Development of Aqueous/Semi-Aqueous Cleaning Agent and its Field Application to Cleaning Process of Electronic Parts

수계/준수계 세정제의 개발 및 전자부품 세정공정 현장적용 연구

In this study, aqueous/semi-aqueous cleaning agents which consist of organic solvent, surfactant, cosurfactant, and water were developed by changing formulation parameters such as organic solvent type and contents, surfactant type and contents, and cosurfactant/surfactant(A/S) ratio, etc.. And physical properties and flux removal of the formulated cleaning agents have been evaluated. Also, the performance of oil-water separation from the rinse water contaminated during the cleaning process was evaluated for its recycling. The formulated cleaning agents in this work expected to have good penetration because of their low viscosity and low surface tension values of 30.2~32.5 dyne/cm. The flux removal with the terpene type cleaning agent was higher than that with hydrocarbon type cleaning agent and two commercial products (CPA(commercial product A), CPB(commercial product B)). And the performance of oil-water separation by gravity settling from the rinse water contaminated with formulated cleaning agent and soils was shown to be very good. The cleaning agents developed in this work were applied to surface mounting technology(SMT) cleaning process for manufacturing electronic parts at L electronic company. As a result, the newly developed cleaning agents showed two times better cleaning speed for removal of solder cream than the conventional ond containing ethanol and IPA(isopropyl alcohol). In addition, malodor and VOC problems generated by the previous organic cleaning agents have been solved in the manufacturing field through introduction of the non-volatile and environmental-friendly cleaning agents to the field.

본 연구에서는 물성, 세정성, 헹굼액의 유수분리성을 고려하여 유기용매의 종류 및 함량, 계면활성제의 종류 및 함량, 부조계면활성제/계면활성제 (cosurfactant/surfactant, A/S) 비율 등의 변수로 하여 수계/준수계 세정제를 개발하였다. 개발된 세정제들은 대부분 평균 액적크기가 10 ~ 20 nm의 미세 나노입자를 형성 하였으며, 30.2~32.5 dyne/cm의 낮은 표면장력과 낮은 점도 값을 보여 주었다. 플럭스에 대한 용해력은 계면활성제의 소수성이 증가할수록 높게 나타났으며 terpene을 함유한 세정제들이 hydrocarbon 함유 세정제와 대응 시판세정제에 비해 우수한 용해력을 보여 terpene계 세정제가 대체세정제로의 적합성을 보여주었다. 또한, 개발된 세정제들을 함유한 헹굼액은 시판세정제에 비하여 우수한 유수분리성을 보여 헹굼액의 재활용이 가능하여 경제적인 부담과 수질오염을 줄일 수 있음을 보여주었다. 그리고 이렇게 개발된 세정제를 L 전자 회사의 전자부품 생산라인 SMT(surface mount technology) 세정공정에 적용시켜 보았다. 그 결과 solder cream 제거에 있어서 에탄올, 이소프로필알콜(IPA), glycol ether과 같은 물질이 함유된 기존의 세정제에 비하여 세정성능이 2 배이상 향상되었고 생산현장에서 악취와 VOC의 문제를 해결시킬 수 있었다.