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Trial Number 329

Trial Purpose:

Laboratory evaluations of alternative cleaning products

Date Run:

05/26/2004

Experiment Procedure:

Basic cleaning performance testing was conducted using ASTM G122 as the bases for cleaning. 

Each product was used at full strength in a 250 ml beaker and heated to 96 F on a hot plate. Fifteen preweighed aluminum coupons were coated with the Nisseki SAS 40 oil (27776-01-8, 612-00-0, 103-29-7, 101-81-5) using a handheld swab. Coupons were weighed a second time to determine the amount of soil added to each coupon. Three coupons were cleaned in each solution for 5 minutes using stir-bar agitation. After cleaning parts were allowed to sit for 10 minutes for drying at room temperature. The coupons were weighed a final time and efficiencies were calculated.

Trial Results:

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
Solvon PB 0.0826 0.0033 96.00
  0.1322 0.0015 98.87
  0.1582 0.0021 98.67
Solvon IP 0.0777 0.0029 96.27
  0.1685 0.0021 98.75
  0.1965 0.0041 97.91
OS 10 0.1755 0.0020 98.86
  0.0714 0.0022 96.92
  0.1539 -0.0017 101.10
OS 20 0.1155 0.0003 99.74
  0.2157 0.0002 99.91
  0.1126 0.0010 99.11
OS 30 0.0787 0.0153 80.56
  0.1285 0.0139 89.18
  0.1051 0.0216 79.45

Success Rating:

Preliminary compatibility tests on substrate coupons encouraging for at least one cleaning chemistry. More in-depth laboratory testing necessary.

Conclusion:

Four of the five products removed over 85%.

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