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Ultrasonic Cleaning

Ultrasonic Cleaning is used to precision clean medical, electronic, avionic and other technological equipment when absolute cleaning is required. It can also be used on residential items such as blinds, crystal vases and computers and is perfect for objects with small crevasses.

Ultrasonic cleaning uses sound waves conducted through a water solution to clean items of all sizes. The cleaning solution is environmentally-friendly and non-abrasive. Each solution is specially formulated for specific types of equipment.

How does it work?
In a process termed "cavitation", micron-sized bubbles form and grow due to alternating positive and negative pressure waves in a solution. The bubbles subjected to these alternating pressure waves continue to grow until they reach resonant size. Just prior to bubble implosion, there is a tremendous amount of energy stored inside the bubble itself. Temperature inside a cavitating bubble can be extremely high, with pressures up to 500 atm. The implosion event, when it occurs near a hard surface, changes the bubble into a jet about one-tenth the bubble size, which travels at speeds up to 400 km/hr toward the hard surface. With the combination of pressure, temperature and velocity the jet frees contaminants from their bonds. Because of the inherently small size of the jet and the relatively large energy, ultrasonic has the ability to reach into small crevices and remove entrapped soils very effectively.