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Trial Number 0

Trial Purpose:

To evaluate reformulated product for all purpose cleaning following GS 37 requirements

Date Run:

05/30/2010

Experiment Procedure:

The supplied ingredients were mixed according to the supplied procedures, substituting new surfactant into process. The end product was diluted 1 part solvent solution to 32 parts water. The cleaning products were diluted with DI water. A conventional product was diluted 1:48 (~2%).

Preweighed ceramic, plastic G-10 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-Clark Wypal 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 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:

Each replacement surfactant mixtures were effective at removing the Hucker’s soil from the three surfaces using manual wiping. Each removed more the current formulation. Three surfactant mixtures removed more than the conventional comparative product (94%) and the other 3 removed around 90% of the soil. The control product removed 88%. The table lists the amount of soil added, the amount remaining after cleaning and the calculated efficiency for each coupon cleaned. The conventional product removed 93% of the soil.

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
Nutrisol w/ Calsoft L40 Ceramic      
  2.1281 0.0167 99.22
  0.2635 0.0139 94.72
  0.1743 0.0100 94.26
Nutrisol w/ Calsoft L40 Steel      
  0.1188 0.0117 90.15
  0.2249 0.0031 98.62
  0.1559 0.0199 87.24
Nutrisol w/ Calsoft L40 Plastic       
  0.2153 0.0024 98.89
  0.1189 0.0046 96.13
  0.2448 0.0141 94.24
Nutrisol w/ Calsoft AOS40 Ceramic      
  0.4916 0.0117 97.62
  1.0104 0.0056 99.45
  0.1513 0.0021 98.61
Nutrisol w/ Calsoft AOS40 Steel      
  0.3769 0.1420 62.32
  0.1394 0.0082 94.12
  0.1388 0.0079 94.31
Nutrisol w/ Calsoft AOS40 Plastic       
  0.0739 -0.0007 100.95
  0.1778 0.0020 98.88
  0.1959 0.0045 97.70
Nutrisol w/ Mirataine H2CA Ceramic      
  0.2065 0.0116 94.38
  0.9899 0.0152 98.46
  1.4037 0.0210 98.50
Nutrisol w/ Mirataine H2CA Steel      
  0.1404 0.0152 89.17
  0.2187 0.0255 88.34
  0.1664 0.0295 82.27
Nutrisol w/ Mirataine H2CA Plastic       
  0.1480 0.0152 89.73
  0.0751 0.0095 87.35
  0.1270 0.0165 87.01
Nutrisol w/ Mackamine C-8 Ceramic      
  0.1046 0.0025 97.61
  0.1777 0.0013 99.27
  0.1447 0.0135 90.67
Nutrisol w/ Mackamine C-8 Steel      
  0.2362 0.0199 91.57
  0.2145 0.0109 94.92
  0.1830 0.0761 58.42
Nutrisol w/ Mackamine C-8 Plastic       
  0.1250 0.0019 98.48
  0.1186 0.0095 91.99
  0.1236 0.0129 89.56
Nutrisol w/ SugaFax D10 Ceramic      
  1.0825 0.0162 98.50
  1.0895 0.0260 97.61
  0.7213 0.0187 97.41
Nutrisol w/ SugaFax D10 Steel      
  0.0697 0.0060 91.39
  0.0753 0.0083 88.98
  0.1294 0.0018 98.61
Nutrisol w/ SugaFax D10 Plastic       
  0.1226 0.0083 93.23
  0.0551 0.0026 95.28
  0.0554 0.0009 98.38
Nutrisol w/ SugaNate 100 Ceramic      
  0.7601 0.0100 98.68
  0.4468 -0.0012 100.27
  0.1493 -0.0004 100.27
Nutrisol w/ SugaNate 100 Steel      
  0.1034 0.0217 79.01
  0.1914 0.0296 84.54
  0.0824 0.0217 73.67
Nutrisol w/ SugaNate 100 Plastic       
  0.1607 0.0161 89.98
  0.1066 0.0023 97.84
  0.1003 0.0150 85.04
MD Stetson 3R Ceramic      
  0.2091 0.0113 94.60
  0.2398 0.0110 95.41
  0.2323 0.0140 93.97
MD Stetson 3R Steel      
  0.2211 0.0092 95.84
  0.0948 0.0054 94.30
  0.1147 0.0096 91.63
MD Stetson 3R Plastic       
  0.0717 0.0102 85.77
  0.1772 0.0111 93.74
  0.1726 0.0128 92.58
Green Bridge All Purpose control Ceramic      
  0.3246 0.0122 96.24
  0.8789 0.0108 98.77
  0.3961 0.0045 98.86
Green Bridge All Purpose control Steel      
  0.1848 0.0255 86.20
  0.2400 0.0760 68.33
  0.1732 0.0339 80.43
Green Bridge All Purpose control Plastic       
  0.1117 0.0099 91.14
  0.2478 0.0125 94.96
  0.4360 0.1058 75.73

Success Rating:

A follow up test, usually based on company input.

Conclusion:

All possible replacement surfactant mixtures removed over 85% of the Hucker's soil, compared well with the conventional product and outperformed the supplied control product.

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