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Trial Number 34

Trial Purpose:

To run a second cleaning cycle for one of the supplied products for All-purpose cleaning

Date Run:

07/14/2006

Experiment Procedure:

One supplied cleaning products was used at full strength to clean the coupons previously contaminated with the 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%).

Three coupons were placed into a Gardner Straight Line Washability unit. A Professional Painter's Rag 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 cleaning unit was run for 20 cycles (~33 seconds). At the end of the cleaning, coupons were wiped once with a dry paper towel. Final weights were recorded, efficiencies were calculated and recorded.

Trial Results:

The table lists the amount of soil added, the amount remaining and the percent removed for each coupon cleaned. The values from both rounds of cleaning are listed.

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
Cogent Sodium hypochlorite Steel 0.7091 0.0226 96.81
  0.5136 0.0527 89.74
  0.7826 0.0415 94.70
Round 2 0.7091 0.0050 99.29
  0.5136 0.0013 99.75
  0.7826 0.0051 99.35
Cogent Sodium hypochlorite Plastic 0.8569 0.0303 96.46
  1.0498 0.0299 97.15
  0.5279 0.0402 92.38
Round 2 0.8569 0.0018 99.79
  1.0498 0.0002 99.98
  0.5279 0.0007 99.87
Cogent Sodium hypochlorite Ceramic 0.6902 0.1802 73.89
  0.9517 0.2429 74.48
  0.8444 0.2760 67.31
Round 2 0.6902 0.1313 80.98
  0.9517 0.1735 81.77
  0.8444 0.2566 69.61

Success Rating:

A follow up test, usually based on company input.

Conclusion:

The second cycle of cleaning improved the efficiency of the Sodium hypochlorite 0.02% solution. The effectiveness increased to 92.27% from 86.69%.

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