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Seventeen documented cleaning processes — the parts, the numbers and the recipe card

Real parts. Measured results. Nothing here we have not run ourselves.

Every study starts with the customer’s actual parts and their cleaning requirement. We develop and validate the process, then specify the chemistry, the ultrasonic parameters and the system configuration needed to reproduce the result. Where we photographed it, the photographs are here.

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Seventeen documented applications

Cat 3516B stripped on the stand, as receivedMining · heavy plant MRO

Cat 3516B engine overhaul

Sixteen cylinder heads timed at 15/30/45/60 minutes in MetalTek 100 — combustion faces and exhaust ports to bare cast iron, no media anywhere near them.

Timed photographs · full process cardRead the case study →Runway light lenses as received, both sizesAviation · airfield MRO

Runway light lens recovery

2,500+ fixtures at a major Australian airport. Cooked tyre rubber off the optic in a 20 minute dual-frequency cycle, with photometric numbers either side.

Before & after · process cardRead the case study →Parts racked at the wash, rinse and dry lineProcess cleaning

Wash, rinse, hot-air dry

A three-station Sono L-130 built and commissioned on our own floor — dual-frequency 25/45 kHz, DI rinse and hot-air dry, basket moved on the clock.

Video · photographs · the setupRead the case study →The MSX benchtop pair — MSX 15 and MSX 30Defence & law enforcement

Firearms and armoury

Carbon, unburnt powder, lead and copper wash out of the whole action in a 15-minute 40 kHz cycle — armoury-scale throughput.

Photos · full process cardRead the case study →Brass lock cylinder, before and afterManufacturing

Brass lock components

Swarf, cutting oil and pastes — critically clean in a 20-minute UltraWash cycle with Brulin 1990 GD.

Photos · full process cardRead the case study →Diesel piston with carbon in the ring groovesEngine rebuilding

Diesel piston ring grooves

Coked carbon out of the ring belt in 815 QR-NF at 70 °C — dimensions gauged unchanged.

Photos · full process cardRead the case study →Piston skirt before cleaningEngine rebuilding

Engine blocks & heads

Rust, carbon and paint stripped in one 1–2 hour immersion — water jackets included.

Process cardRead the case study →EVS machine set up for the two-bath ash cycleTransport

DPF two-bath ash process

The ash regeneration leaves behind — and the RegeniK second bath that removes it, flow-tested.

Process cardRead the case study →Tube bundle and tubesheetMining · marine

Radiators & heat exchangers

Whole-core recovery for Mesabi-class coolers and marine finned-tube exchangers.

Process cardRead the case study →Pleated stainless mesh filter elements cleaned and laid out on the benchFiltration

Mesh filter elements

Pleated stainless candle elements blinded with carbonised residue — open through the whole pleat pack again, not just the face a backwash reaches.

Photos — before and afterRead the case study →Jenbacher biogas CHP gensetEnergy

Biogas CHP spark plugs

Up to +67% service life on an MSX30 bench — machine payback under 12 months.

Photos · results dataRead the case study →EVS 300 with the filtration skidEnergy

Power-station filters

Candle filters and demister pads recovered on rotation for a major generator — ΔP per element.

Program studyRead the case study →UltraWash installed on sitePolymer recycling

Hot-melt filter discs

Blinded melt filter discs taken back to measured flow — and how to cost the cell against your media spend.

Process and verificationRead the case study →Baskets over the tanks on the multistage lineAerospace

Automated 4-tank aerospace line

Cooled ultrasonic wash, cavitation rinse, IPA dip and air dry on a 5–10 minute platform cycle.

Engineered systemRead the case study →Looking along the passivation lineAerospace · medical

Citric passivation

AMS 2700 / ASTM A967 conformance without nitric — NASA-validated, cost-modelled.

Standards studyRead the case study →MSX 30 open frontElectronics

PCB flux removal

Ionic residues below the IPC 6 µg/in² limit with Brulin 1696 GD chemistry at 40 kHz.

Process cardRead the case study →Installed tank on the plant floorFood

Meat processing plant

CM-800-class installation cleaning racks and equipment to export-plant standard.

Install photosRead the case study →Certified four-bag filter housingFiltration · process vessels

Three certified four-bag filter vessels

Three multi-bag housings built, certified and commissioned for a continuous process duty — sized on flow, bag count and changeout interval rather than on catalogue part number.

Build & certification · full specRead the case study →
The Misonics process language

Every study is built from these stages

Misonics cleaning process stages: spray wash, ultrasonics, injection flood, rinse, oscillation, hot air drying, vacuum drying

Not every part needs every stage — each case study names the stages its process card uses, in this order. Each stage has a job, and the order matters.

The next study starts with a real application

Where an application warrants a controlled trial, we clean, photograph, gauge and document — and the process card stays with the customer.

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