Fatty Acid
Industrial Uses
Fatty acids are used in various lubricants used in production applications, such as metal, plastic, and jet planes. It is also produced for resins and additives, such as paints, wood and metal coatings, plastic surfaces, vegetable-based plastic, and animal feed additives.
Fatty acids are mainly used in the production of soap, both for cosmetic purposes and, in the case of metallic soaps, as lubricants. Fatty acids are also converted, via their methyl esters, to fatty alcohols and fatty amines, which are precursors to surfactants, detergents, and lubricants.
Other applications include their use as emulsifiers, texturizing agents, wetting agents, anti-foam agents, or stabilizing agents.
Esters of fatty acids with simpler alcohols (such as methyl-, ethyl-, n-propyl-, isopropyl- and butylesters) are used as emollients in cosmetics and other personal care products and as synthetic lubricants. Esters of fatty acids with more complex alcohols, such as sorbitol, ethyleneglycol, diethylene glycol, and polyethylene glycol are consumed in food, or used for personal care and water treatment, or used as synthetic lubricants or fluids for metal working.
Soya Fatty Acid Oil
Soybean acid oil is a by-product rich in free fatty acids obtained from the soybean oil refining industry. Soybean fatty acids have multiple applications in the oleochemical industry, including: amines, botanas, esters, fatty alcohols, lubricants, surface finishes, detergents, cosmetics, soaps and solids–liquids, textile finishing, finishing fibers, coatings, resins, surfactants, paints, among others.
An oil extracted from the seeds of Glycine max. Typical fatty acid composition is 51% linoleic acid, 7-10% α-linolenic acid, 23% oleic acid, 10% palmitic acid and 4% stearic acid.
Mustard Fatty Acid Oil
Mustard acid oil has about 60% monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) (42% erucic acid and 12% oleic acid); it has about 21% polyunsaturated fats (PUFA) (6% the omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and 15% omega-6 linoleic acid (LA)) and it has about 12% saturated fats.
Sunflower Acid Oil
Sunflower Acid oil contains approximately 15% saturated, 85% unsaturated fatty acid and consisting of 14–43% oleic and 44–75% linoleic acids in its unsaturated fatty acid content.
Coconut Acid Oil
Coconut Acid Oil (CAO) is the by-product from the chemical refining of crude coconut oil. It is the cheaper alternative raw material in the manufacture of laundry soap, methyl ester, biodiesel, fatty alcohol, and anti-caking agents. It is also an ingredient for animal feeds.
Corn Acid Oil
Corn acid oil fatty acid composition comprises 40-68% of linoleic acid, 20-32% of oleic acid, and 8-14% saturated fatty acids, mainly palmitic acid.
Rice Bran Wax
Rice bran wax is the vegetable wax extracted from the bran oil of rice. The main components of rice bran wax are aliphatic acids (wax acids) and higher alcohol esters.
The aliphatic acids consist of palmitic acid (C16), behenic acid (C22), lignoceric acid (C24), other higher wax acids. The higher alcohol esters consist mainly of ceryl alcohol (C26) and melissyl alcohol (C30). Rice bran wax also contains constituents such as free fatty acids (palmitic acid), squalene and phospholipids.
Uses
Rice bran wax is edible and can serve as a substitute for carnauba wax in most applications due to its relatively high melting point. It is used in paper coatings, textiles, explosives, fruit & vegetable coatings, confectionery, pharmaceuticals, candles, moulded novelties, electric insulation, textile and leather sizing, waterproofing, carbon paper, typewriter ribbons, printing inks, lubricants, crayons, adhesives, chewing gum and cosmetics.