What is this standard about?
This standard addresses process descriptions, process validation, cleanliness control and monitoring, recontamination prevention, quality assurance as follows:
PROCESSES DESCRIPTIONS, including
- Detergent cleaning
- Alcohol cleaning
- Ultrapure water cleaning
- Liquid boundary layer disruption cleaning
- Multiple solvent cleaning (JPL procedure)
- Vacuum bakeout
- Supercritical fluids cleaning
- Carbon dioxide snow cleaning
- Plasma cleaning
- Pyrolysis
- Criteria for selecting other/novel processes
PROCESS VALIDATION
- Test material selection
- Preparation of test materials for process application
- Deposition of contaminants
- Description of test conditions
- Verification of cleanliness level
CLEANLINESS CONTROL AND MONITORING, including
- Micro/nano imaging techniques
- Spectrometry techniques
- Spectroscopy techniques
- Chromatography techniques
RECONTAMINATION PREVENTION
- Packaging systems
- Protective covers
- Storage
QUALITY ASSURANCE
This standard may be tailored for the specific characteristic and constrains of a space project in conformance with ECSS-S-ST-00.