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Trial Purpose:
To evaluate the two supplied products for all purpose cleaning using manual cleaning.
Date Run:
01/05/2010Experiment Procedure:
The supplied cleaning products were used at the delivered concentrations. One product was tested at three concentrations (2, 1, 0.5%) and the second product was used at one dilution (1:600). Preweighed ceramic, plastic 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 Klark Wypall X60 reinforced wipe 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 solution was allowed to penetrate for 30 seconds followed by cleaning in the SLW unit for 20 cycles (~33 seconds). At the end of the cleaning, coupons were wiped once with a dry paper towel. Final weights were recorded, and efficiencies were calculated and recorded.
Trial Results:
The table lists the amount of soil added and the amount remaining after cleaning and the product efficiency for each coupon cleaned.
Cleaner | Initial wt | Final wt | % Removed |
PC 120 2% ceramic | |||
0.0943 | 0.004 | 95.76 | |
0.263 | 0.005 | 98.1 | |
0.1411 | 0.0033 | 97.66 | |
PC 120 2% painted steel | |||
0.1261 | 0.0184 | 85.41 | |
0.1503 | 0.0078 | 94.81 | |
0.0928 | 0.0108 | 88.36 | |
PC 120 2% plastic | |||
0.0845 | 0.0051 | 93.96 | |
0.0742 | 0.0054 | 92.72 | |
0.0396 | 0.0069 | 82.58 | |
PC 120 1% ceramic | |||
0.084 | 0.0044 | 94.76 | |
0.1118 | 0.0017 | 98.48 | |
0.0359 | 0.0039 | 89.14 | |
PC 120 1% painted steel | |||
0.2513 | 0.0066 | 97.37 | |
0.0889 | 0.0083 | 90.66 | |
0.0765 | 0.0108 | 85.88 | |
PC 120 1% plastic | |||
0.0573 | 0.0089 | 84.47 | |
0.0419 | 0.0033 | 92.12 | |
0.07 | 0.0044 | 93.71 | |
PC 120 0.5% ceramic | |||
0.0762 | 0.0043 | 94.36 | |
0.0484 | 0.0082 | 83.06 | |
0.1137 | 0.0031 | 97.27 | |
PC 120 0.5% painted steel | |||
0.0546 | 0.015 | 72.53 | |
0.0796 | 0.0113 | 85.8 | |
0.1044 | 0.016 | 84.67 | |
PC 120 0.5% plastic | |||
0.067 | 0.0043 | 93.58 | |
0.0514 | 0.0034 | 93.39 | |
0.0368 | 0.002 | 94.57 | |
PC 101 ceramic | |||
0.1071 | 0.0069 | 93.56 | |
0.0761 | 0.0128 | 83.18 | |
0.0299 | 0.0057 | 80.94 | |
PC 101 painted steel | |||
0.1586 | 0.0221 | 86.07 | |
0.0596 | 0.0167 | 71.98 | |
0.0926 | 0.0174 | 81.21 | |
PC 101 plastic | |||
0.0719 | 0.0018 | 97.5 | |
0.0423 | 0.0027 | 93.62 | |
0.0374 | 0.0058 | 84.49 | |
Alpha HP ceramic | |||
0.6564 | 0.0229 | 96.51 | |
0.2883 | 0.0086 | 97.02 | |
0.3684 | 0.0095 | 97.42 | |
Alpha HP painted steel | |||
0.0972 | 0.0215 | 77.88 | |
0.14 | 0.0162 | 88.43 | |
0.1666 | 0.0085 | 94.9 | |
Alpha HP plastic | |||
0.1219 | 0.0027 | 97.79 | |
0.0538 | 0.0038 | 92.94 | |
0.0521 | 0.0052 | 90.02 |
Success Rating:
A follow up test, usually based on company input.Conclusion:
Both of the products at all dilutions had an overall average efficiency over 85% and would be considered effective based on the TURI lab testing protocol for GS 37.