Guidelines for Triple Rinsing
Q. is there any industry guidance on triple rinsing…any literature that you know of that this is the accepted standard for manual cleaning that you could provide me?
A. To our knowledge, there are no authoritative source documents to define how many times you should rinse glassware. The logic behind a triple rinse is that, in filling and emptying a vessel three times with water, each time you are diluting by 2 orders of magnitude. In theory . . .
Remove Algae from Chiller System
Q. What is best product to remove algae from water chiller system?
A. It’s important to prevent deposits and clogs and maintain your chiller tubes according to the manufacturer’s directions. This will help them operate reliably and efficiently. To remove organic material and accomplish descaling, we recommend an alkaline and acidic cleaner, respectively.
Cleaning Seaweed Harvest Materials
Q: How should we remove dirt, oils and greases from lines, ropes and netting in the ocean used in seaweed harvesting?
A: We would highly recommend soaking/scrubbing in a warm 1-2% Alconox® Powdered Precision Cleaner solution. These residues from seaweed harvesting will be a mixture of organic and bioorganic films, along with particulate matter. The emulsifiers
Extra Foam Please?
Q: Since foaming is so critical to COP methods, should operators be agitating the solution(s) to produce foam before and during manual cleanings?
A: Mechanical energy, agitation, and plain old elbow grease, are vital weapons in cleaning and Clean-Out-Of-Place applications. So we would recommend that wherever possible, mechanical energy be applied to remove unwanted residues from the surface we are trying to clean. This will
How to: Reduce Cleaning Time
Q. What can we do to reduce cleaning time? We want to be as optimal and thorough in our cleaning as possible.
A. At Alconox Inc we recognize that manual cleaning may take minutes, spray cleaning seconds, and soaking may take hours, possibly overnight, to achieve comparable cleanliness. Read more….