Commercial detergents

Laundry Detergent-Commercial Built Laundry Liouid(a) High Quality with Phosphate... 

Laundrv Detergent-Commercial Unbuilt Liquid fa) (Continued) Good Quality... 

Figure 2 Typical curve of stain removal when the enzyme concentration increases in a detergent. The data were obtained under the following conditions washing machine—Launder-Ometer detergent—commercial European, 5 g/L enzyme—Esperase 4.0T pH—9.8-10.0 temperature— IS-dO C time—40 min test soiling—EMPA 116 water hardness—15°dH. Data obtained from Novo Industri s technical leaflet.

The role of detergent additives is to maintain clean injectors so as to insure good distribution of diesel fuel in the cylinder. The structure of these compounds is similar to that of detergents for gasoline engine admission systems. Commercialized compounds are from the succinimide family (see Figure 9.1). 

The salts of monoalkyl sulphates are frequently encountered as commercial detergents (for example, dreft, gardinol and pentrone ) they are usually sodium salts, the alkyl components contain 12 or more carbon atoms, and give colloidal solutions. They are hydrol3 sed by boiling with dilute sodium hydroxide solution ... 

The olefin product contains 1.1% of residual / -paraffins. Essentially similar results have been obtained in commercial operations on Cg—C q and C g feedstocks. The desorbents used are generally hydrocarbon mixtures of lower boiling range than the feed components. The concentrated olefin stream may then be used for production of detergent alcohols. 

Most higher alcohols of commercial importance are primary alcohols secondary alcohols have more limited specialty uses. Detergent range alcohols are apt to be straight chain materials and are made either from natural fats and oils or by petrochemical processes. The plasticizer range alcohols are more likely to be branched chain materials and are made primarily by petrochemical processes. Whereas alcohols made from natural fats and oils are always linear, some petrochemical processes produce linear alcohols and others do not. Industrial manufacturing processes are discussed in Synthetic processes. 

Most of the detergent range alcohols used commercially consist of mixtures of alcohols, and a wide variety of products is available. Table 6 shows the approximate carbon chain length composition of both the commonly used mixtures and single carbon materials typical properties are given ia Table 7. 

Table 6. Composition of Commercial Detergent Range Alcohols ...

Bulk Enzymes. Enzymes such as proteases, amylases, glucose isomerases, and rennin are used in food processing. Similarly proteases and Hpases are used in detergents. CeUulases and xylanases are used in the paper pulp industry. The genes for most of the enzymes used in the various commercial processes have been cloned and overexpressed. Rennin (chymosin) produced from E. coli and A. nigerhas been approved by FDA for use in the dairy industry. 

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