traceCLEAN Acid steam cleaning system
Cleaning various items used in ultra-trace analysis work is a critically important laboratory routine. traceCLEAN assures best cleaning quality of your TFM, glass and quartz parts for ICP/ICP-MS accessories. Any trace metal contaminants stay within the reservoir and do not come in contact with the cleaned trace accessories. The cleaning process with the traceCLEAN takes about an hour, enhancing the overall lab workflow.
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To minimize contamination, traditional cleaning methods require soaking items in hot acids, often for several hours. To be effective large volumes of acid are consumed and need to be changes regularly. There is also a substantial risk of exposure to hot acids and acid vapors using traditional soaking techniques.
To address these issues, Milestone has developed the traceCLEAN, a fully automated, self-contained, acid steam cleaning system for trace metal analysis accessories. The cleaning process with the traceCLEAN takes about an hour, enhancing the overall lab workflow. Digestion vessels, ICP accessories, volumetric flasks, and other glassware can be cleaned, even multiple times during a day.
Benefits:
- Versatile
- For all laboratory apparatus, either TFM, glass and quartz parts
- Fully automated and safe
- No operator exposure to acid vapors.
- Highly productive
- Fast, convenient, clean, and fully automated.
- Cost-effective and productive
- No changing of acids or soaking required.
Mpact reduces acid consumption by around 90% with Milestone traceCLEAN
Discover how Mpact, Southern Africa’s largest paper and plastics packaging and recycling business, has improved the efficiency and safety of its laboratory cleaning workflow with the implementation of Milestone traceCLEAN.
Trace-metal analysis plays an important role in Mpact’s regulatory compliance activities. The laboratory must measure very low concentrations of regulated metals in packaging materials and demonstrate compliance with food-contact requirements.
Before adopting traceCLEAN, Mpact relied on a conventional manual acid-cleaning procedure. In addition to being time-consuming, the process involved significant acid consumption, hazardous waste disposal costs, and potential operator exposure to corrosive acids and acid vapours.
Milestone traceCLEAN automates the process using freshly distilled hot acid vapours inside a sealed chamber. According to Mpact, the system has reduced acid consumption by approximately 90%, from around 5 L to 500 mL for a batch of glassware. This reduction also translates into lower acid purchasing costs and significantly less hazardous chemical waste requiring treatment and disposal.
The closed, automated process also limits manual handling, helping improve operator safety and reduce the risk of cross-contamination.
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