Cleaning system utilizing an organic cleaning solvent and a pressurized fluid solvent
申请人:——
公开号:US20020010965A1
公开(公告)日:2002-01-31
A cleaning system that utilizes an organic cleaning solvent and pressurized fluid solvent is disclosed. The system has no conventional evaporative hot air drying cycle. Instead, the system utilizes the solubility of the organic solvent in pressurized fluid solvent as well as the physical properties of pressurized fluid solvent. After an organic solvent cleaning cycle, the solvent is extracted from the textiles at high speed in a rotating drum in the same way conventional solvents are extracted from textiles in conventional evaporative hot air dry cleaning machines. Instead of proceeding to a conventional drying cycle, the extracted textiles are then immersed in pressurized fluid solvent to extract the residual organic solvent from the textiles. This is possible because the organic solvent is soluble in pressurized fluid solvent. After the textiles are immersed in pressurized fluid solvent, pressurized fluid solvent is pumped from the drum. Finally, the drum is de-pressurized to atmospheric pressure to evaporate any remaining pressurized fluid solvent, yielding clean, solvent free textiles. The organic solvent is preferably selected from terpenes, halohydrocarbons, certain glycol ethers, polyols, ethers, esters of glycol ethers, esters of fatty acids and other long chain carboxylic acids, fatty alcohols and other long-chain alcohols, short-chain alcohols, polar aprotic solvents, siloxanes, hydrofluoroethers, dibasic esters, and aliphatic hydrocarbons solvents or similar solvents or mixtures of such solvents and the pressurized fluid solvent is preferably densified carbon dioxide.
公开了一种利用有机清洗溶剂和加压流体溶剂的清洗系统。该系统没有传统的蒸发热风干燥循环。相反,该系统利用了有机溶剂在加压流体溶剂中的溶解性以及加压流体溶剂的物理特性。在有机溶剂清洗循环之后,溶剂在旋转滚筒中以高速从纺织品中提取,与传统蒸发式热风干洗机从纺织品中提取传统溶剂的方式相同。然后,将提取的纺织品浸入加压流体溶剂中,以提取纺织品中残留的有机溶剂,而不是进行传统的干燥循环。这是因为有机溶剂可溶于加压流体溶剂。纺织品浸入加压流体溶剂后,加压流体溶剂从桶中抽出。最后,将滚筒减压至大气压,以蒸发剩余的加压流体溶剂,从而得到干净、无溶剂的纺织品。有机溶剂最好选自萜、卤代烃、某些乙二醇醚、多元醇、醚、乙二醇醚的酯、脂肪酸和其他长链羧酸的酯、脂肪醇和其他长链醇、极性烷基溶剂、硅氧烷、氢氟醚、二元酯、脂肪烃溶剂或类似溶剂或此类溶剂的混合物,而加压流体溶剂最好是致密二氧化碳。