Oxygen is one of the world's most widely-used industrial gasses. But oxygen is incredibly aggressive – it will react with almost everything. This makes cleaning oxygen systems a tricky business:

• First, oxygen systems can be quite large, with pipes winding through walls with many twists and turns.
• These systems can be complex, with many guages, pumps, filters and valves, all of which can entrap solvents.
• The contamination can be very difficult to remove, especially since mechanical scrubbing usually is not possible.
• Lastly, oxygen is enhances the flammability of combustible materials. Therefore, for maximum safety, many companies specify oxygen system cleaning must be performed with nonflammable cleaners. This is a tough cleaning environment.

Ordinary solvents can't do the job. Most of them have at least one of four weaknesses: they are too weak, they are flammable, they are slow-drying and/or they leave residues.

The fastest, most reliable and most consistent results are found by using high-performance MicroCare^® products to clean oxygen systems:

DuPont™ Vertrel® MCA Degreaser