Institutional and industrial cleaners

About 264,000 metric tons of elemental capacity is available in North America, plus another 79,000 t (P equivalent) of purified wet phosphoric acid (14). About 85% of the elemental P is burned to P2 5 hydrated to phosphoric acid. Part of the acid (ca 21%) is used direcdy, but the biggest part is converted to phosphate compounds. Sodium phosphates account for 47% calcium, potassium, and ammonium phosphates account for 17%. Pinal apphcations include home laundry and automatic dishwasher detergents, industrial and institutional cleaners, food and beverages, metal cleaning and treatment, potable water and wastewater treatment, antifree2e, and electronics. The purified wet acid serves the same markets. 

Sulfonates with ether linkages include ring-sulfonated alkylphenol ethoxylates and a disulfonated alkyldiphenyl oxide, Dowfax 2A1, and 3B2 (Dow Chemical Company). This surfactant is characterized by high solubiUty in salt solutions, strong acids, or bases. It is used in industrial and institutional cleaners. 

Toilet bowl cleaners Window cleaners Metal polishes Commercial/industrial Industrial and institutional cleaners industrial processes ... 

There is a range of uses in industrial and institutional cleaners, which, in many cases, mirror those in household applications. While maintenance activities are important, surfactants find use in many industries in cleaning the equipment or products which are made. Electronics, food and metal product manufacturing are some examples of this kind of application. Restaurants, hospitals, hotels, as well as factories and offices regularly employ surfactants to maintain the health and safety of people utilising these facilities. A distinct industry has evolved to supply products in these applications where leaders include Ecolab and Johnson-Diversey but many, many more producers are also involved. Surfactant producers supply these companies with bulk surfactants and blends which are compounded into products for discrete applications. 

STP is the major builder ingredient in heavy duty laundry detergents, automatic dishwashing compounds, and industrial and institutional cleaners [3, 4]. 

Use Industrial and institutional cleaners, various detergents, emulsions polymerization processes, paper, and textile processing. 

The noncrosslinked ASE polymers are of interest due to their good electrolyte tolerance and their tendency to thicken formulations containing high levels of alkaline salts and builders. Thus, these types of polymer are often preferred in industrial and institutional cleaners. 

Alkylbenzene sulfonates are the main surfactants used in household cleaners, detergents and sanitary formulations, as well as in industrial and institutional cleaners. They are used in the production of fabrics. They are also used as emulsifiers, in many technical processes as wetting agents and dispersants, e.g. in polymerisation processes and in the formulation of plant protection products. 

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