Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Volume 4 || Fatty Alcohols

✍ Scribed by Noweck, Klaus

• Book ID: 111883455
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 554 KB
• Edition: 6
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9783527306732
• DOI: 10.1002/14356007.a10_277.pub2

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The article contains sections titled:

| 1. | Introduction |
| 2. | Saturated Fatty Alcohols |
| 2.1. | Physical Properties |
| 2.2. | Chemical Properties |
| 2.3. | Production from Natural Sources |
| 2.3.1. | Hydrolysis of Wax Esters |
| 2.3.2. | Reduction of Wax Esters with Sodium |
| 2.3.3. | Hydrogenation of Natural Raw Materials |
| 2.3.3.1. | Raw Materials and Pretreatment |
| 2.3.3.2. | Hydrogenation Processes |
| 2.4. | Synthesis from Petrochemical Feedstocks |
| 2.4.1. | Ziegler Alcohol Processes |
| 2.4.2. | Oxo Process |
| 2.4.3. | Hydrogenation of Fatty Acids produced by Oxidation of Paraffinic Hydrocarbons |
| 2.4.4. | Bashkirov Oxidation |
| 2.4.5. | Other Processes |
| 2.5. | Uses |
| 3. | Unsaturated Fatty Alcohols |
| 4. | Guerbet Alcohols |
| 5. | Bifunctional Fatty Alcohols |
| 6. | Quality Specifications |
| 7. | Storage and Transportation |
| 8. | Economic Aspects |
| 9. | Ecotoxicology and Toxicology |
| 9.1. | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Aspects |
| 9.2. | Toxicology |