TRIETHANOLAMINE

CHARACTERISTICS

• Triethanolamine is one of the most commonly used chemicals. Basically it is an alkaline chemical but is less powerful than castic soda, castic potash, and soda ash.
• Chemically it is written as T- E- A  tri 2- hydroxyl ethyl amine).
• It is a colorless, pure and thick chemical compound
• It smells like ammonia
• It absorbs moisture when kept in air

MELTING POINT

212 ^OC

BOILING POINT

535 ^OC

DENSITY

• 1.126

FLASH POINT

375 F

SOLUIBILITY

• Soluble in water and alcohol
• Completely soluble in chloroform
• In commercial products, triethanolamine is present 25% and monoethanol is present 5%

AFFECTS

• It catches fire and is less poisonous orally.

PREPARATION

• It is obtained by the chemical reaction of ethylene oxide and ammonia.

GRADES

• Technical, U-S-P and regular Grades

Triethanolamine uses

• Used in making fatty acid soap used for dry cleaning
• Also used in making household detergents, emulsions and wool scoring, textile anti fume agent, pharmaceutical industry, rubber making, softening agent, and as a plasticizer
• It also acts as an emulsifying agent
• This compound is used in the following formulas of rubber making:

• In rubber enforcing formulas
• In shoes soling formulas