The production and application of fatty acid

Fatty acid is a carboxylic acid compounds composed of carbon and hydrogen from hydrocarbon groups link posed by the carboxyl group. The main component of fat is triglycerides formed by three long chain fatty acids and glycerol. Lower fatty acid is a colorless liquid with pungent, fatty acids are of high waxy solid with no obvious smell odors. Fatty acids are the simplest form of fat, it is a lot more complex lipid composition. In case of adequate oxygen supply, fatty acids oxidate to CO2 and H2O and release large amounts of energy.

Fatty acids can be used in production of styrene-butadiene rubber emulsifiers and surfactants, lubricants, Polish, it also can be used to produce the high SOAP and transparent SOAP and stearic acid and various surfactant intermediates. Fatty acids are mainly from natural oils, paraffin wax oxidation or pine in waste paper recovery obtained by distillation of tall oil. At present, the natural plant and animal oils and fats by hydrolysis, distillation in the production of fatty acids accounted for more than 4/5 of total fatty acid, it is the world's main source of fatty acids.

There are more than 40 different types of fatty acids in nature, which are key components of lipids. Many lipids physical properties depend on the saturated of fatty acids and carbon chain length, but only even number of carbon atoms of the fatty acid can be absorbed by human. Fatty acids can be classified according to their structure, the nutrition angle or its nutritional value to the human body. According to the classification of different carbon chain length, it can be divided into short-chain (2~4-containing atoms of carbon) fatty acids; medium-chain (6~12-containing carbon atoms) and long chain fatty acids (with more than 14 carbon atoms) fatty acid fatty acid classes.

Southeast Asia is rich in Palm oil and coconut oil. Palm kernel oil and coconut oil is to provide raw material for production of C8-14 fatty acids, they are mainly used for the production of surfactants. Palm oil is to provide raw material for production of C16-18 fatty acids, mainly for the production of stearic acid and its salts and esters, cationic surfactants and plastic additives.

Production of fatty acids present is mainly use Palm oil, cotton seed oil, cottonseed oil and canola oil as raw material. Fatty acids are important raw materials of organic chemicals and fine chemical, the downstream derivatives produced by fatty acids are widely used in textile printing and dyeing, food, medicine, daily chemical, petroleum, chemical, rubber and plastics processing, mining, transportation, foundry, metal processing, inks, paints and pigments industry. View more at https://www.okchem.com!