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Trial Purpose:
To evaluate the supplied products for all purpose cleaning using manual cleaning.
Date Run:
03/12/2010Experiment 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.