Ultrasonic baths & cleaners

Start from the largest item you want to clean. It has to fit completely under the liquid surface while sitting in the basket, and the basket takes up some of the usable depth. The stated volume is the empty tank's capacity, and your items displace part of it. For pipettes, small glassware and parts, a small bath such as the heated ultrasonic bath with timer, 3.2 l is usually enough. For beakers, sieves or batches of instruments, choose a mid-size unit like the heated ultrasonic bath with timer, 10 l. Unsure? Send us your item sizes at sales@luminixhealth.com.

Heating helps most jobs: a warm bath loosens grease, oil and protein residues faster and makes the cleaning agent work better. Check the maximum temperature on the product page, for example the 10 l heated bath, adjustable up to 80 °C. A sweep function shifts the frequency slightly all the time, so no standing waves form and the cleaning is more even across the tank. A degas function removes dissolved gas from fresh liquid at the start of a cycle, which strengthens the ultrasound. Both are on the 13.5 l ultrasonic bath with heating, sweep and degas.

For routine laboratory cleaning, a bath of around 40 kHz is the usual choice. It removes most residues from glassware, sieves and instruments without being too harsh, for example the 10 l heated bath at 40 kHz. Lower frequencies produce larger cavitation bubbles and act more aggressively, which suits heavy, stubborn deposits on robust parts. Higher frequencies produce smaller bubbles that clean more gently, which suits delicate surfaces and fine structures. Some industrial units offer two frequencies so you can switch between them. Check the frequency on the product page. For help matching it to your parts, write to sales@luminixhealth.com.

Plain water cleans poorly with ultrasound, so always add a concentrate made for ultrasonic baths. Choose its pH to suit the soil. Cleaners for organic soils remove grease, oil, wax and protein residues, for example the ultrasonic cleaning concentrate, 1 l, which works at low dilution and foams little. Acidic cleaners remove lime scale, rust and mineral deposits, such as the acidic instrument cleaner for ultrasonic baths, 1 l. Always check that the agent is compatible with your parts and with the tank, and use an insert tray for acids. More options are in ultrasonic cleaning concentrates.

An ultrasonic cleaner drops parts into a bath where collapsing bubbles scrub joints and bores. Tank volume and ultrasonic power are the ratings. A basket keeps items off the tank floor, where the transducers are. The liquid is usually water plus a cleaning concentrate, not a strong solvent, unless the tank is rated for it.

An ultrasonic bath cleans by cavitation: the sound collapses tiny bubbles against the surface and lifts soil out of joints a brush cannot reach. The chemistry of the bath liquid still matters. A laboratory glassware washer is the machine that replaces hand washing when the load is large or the result has to be repeatable. Rinse water quality decides whether the glass comes out spotted. The ware being washed is listed under ISO laboratory glassware.

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