Surfactant Chemicals

Major Consuming Industries:

• Pulp & Paper
• Textiles
• Soaps and Detergents
• Petroleum Products
• Aluminum Metal
• Chemical Process
• Bleach Manufacturing

Caustic soda flakes manufactured by Aditya Birla Chemicals are free from foreign matter, dirt or other visible impurities. The product is widely used in the textile, soaps and detergents, pulp and paper industries and in alumina refineries.

SLS is incorporated in:

• Cosmetic and Personal care products

• Emulsion polymerization (PVC/PVA/Polyacrylates/Styrene)

• Pharmaceuticals

• Tooth paste and Tooth powder

• Rubber latex systems in carpet backing

Salient feature:

• Acts as a decreasing compound
• Increases washing capacity
• Soluble in warm water

Usage:

• As a alkaline buffer corrosion preventive
• For softening water
• In breaking viscosity of clay
• Metal finishing chemical

Normal alpha olefins are excellent intermediates for producing Alpha Olefin Sulfonate (AOS) surfactants. These surfactants provide outstanding detergency, high compatibility with hard water, and good wetting and foaming properties. AOS is free of skin irritants and sensitizers, and it biodegrades rapidly. It is used in high-quality shampoos, light-duty liquid detergents, bubble baths, and heavy-duty liquid and powder detergents. It is also used in emulsion polymerization. C14-C16 AOS blends are frequently used in liquid hand soaps.

To make AOS, normal alpha olefins are first sulfonated in a continuous thin film reactor to produce a mixture of alkene sulfonic acids and sultones (cyclic sulfonate esters). The mixture is neutralized with aqueous sodium hydroxide, then hydrolyzed at elevated temperatures to convert the remaining sultones to alkene sulfonates and hydroxy sulfonates. This results in an aqueous solution of alpha olefin sulfonate. (If a solid anhydrous product is desired, it can be easily obtained by neutralizing and hydrolyzing the solution in isopropanol instead of water).

• Sodium Perborate
• Sodium Percarbonate
• Sodium Silicate
• Salt Base and Soda Base Colour Spackles
• Soda Ash

• In Pesticides to improve the quality of spray
• It is used to increase the surface area of distempers
• As emulsifier and wetting agent in Toilet soaps for foaming
• In other industries such as textile industries, it is used as an mercerising or washing agent
• As main active matter in all forms of Detergents like Cake, Powder and Liquid formulations
• This soft acid slurry serves as a main raw material for several anionic specialty formulations
• Coupling agent and as an emulsifier for agricultural herbicides and in emulsion polymerization.
• Used in Synthetic Detergent Industries in formulation of Washing Powder, Detergent powder, Detergent Cake, Liquid Soap, Cleaning powder, Scouring Bar, Oil soaps etc.

• Cosmetic and Personal care products
• Pearly shampoos
• High quality liquid detergents and cleaning products

• Chemically Sodium sulfate is mostly unreactive at normal temperatures
• Complex equilibrium, depending on concentration and temperature, with other acid salts being present
• Sodium sulfate is basically a typical ionic sulfate as it contains Na+ ions and SO42− ions. When combined with water it can produce precipitates and if combined with salts of Ba2+ or Pb2+, it forms insoluble sulfates
• Sodium sulfate is known to react with the same amount of sulphuric acid to give a balanced concentration of the acid salt sodium bi-sulphate
• Sodium sulfate has unusual solubility properties in water as the solubility differs depending upon the temperature range.
• Fair tendency to form double salts

• Wood Pulp Industry
• Thermal storage
• Glass Industry
• Educational institutions
• Textile Industry
• Chemical Industry
• Detergent Industry

• To protect developer solutions from oxidation
• As a dechlorinating agent
• As a desulfurizing agent
• For sulfitization of tanning extracts
• As a bleaching agent
• As an oxygen scavenger agent

• Paper and pulp industry
• Leather industry
• Photographic industry
• Water treatment
• Textile industry