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Experimental and comparative studies for evaluation of green solvents in cleaning the aged dammar varnish from oil paintings

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Recently, the pursuit of green cleaning practices has been induced with the aim of the replacement of the toxic materials with safer ones for the conservators' health and environment. This study aims to investigate the efficiency of using the green solvents as alternatives to the toxic solvents commonly used for the removal of the discolored dammar varnish from the artificially thermally aged oil-painted mock-ups. The research mainly focuses on the investigation of the sensitivity of two different oil-painted formulas toward dimethyl carbonate and dimethyl glutarate as green solvents during the cleaning procedure. The microscopic and analytical protocols were established for the varnished, unvarnished, and cleaned mock-ups to evaluate the effectiveness of the cleaning test. Complementary investigation of different microscopy techniques at a multi-scale started with Stereo Microscope (SM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and followed by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The colorimetric measurements were carried out to compare the cleaned mock-ups with their varnished and unvarnished reference equivalents. The analytical protocol of cleaning assessment involved Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS), Attenuated Total Reflection- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), and Thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) to respectively study leaching phenomena, the possibility of carboxylates formation and retention time of solvent inside the oil painted layer. Although the results varied, dimethyl carbonate exhibited promising results with respect to removal of the discolored aged dammar varnish with reducing the risk of paint removal and retentive time of the solvent inside the painted layer compared to dimethyl glutarate.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.136011.5988

Keywords

Cleaning, swelling, Leaching, retention, green solvents, dimethyl carbonate, dimethyl glutarate

Authors

First Name

Souty A.N.

Last Name

Beskhyroun

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Conservation Department, Faculty oF Archaeology, Fayoum University, El Fayoum 63514, Egypt

Email

san11@fayoum.edu.eg

City

El Fayoum

Orcid

0000-0002-7512-6682

First Name

Gamal A.

Last Name

Mahgoub

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Affiliation

Conservation Department, Faculty oF Archaeology, Fayoum University, El Fayoum 63514, Egypt

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First Name

Sawsan S.

Last Name

Darwaish

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Affiliation

Conservation Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt

Email

sawsansd@hotmail.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

Abdelrahman

Last Name

Elserogy

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Conservation Department, Faculty oF Archaeology, Fayoum University, El Fayoum 63514, Egypt

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ams00@fayoum.edu.eg

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-

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Volume

65

Article Issue

13

Related Issue

37459

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-04-26

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2022-12-01

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0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Experimental and comparative studies for evaluation of green solvents in cleaning the aged dammar varnish from oil paintings

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22 Jan 2023