What is Vapor Degreasing?
Vapor degreasing is a water-less cleaning process. It involves solvents in vapor form to cleanse the work-piece in preparation for further finishing operations.
Vapor Degreasing
High Performance Solvent Degreasing
Vapor Degreasing
What are the benefits of Vapor Degreasing?
- Waterless Process
- Good Cleaning of Heavy Oils
- Rapid Rinsing and Drying
- Non-Hazardous
- Cavitates Well
- Non-Flammable
- Compatibility with Metal Alloys
- Low Solvent Consumption
How Does it Work?
- Wetting – Components in solvent reduce surface tension, allowing solvent to penetrate soils
- Dissolution – Solvent dissolves the organic contamination
- Displacement
- The solvent may separate the soil from the substrate
- Agitation is often necessary in order to fully displace
- Dispersion – The suspended soils are evenly dispersed preventing soil re-deposition
Our vapor degreasing solution is an azeotropic, flourinated solvent degreaser – drop-in replacement for n-propyl bromide (nPB), TCE and other vapor degreasing solvents.
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The EPA is looking to enact legislation that may eliminate use of n-propyl bromide (nPB) and TCE as vapor degreasing/precision cleaning solvents. Find out below why these changes are coming.
Why switch from using nPB? See Regulatory/Use Concerns:
EPA adds nPB to the Toxic Release Inventory
Federal Reporting Requirements
EPA Consideration to List nPB as a HAP
OSHA/NIOSH Hazard Alert concerning nPB
National Toxicity Report on Carcinogenicity
EPA Review of nPB under TSCA Legislation
ECHA Substance of High Concern
Why switch from using TCE? See Regulatory/Use Concerns:
EPA Review of TCE under TSCA Legislation
TCE National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants