Concerning chemical consumption, the goal for industrial businesses and other types of industries the use chemicals for a number of reasons and purposes are to effectively minimize the amount of consumption when possible. Moreover, an additional goal should be to find, discern, and execute the utilization of eco friendly, green alternative when available. Ecolink acknowledges that there is no such thing as the perfect chemical, or chemical cleaning substitute. However, chemical cleaning substitutes exist that enable ways to drastically reduce and practically eliminate hazardous toxins and pollutants that come from chemical cleaning solvents. Industrial businesses must be cognizant and proactive in locating and transitioning to alternative chemical cleaners that reduce the amount of harm that can emanate from many types of cleaning solvents.
Ecolink has designed what is called a “hazard ladder” that rates environmentally preferred choices as it pertains to the chemical consumption of an industrial organization. This hierarchy of proposed methods and choices should serve as a foundation for evaluating alternative cleaning and degreasing components for a given chemical application. The following will list, in order, the most preferred to the least preferred choices regarding altering your company’s chemical consumption for the better:
Avoid the need to clean – Although Ecolink recognizes how difficult this would be to accomplish, finding methods of keeping your parts, metals, components, and raw materials from getting dirty or covered in inhibiting filth in the first place is the best way to reduce your industrial organization’s chemical consumption.
Modify the part or contaminant – Non solvent based cleaning methods and technologies exist, such as water based cutting fluids and no-clean flux, which have proven to clean and degrease raw materials quite effectively.
Use high pressure water or water based cleaners – similar in idea to the second choice, higher pressure and water based cleaners are nonflammable and non-halogenated, making for a much safer parts cleaner.
Use terpene, aliphatic hydrocarbon, and dibasic esters – Very similar to preferred method number three, these types of parts cleaners and degreasers are also nonflammable and non-halogenated, making the technology a much safer alternative to other chemical cleaners.
Use alcohol and acetone – Though it is a flammable solvent, these types of chemical cleaners do not deplete the ozone in any way, and present a low halogenated alternative to most other kinds of chemical cleaners.
Use HFE and HFC blends – A step below the previous suggested alternative, at least HFE and HFC blends, though halogenated, are non ozone depleting.
Use N-Propyl Bromide and TCE – Very similar in relation to the previous step, nPB and TCE at least in no way deplete the ozone, although they are halogenated.
Ecolink manufactures custom blended chemicals that are just as effective and are eco friendlier alternatives to many of the chemicals above. Contact our professionals today to discuss options, or shop our products here.
Simple Ways to Reduce Industrial Chemical Consumption
/in Chemical Usage, Chemical waste/by Industrial DegreasersConcerning chemical consumption, the goal for industrial businesses and other types of industries the use chemicals for a number of reasons and purposes are to effectively minimize the amount of consumption when possible. Moreover, an additional goal should be to find, discern, and execute the utilization of eco friendly, green alternative when available. Ecolink acknowledges that there is no such thing as the perfect chemical, or chemical cleaning substitute. However, chemical cleaning substitutes exist that enable ways to drastically reduce and practically eliminate hazardous toxins and pollutants that come from chemical cleaning solvents. Industrial businesses must be cognizant and proactive in locating and transitioning to alternative chemical cleaners that reduce the amount of harm that can emanate from many types of cleaning solvents.
Ecolink has designed what is called a “hazard ladder” that rates environmentally preferred choices as it pertains to the chemical consumption of an industrial organization. This hierarchy of proposed methods and choices should serve as a foundation for evaluating alternative cleaning and degreasing components for a given chemical application. The following will list, in order, the most preferred to the least preferred choices regarding altering your company’s chemical consumption for the better:
Avoid the need to clean – Although Ecolink recognizes how difficult this would be to accomplish, finding methods of keeping your parts, metals, components, and raw materials from getting dirty or covered in inhibiting filth in the first place is the best way to reduce your industrial organization’s chemical consumption.
Modify the part or contaminant – Non solvent based cleaning methods and technologies exist, such as water based cutting fluids and no-clean flux, which have proven to clean and degrease raw materials quite effectively.
Use high pressure water or water based cleaners – similar in idea to the second choice, higher pressure and water based cleaners are nonflammable and non-halogenated, making for a much safer parts cleaner.
Use terpene, aliphatic hydrocarbon, and dibasic esters – Very similar to preferred method number three, these types of parts cleaners and degreasers are also nonflammable and non-halogenated, making the technology a much safer alternative to other chemical cleaners.
Use alcohol and acetone – Though it is a flammable solvent, these types of chemical cleaners do not deplete the ozone in any way, and present a low halogenated alternative to most other kinds of chemical cleaners.
Use HFE and HFC blends – A step below the previous suggested alternative, at least HFE and HFC blends, though halogenated, are non ozone depleting.
Use N-Propyl Bromide and TCE – Very similar in relation to the previous step, nPB and TCE at least in no way deplete the ozone, although they are halogenated.
Ecolink manufactures custom blended chemicals that are just as effective and are eco friendlier alternatives to many of the chemicals above. Contact our professionals today to discuss options, or shop our products here.
Precision Cleaning Solutions
/in Ecolink News/by Industrial DegreasersWhen you talk to workers involved in the operations of industrial organizations, and you ask about important aspects involving raw materials, there is no doubt that at some point in the conversation the importance or precision cleaning solutions will come up. You see, before any raw material begins its process of customization, forming, manipulation, and shaping so it can be used for its specific intention, the part will first be cleaned by what is hoped to be a precision cleaner. A raw material, if contaminated by oil, dirt, grease, rust, or any type of particle inhibitor, might not function as needed. Therefore, a precision cleaning solution is needed to rid the raw material of any particle inhibitor that could prevent the part from working as intended. If a cleaning solution is used that does not properly rid the raw material of any particle inhibitor, the raw material might be rendered useless due to any contaminants that are left over from an ineffective cleaning and degreasing run.
Raw materials are expensive, even when purchased in bulk. In addition, raw materials are given a lot of attention by industrial organizations, providing and implementing customized services, specialized services, and other types of operations in order to give the part an added physical and/or aesthetic enhancement so it can be used for its intended purpose. A lot of time and monetary investments are made ensuring that raw materials are completely and precisely prepped and prepared for its intended function. You can probably imagine the costly expense an industrial business will have to absorb if a raw material is not properly cleaned and degreased, especially after it has gone through the customization and specialization process that gets the part to where it needs to be right before it is put into action. Therefore, an industrial organization absolutely has to trust its precision cleaner to clean and degrease raw materials efficiently the first time, otherwise catastrophic scenarios ensue that can cause a domino effect throughout the entire operational process.
Ecolink can help industrial businesses solve the riddle of finding a precision cleaning solution that will clean and degrease raw materials of all particle inhibitors. So much is weighing on trusting a precision cleaning solution to effectively clean and degrease parts, metals, components, and raw materials. Therefore, it is imperative that industrial businesses locate a source of information that can be trusted when determining the best precision cleaning solutions that fits the needs of an industrial business’ cleaning and degreasing desires for its raw materials. Allow Ecolink to become your trusted source, and you will gain a valuable resource when determining the best eco friendly, green alternative precision cleaning solution that will promise to clean and degrease your raw materials of any and all particle inhibitors, including dirt, grime, grease, rust, oil, and other contaminants. You will never regret the decision of building a relationship with Ecolink.
Custom Solutions for Aqueous PCB Cleaners
/in Aqueous Cleaning Agents/by Industrial DegreasersAqueous cleaners are made up of a combination of various substances that include surfactants, sequestering agents, and alkaline builders, among an amalgamation of other substances. Regarding custom solutions, as it pertains to ferrous metal cleaning, Aqueous PCB Cleaners can be customized in a way that permits rust inhibitors to be built into the cleaner so it can prevent flash rusting after washing. Aqueous PCB Cleaners have proven to be a very effective custom cleaning solution, so much so that its use among several industrial businesses, as well as in other types of industries, has risen. One important factor for the rise of Aqueous PCB Cleaners is recently, it has proven to be a better cleaning tool than most hydrocarbon cleaners. In addition to the fact that less waste is produced from Aqueous PCB Cleaners, of the waste produced, a reduced amount of hazardous waste is generated from the compiled waste, which results in less costly waste disposal needs for industrial businesses and other types of organizations.
Several other advantages exist to using Aqueous PCB Cleaners. A reduced number of particle and polar contaminants are generated from the utilization of Aqueous PCB Cleaners, and mechanical and thermal energy are the only sources of energy that are required at a higher input in order for the Aqueous PCB Cleaner to be effective. Even though there are other parts cleaning solvents available that might be able to clean as effectively as Aqueous PCB Cleaners, none of them boast the significantly reduced number of health, environmental, and other associated risks. Yet another critical advantage to using Aqueous PCB Cleaners over other kinds of cleaning agents is aqueous cleaners are not made of flammable chemical components, whereas other cleaning solvents are. While most other parts cleaning agents come with fire, explosive, and flammable hazards, Aqueous PCB Cleaners come without any of those serious risks. Therefore, if you couple the reduced number of associated risks when using Aqueous PCB Cleaners with the fact it has become generally accepted that aqueous cleaners remove oil, dirt, and grease from parts, metals, components, and raw materials as effectively as any other cleaning solvent, there is no reason not to make Aqueous PCB Cleaners your number one trusted parts washer and cleaner solution for your organization.
Ecolink professionals provide the necessary information that enables its customers to garner a full grasp concerning all the characteristics that make up Aqueous PCB Cleaners. Aqueous cleaners present an eco friendly, green alternative for industrial organizations and the use of parts cleaning solutions to rid parts, metals, components, and raw materials of dirt, oil, grease, grime, and other potentially harmful particles. If Aqueous PCB Cleaners sounds like an intriguing option for a parts washing and cleaning solution for your industrial business, then contact Ecolink, and they can help your implement this valuable parts washer cleaner into your parts washing and cleaning operation.
Aerospace Cleaners for Critical Applications
/in Aerospace Cleaners/by Industrial DegreasersAs it pertains to the cleaning of aerospace materials and components, you can probably already imagine that most of these parts are likely to be involved in critical applications, due to the type of industry. Very specific aerospace cleaners will be needed to successfully accomplish thorough cleaning for critical applications. Ecolink provides both aerospace and Department of Defense clients with an extensive and detailed list of qualified solvents, cleaners, and degreasers that guarantee to efficiently clean all aerospace parts, materials, and components needed for critical applications. Ecolink’s customer base includes several of the major airlines, both aerospace and defense contractors, as well as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA. Several reasons, including our company’s professionalism, superior products, accountability, conscientious attention to detail, and cleaning success rate has resulted in Ecolink receiving a one hundred percent supplier rating at most of our customer locations.
The following are proven cleaning results from using Ecolink cleaning agents that will effectively clean the products used to build and perform critical applications related to aerospace business operations:
Partly aqueous solvents used to remove rosin flux, oily film from metal surfaces, and difficult to remove organic soils, such as asphalt and tar.
Alternative Cleaners for TCE – Why Switch?
/in TCE/by Industrial DegreasersTCE, which is the acronym used for Trichloroethylene, has been classified as a Category Two Carcinogen. The risk phase associated with a Category Two Carcinogen reads as follows: “R-45 Risk Phase – May Cause Cancer. “ If your industrial business happens to be using TCE currently, and you are only now becoming aware of its hazardous chemical makeup, you need to make a change. Now. Already, the answer to the posed question in the title of this blog has been answered with absolutely zero equivocation. Any product that has a tagline that reads: “May Cause Cancer” immediately and with absolutely no prejudice. Though the cancer causing agents are, by far, the worst problem and highest risk associated with TCE, the chemical agent can also irritate eyes, skin, and throat, and the vapors can cause drowsiness and dizziness. In addition, TCE has been determined to be a threatening agent that increases the risk of Global Warming, is a hazardous air pollutant (making it subject to annual reporting requirements), and is chemically unstable and requires stabilizers, especially when being used as a vapor degreaser. Pertaining to use as a vapor degreaser, because of its extremely high boiling point and high heat of vaporization, TCE is one of the highest energy consumers for a chemical compound. Moreover, with regard to the previously mentioned chemical instability, because TCE is highly unstable, the solvent must be periodically removed and replaced with a new, fresh solvent, which results in a liquid waste stream, in addition to a much higher associated cost and expense.
In short, TCE is bad news, and if your industrial business is still using this chemical compound, hopefully you are on the phone with Ecolink already trying to make the switch to a safer alternative. One such alternative that is suggested as a substitute for TCE is FluoSolv CX. Right off the bat, FluoSolv CX is not labeled as a CMR (Carcinogenic, Mutagenic, and Reproductive Toxin), and TCE is. In other words, FluoSolv CX is not made up of chemical compounds that can kill people and pollute the environment. FluoSolv CX has an exposure limit of 200 ppm (parts per million). In case that sounds worrisome, it should not be. Instead, what should be worrisome is that the exposure limit for TCE is 5 ppm. In addition, FluoSolv CX is not considered a Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP) the way TCE is, and FluoSolv CX is made up of a blend of stable molecules that do not disintegrate in vapor degreasers, therefore no stabilizers are needed, which is the exact opposite of TCE. Finally, FluoSolv CX has a much lower boiling point than TCE, a much lower heat of vaporization, meaning it requires much less energy for vapor degreasing, unlike TCE, which require more than most chemical molecules, and does not generate a liquid waste stream. In other words, FluoSolv CX is a much more environmentally friendly choice over TCE, which is not environmentally friendly whatsoever.
If your industrial business is using TCE, please consider making the switch to FluoSolv CX, which is a much safer and less expensive option for cleaning and degreasing your industrial products.