Industrial solvents ethanol

Ethanol (industrial solvent used in preparation of ethyl acetate unleaded gasoline additive)... 

Industrial ethanol is one of the largest-volume organic chemicals used in industrial and consumer products. The main uses for ethanol are as an intermediate in the production of other chemicals (Table 8) and as a solvent. As a solvent, ethanol is second only to water. Ethanol is a key raw material in the manufacture of dmgs, plastics, lacquers, poHshes, plasticizers, perfumes, and cosmetics. Around 1960, manufacture of ethanol was the top consumer of ethylene in the United States, but since 1965 it has rated below manufacture of ethylene oxide and polyethylene. 

Industrial grade ethanol uses include solvents (60%) and chemical intermediates (40%). Fermentation uses include fuels (90%), solvents and chemicals (5%), and beverages (5%). 

Ethylene glycol, an industrial solvent and an antifreeze compound, is involved in accidental and intentional poisonings. This compound is initially oxidized by alcohol dehydrogenase and then further biotransformed to oxalic acid and other products. Oxalate crystals are found in various tissues of the body and are excreted by the kidney. Deposition of oxalate crystals in the kidney causes renal toxicity. Ethylene glycol is also a CNS depressant. In cases of ethylene glycol poisoning, ethanol is administered to reduce the first step in the biotransformation of ethylene glycol and, thereby, prevent the formation of oxalate and other products. 

Other alcohols related to ethanol have wide applications as industrial solvents and occasionally cause severe poisoning. Of these, methanol and ethylene glycol are two of the most common causes of intoxication. 

Production of Alcohols by Hydration ofAlkenes. Several alcohols (ethyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, sec-butyl alcohol, ferf-butyl alcohol) are manufactured commercially by the hydration of the corresponding olefins.2 45 46 Ethanol, an industrial solvent and a component of alcohol-gasoline blends, and isopropyl alcohol—a solvent and antiknock additive—are the most important compounds. Isopropyl alcohol is often considered the first modem synthetic petrochemical since it was produced on a large scale in the United States in the 1920s. 

The industrial solvent ethyl acetate is produced by reaction of acetic acid with ethanol ... 

Polyhydric alcohols such as ethylene glycol (CH2OHCH2OH) are used as heat exchangers, in antifreeze formulations, and as industrial solvents. Young children and animals are sometimes attracted by the sweet taste of ethylene glycol and, rarely, it is ingested intentionally as an ethanol substitute or in attempted suicide. While ethylene glycol itself is relatively harmless and eliminated by the kidney, it is metabolized to toxic aldehydes and oxalate. 

Species of Clostridium have been used on a very large scale for the production of industrial solvents such as acetone and butanol. Many clostridia ferment sugars with the formation of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and butyric acid. Some of them convert butyric acid to butanol and the acetic acid to ethanol and acetone. The acetone-butanol process by Clostridium acetobutylicum expanded after its introduction just before World War I. Although the industry has now been almost totally replaced by the synthetic production from oil, it may again be of interest for the production of renewable monomers. 

Industrial uses of ethanol include solvents (especially for toiletries and cosmetics, coatings and inks, and detergents and household cleaners), and chemical intermediates (especially ethyl acrylate, vinegar, ethylamines, and glycol ethers). Most corn fermentation alcohol is used in fuel, industrial solvents and chemicals, and beverages. 

For the modification of silica with aminosilanes, the liquid phase procedure is usually applied. Only few studies have described the vapour phase APTS modification.6,7 The modification proceeds in three steps, (i) A thermal pretreatment of the silica determines the degree of hydration and hydroxylation of the surface, (ii) In the loading step, the pretreated substrate is stirred with the silane in the appropriate solvent, (iii) Curing of the coating is accomplished in a thermal treatment. On industrial scale ethanol/water is used as a solvent, on lab-scale an organic solvent is used. The reasons for this discrepancy is the increased control on the reaction processes, possible in an organic solvent. This will be clarified by the discussion of the modification mechanism in aqueous solvent and the effect of water in the different modification steps. 

Alcohols are some of the most common organic compounds. Methyl alcohol (methanol), also known as wood alcohol, is used as an industrial solvent and as an automotive racing fuel. Ethyl alcohol (ethanol) is sometimes called grain alcohol because it is produced by the fermentation of grain or almost any other organic material. Isopropyl alcohol is the common name for propan-2-ol, used as rubbing alcohol. ... 

Ethanol is a versatile chemical being used in industrial solvents, thinners, detergents,... 

Methanol, CH3OH, is water soluble. Meths is an industrial solvent mixture of ethanol and methanol. It often contains a purple dye and an additive to make it unpalatable to drink. Methanol is poisonous (one spoonful of neat methanol can kill). It can produce similar physiological symptoms to ethanol if consumed in very small quantities in diluted form. It has the additional hazard that it sends people blind and insane and can become addictive. 

Organic solvents, which induce CYP2E1, are comprised of a few broad chemical classes, including hydrocarbons such as benzene and toluene, halogenated aliphatic compounds such as carbon tetrachloride and dichloroethane, aliphatic alcohols such as ethanol, and hydroxyethers such as 2-methoxyethanol. Industrial solvents are frequently mixtures of several compounds. The most frequent solvent-associated toxicity occurs from occupational exposure. A number of organic solvents have been examined for their effects on the immune system, and the requirement for their bioactivation to produce immunotoxicity has been well established. 

Tetrahydrofuran, THF, is an important industrial solvent and forms an azeotropic mixture at 5.3 wt% with water (see Table 10.3). To separate water/THF, Li et al. [148] tested the pervaporation performance of different hydrophihc zeolite membranes, zeolite A, zeohte Y, MOR, and ZSM-5. The preliminary test showed that the separation factor increased as the Si/Al ratio of the zeohte decreased, except for the case of zeolite A. This fact is probably due to the lower quality of this membrane with respect to the others since in the permeation of triisopropylbenzene (TIPB), showed the highest flux, 3.1 g/m h, indicating the presence of nonselective defects. Therefore, the best results were obtained with zeolite Y, rendering a separation factor of 300 with a water flux of 2.24 kg/m h at 60°C. The water flux increased with water concentration in the feed, up to a value of 15 wt%, indicating that the zeolite was saturated, as was the same for the case of water/ethanol mixtures in zeolite A, previously described. At the same time, the separation factor decreases as water concentration decreased. The stabihty of the membrane was also studied, showing a stable performance after 35 h of operation. 

They are used as industrial solvents for small- and large-scale separation processes, and they have unusual thermodynamic properties, which depend in a complicated manner on composition, pressure, and temperature for example, the excess molar enthalpy (fp-) of ethanol + water mixture against concentration exhibits three extrema in its dependence on composition at 333.15 K and 0.4 MPa. The thermodynamic behavior of these systems is particularly intricate in the water-rich region, as illustrated by the dependencies of the molar heat capacity and partial molar volume on composition. This sensitivity of the partial molar properties indicates that structural changes occur in the water-rich region of these mixtures. Of course, the unique structural properties of water are responsible for this behavior. ... 

On the shelves of drugstores you can find bottles of ethanol labeled denatured alcohol. Denatured alcohol is ethanol to which small amounts of noxious materials such as aviation gasoline or other organic solvents have been added. Ethanol is denatured in order to make it unfit to drink. Because of their polar hydroxyl groups, alcohols make good solvents for other polar organic substances. For example, methanol, the smallest alcohol, is a common industrial solvent found in some paint strippers, and 2-butanol is found in some stains and varnishes, as shown in Figure 23-5. Perform the CHEMLAB at the end of this chapter to learn about some other properties of small-chain alcohols. 

Nelson BK, Conover DL, Brightwell WS, et al. Marked increase in the teratogenicity of the combined administration of the industrial solvent 2-methoxy-ethanol and radiofrequency radiation in rats. Teratology 1991 43(6) 621 34. 

Nelson BK, Brightwell WS, Setzer JV, et al. Reproductive toxicity of the industrial solvent 2-ethoxyethanol in rats and interactive effects of ethanol. Environ Health Perspect 1984 57 255-9. 

Before 1945, most of the supply of ethyl alcohol for industrial solvent or feedstock uses was derived from fermentation (Table 16.13). Since this time, the reliability and low cost of petrochemical routes to the product caused a rapid displacement of fermentation sources in the U.S. Since 1975, however, subsidies for fermentation alcohol have changed this. Large new fermentation units have been constructed, and distilleries formerly used for spirits production have been converted to industrial alcohol production [56]. Increased costs of American synthetic ethanol have kept its production at two-thirds of the total. The early petrochemical sources were based on the formation and hydrolysis of ethyl sulfate, but in North America, this has been replaced by the direct gas phase hydration of ethylene (Eqs. 16.18-16.20). 

Cellosolve . [Union Carbide] Ethoxy ethanol industrial solvent. 

Alcoholic beverages are heavily taxed in many countries, but besides being used to make drinks, ethanol has many useful industrial applications. It is used to make other organic chemicals and is an extremely useful industrial solvent. In order to avoid heavy taxation of the ethanol used for industrial purposes it is rendered unfit to drink (denatured). Small amounts of methanol are added to ethanol to produce industrial methylated spirit . A purple dye is often added to methylated spirit sold for domestic use. The dye serves as a warning that the mixture is undrinkable. 

Disultiram (tetiaethylthiuiam disultide, Antabuse [CAS 97-77-8]) Inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme Involved In ethanol metabolism. Exposure to disultiram and alcohol will produce flushing, headache, and hypotension. Disultiram may also interact with other industrial solvents that share metabolic pathways with ethanol. Limited evidence for adverse effects on fetal development in test animals. See also p 185, 2mg/m Crystalline solid. Thermal-breakdown products Include oxides of sulfur. 

An example where a mass balance approach would yield inaccurate emissions to the atmosphere would be an industrial resin coating line. This process uses an organic carrier solvent, such as ethanol, which is volatized from the resin solids in a drying oven. The vapors (volatile organic compounds [VOCs]) are then incinerated. The ethanol can be transformed into other organic compounds in the incinerator. The total mass of applied carrier solvent (ethanol) would not be accounted for in the incinerator exhaust gas stream due to its transformation into other organic compounds. 

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