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Trial Number 4

Trial Purpose:

5th contaminant cleaning

Date Run:

04/09/2002

Experiment Procedure:

Ten preweighed coupons were coated with ITW Devcon Safetap Stick grease, using the hand held container. Coupons were reweighed. Five coupons were clipped to wire racks and immersed into the Flow-Matic machine and cleaned for 1 minutes using ultrasonics at 92 F, removed and rinsed in a tap water spray and re-immersed into the ultrasonics for an additional 1 minute followed by a second 5 second rinse. The nine coupons were then dried using an air knife for 15 seconds. The second set of five coupons followed the same cleaning cycle except they were hung on a wire stand and immersed into a Crest 40 kHz ultrasonic tank.

Trial Results:

Comparison of the two processes revealed that the Traditional system was more effective than the Flow-Matic equipment. The following table lists the results obtained during the evaluation.

Table 1. Cleaning Efficiencies

Process Flow-Matic Traditional
  97.47 94.55
  97.68 86.89
  81.37 87.43
  87.26 96.59
  83.00 91.38
Average 89.36 91.37
Std Dev 7.81 4.27

Success Rating:

A follow up test, usually based on company input.

Conclusion:

The traditional ultrasonic method was more effective than the Flow-Matic system.

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