Aqueous cleaning solution and method for cleaning aluminium-based metals

• Main Authors: MINO, YASUTAKE, IKEDA, SATOSHI, INBE, TOSHIO, SASAKUMA, SHINJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 02.02.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; CANDLES; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; CHEMISTRY; CLEANING OR DEGREASING OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY CHEMICALMETHODS OTHER THAN ELECTROLYSIS; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATIONOR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; DETERGENTS; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION INGENERAL; METALLURGY; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL; RESIN SOAPS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS

The present invention provides an aqueous cleaning solution for aluminum-based metals which comprises an inorganic acid in an amount to provide a pH value of 2 or less, an oxidized form metal ion and a surfactant represented by the following formula (I) R-O-(EO)nH wherein R represents an alkyl group having on average 10 to 18 carbon atoms per molecule, n represents an integer of 8 or greater, and EO represents an ethyleneoxy group which may contain a small proportion of a propyleneoxy group. The degradation of cleaning properties due to the accumulation of lubricating oil or decomposition of surfactants is lessened even when the cleaning operation is carried out for a long period of time.