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Trial Purpose:
To evaluate the supplied products for all purpose cleaning using manual cleaning.
Date Run:
03/11/2010Experiment Procedure:
The supplied cleaning products were used at the delivered concentrations. 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:
All of the submitted products were effective in removing over 85% of the soil from the surface using manual cleaning. 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 |
| md Steston PC 108 1:48_Ceramic | |||
| 0.1523 | 0.0347 | 77.22 | |
| 0.4360 | 0.0516 | 88.17 | |
| 0.2306 | 0.0294 | 87.25 | |
| md Steston PC 108 1:48_Painted steel | |||
| 0.1808 | 0.0142 | 92.15 | |
| 0.2879 | 0.0130 | 95.48 | |
| 0.3976 | 0.0135 | 96.60 | |
| md Steston PC 108 1:48_Plastic | |||
| 0.2396 | 0.0150 | 93.74 | |
| 0.3982 | 0.0194 | 95.13 | |
| 0.2965 | 0.0019 | 99.36 | |
| md Steston 3Rs 1:48_Ceramic | |||
| 0.3257 | 0.0439 | 86.52 | |
| 0.1857 | 0.0504 | 72.86 | |
| 0.2657 | 0.0494 | 81.41 | |
| md Steston 3Rs 1:48_Painted steel | |||
| 0.5371 | 0.0312 | 94.19 | |
| 0.4014 | 0.0220 | 94.52 | |
| 0.4919 | 0.0230 | 95.32 | |
| md Steston 3Rs 1:48_Plastic | |||
| 0.1969 | 0.0075 | 96.19 | |
| 0.3667 | 0.0041 | 98.88 | |
| 0.2987 | 0.0157 | 94.74 | |
| md Steston PC 101 1:200_Ceramic | |||
| 0.1694 | 0.0416 | 75.44 | |
| 0.1907 | 0.0446 | 76.61 | |
| 0.2241 | 0.0444 | 80.19 | |
| md Steston PC 101 1:200_Painted steel | |||
| 0.5027 | 0.0297 | 94.09 | |
| 0.4880 | 0.0232 | 95.25 | |
| 0.4890 | 0.0233 | 95.24 | |
| md Steston PC 101 1:200_Plastic | |||
| 0.3839 | 0.0130 | 96.61 | |
| 0.2793 | 0.0259 | 90.73 | |
| 0.1759 | 0.0116 | 93.41 | |
| md Steston PC 220 1:128_Ceramic | |||
| 0.1589 | 0.0247 | 84.46 | |
| 0.6021 | 0.0011 | 99.82 | |
| 0.5636 | 0.1495 | 73.47 | |
| md Steston PC 220 1:128_Painted steel | |||
| 0.3513 | 0.0090 | 97.44 | |
| 0.1246 | 0.0140 | 88.76 | |
| 0.0761 | 0.0086 | 88.70 | |
| md Steston PC 220 1:128_Plastic | |||
| 0.3392 | 0.0586 | 82.72 | |
| 0.2834 | 0.0391 | 86.20 | |
| 0.1758 | 0.0206 | 88.28 |
Success Rating:
A follow up test, usually based on company input.Conclusion:
The three products had an overall average efficiency over 85% and performed as well as the conventional cleaning product.