Question

What are the main industries and processes where C13 Alcohol Ethoxylate E-1340 is used?

Answer
2026-05-27 官方文档 C13醇聚醚E-1340

C13 Alcohol Ethoxylate E-1340 is mainly used in eight major industries: textile printing and dyeing, industrial cleaning, leather processing, papermaking, water-based coatings, agrochemicals, metal processing, and emulsion polymerization

Detailed Application Industries and Processes

1. Textile Printing and Dyeing Auxiliaries

Used as scouring agent, penetrant, and leveling agent. It provides excellent wetting, penetration, and dispersion properties in fabric pretreatment and dyeing processes, helping to remove impurities and ensure uniform dye uptake, thereby improving fabric quality.

2. Industrial and Institutional Cleaning Agents

Used for hard surface and metal cleaning. As a surfactant component, it efficiently emulsifies and disperses oil and grease, suitable for cleaning hard surfaces such as kitchens, bathrooms, and industrial metal parts, with characteristics of low foam and easy rinsing.

3. Leather Processing Auxiliaries

Used as degreasing agent and fatliquoring emulsifier. It strongly removes natural fats from raw hides and, as an emulsifying carrier for fatliquoring agents, promotes uniform penetration of oils, making the leather soft and plump.

4. Paper Chemicals

Used as deinking agent and felt cleaning agent. In waste paper deinking, it promotes the separation of ink from fibers and prevents re-deposition; it also effectively cleans papermaking felts, removing adhering resins and impurities, thereby extending felt life.

5. Water-Based Coatings and Inks

Used as pigment and filler wetting and dispersing agent. It rapidly wets pigment and filler particles in water-based systems, stabilizes dispersions, prevents flocculation and sedimentation, and improves the storage stability and color performance of coatings and inks.

6. Agrochemicals

Used as pesticide emulsifier and tank-mix wetting synergist. It is used in formulating emulsifiable concentrates and oil-in-water emulsions. In tank-mix adjuvants, it reduces the surface tension of the spray solution, enhancing wetting, spreading, and penetration on plant leaves and target surfaces, thus improving efficacy.

7. Metalworking Fluids

Used in cutting fluids and alkaline cleaners. It provides lubrication, cooling, and cleaning in semi-synthetic or fully synthetic cutting fluids. It can also be a component of alkaline cleaners to quickly remove processing oils from metal surfaces, with additional anti-rust effects.

8. Emulsion Polymerization

Used as emulsion stabilizer. In emulsion polymerization of monomers such as acrylates and styrene, it serves as a primary or co-emulsifier, providing excellent micellar solubilization and particle size control, resulting in fine and stable polymer emulsions.

Core Function Summary

FunctionIndustries Involved
EmulsificationAgrochemicals, Leather, Emulsion Polymerization, Metal Processing
Wetting/PenetrationTextile Printing and Dyeing, Agrochemicals, Water-Based Coatings
DispersionPapermaking, Water-Based Coatings, Textile Printing and Dyeing
Cleaning/DetergencyIndustrial Cleaning, Metal Processing, Papermaking

Data source: Hai'an Guoli Chemical Co., Ltd. Product Database (CAS: 9043-30-5)