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How it
Works
It is important to
remember that SURFASOLVE™ is not a solvent and therefore does not
simply dissolve the material it is cleaning like conventional
solvent (such as acetone.). SURFASOLVE™ is considered a "quasi"
solvent system, meaning it will dissolve a liquid (such as a
polymer) and release it later as a floc. This defies conventional
solvent practices and will require fresh understanding of how
different materials can be cleaned using this new technology. Solid
materials (such as polyester resin) will allow SURFASOLVE™ to work
at a substrate interface to destabilizing any bonds (this releases
the material and will not actually dissolve it.). By this mechanism
SURFASOLVE™ never stops working in the liquid phase.
SURFASOLVE™
will clean almost any polymer
species from any surface.
Destabilizing occurs which allows
the polymer to flocculate out of
suspension in the liquid phase form
and back into solid phase form
(regardless of polarity of the
polymer). The surface charge of the
polymer is almost always sufficient
to repel these polymer particles on
approach. This causes slow
flocculation to occur.
SURFASOLVE™
does not cause polymerization to
stop although it will slow this
process down. Because of the density
of the polymer undergoing
flocculation , the solid phase will
accumulate at the bottom of the work
station container as a floc. This
makes
SURFASOLVE™
fully recoverable and will only need
filtering to keep working at its
maximum capabilities.
A small
percentage of the
SURFASOLVE™
will be consumed in the reaction of
the polymer as it goes into a solid
phase. When this occurs a noticeable
increase in viscosity will be
observed. By adding new
SURFASOLVE™
to this material it will allow the
polymerized resin it easily floc back
out.
This
information may seem complex, yet
the bottom line is that the majority
of the
SURFASOLVE™
will be recovered while the
contaminates such as resin will
slowly polymerize and can later be
disposed of as solid waste.
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