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News Release from: Kerry Ultrasonics | Subject: Automatic monitoring system
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 10 October 2003
Monitor checks expensive solvent usage
Kerry Ultrasonics has developed an automatic monitoring system that allows users of its cleaning machines to check the rate at which costly solvents are used during processing.
Kerry Ultrasonics has developed an automatic monitoring system that allows users of its cleaning machines to check the rate at which costly solvents are used during processing The first of its kind to be offered by any manufacturer, this facility originally demonstrated a total consumption of just 2.4 litres during a seven-day test of a high-capacity Microsolve cosolvent cleaning unit
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Kerry customers across a range of industries are now benefiting from the device, without exception reporting solvent usage figures as good as, or better than, anticipated: a manufacturer of oilfield hydraulic components is running a 350 mono-solvent machine on less than 3% HFE solvent usage per week, and an electronics user reports a 525 co-solvent system - with nearly three times the tank volume of a 350 - removing no-clean flux residue from PCBs and averaging less than 2% HFE solvent usage per week.
As well as demonstrating the solvent retention abilities of Kerry equipment, the monitoring system helps to minimise running costs because occasional increases in usage rate can be quickly spotted and rectified.
Whenever the fluid in the machine drops below a predetermined level, it is automatically topped up from a reservoir tank and the quantity delivered is logged in the PLC.
This data can be downloaded into a spreadsheet, allowing users to create a comprehensive record of solvent usage over a period of time.
For the seven-day test, the auto top-up and monitoring system was used in conjunction with a Kerry Microsolve 350 co-solvent machine.
The combination of hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon solvents used by this machine provides safe, cost-effective cleaning with no ozone depletion potential, very low toxicity and little or no environmental impact.
Cost-saving advantages of the cosolvent process include the fact that soils remain in the hydrocarbon phase, which can be easily separated and disposed of without loss of the more expensive fluorocarbon.
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