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Trial Purpose:
To retest supplied product at higher dilution for all purpose cleaning follow GS 37 standard.
Date Run:
11/02/2009Experiment Procedure:
The supplied cleaning product was used at the new recommended concentration (5%). Preweighed ceramic 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 Clark Reinforced paper towel 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 retesting of the supplied product at the higher dilution resulted in the product removing over 85% of the Hucker's soil using manual cleaning. The table lists the amount of soil added, the amount remaining and the efficiency for each coupon cleaned.
Cleaner | Initial wt | Final wt | % Removed |
CleanLine 5% ceramic | 0.0626 | 0.0084 | 86.58 |
0.2523 | 0.0145 | 94.25 | |
0.2711 | 0.0181 | 93.32 | |
Cleanline 5% painted steel | 0.4213 | 0.0458 | 89.13 |
0.1195 | 0.0425 | 64.44 | |
0.1155 | 0.0395 | 65.80 | |
Cleanline 5% plastic | 0.0830 | 0.0045 | 94.58 |
0.0505 | 0.0014 | 97.23 | |
0.0597 | 0.0121 | 79.73 | |
Formula 409 Ceramic | 0.1094 | 0.0095 | 91.32 |
0.0722 | 0.0039 | 94.60 | |
0.0659 | 0.0033 | 94.99 | |
Formula 409 Painted steel | 0.0770 | 0.0075 | 90.26 |
0.0879 | 0.0047 | 94.65 | |
0.0645 | 0.0043 | 93.33 | |
Formula 409 plastic | 0.0466 | 0.0034 | 92.70 |
0.1058 | 0.0002 | 99.81 | |
0.0557 | 0.0018 | 96.77 |
Success Rating:
A follow up test, usually based on company input.Conclusion:
The supplied product had an overall average efficiency greater than 85% and would be considered effective based on the SSL testing methodology for all purpose cleaning at the higher concentration.