Alkylphenols, ethoxylated

In the 1990s, the thmst of surfactant flooding work has been to develop surfactants which provide low interfacial tensions in saline media, particularly seawater require less cosurfactant are effective at low concentrations and exhibit lower adsorption on rock. Nonionic surfactants such as alcohol ethoxylates, alkylphenol ethoxylates (215) and propoxylates (216), and alcohol propoxylates (216) have been evaluated for this appHcation. More recently, anionic surfactants have been used (216—230). 

Dispersants (qv) have been added to the pulper to maintain stickies in a colloidal state. The small particle size reduces the problems stickies cause on the paper machine and in paper products. Among the chemicals that have been used are fatty alcohol ethoxylates, alkylphenol ethoxylates, lignosulfonates, and naphthalene sulfonates (18). 

Ethylene oxide is an important intermediate chemical not only for the production of nonionic surfactants like fatty alcohol ethoxylates, alkylphenol ethoxy lates, or propylene oxide/ethylene oxide block copolymers, but also for manufacturing of anionic surfactants like alcohol ether sulfates. 

Ether carboxylates are used not only in powdered detergents but in liquid laundry detergents for their hard water stability, lime soap dispersibility, and electrolyte stability they improve the suspension stability and rheology of the electrolyte builder [130,131]. Formulations based particularly on lauryl ether carboxylate + 4.5 EO combined with fatty acid salt and other anionic surfactants are described [132], sometimes in combination with quaternary compounds as softeners [133,163]. Ether carboxylates show improved cleaning properties as suds-controlling agents in formulations with ethoxylated alkylphenol or fatty alcohol, alkyl phosphate esters or alkoxylate phosphate esters, and water-soluble builders [134]. 

Oil-in-water emulsions provide a cost-effective alternative to the methods mentioned previously, namely, heating or diluting. A typical transport emulsion is composed of 70% crude oil, 30% aqueous phase, and 500 to 2000 ppm of a stabilizing surfactant formulation [1497]. Nonionic surfactants are relatively insensitive to the salt content of the aqueous phase ethoxylated alkylphenols have been used successfully for the formation of stable emulsions that resist inversion. 

Mixtures of aqueous emulsions of oil can be more effectively transported through pipelines if certain antifreeze formulations are added to the system. Stable oil-in-water emulsions for pipeline transmission by using 0.05% to 4% ethoxylated alkylphenol as an emulgator and a freezing-point depressant for water enable pipeline transmission at temperatures below the freezing point of water [736]. 

As a test, surfactant slug flow experiments were performed in clayey sandpacks with and without the injection of a desorbent behind the micellar slug. Results show that a substantial decrease in surfactant retention is obtained in calcic environment by such an additive. Likewise, the ethoxylated cosurfactant in the micellar slug can be remobilized simultaneously with sulfonatewithout any change in its ethylene oxide distribution. The application of the RST to sulfonate/ ethoxylated alkylphenol mixtures explains semi-quantitatively the relationship between their properties and composition. 

The theory of regular solutions applied to mixtures of aromatic sulfonate and polydispersed ethoxylated alkylphenols provides an understanding of how the adsorption and micellization properties of such systems in equilibrium in a porous medium, evolve as a function of their composition. Improvement of the adjustment with the experimental results presented would make necessary to take also in account the molar interactions of surfactants adsorbed simultaneously onto the solid surface. 

Ethoxyethene. See Ethyl vinyl ether Ethoxylated alkylphenols, emulsifiers, detergents, and dispersants,... 

The quantitative environmental analysis of surfactants, such as alcohol ethoxylates, alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEOs) and linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LASs), is complicated by the presence of a multitude of isomers and oligomers in the source mixtures (see Chapter 2). This issue bears many similarities to the quantitation problems that have occurred with halogenated aromatic compound mixtures, e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) [1]. 

In general, the main pollution problems associated with surfactants can be summarized as (1) foaming in river and wastewater treatment plants [314,326, 344,348,349,356,357], (2) transformation to bioactive metabolites (i.e., poly-ethoxylated alkylphenols, estrogenic compounds) under aerobic and anaerobic conditions [315,356], and (3) formation of certain cationics which are toxic to microorganisms at high concentrations [356,357]. 

Marquez N, Graciaa A, Lachaise J, Salager JL (2002) Partitioning of ethoxylated alkylphenol surfactants in microemulsion-oil-water systems Influence of physicochemical formulation variables. Langmuir 18 6021-6024... 

Phenolic compounds are used in commercial or consumer products or building materials (Rudel et al., 2001), especially ethoxylated alkylphenols of octylphenol and nonylphenol, which are widely used in surfactants (Ying, Williams and Kookana, 2002). They are known as endocrine disrupting compounds (EDC) as they bear hormonally active properties. Other EDCs found indoors include phthal-ates (Section 11.2.7), certain pesticides, organotin compounds (Section 11.2.5) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (Section 11.2.8) (Rudel et al., 2001, 2003). 

Alkylphenol ethoxylates Fatty alcohol ethoxylates Castor oil ethoxylates Ethylene oxide-propylene oxide co-polymers Polyarylphenol ethoxylates Alkylphenol ethoxylate-formaldehyde condensates Non-ionic emulsifiers... 

HENKEL CORP. EMERY GROUP TRYCOL Ethoxylated Alkylphenols ... 

The TRYCOL Ethoxylated Alkylphenols have chemical and physical properties similar to the TRYCOL Ethoxylated Alcohols. They are used as dispersants, solubilizers, coupling agents, wetting agents, leveling agents and dyeing assistants. 

TRYCOL Ethoxylated Alkylphenols are also very stable against hydrolysis by acids and alkalies and therefore are useful as components of acidic or alkaline formulated products. 

A wide range of surfactant types may be used to form and stabilize transport emulsions. Nonionic surfactants have the advantage of relative insensitivity to the salt content of the aqueous phase being employed (6). The group of surfactants known as ethoxylated alkylphenols, represented by the formula,... 

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