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News Release from: Kerry Ultrasonics | Subject: Microsolve 350 mono-solvent cleaning system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 June 2002
No more 'trike' used at seal
manufacturer
A seal manufacturer has removed the potentially harmful solvent trichloroethylene from its cleaning process.
Kerry Ultrasonics has enabled seal manufacturer Wills Engineered Polymers to remove the potentially harmful solvent trichloroethylene (trike) from its cleaning process Wills has installed a Kerry Microsolve 350 mono-solvent cleaning system to rid metal seals destined for the aerospace and automotive industries of sand, oil and grease
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Microsolve unit uses the solvent Lenium ES and replaces a solvent degreaser that ran on trike.
The seals range from 10mm - 200mm in diameter and must be thoroughly degreased to ensure that rubber bonds effectively to them.
Poor bonding would result in the seals failing once in use.
The PLC-controlled cleaning process comprises an ultrasonic clean followed by a vapour rinse and then a freeboard dry.
The vapour is essential to both the rinsing and drying processes, as well as to the distillation cycle.
Distilled solvent, condensed by the primary cooling coils, passes through a water separator with in-line heat exchanger and returns to the ultrasonic tank, displacing contaminated solvent into the boiling sump.
Along with filtration of the solvent, distillation ensures that the ultrasonic tank is maintained at a controlled level of cleanliness.
The machine also features Kerry's solvent monitoring and auto top-up system to guarantee low solvent consumption, along with an Autotrans Mk 4 automatic handling transporter for consistent results and high throughput.
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