Brio Cleaners Glossary
Common Terms from the Dry Cleaning Industry
- Aeration
- Amyl Acetate
- Anti-foaming Agents
- Assembly
- Atmospheric Still
- Backwashing
- Bactericides (Biocides)
- Base Tank
- Belly Washer
- Bleach
- Boil Down
- Boiler
- Boiler Feed Water Treatment
- Boilover
- Bound Moisture
- Buck
- Bumping (Air Bumping)
- Button Trap
- Carbon Adsorber
- Cartridge Filter
- Classification
- Coin-Operated Dry Cleaning Machine
- Cold Spotting Board
- Combination Machine
- Commercial Drycleaners
- Condensate Water
- Condenser
- Constant Pressure Filter
- Contact Water
- Cooked Powder Residue
- Cooker
- Cool-Down
- Cylinder
- Deodorizing Cycle
- Detergent
- Diatomite
- Digestive Agent
- Distillation
- Diverter Valve
- Drum
- Dry Cleaning
- Dry Cleaning Machine
- Dry Cleaning Solvent
- Dry Drop-off Facility
- Dryer
- Drying Cycle
- Dry-Side Spotting Agent
- Dry-to-Dry Machine
- Extraction
- Extractor
- Fifth Generation Dry Cleaning Machine
- Filter Cake
- Filter Powder
- Fugitive Vapors
- Full-size Carbon Unit
- Graying
- Grid-Head Press
- Halogenated-Hydrocarbon Detector
- Heating Coil
- Hot-Head Press
- Hot Plate Evaporator
- Hydrogen Peroxide
- Inductive Fan
- Industrial Cleaners
- Insoluble Soil
- Loading Factor
- Marking
- Mister
- Muck
- Muck Cooker
- Non-volatile Residue (NVR)
- Optical Brighteners
- Oxidizing Bleach
- Percent Detergent
- Perchloroethylene
- Petroleum Dry Cleaning Solvent
- Petro-miser
- Polishing Filter
- Powder Filtration System
- Pre-charged Solvent
- Precoating
- Protein Formula Detergent
- Pump Strainer
- Rag Filter
- Reclaimer
- Reclaiming Cycle
- Recycle
- Reducing Bleach
- Refrigerated Condenser
- Refrigerated Condenser Coil
- Regenerative Filters
- Room Enclosure
- Separator Water
- Slide Board
- Sludge
- Sniffer
- Sodium Bisulfite
- Sodium Hydrosulfite
- Sodium Hypochlorite
- Sodium Perborate
- Solvation Process
- Solvent Pump
- Solvent Relative Humidity
- Solvent Relative Humidity Instrument
- Solvent Turnover
- Spotting
- Spotting Agent
- Spotting Board
- Steam Press
- Steam Stripping
- Steam Sweeping
- Still
- Still Bottoms
- Surfactant
- Suzie
- Sweetener Powder
- Synthetic Detergents
- Tetrachloroethylene or Tetrachloroethene
- Third Generation Dry Cleaning Machine
- Titanium Stripper
- Transfer Machine
- Trichloroethylene
- Tubular Filter
- Vacuum Still
- Vacuum Unit
- Vacuum Water
- Vapor Adsorber
- Vapor Recovery Unit
- Washer
- Washer-Extractor
- Water Separator
- Water Soluble Soil
- Wet-side Spotting Agent
- Wheel
- Wholesale Supply Facility