The Aqueous Cleaning Handbook: A Guide to Critical-Cleaning Procedures, Techniques, and Validation

Since their first use in healthcare and laboratory settings, aqueous critical cleaners — cleaners which leave no interfering residues — have found increasing application in a wide range of industries as an environmentally benign alternative to ozone-depleting compounds and hazardous solvents.

This book distills and presents practical information covering the history of aqueous cleaners — what they are, how they work, and how to make best use of them in cleaning products and components in electronics, metalworking, precision manufacturing; pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and chemical processing; and many other industrial applications.

It is written by a medical doctor, Alan Zisman, and Malcolm McLaughlin who earned his M.A. in Chemistry from Columbia University. The two teamed up while working at Alconox, a New York-based firm which has been a leading supplier of aqueous cleaners for laboratory, healthcare and industrial applications for over 65 years.