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Video: ProSolv 5408e – Vapour degreasing cycle using hermetically sealed equipment
Vapour degreasing cycle using hermetically sealed equipment.
ProSolv 5408e is a high- performance solvent cleaner used for sustainable and future proof vapour degreasing. Soft on the environment and safe for users, it offers improved cleaning at lower costs. Low boiling point, economical with energy with low solvent losses, faster production.
Innovation driven by legislation
Vapour degreasing, with or with-out ultrasonics, is the oldest, simplest and most effective solvent degreasing and metal cleaning process used today. It has, until recently, been subject to little change since it was first invented in the early part of the last century. In the UK, Europe, United States and other advanced industrialized economies increasingly stringent legislation to control emissions of VOCs, Solvents with a high Global Warming Potential (GWP), or a high Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP), and those compounds associated with human health concerns has led to Envirotech Europe manufacturing new formulations for precision cleaning solvents with low or near zero potential.
Halogenated hydrocarbons are the solvents of choice for vapour degreasing and cleaning. The process is essentially simple. A tank with a sump to contain the solvent, heaters at the base and condensation coils around the top section to control the height of the vapour is all that is needed. When heated in the sump halogenated solvents produce, in most cases, a saturated vapour between 3 and 4 times heavier than air at a temperature greater than the ambient temperature of the parts to be cleaned. This allows the solvent vapour to condense on the surface of the parts. The condensate dissolves the contaminants such as oil, greases, flux, and soils returning the used solvent into the sump of the machine for recycling into vapour which continuously condenses onto the parts until they have achieved vapour temperature when, with no further condensation, the process is complete. Parts removed from the cleaning machines are very clean, warm and dry.
The most common halogenated solvents, in use for commercial purposes, are non-flammable so present no risk in this process. Perchloroethylene, used mainly for dry cleaning, methylene chloride previously used widely in paint strippers, 1,1,1- trichloroethane and trichloroethylene used for vapour degreasing were the original materials used based on chlorine chemistry. However continuing concern about the environmental impact and danger to operators by exposure to chlorine-based solvents, especially trichloroethylene, has led to a continuing search for safer alternatives, such as ProSolv 5408e , a trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene based solvent mixture that is non-flammable.
The ProSolv 5408e vapour degreasing process gives the highest levels of economical cleaning with minimum energy usage, low footprint on the factory floor, safety for the operator, and high production rates with low solvent usage or environmental impact. With the new generation of sealed cleaning machines its future as the process of choice is assured.
A more detailed version of this article can be viewed here:
https://www.vapour-degreasing.com/solvent-degreasing-and-metal-cleaning/
Animation of Solvac hermetically sealed equipment by kind permission of CC Hydrosonics Ltd. https://www.cchydrosonics.com/
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The best in vapour degreasing, corrosion protection, metal cleaning and surface treatment
EnviroTech Europe are specialists in metal, plastic and other substrate cleaning, pretreatment and protection.
We offer a range of approved products tailored to your industry, which are cost effective, energy efficient, safe for operators and the environment.
Our products are used in the following industries:
- Electronics and Electrical
- Environmental
- General Cleaning
- Industrial and Manufacturing
- Marine and Maritime
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical Device Manufacturing
- Military
- Motorsport
- Power Generation
- Railways and Automotive
PRODUCTS:
EnSolv CC-A Vapour Degreasing Solvents For Precision Metal Cleaning:
A family of environmentally friendly precision vapour degreasing and cleaning solvents for the aerospace, precision engineering, medical, optical and electronic industries.
ProSolv 5408e Environmentally Sustainable High Performance Vapour Degreasing Solvent:
Zero ODP (ozone depletion) and GWP (global warming potential) – Sustainable and secure for the future.
SuperCORR A Advanced lubricant and corrosion protection compound:
Specialist barrier film corrosion protection products, based on synthetic materials to provide safe, effective, environmentally friendly solutions to lubrication and corrosion problems.
Aquus CL-One General Purpose Industrial Cleaning Agent:
A non-toxic, water based surfactant system which exhibits a combination of characteristics not found in any comparable commercially available system.
Clarea Industrial Degreasing Solvents:
Non chlorinated, industrial wipe, brush, dip and immersion cleaning solvents for removing dirt, oil, grease and other contaminants without causing harm or leaving residue.
VOC Exposure Monitoring:
We have portable test equipment that logs the Volatile Organic Compound (VOC’s) content in the air from various strategic positions around your degreasing equipment, including the operator position
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more advice, please telephone us on +44 (0) 20 8281 6370 or use our website contact form. All products are supplied and supported by EnviroTech Europe Ltd. Manufactured in the United Kingdom and available on short delivery times through our dedicated team of distributors worldwide.
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Industrial solvent cleaners
Clarea® general purpose industrial solvent cleaners are safe for users and the environment
Clarea® non-chlorinated industrial solvent cleaners are compatible with all metals, composites and most plastics used to remove dirt, oil, grease, or other contaminants from surfaces without causing harm or leaving residue. They are used as immersion cleaners for component cleaning in manufacturing and engineering industries and as wipe cleaners for large surface areas prior to painting or powder coating. The environmental concerns and health hazards of the chlorinated solvents used as industrial degreasing agents has led to the formulation of this EnviroTech range of safer cleaning solvents.
What to consider when choosing suitable solvent cleaning products?
Solvents used for cleaning must be highly refined and leave no residues on drying. They need to be highly effective removing oils and soils without causing damage or corrosion of the parts or components being processed and leave minimal residues.
Cleaning specifications vary widely from very demanding automotive and aerospace applications to less demanding applications where critical cleaning is not needed such as pre-used parts or assemblies from the transportation, aerospace, or manufacturing equipment sectors. Heavily contaminated when removed from service these must be free of oils, soils, grease and dirt before disassembly prior to refurbishing and rebuilding. Much of this work will be manual and the considerations for the safety of operators, hand wiping or brush cleaning is paramount.
Clarea® products are aliphatic hydrocarbon based low odour degreasing solvents with specified flash points. They will remove oils, greases, hydraulic fluids cutting fluids and a wide variety of hydrocarbon based protective coatings. Clarea® solvents can be safely used with all metals and composites and most plastic and paint finishes.
Clarea® HC40 is low odour degreasing fast drying solvent with a flash point of 40°C. It is suitable for ultrasonic and dip systems and can be used with brush or in hand-wipe processes.
Clarea® HC462 is a degreasing solvent with a flash point over 60°C. It is suitable for hand-wipe applications when used externally.
EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL
- Versatile and cost-effective solutions for all your industrial cleaning
- Minimal odour and low toxicity for operators
- Multipurpose uses can reduce the inventory of cleaning fluids.
- Flexible uses – evaporation rates suitable for hand wipe, spray, or immersion tank cleaning
- Clarea HC40 for brush and hand wiping, air dries. Flash point 40°C
- Clarea HC62 for spray or immersion cleaning Flash point 62°C
- Contains no chlorine, other halogens or stabilisers
- Compatible with all metals and composites and most plastics
- Excellent pre-cleaner for paint or powder coatings
- Safe, reliable, environmentally friendly cleaning
We can provide you with a Material Safety Data Sheets, independent laboratory reports, product samples and technical assistance.
For more information or advice please telephone us on +44 (0) 20 8281 6370 or use our contact form.
All products are supplied and supported by EnviroTech Europe Ltd. Manufactured in the United Kingdom and available on short delivery times through our dedicated team of distributors worldwide.
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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Benjamin Franklin said that in 1736 and it is as true today as it was then.
One of the most important opportunities for savings today is the prevention of failures caused by corrosion. Corrosion leading to the repair of or the complete re-placement of failed parts or components, a pound of cure, which is preventable, equates to increased production costs and a decrease in the bottom line profits.
SuperCORR A is the ounce of prevention that will save your company money; man hour costs and parts in the re-pair or replacement of equipment that failed because of corrosion issues that are easily preventable. Whether it’s an electrical connection that failed because of corrosion which caused a cooling pump to shut down that caused a bearing to overheat and burn out that brought an entire production line to a halt or it’s the floor of an airliner that was so corroded that the aircraft was grounded for extensive repairs, corrosion is a serious and a very expensive problem. A problem that is preventable.
An ultra thin-film lubricant with corrosion preventative compounds that displaces water, SuperCORR A has been extensively tested on metals and electronics and has shown extremely good results in preventing corrosion.
The question to ask yourself is: What is the cost of NOT using SuperCORR A to prevent corrosion?
If you were able to say we are saving £100 a day by using SuperCORR A by not having a failure caused by corrosion would that be a good thing? How about saving a £1000 a day? A saving that would directly influence the bottom line.
You have essentially two choices:
1). Being proactive about corrosion and doing something simple and very cost effective to prevent it,
2). Do nothing and take your chances that the cause and the associated costs of the next lost production time are not directly related to a preventable corrosion problem.
Being proactive about corrosion and doing something that is cost effective and protects the bottom line is nothing but a positive. Remember the cost of lost productivity is directly related to lost profits.
CORR-EX corrosion control solutions have the answer to corrosion prevention for all industries and utilities.
We can provide you with a Material Safety Data Sheets, independent laboratory reports, product samples and technical assistance.
For more information or advice please telephone us on +44 (0) 20 8281 6370 or use our contact form.
All products are supplied and supported by EnviroTech Europe Ltd. Manufactured in the United Kingdom and available on short delivery times through our dedicated team of distributors worldwide.
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SuperCORR A Fully compliant with RoHS Directive
SuperCORR A is fully compliant with the requirements of the RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC – Restriction of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment.
The restricted chemical substances are:
Lead
Cadmium
Mercury
ChromiumVI
Polybrominated biphenyls
Polybrominated diphenyl ether
For compliance equipment must contain no more than 1000ppm (100ppm for Cadmium) of these substances
SuperCORR A has been tested and confirmed to be compliant so can safely be used on already compliant electrical and electronic equipment which will remain compliant.
We can provide you with a Material Safety Data Sheets, independent laboratory reports, product samples and technical assistance.
For more information or advice please telephone us on +44 (0) 20 8281 6370 or use our contact form.
All products are supplied and supported by EnviroTech Europe Ltd. Manufactured in the United Kingdom and available on short delivery times through our dedicated team of distributors worldwide.
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See how SuperCORR A can save money and time changing light bulbs
Question – How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Answer – One,
but they’ll spend three hours checking it for alignment and leaks.
There are thousands of jokes on this theme but anywhere, factories, offices, warehouses, supermarkets, sports stadiums, railway stations, ocean liners, road lighting and other applications where thousands of light fittings are installed it can be a major maintenance expense rather than a joke.
SuperCORR A is a corrosion preventative dry lubricant aerosol which rejects water and protects the bulb socket and fitting and prevents sticking. This makes bulb changing easy and quick.
We can provide you with a Material Safety Data Sheets, independent laboratory reports, product samples and technical assistance.
For more information or advice please telephone us on +44 (0) 20 8281 6370 or use our contact form.
All products are supplied and supported by EnviroTech Europe Ltd. Manufactured in the United Kingdom and available on short delivery times through our dedicated team of distributors worldwide.
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SuperCorr A defeats increasing gold prices for connector manufacture
Thinner plating caused problems with increased corrosion on USB connectors as gold coating thickness decreased with escalating gold prices.
A major company in the U.S. found that by using SuperCORR A it was able to prevent galling corrosion due to vibration on printed circuit leads and connectors.
They found that because of the advances in gold plating technology the plating thickness was being reduced over the base substrate metal of the connectors. The thickness of the gold plating became thinner and thinner over time. This thinner coating saved a lot of money as gold was and is becoming increasingly expensive. However the resulting reduced thickness of gold plating also resulted in failures caused by corrosion. Minute irregularities in the surface of the connectors base metal caused irregular or uneven wear of the connector causing the “high spots” on the connector to wear through the gold plating.
Using SuperCORR A prevented or delayed the corrosion and subsequent failures. However it must be recognized that
SuperCORR A is a lubricant with corrosion preventive compounds, and as is the case with all “lubricants” they will be worn off over time. Having said that, the Company also had SuperCORR A tested to see what the “life” of the lubricant was in a “rub test”. The typical test is 20,000 cycles, i.e. unplug, plug in is one cycle. The test results demonstrated that after 20,000 cycles there were no failures. It was decided to take it one more step and run the same tests for 200,000 cycles. The results again showed no indications of galling or scoring on the USB connectors at all. In fact they commented that the USB connector looked as good as new.
We can provide you with a Material Safety Data Sheets, independent laboratory reports, product samples and technical assistance.
For more information or advice please telephone us on +44 (0) 20 8281 6370 or use our contact form.
All products are supplied and supported by EnviroTech Europe Ltd. Manufactured in the United Kingdom and available on short delivery times through our dedicated team of distributors worldwide.
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Corrosion Control
Corrosion is a serious problem for industry and governments worldwide. Most people associate corrosion with rust, which only happens in things made of ferrous metals such as steel girders, ships, iron pipes, steel reinforcement rods, and steel tanks and is the reason metals deteriorate and fail.
Ferrous and non-ferrous metals corrode on contact with both fresh and salt water as well as water vapor. They will also corrode when they come in contact with chemicals, liquid acids as well as acidic vapors, salts and bases, and bacteria.
Read our article “Corrosion Control Solutions – A Solution To A Costly Problem” for more information about the enormity of the costs involved in failing to prevent corrosion.
We can provide you with a Material Safety Data Sheets, independent laboratory reports, product samples and technical assistance.
For more information or advice please telephone us on +44 (0) 20 8281 6370 or use our contact form.
All products are supplied and supported by EnviroTech Europe Ltd. Manufactured in the United Kingdom and available on short delivery times through our dedicated team of distributors worldwide.
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