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Typical Contamination Levels

This document provides typical contamination levels established by various organizations as a guide for reliability programs. It includes tables with contamination limits for hydraulic fluids, aircraft fuels, military land-based hydraulics, cleaning solvents, rocket fuels, ambient air, and cleanroom garments. These contamination levels are not necessarily acceptable but can be used as a guide if no performance data is available.

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Typical Contamination Levels

This document provides typical contamination levels established by various organizations as a guide for reliability programs. It includes tables with contamination limits for hydraulic fluids, aircraft fuels, military land-based hydraulics, cleaning solvents, rocket fuels, ambient air, and cleanroom garments. These contamination levels are not necessarily acceptable but can be used as a guide if no performance data is available.

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Typical Contamination Levels Request Information

The tables and numbers in this chapter represent typical system levels and classes of contamination as established by various organizations.
Do not consider them “acceptable” levels unless they were designated as acceptable for your testing requirements. This data is helpful as a
guide in establishing a reliability program if you do not have actual performance data available yet.

 Hydraulic Fluids
 ISO 4406 Hydraulic Fluid Cleanliness Codes
 Aircraft Fuels
 United States Military Land-Based Hydraulics
 CFC-Free Cleaning Solvent
 Rocket Propulsion and Service Fuels
 Ambient Air
 Cleanroom Garments

Hydraulic Fluids
This table lists the Navy Standard for Hydraulic Fluids Used for Aircraft Hydraulic Systems (NAV AIR 10-1A-17):

Size  Range 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

5–10 µm 2,700 4,600 9,700 24,000 32,000 87,000 128,000

10–25 µm 670 1,340 2,680 5,360 10,700 21,400 42,000

25–50 µm 93 210 380 780 1,510 3,130 6,500

50–100 µm 16 28 56 110 225 430 1,000


>100 µm 1 3 5 11 21 41 92

ISO 4406 Hydraulic Fluid Cleanliness Codes


ISO 4406 is a coding system designed to translate the data obtained from particle counting of hydraulic fluid samples into classes of
cleanliness. It supersedes previous coding systems for hydraulic components, such as NAS 1638.

This table shows how to use particle counts obtained from fluid samples to obtain the ISO 4406 rating.
Aircraft Fuels
Activity Total Sediment

Commercial (average) 0.2 mg/L

International Air Transport Association (IATA) 1.0 mg/USG (max)

Military Standards 4.0 mg/USG (max)

United States Military Land-Based Hydraulics


This table lists the maximum allowable particles per 100 mL in stated particle size ranges for MILH-5606, MIL-H-27601 A, and MIL-H-81019A
hydraulic fluids:

Particle Size Range Max. Allowable Particles

5–15 µm 2500

16–25 µm 1000

26–50 µm 250

51–100 µm 25

>100 µm None
CFC-Free Cleaning Solvent
MIL-PRF-5606H gives the following limits for petroleum-based hydraulic fluids in aircraft, missiles and ordnance:

Particle Size Range Max. Allowable Particles

5–15 µm 10,000

15–25 µm 1,000

25–50 µm 150

50–100 µm 25

>100 µm 5

Rocket Propulsion & Service Fuels*


Because of the more generous metering and pumping clearances for Missile Propellants and Service Gases, relatively high contamination
levels are tolerated. The major (particulate) risk is in clogging of pump inlet screens. Fibers that will initiate clogging and silting, therefore, are
specially controlled and held typically to 400 µm maximum size.

Fluid A.F. Use Limits

LO1 (Liquid Oxygen) 2.5 mg/L


LN1 (Liquid Nitrogen) 2.5 mg/L

RP-1 (Rocket Engine Fuel, Grade RP-1) 1.5 mg/L

GO1 (Gaseous Oxygen) 0.01 mg/L

GN1 (Gaseous Nitrogen) 0.01 mg/L

He (Helium) 0.01 mg/L
*per AFBS 61-3 (revised)

Ambient Air
This table lists the U.S. Air Force Tech. Order 00-25-203, maximum allowable particles (≥5 µm diameter) per per cubic foot:

Condition At Rest Operational

Air Force Std. Clean Room 70 680

Air Force Clean Work Station 0 7

Cleanroom Garments
The ASTM Decontamination Process Garment Classification Levels are:

Class Contamination level per square foot of fabric Particle type


A Less than 1000 ≥5 µm particles

Maximum 10 Fibers

B Less than 5000 ≥5 µm particles

Maximum 25 Fibers

C Less than 10,000 ≥5 µm particles

Maximum 50 Fibers

D Less than 15,000 ≥5 µm particles

Maximum 125 Fibers

E Less than 25,000 ≥5 µm particles

Maximum 175 Fibers

Obviously broken fibers and lint-bearing seams on outer surfaces of garments, wiping cloths, caps, hoods, booties, and fabrics are cause for
rework or rejection. Decontamination-processed clean room fabrics are free from persistent objectionable odors.

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