Application
ULTRASONIC CLEANING APPLICATIONS
Alstron Singapore's ultrasonic cleaners are versatile and cater to a wide range of applications across various industries.
Here are some of the key uses:
- Aerospace Parts: Effectively removes grease, oil, and oxidation from critical aerospace components like turbine blades, gear shafts, and hydraulic systems.
Marine Equipment: Effectively removes contaminants from marine equipment, including salt deposits, sediment, silt, carbon residues, varnishes, paints, oil, grease, metal shavings, rust, and biological growths like molds, mildew, and algae, thereby enhancing performance and extending component lifespan.
- Small Gears and Bearings: Effectively removes grease, oil, and oxidation from intricate mechanical parts, ensuring optimal performance and extending component lifespan. This method is particularly beneficial for precision components and complex assemblies, as it reaches into every nook and cranny to dislodge contaminants.
Automotive Components: Effectively removes contaminants such as oil, grease, carbon deposits, and metal particles from engine parts, ensuring optimal performance and extending component lifespan.
Food Processing Equipment: Effectively removes contaminants such as oil, grease, limescale, and food residues from tools and machinery used in food production, ensuring compliance with hygiene standards and enhancing operational efficiency.
Machined Parts Degreasing: Effectively removes oils, grease, and residues from metal parts after machining processes, ensuring optimal performance and extending component lifespan. This method utilises ultrasonic waves to generate microscopic bubbles that implode upon collapsing, dislodging contaminants from the metal surfaces. The process is efficient, reaching complex geometries and hard-to-reach areas, and is particularly beneficial for precision components and complex assemblies.
- Optical Parts Cleaning: Effectively removes contaminants such as mold shards, polishing compounds, waxes, and oils from optical frames, lenses, and other optical components, ensuring clarity and precision.
Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) Flux Removal: Effectively removes flux residues from printed circuit boards (PCBs) after soldering. Flux residues can cause issues such as corrosion, electrical shorts, and signal interference if not properly cleaned. This method ensures thorough cleaning, even in hard-to-reach areas, and is compatible with various cleaning agents designed for flux removal.
Pre-cleaning for Coating and Plating: Effectively removes contaminants such as oils, grease, dust, scale, and oxides from surfaces, ensuring they are free from impurities before coating or plating applications.
3D Printer Components: Effectively removes contaminants such as resin residues, oils, and dust from 3D printing parts like air caps, seals, and O-rings, ensuring optimal performance and longevity.
Surgical and Dental Instruments: Effectively removes contaminants such as blood, tissue residues, and other organic matter from medical instruments, ensuring hygiene and functionality. This process submerges instruments in a cleaning solution and uses high-frequency sound waves to create bubbles. When the bubbles implode, they release shock waves that remove contaminants from the surfaces. It provides thorough cleaning, even in hard-to-reach areas, and works with different cleaning agents for medical equipment. Proper cleaning is essential to prevent infections and ensure the safety of both patients and healthcare workers.
Jewellery and Gemstones: It is an effective method for restoring shine and removing dirt from various types of jewellery and gemstones. However, caution is necessary with certain materials. Hard gemstones like diamonds, sapphires, and rubies, as well as precious metals such as gold, platinum, and sterling silver, can generally be safely cleaned using ultrasonic cleaners. In contrast, soft gemstones like opal, pearl, turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli, and other stones with a Mohs hardness below 7, as well as treated or coated stones and organic materials like coral, ivory, and amber, should not be cleaned with ultrasonic cleaners due to the risk of damage.
For delicate or treated gemstones, it's advisable to consult a professional jeweller before cleaning.
Laboratory Equipment: Ultrasonic cleaners are commonly used to clean laboratory glassware, effectively removing residues and restoring clarity without risk of damage. Similarly, ultrasonic cleaning is ideal for cleaning lab tools. By utilising ultrasonic cleaning, laboratory equipment can be thoroughly cleaned, preserving their appearance and functionality.
Household Accessories: Effectively removes various contaminants from items such as spectacles, watches, bicycle parts, kitchenware, and other personal accessories, restoring their appearance and functionality. This includes the removal of dirt, grease, oils, residues, and other contaminants that can accumulate on these items over time.