TANK CLEANING CHART

For cleaning purposes, cargoes can be classified into three groups:

1. Mineral oils
- Coal based products and distillates
- Petroleum-based products and distillates
2. Vegetable, Animal and Fish Oils and Fats
- Drying oils
- Semi-drying oils
- Non-drying oils
3. Chemicals and Solvents
- Products with low boiling point and high vapour pressure - volatile
- Products with a boiling point above 100 C low volatile

Cleaning principle
Emulsification
Saponification and/or
emulsification
Evaporation
Emulsification

The chemicals used in tank cleaning can be divided into several categories:
1.
2.

Solvents
Surfacants

3.
4.

Emulsifiers
Saponifiers

Chemicals which dissolve or solubilize other materials or chemicals

Detergents which act to reduce the surface tension and improve wetting
and cleaning capability
Surface active chemicals which forms an emulsion of two liquids
Alkaline ( alkali solution with pH above 7.0, neutral ) chemical which change oil and fats
into soaps and allow easily to flush away from the surface

Types of oils
Drying oils
China Wood oil
Candle Nut oil
Hempseed oil
Linseed oil
Menhaden oil
Mustardseed oil
Otticea oil
Perilla oil
Poppyseed oil
Rubberseed oil
Safflower oil
Soya Bean oil
Tall oil
Tung oil
Walnut oil

Semi-drying oils
Babassu oil
Cod oil
Codliver oil
Cottonseed oil
Croton oil
Herring oil
Jap Fish oil
Maize oil
Sardine oil
Sesame oil
Shark oil
Sunflower oil
Whale oil
Wheat oil

Non-drying oils
Almond oil
Arachis oil
Camphor oil
Canada oil
Carapa oil
Chashew oil
Castor oil
Coconut oil
Cohune oil
Curi Curi oil
Geranium oil
Lard oil
Neatsfood oil

Olive oil
Palm oil
Pine oil
Rapeseed oil
Rice oil
Seal oil
Sperm oil
Tacum oil
Tallow oil
Tea seed oil

CLEANING CHEMICALS CROSS REFERENCE

UNITED
UNITOR ROCHEM

VECOM

DREW

NALFLEET

MARINE
CARE

ENVIROCLEAN

VECLEAN GP

ENVIROMATE
2000

CITROC

CARECLEAN GP

SEACLEAN

TANK CLEAN
AT SEA(B-1430)
Degreaser H.D
Degreaser H.F.

TC4

9-040

CARECLEAN
VOYAGE

SEACLEAN

FOR MINERAL OILS AND

PETROLEUM BASED CHEMICALS

COLDWASH

COLDWASH HD

DEGREASER
G.P. (B-24B)

OIL AND GREASE

REMOVER

MAXICLEAN 1
9-044

CARECLEAN
DEGREASER GP

DEGREASER
KLEEN

FOR MINERAL OILS AND

PETROLEUM BASED CHEMICALS

HEAVY DUTY SOLVENT

EMULSIFIER

DEGREASER
TC

TANKLEEN

DEGREASER
H.D.

HDE- 777
*TANKWASH

9-040
MAXICLEAN 1

CARECLEAN
HD

DEGREASER
CLEAN HD

FOR MINERAL OILS AND

PETROLEUM BASED CHEMICALS

HEAVY DUTY SOLVENT

EMULSIFIER

CLEANBREAK

CLEANBREAK

DEGREASER CL
BREAK

OWS

MAXIBREAK

CARECLEAN
QUICK SPLIT

TANK
SEPARATOR
CLEAN

FOR MINERAL OILS AND

PETROLEUM BASED CHEMICALS

EMULSIFIER

UNITOR

STOLT
NAME

ENVIROCLEAN

SEACLEAN

STOLT B

APPLICATIONS

DESCRIPTION

MULTI-PURPOSE

WATER BASED SOLVENT

HCF

HEAVY DUTY SOLVENT

EMULSIFIER

ALKAWASH

STOLT C

ALKLEEN
SAFETY LIQUID

WATER BASED
NEUTRAL HCF
( B-4 )

ALKWASH *

STOLT
LAC *

ALKLEEN *
LIQUID

WATERBASED*
ALKALINE. H.D.

LAC *

9-065 *

CARECLEAN *
ALKALINE
EXTRA

LIQUID *
ALKALINE
CLEAN / LAC

CARBON
REMOVER

VECLEAN
CARBON

CARBON
REMOVER

9-051

CARECLEAN
CARBON

CARBON
KLEEN

FOR MINERAL OILS AND CARBON

DEPOSIT

EMULSIFIER
HCF

STOLT D *

METAL
BRIGHT*

RUST
CLEANER*

RUST STAIN
REMOVER*

9-061 COLD
PHOS*

CARECLEAN
RUST*

RUST
CLEAN*

FOR REMOVING
OF RUST STAINS

SURFACANT

STOLT HCF

UNIWASH

GALLEY
CLEANER

DEGREASER AP

DETERGENT
CLEANER

CARECLEAN
AQUAWASH

MULTICLEAN

GENERAL PURPOSE

SURFACANT
HCF

CARBOSOLV

METAL
BRIGHTNER*

ENVIROTECH

Not suitable for zinc silicate coatings

CARECLEAN
NEUTRAL HCF

FOR NATURAL OILS

AND FATS

FOR NATURAL OILS

AND FATS, PETROCHEMICALS

SAPONIFIER SURFACANT

SAPONIFIER
HCF

HCF