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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1993
Sami B Awad, Drexel Hill, PA (US);
Crest Ultrasonics Corporation, Trenton, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an aqueous composition and process useful for cleaning and drying ferrous surfaces. According to the invention, a water-immiscible hydrocarbon or non-halogenated organic solvent cleaning step is followed by an aqueous displacement solution (ADS) which contains a surfactant component and a pH modifier component in sufficient amounts to substantially displace the hydrophobic organic solvent residue from the surface of the substrate and prevent its redeposition. The ferrous metal surfaces are then rinsed with hot deionized ultrasonically agitated water which comprises one or more water soluble basic components. This aqueous composition is capable of protecting ferrous metal surfaces form flash rusting after aqueous cleaning or solvent treatments of the surfaces, and particularly during the deionized water rinsing and drying steps.