Sulphonated oleic acid esters

Sulphonated natural oils, sulphonated oleic acid esters and a-ester sulphonates were investigated as polymerization emulsifiers and have been successfully used as special emulsifiers for establishing certain product properties [49]. Fatty alcohol sulphates have been used as emulsifiers since the very begirming of emulsimi polymerization, and are distinguished by particularly good polymerizatiOTi behaviour and by formation of... 

Chemistry and general properties. The product is prepared by reacting a fatty acid, typically oleic acid (a 08 1 acid), with oleum, or preferably sulphur trioxide. If a saturated fatty acid is used, the product is an a-sulphofatty acid, R(S03H)C00H and the reaction mechanism is thought to be similar to that previously suggested for the sulphonation of methyl esters. With the use of an unsaturated acid, such as oleic, the picture becomes more complex. The reaction chemistry is not fully understood, but the product is a mixture of y-hydroxy sulpho fatty acid and o -sulphonated oleic acid. 

Floatability of bastnaesite found in barite-fluorite ores is extremely poor using either fatty acid flotation or sodium oleate. Research work conducted on an ore from Central Asia showed that the floatability of bastnaesite improved significantly after barite preflotation [5]. The flotation of bastnaesite from a carbonatite ore improved with the use of oleic acid modified with phosphate ester. The flotation of bastnaesite from deposits ofpegmatitic origin can be successfully accomplished with several types of collectors, including tall oil modified with secondary amine, and tall oil modified with petroleum sulphonate-encompassing group. 

During fluorite flotation, Quebracho and lignin sulphonate mixture (MESB) was used with collector composed of a mixture of oleic acid and phosphoric ester. Collectors used for bastnaesite flotation included tall oil fatty acid modified with three ethylene tetra... 

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