Scaleva® MSA (Methane Sulfonic Acid), a more environmentally friendly cleaning solution
Scaleva® MSA (Methane Sulfonic Acid - CH3SO3H) offers an outstanding combination of properties for use in hard surface cleaning and removal of lime and metalic (iron) scales. Scaleva® MSA is used in the sector of metal cleaning, acid base cleaner for food industry and beverage industries, I&I (Industrial and Institutional), concrete cleaning, membrane cleaning, etc.
- Worldwide
Chemical name: Methane sulfonic acid, CH3SO3H
Common name: MSA
Trademark: Scaleva®
A more and more demanding cleaning market
As a manufacturer or formulator of cleaning products, your main aim is to offer innovating products that satisfy the consumer desire and needs. Whatever the end market, and beyond always looking for the most effective and universal cleaner at the lowest price, consumers now want "cleaner" cleaners, and expect manufacturers to offer products that are "safe for the user and their children, safe for the Earth and their equipment or furnitures".
The acid cleaners do not derogate to this new rule and we know that, as a responsible manufacturer, you are facing strong challenges for developing highly efficient and more sustainable products with a lowest possible environmental impact while meeting ever stringent and binding regulations and certifications. At Arkema, we do not want you choose between efficiency and safety or the environment, and offer you the solution that allows you to have an optimized compromise on all these requirements with our Scaleva® Methane Sulfonic Acid (MSA) grade.
Scaleva® MSA, a more environmental friendly alternative solution for acid cleaners
Scaleva® MSA (Methane Sulfonic Acid) is the most efficient new generation descaling acid cleaning agent with a limited effect on the environment compared to nitric and phosphoric acid, offering an outstanding combination of properties for use in hard surface cleaning and sanitization, removal of scales and rust (lime, iron…).
Readily biodegradable*, Scaleva® MSA has a better HSE profile compared to inorganic alternatives such as sulfuric acid or hydrogen halides. Moreover, dilute solutions can be easily treated by wastewater treatment facilities as Scaleva® MSA contains no phosphorus or nitrogen, two water pollutants that leads to eutrophication (dense growth of aquatic plants leading to the death of animal life from lack of oxygen) in rivers, lakes and other bodies of water.
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Arkema’s Scaleva® MSA offers an innovative, a more environmentally friendly solution to replace phosphoric and nitric acids, thereby avoiding nutrient pollution and promoting environmental sustainability.
Scaleva® MSA properties and performances
Scaleva® MSA (Methane Sulfonic Acid) is a strong organic acid that rapidly attacks carbonate and oxide scales and results in highly soluble Scaleva® MSA salts in water. It’s REACH registered, listed on NSF International and as a safer chemical by EPA.
Scaleva® MSA can be formulated safely and easily, with various surface-active agents or biocides, to improve overall efficiency and efficacy of your cleaning mixtures and to design Ecolabel (and Food & Beverage) compliant formulations.
In addition, of higher performances, it may reduce the number of cleaning time and steps involved and the amount of water used while facilitating the effluents disposal and reducing their post- treatment cost.
- Scaleva® MSA is the acid cleaning solution in a wide range of applications. Descaling applications such as cooling towers, evaporative coolers, hot water boilers, and processing equipment.
- Industries including Food & Beverage, concrete, household, petrochemicals, and formulated cleaner applications.
For stainless steel cleaning that requires high acid content, we recommend our MSA LC grade.
Scaleva® MSA is the solution for many fields of applications
- Descaling applications including cooling towers, evaporative coolers, hot water boilers, processing equipment and more.
- Used in Food & Beverage, concrete, household, petrochemicals, and formulated cleaner applications.
- The best acid choice to replace fuming, weak, and environmentally polluting acid.
- At the same active concentrations, Scaleva® MSA does a better job in 15 minutes than phosphoric acid does after 45 minutes.
For stainless steel cleaning that requires high acid content, we recommend our MSA LC grade.