Aliphatic alcohols are alcohols of the aliphatic group with chains of 8 to 22 carbon atoms. It is one of the raw materials of surfactants for detergents. This property has been used to produce a variety of surfactants with various excellent properties using fatty alcohols as raw materials.
Fatty alcohols were first made from cetearyl wax, and the resulting mixed fatty alcohols were sulfonated and neutralized to become sulfates, which were the first anionic detergents.
After the development of the petrochemical industry, the fatty alcohols produced from petroleum products are called synthetic fatty alcohols. The more important methods for producing fatty alcohols are high-pressure hydrogenation, Ziegler method and carbonyl synthesis.
Natural advanced fatty alcohols, is the basic raw material for detergents, surfactants, plastic plasticizers and other fine chemicals, from which thousands of fine chemical products are produced, widely used in chemical, petroleum, metallurgy, textiles, machinery, mining, construction, plastics, rubber, leather, paper, transportation, food, medicine and health, daily use chemical and agriculture and other sectors.
Fatty alcohols can produce many derivatives. Plastic additives are auxiliary raw materials for the plastics industry, and the additives industry has developed with the development of the plastics industry.