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Trial Number 15

Trial Purpose:

To retest supplied product at higher dilution for all purpose cleaning follow GS 37 standard.

Date Run:

11/02/2009

Experiment 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.

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