title: Application of statistical analysis to mixed soil detergency.
abstract: In previous studies, statistical method using distribution of detergent power and that of resistance of soil against washing was applied to analyze detergency of oily soil and solid particle soil. In this paper, this method was applied to an analysis of detergency of mixed soil. Artificially soiled cloth prepared by aqueous dispersion method was used as a mixed soil sample. Four-time consecutive washing tests were conducted under the same washing condition in Terg-O-Tometer using two kinds of detergent solution and distilled water. Change of removal efficiencies due to repetitive washing was used to determine the two distributions. Result shows that detergent power can be expressed as cumulative distribution function. In washing simulation using the cumulative distribution functions, the predicted removal efficiencies corresponded with experimental values. Moreover, the effect of soil aging on distribution of soil resistance against washing was found to move the distribution curve toward high resistance. These results show that the method using two statistical distributions can be applied to the detergency of mixed soil.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-7 Tokiwadai, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oya
mesh_terms: D052918:Environmental Restoration and Remediation; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D009821:Oils / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012987:Soil; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009821:Oils; D012987:Soil; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D013501:Surface-Active Agents; D014867:Water