Laser cleaning has obvious advantages,compared with traditional cleaning methods such as mechanical friction cleaning, chemical corrosion cleaning, liquid solid strength impact cleaning and high frequency ultrasonic cleaning etc.
1. Efficient, fast and low cost,
2. Non-damage cleaning;
3. No environmental pollution;
4. Safe and reliable, without compromising the health of operators;
5. can remove coating of various thicknesses and different components
6. Easy to realize automatic control, realize remote control cleaning, etc
7. No maintenance required.
Laser cleaning method compared with traditional cleaning methods
Contrastive project | Chemical cleaning | Mechanical polishing | Ultrasonic cleaning | Laser cleaning |
Cleaning method | Chemical cleaning agent | Mechanical/sandpaper, contact type | Cleaning agent, contact type | Laser, non-contact |
Artifact damage | damage | damage | No damage | No damage |
Cleaning efficiency | low | low | medium | high |
Cleaning effect | normal,uneven | normal,uneven | good, small scope clean | Excellent，high cleanliness |
Cleaning precision | uncontrollable, poor accuracy. | uncontrollable，general accuracy |
Non-specified scope cleaning | Accurate and controllable, high precision |
Safety/environmental protection | Severe chemical contamination | environment Pollution | No pollution | No pollution |
Personnel operating | High requirement for operators and need protection measures. | Strong physical strength and need safety precautions | Simple operation, but need to add consumables manually | Simple operation, handheld or integrated automation. |
Consumables | Chemical cleaning agent | Sandpaper, grinding wheel, oil stone and so on. | Special cleaning fluid |
electricity consume |
Cost input | Low cost for the first time, high cost of consumables. | high cost for the first time,high labor cost. | Low cost for the first time, medium cost for consumables | high cost for the first time,no consumables, low maintenance cost. |