Product advisor

Which Chemitek product does your plant need?

Four quick questions: what’s on the glass, where the plant is, how you clean and what help you want. You get a plan with the right products and dilutions for your method, or an engineer when the answer needs one.

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The rules, in one table

What’s on the glass, and what removes it

The advisor works from this table. Where more than one thing is on the glass, or the source or the water is unknown, it sends you to an engineer first.

What you seeScenarioUseThen

Loose dust or sandSoilingSolar Wash Protect by hand; Antistatic Solar Armor 2.0 by robot, rotary brush or tractorNothing else: one product in the clean you already do

Bird droppingsSoilingSolar Wash Protect: pre-wet, let it soften, soft brush, rinse. Never scrapeAntistatic Solar Armor 2.0 in machine-cleaned routine washes

A sticky or greasy film (fumes, soot, pollen)SoilingSolar Wash Protect, made for organic and greasy soilingIf it doesn’t lift, an engineer takes a look

A grey film that stays after washingContaminationInorganic Removal Agent, after a test patchAntistatic Solar Armor 2.0 (machines) or Solar Wash Protect (by hand)

White spots or haze after washingContaminationInorganic Removal Agent for the stains already on the glassWater Softening Agent in the tank, so new ones don’t form

Orange-brown stainsContaminationMetal Oxides Removal Agent, after a test patchProtect the glass, and stop the source

Grey-green crusts or mossContaminationLichen Removal AgentProtect the glass; clear shade and pooling water

Paint specklesContaminationPaint Removal Agent (ask us)Rinse, then protect

CSP mirrorsCSPMirtek in the mirror washReflectivity measurement

Wind turbine bladesWindDrone Wind Turbine Cleaning AgentBlade cleaning by drone

Façades, skylights, greenhousesGlassIndustrial Glass Protect on clean, dry glassKeeps shedding water and dirt for years (Chemitek)

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Which Chemitek product do I need for solar panels?

Start from what’s on the glass. Everyday dust and droppings: Solar Wash Protect if you clean by hand, Antistatic Solar Armor 2.0 if a robot or tractor cleans. Cured cement or hard-water stains: Inorganic Removal Agent, then protect the glass. Rust-coloured stains: Metal Oxides Removal Agent. Lichen and moss: Lichen Removal Agent. Hard cleaning water: Water Softening Agent. Not sure? Use the advisor above, or send us a photo.

Do I need both Solar Wash Protect and Antistatic Solar Armor 2.0?

No. For everyday soiling it’s one or the other, depending on how you clean. Chemitek advises against applying Antistatic Solar Armor 2.0 with a manual brush, so hand crews use Solar Wash Protect, which cleans and leaves an antistatic layer in one pass. Robot, rotary-brush and tractor cleaning uses Antistatic Solar Armor 2.0 in the wash water.

Why does the advisor sometimes send me to an engineer?

When the answer depends on what we’d see on site: more than one bonded deposit, rust from an unknown source, water nobody has tested, or a coating on an arid inland site, where a Northern Cape trial found a hydrophobic coating made modules dirtier. A test clean and a water test settle it quickly.