaned.

Product Initial wt Final wt % Removed
Buckeye Shopmaster RC 100%                          
                     0.0245 0.0009 96.32
                     0.0360 0.0008 97.77
                     0.0257 0.0015 94.16
Gemtek SC Aircraft metal cleaner 5%                        
                    0.0244 0.0029 88.11
                    0.0257 0.0036 85.99
                    0.0444 0.0089 79.95
Biochem Solsafe 245 100%                          
                     0.0425 0.0037 91.29
                     0.0381 0.006 84.25
                     0.0483 0.0106 78.05
AG Environment Soy Clear 1500 100%                        
                     0.0524 0.0181 65.45
                     0.0587 0.018 69.33
                     0.0405 0.0198 51.11
MacDemid ND LF Supreme 5%                          
                     0.0547 0.0163 70.20
                     0.0468 0.0184 60.68
                     0.0496 0.0185 62.70
Alconox Detergent 8 5%                            
                     0.0329 0.0052 84.19
                     0.0265 0.0116 56.22
                     0.0340 0.0040 88.23
Hurrisafe Hurrisafe 9100 5%                          
                     0.0449 0.0121 73.05
                     0.0397 0.0112 71.78
                     0.0362 0.0150 58.56
Activion                             
                    0.0494 0.0141 71.45
                     0.0449 0.0086 80.84
                     0.0387 0.0193 50.12
Hurrisafe Hurrisafe S-910 5%                          
                     0.0315 0.0162 48.57
                     0.0318 0.0125 60.69
                     0.0592 0.0109 81.58

Success Rating:

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

Conclusion:

Three products (Shopmaster RC, SC Aircraft metal cleaner, Solsafe 245) removed more than 85% of the wax from aluminum coupon. A follow up test will be conducted using longer cleaning times.

Save Report as a PDF