PRODUCT DETAILS

Aviation / Aerospace

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Outstanding Performance: Mirachem 500 outperforms traditional water-based chemistries and can handle cleaning jobs usually reserved for hazardous solvents and petrochemicals.

• Economical Use: This product is concentrated allowing you to dilute with water and use only the amount of product you need.

• Versatility: Mirachem 500 has an extensive range of uses. It can be used in virtually any industrial cleaning application or commercial cleaning process from jet engine rebuild to routine janitorial cleaning, allowing you to do more cleaning with fewer products.

• Regulatory Compliance: Mirachem understands today’s regulatory climate. This product simplifies the task of meeting air and water quality regulations, as well as waste and fire management requirements.

• Material Compatibility: Mirachem 500 has been documented to conform to many OEM and industry standards for use in the most demanding applications including aviation / aerospace, marine and nuclear power industries.

All Mirachem product formulations are proprietary and are a closely guarded trade secret. Mirachem 500’s formulation can generally be described as a proprietary non-hazardous aqueous detergent blend, that does not contain any chelating ingredients such as EDTA, phosphates, petroleum distillates, or chlorinated (halogenated) or hydrocarbon solvents.

Mirachem’s unique combination of performance and safety are not as much about “secret ingredients” as they are about innovative development and manufacturing techniques, and our commitment to develop comprehensive cleaning solutions. Our products are the result of extensive experience in the field and exhaustive laboratory development and testing, an expensive and time consuming process. Most companies that sell cleaning chemistries are unable or unwilling to undertake similar development processes because it is easier and much less expensive to simply market the existing commodity formulas. Mirachem focuses its energies on finding ways to take basic cleaning elements, such as water, heat or agitation, and making them efficient enough to outperform hazardous chemistries.

The result of our approach is a quality product offering that is truly different, rather than an exhaustive line of “me too” chemicals that offer no real advantages.

Customers with a requirement for more detailed ingredient information should contact Mirachem to discuss their specific needs.

- Time
- Agitation
- Concentration
- Temperature

For hand wipe applications or mop and bucket applications, we recommend applying the product and allowing 5-10 seconds for the product to emulsify the soil. In general, the longer the dwell time, the less agitation will be required. Please ensure that the surface stays wet while the product loosens deposits.

For soaking or dip tank applications, timing is generally from 10 to 30 minutes. More difficult soils and encrusted deposits may take longer. Under most circumstances, soak times in excess of three (3) hours are not recommended. Soaking applications also require increased monitoring of product concentration.

Mirachem has developed several product lines designed to meet specific types of cleaning needs. These include our Printing, Industrial, Commercial, Professional and Specialty lines.

Products in Mirachem’s Industrial line, such as Mirachem 500, are high performance cleaning technologies designed to be used in a wide range of cleaning applications, and formulated to be effective at removing multiple soils. Our industrial products also offer the greatest cost effectiveness by allowing one product technology to be used to address virtually all cleaning applications that an industrial operation might encounter. Industrial line products are backed by extensive technical support and have been certified compliant with many industry, regulatory and OEM standards.

If your requirements call for a specific use product in a cleaning application that does not demand advanced technical support or top-of-the-line performance, we recommend our Commercial line of products. For janitorial and general duty cleaning applications, Mirachem’s Professional line is likely to be the most cost effective choice. If you have an unusual cleaning need that doesn’t fit traditional cleaning categories, look to our Specialty line for assistance. And finally, those with cleaning needs in the printing industry should look to our Printing Products line for help with their specific challenges.

• Whoever controls the hazard, owns the risk
• Where you are located determines the guidelines
• If you have a hazard, you have responsibility
• The responsibility never goes away

If you are currently using a hazardous product, your responsibility for what happens to the waste material does not end when it is removed from your facility. It has always been a goal of Mirachem to help customers reduce or eliminate the costs and liabilities associated with their cleaning products. Using Mirachem instead of traditional, higher-risk products can help to reduce the costs of waste transportation and disposal, fees and permitting, recordkeeping and manpower.

Unused Mirachem 500 in its concentrated form would be categorized as a Federal non-RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 6901-6992), waste, and in nearly all jurisdictions, can be sewer disposed in accordance with federal, state and local regulations.

Once used, the Mirachem 500 solution contains additional components that have come out of the cleaning process, and will, in all likelihood, no longer have the same waste characteristics of the unused product. The proper course of action is to have your waste streams analyzed by a reputable firm to determine the exact nature of the waste materials, and therefore, how they should be handled.

A local environmental services or waste transportation company should be able to assist you with obtaining the lab analysis, interpreting the results and handling your waste in an efficient and legally compliant manner. If you need help locating a reputable waste management company, Mirachem may be able to refer you to a local company with whom we have experience.

You may also choose to handle your own waste management needs internally. You can locate an appropriate lab yourself, and local, county, state and Federal agencies can assist you in determining handling and disposal options.

Alternative options, subject to applicable regulations, to off site transport and disposal may include:

• Discharge to local waste water treatment facility
• Utilize waste fluid in other third party processes that may qualify as a recycling procedure
• Evaporation or minimization
• On-site treatment

Product Technology
If you are converting from a solvent product to an aqueous cleaner, you can expect to make adjustments to both equipment and cleaning processes. Often, equipment designed for use with solvents is incompatible with aqueous technologies. Drying is also often an area that requires modification.

If you are converting from a high-alkaline chemistry to Mirachem, you can reasonably expect to need to make some minor adjustments to equipment, but probably not process.

Parts Washer / Tank Construction
Aqueous cleaners work best when used with equipment constructed of stainless steel, polyethylene or polypropylene.  Carbon steel or mild steel construction will eventually corrode, most often due to water vapor being generated above the liquid level by heated equipment.

Corrosion Management Practices
Mirachem 500 contains an advanced corrosion protection package that has been developed to be effective in any printing application. However, as with any water-based technology, some attention to corrosion management may be appropriate.

Solvent cleaners typically “flash dry”, that is, they evaporate (volatilize) very quickly in air. Unlike these solvents, aqueous cleaners usually dry at about the same rate as water. Under some circumstances, this increased dry time can lead to potential corrosion issues and may require adjustments to process.

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