Solvent Degreasing Equipment
Our solvent degreasing systems align with EPA’s National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) and meet the requirements of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). These systems ensure optimal process efficiency across vapor degreasing, immersion applications—with or without ultrasonic enhancement—and the innovative capabilities of VCN technology. The utilization of vacuum solvent technology offers advanced safety protocols, minimizes health risks, and reduces environmental impact, with the USEPA recognizing its 95% removal efficiency. Dr. Donald Gray, the founder, is the original patent holder and designer of the vacuum degreasing process.
Low Emission Vacuum Degreasers
Our Vacuum Vapor Degreasing Systems operate as fully closed-loop systems, ensuring that solvent vapors are contained within the chamber. Emissions are possible only during chamber access, resulting in near-zero atmospheric emissions due to the system’s sealed design.
Cleanroom Use
Our Vacuum Vapor Degreasing Systems operate as fully closed-loop systems, with emissions confined within the chamber and only escaping during the door-opening process. This design ensures that our Vacuum Vapor Degreasing Systems exhibit virtually zero atmospheric emissions.
High Capacity
Our systems are capable of applying supplementary thermal energy to expedite heat-up processes in heavy load applications, with design parameters typically optimized for cleaning durations ranging from 10 to 30 minutes.
Multiple Chambers
Multiple cleaning chamber systems utilize a unified support infrastructure to service two or more chambers concurrently. Dual configurations enable nearly double the throughput with proportionally minimal increases in capital expenditure.
Flammable Solvent Safe Systems
Our flammable systems are accompanied by an NFPA report detailing the design principles implemented to ensure safety when handling flammable solvents. These designs are approved by the NFPA, Factory Mutual, and local fire marshals.
Work Area Safety
Our Vacuum Degreasing Systems are engineered to maintain solvent residuals below 25 ppm within the degreaser prior to chamber access. EPA testing has consistently demonstrated solvent concentrations of less than 3 ppm at the degreasing chamber lid, ensuring compliance with environmental standards.
Low Solvent Usage
Vacuum vapor degreasing systems typically achieve a recovery efficiency of 99.9% for vapor and liquid solvent from the chamber during the drying cycle.
Better Cleaning Efficiency
Temperature plays a critical role in evaluating cleaning efficiency. Elevated temperatures decrease the viscosity of both contaminants and solvents, enhancing their flow characteristics. Higher temperatures also accelerate solvent condensation processes and increase solvent flushing volumes, improving cleaning performance. Our Airless Degreasing Systems can be configured to operate at the optimal, safest temperature settings specific to your cleaning application and equipment.
Tube Cleaning Equipment
Eliminates the need for manifolding or multi-step procedures. Integration of VCN processing into our Airless Degreasers facilitates automatic removal of oils, greases, and chips.
Flexible Temperature
Because our Vacuum Vapor Degreasing System units operate under a maintained full vacuum environment, the solvent within the system undergoes boiling regardless of temperature. These systems are capable of functioning at temperatures below the solvent’s standard boiling point, facilitating the use of the appropriate solvent at its optimal temperature for effective cleaning.
Custom Degreasing Machines
The system employs multiple cleaning chambers or support tanks to enable rapid parallel processing capabilities.
Vacuum Drying
Vacuum drying is integrated as a value-added feature across all our systems. When necessary, heated air drying can be incorporated, eliminating the need for supplementary drying equipment.
Reduced Waste
Our vacuum systems are employed in distillation and solvent recovery processes. Residual solvent after distillation typically constitutes up to 10% of the total volume. The removal of water from the solvent matrix inhibits acid formation and solvent degradation.
Reduced Reporting and Permit Costs
Vacuum Processing Systems engineers systems to ensure emissions compliance with established permit thresholds. Typically, this involves the documentation of annual solvent consumption. Due to solvent usage reductions of 95% or greater relative to open-top vapor degreasing methods, the necessary record-keeping and administrative tasks are minimal when implementing a Vacuum-To-Vacuum Degreasing System.
Excellent Drying
Our Vacuum Vapor Degreasing Systems employ advanced vacuum drying techniques. The system maintains ultra-deep vacuum levels, causing the solvent to vaporize directly from the substrate through boiling induced by trapped thermal energy. This integrated thermal and vacuum approach guarantees complete solvent evaporation from both the components and the chamber environment.
Solvent VCN Systems
Solvent VCN systems integrate the functionalities of an airless degreasing unit with the advanced capabilities of the VCN process.