Number
166-EN
Section
General Section
Use
Sector
General manufacturing, e.g. machinery, equipment, vehicles, other transport equipment
Function
Cleaning agent
Solvent
Process
Manual activities involving hand contact
Product category
washing ad cleaning products
Application
Cleaning of motorcycle parts
Abstract
In a repair workshop open to children, young people, and adults motorcycle repaired parts are cleaned on a wash stand from dust, oil, grease, soot, tar, metal shavings, oxides, sand and salt. For the manual cleaning vegetable oil-based esters are used as alternative to hydrocarbon solvents.
Substituted substances
Naphtha (petroleum), hydrotreated heavy
CAS No. 64742-48-9 EC No. 265-150-3 Index No. 649-327-00-6
Chemical group
Hydrocarbons
Classification: hazard statements
H350 May cause cancer
H340 May cause genetic defects
H304 May be fatal if swallowed and enters airways
Carbon dioxide
CAS No. 124-38-9 EC No. 204-696-9 Index No.
Chemical group
Carbonyl compounds
Alternative Substances
Fatty acid ester based on coco-oil
CAS No. EC No. Index No.
Chemical group
Fatty acid ester
Reliability of information
Evidence of implementation: there is evidence that the solution was implemented and in use at time of publication
Reason substitution
other toxic effects
physical hazards
CMR
Hazard Assessment
Substances to be substituted: Naphtha (petroleum), hydrotreated heavy may cause cancer cat. 1B, according to Annex VI of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 (CLP Regulation). It fulfils the criteria to be listed in the Substance Database according to SUBSPORTplus Screening Criteria (SDSC). Carbon dioxide is not listed in the SUBSPORTplus Database and has no harmonised classification according to Annex VI of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 (CLP Regulation). Alternative substance: The alternative product, esters based on coconut oil is not classified to the producer. According to the MSDS it contains no hazardous substances.
Description of Substitution
A centre for cultural and social work from Hamburg, Germany offers activities, courses and workshops to children, young people, and adults. It has 13 permanent employees and about 100 volunteers. Several volunteer teams have open days in their workshops. All interested people could pass without registration and find expert advice and instruction. One of these is a repair workshop. There are repaired motorbike parts. For the cleaning of parts solvents containing a carcinogen were used. For environmental and occupational health and safety reasons the workshop team decided to substitute these products. Now the enterpriser uses vegetable oil-based esters (Estisol 242) for manual cleaning. Thereafter the parts are repaired and reassembled.
Case/substitution evaluation
In this case story a substituted product containing carcinogen was replaced with an esters based on coconut oil. It is a safer alternative for the described application.
State of implementation
In use
Date and place of implementation
2004 in Germany
Availability ofAlternative
on the market
Producer/Provider
https://additiv-chemie.de/index.php/de/
Type of information supplier
User
Further information
More information you will find in the Cleantool-Database: www2.cleantool.org
Date, reviewed
November 26, 2021