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Trial Number 0

Trial Purpose:

To evaluate ozone generator system for all purpose cleaning

Date Run:

10/25/2013

Experiment Procedure:

Water and ozone generated water were used at full concentration (100%). Coupons were coated with wax three times for test. Before the cleaning, prepared VCT coupons were weighed. After then, the VCT coupons were soiled 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 hand held swab and allowed to dry for 24 hours at room temperature. The contaminated coupons were weighed again to determine the amount of soil added. Each VCT coupon was 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 sprays of cleaning solutions;10 ml of same cleaning solution were poured on each coupon. The cleaning unit was run for 20 cycles (~33 seconds). At the end of the cleaning, coupons were wiped once with a widow squeeze to remove residual cleaning solution.  Final weights and gloss were recorded, efficiencies were calculated and recorded.

Trial Results:

Cleaner  Initial wt Final wt % Removed
painted metal 1      
  0.6249 0.3988 36.18
  0.9360 0.5207 44.37
  0.4018 0.2883 28.25
ceramic 1      
  0.6098 0.4029 33.93
  0.5138 0.2652 48.38
  0.7013 0.2603 62.88
plastic 1      
  0.7738 0.5793 25.14
  0.6635 0.3696 44.3
  0.6101 0.3095 49.27
painted metal 2      
  0.6590 0.3943 40.17
  0.7070 0.3637 48.56
  0.7329 0.3838 47.63
ceramic 2      
  0.5521 0.1621 70.64
  0.9061 0.5721 36.86
  0.4874 0.1663 65.88
plastic 2      
  0.7237 0.4719 34.79
  0.8017 0.4580 42.87
  0.6591 0.3725 43.48

Summary

  Coupon 1 Coupon 2 Coupon 3 Average Overall Ave
Water - ceramic 34.41 47.26 24.71 35.46 40.92
Water plastic 30.79 43.41 51.09 41.76  
Water painted metal 33.36 47.25 56.02 45.54  

Success Rating:

A cleanliness study, addressing only various analytical techniques.

Conclusion:

The ozonated water system had little success under the operating conditions of the testing trial.

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