Aqueous Cleaning Processes

By Michael Moussourakis, Jeff Phillips, Stacy Silverstein, and Malcolm McLaughlin

Explore this chapter of The Aqueous Cleaning Handbook, focusing on nine essential variables to consider in any aqueous cleaning process. Walk through the BATH-O-CARD acronym to help evaluate, diagnose, and optimize your cleaning process.

It is important to understand and control these interrelated variables in all critical cleaning, particularly in highly sensitive industrial applications such as medical device manufacturing, metal surface preparation, optics assembly, and electronic component manufacturing. If you think about the variables in BATH-O-CARD, you will be more successful at diagnosing problems and optimizing your process.