How Ultrasonic Cleaning Benefits Medical Industry Operations

The cleaning of reusable instruments, medical devices, and implants during medical industry operations is critical but is often difficult. Manual pre-cleaning, steam cleaning, and heat-sterilization are time-consuming and may damage delicate and temperature-sensitive instruments. Many of these instruments have complex shapes, which make them hard to access for manual cleaning.

Despite the difficulties, organic matter from previous patients and other medical facility contamination needs to be removed entirely to prevent infecting new patients.

The use of medical ultrasonic cleaners provides an ideal solution to many of these problems. This method uses an ultrasonic cleaner, which works by producing microscopic cavitation bubbles in the cleaning solution. The bubbles form and collapse in tune with the high-frequency sound waves passing through the liquid. When the bubbles collapse, they create a powerful scrubbing action against the parts' surfaces to be cleaned. Surface contaminants are dislodged and swept away.

In ultrasonic cleaning, the two critical factors for effective and successful cleaning of medical parts are the chosen frequency and power. Lower frequencies produce larger bubbles that provide a more intense cleaning of hard and robust parts. Higher frequencies generate comparatively smaller bubbles and gentler cleaning action of more fragile and delicate parts. Choosing the right frequency ensures that the parts are cleaned quickly and thoroughly without damaging the parts to be cleaned (especially the fragile and delicate medical parts and tools).

The power of the ultrasonic cleaning system must be enough to fill the tank with ultrasonic waves. These waves create bubbles throughout the liquid, even on interior surfaces, inside holes, or along cracks. While ultrasonic cleaning only dislodges physical surface contamination and does not kill pathogens, the systems can be used to sterilize parts by adding an appropriate amount of disinfectant to the ultrasonic bath.

The medical ultrasonic cleaner effectively cleans medical parts, tools, and implants provides improved cleaning performance, reduced cleaning times, and consistent results. These things lead to less time spent on cleaning tanks, better use of medical personnel who receive cleaner instruments, and improved patient outcomes.

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How Custom Designed Ultrasonic Cleaners Meet Automotive Industry Needs

 

The automotive industry has varied cleaning requirements for automotive parts and re-built components. Cleaning applications range from rugged engine parts to more fragile parts with special coatings or finishings.

Automotive ultrasonic cleaners can be custom designed to handle special cleaning applications, and customized systems often deliver optimum cleaning results.

Businesses use customized automotive ultrasonic cleaners that are designed with basic parameters that ideally match the cleaning application. For instance, low frequencies (such as 26 kHz and 38 kHz) clean robust, heavily contaminated parts. In comparison, higher frequencies (such as 78 kHz) are best for cleaning more delicate components such as aluminum parts.

Another important consideration is the cleaning tank, which hold the cleaning solution and the parts being cleaned. Standard tanks are gloss polished 12-gauge stainless steel, but other materials can be used when the specific cleaning applications require it. Tanks can be ambient temperature or heated, and they can include circulating pumps and filtration. Heating in the cleaning solution can soften more challenging and more stubborn dirt (such as caked grease), thus speeding up the cleaning process. Filtration can remove dirt as it is loosened from the automotive parts.

Transducers convert the electrical signal from the ultrasonic generator into sound waves that travel through the cleaning solution. Transducers can be permanently installed, bolt-on, or immersible, as needed by cleaning application.

Some automotive production lines require cleaning for a specific part, while others may have large volumes of several parts to be cleaned regularly. The level of contamination may be predictable or may vary, depending on the job. These factors influence how the parts should be cleaned, and therefore they may require extensive customization.

Other possible factors for customization of automotive ultrasonic cleaners include physical characteristics and special processing options. For example, the physical arrangement can be adapted to existing available space, and components (such as transducers) can be customized to be placed in existing tanks.

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