Liquids as Antistatic Additives for Cleaning Fluids

Ionic Liquids as Antistatic Additives for Cleaning Fluids 

Ionic liquid is acting as cleaning agent, antistatic. 

The cleaning of high value surfaces, e.g. in the automotive, furniture or electronic industry, is a challenging problem, in particular if small charged particles have to be removed. Wandres Micro-Cleaning GmbH has developed a cleaning-system that uses moistened instead of dry filaments (Fig. 9-10). 

The liquid film (water) is brought onto the filament with the help of very small, micrometer-sized water droplets. These droplets are generated in a Venturi nozzle (Fig. 9-10). To avoid electrostatic charging of the sur ce, a supporting salt is usually added that fiidlitates electrical conductivity. If sodium chloride is used as a support- 

Ionic liquids can offer a unique solution to this problem, since as liquid salts they can provide electrical conductivity without precipitation of a solid, hence without formation of deposits. The ionic liquid solution to this problem was developed and established by lolitec in cooperation with Wandres Micro-Cleaning GmbH. 

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