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Degreasing alternatives

I am in a small group at the University of Bradford and we have been given an assessment to find out which method of degreasing would be better than using trichloroethylene. If you could help us out we would greatly appreciate it.

Andrew Spence
University of Bradford, UK - Bradford, W Yorkshire, UK
2007

2007

Better in what ways, Andrew? There are substitute solvents like n-propyl bromide, and there are alternate methodologies like aqueous cleaning.

The U.S. EPA has funded almost countless reports on this. So start at epa.gov.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey

Why not try the search engine on this site, you will get quite a few hits. For example try letter numbers 11462, 17773, 20469 and 38720 just to get you going.
Best of luck and if you come up with an answer please let us all know, the industry has working towards a solution to this for years and we're still not there (although we are a darn site nearer).

Brian Terry
Aerospace - Yeovil, Somerset, UK
2007

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