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News Release from: John Neale | Subject: Solvent 702 and Solvent TMA
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 July 2006
Degreasing solvents outperform
trichloroethylene
Degreasing solvents offer overall enhanced solvency compared to trichloroethylene and can be used to effectively remove chlorinated lubricants, lubricating oils, gear oils and maintenance oils.
John Neale has spent the last 18months working with two major users of trichloroethylene to develop an effective degreasing process at reasonable cost The manufacturers in question wanted to remove trichloroethylene from their process for two main reasons
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 3 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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1) The health and safety hazards associated with trichloroethylene are considerable especially related to more recent understanding on the chemicals potential to cause severe health effects.
2) The cost of equipment to allow the continued use of trichloroethylene would be very large with the requirement of hermetically sealed degreasing units, and monitoring to ensure compliance.
John Neale has developed two key solvents which have dealt with both these issues.
Solvent 702 and Solvent TMA are not hazard labelled, have no exposure limits set, and are not VOC's according to the solvents emissions directive (SED).
They allow for the utilisation of existing trichloroethylene tanks with minor modification.
The solvents do not need to be used in hermetically sealed equipment as these products do not need to be contained as they are not VOC's.
The solvents can also be recycled on site using our special filtration process which used filtration technology to separate dissolved soils out of the solvent.
These systems can be designed for large 20,000 litre systems and 100 litre tanks.
Solvent 702 and TMA offer overall enhanced solvency compared to trichloroethylene with both the customers commenting on their broader solvency power.
The can be used to effectively remove chlorinated lubricants, lubricating oils, gear oils, maintenance oils, greases, resins, waxes, coatings etc Dwell times are the same or shorter with these solvents compared to trichloroethylene.
Consumption of Solvent 702 and TMA in these systems is insignificant compared to trichloroethylene as there are virtually no evaporation losses in use, which cannot be said for trichloroethylene.
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