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What is Butyl Glycol?

Butyl glycol is soluble in some organic solvents and water.

Butyl glycol is an organic compound with the formula C6H14O2. This colorless liquid has a sweet, ether-like odor as it comes from the glycol ether family and is a butyl ether of ethylene glycol. As a relatively non-volatile, inexpensive solvent, it is used in many household and industrial product ingredients due to its properties as a surfactant.

Butyl glycol is glycol ether, which can be used as a common solvent. Glycol ethers, in use since the 1930s, can dissolve both water-soluble and hydrophobic substances. Glycol ethers consist of two components, alcohol and ether. According to the nature of alcohol, molecules in this class can be divided into two groups: E series and P series, which correspond to ethylene and propylene, respectively. Glycol ethers are used because of their properties such as solubility, flammability and volatility.

Care should be taken when using butyl glycol, as it is a flammable substance.

How is Butyl Glycol produced?

Butyl glycol is generally obtained by two processes. First, etherification of butanol and ethylene oxide by ethoxylation reaction of butanol and ethylene oxide in the presence of a catalyst or etherification of butanol with 2-chloroethanol can be achieved in the laboratory by ring-opening 2-propyl-1,3-dioxolan with butyl glycol boron trichloride. It is produced industrially by combining ethylene glycol and butyraldehyde with palladium on carbon, usually in a Parr reactor.

What does Butyl Glycol look like?

It is light colored and liquid.

What is the molecular formula of Butyl Glycol?

Molecular Formula: C6H14O2

In which sectors is Butyl Glycol used?

  • Oil and drilling industry
  • Cleaning products
  • paint industry
  • Fire extinguishing
  • Photography
  • cosmetics industry
  • agrochemical industry
  • Construction and building industry

What are the uses (processes) of Butyl Glycol?

  • Of the world's butyl glycol production, 75 is for paints and coatings and % 18 is for metal cleaners and household cleaners. Butyl glycol is a solvent for paints and surface coatings, as well as cleaning products and inks.
  • Products containing butyl glycol include acrylic resin formulations, asphalt release agents, firefighting foam, leather protectors, oil spill dispersants, degreaser applications, photo strip solutions, whiteboard cleaners, liquid soaps, cosmetics, dry cleaning solutions, lacquers, varnishes, herbicides. , latex paints, enamels and varnish removers. Products containing this compound are often found on construction sites, auto repair shops, printing shops, and facilities that manufacture sterilization and cleaning products.
  • Butyl glycol is used in textile dyes, waxes and resins because of its slight odor.
  • Butyl glycol is used in insecticides, herbicides and pesticides.
  • Butyl glycol is widely produced for the petroleum industry because of its surfactant properties. In the petroleum industry, it is a component of fracturing fluids, drilling stabilizers and oil lubricants for both water-based and oil-based hydraulic fracturing. When fluid is pumped into the well, fracturing fluids are pumped under extreme pressure, so 2-butoxyethanol is used to stabilize them by lowering the surface tension. The compound is also used to facilitate the release of gas by preventing freezing.
  • Butyl glycol is also used as a crude oil-water coupling solvent for more general oil well operations. Because of its surfactant properties, it is one of the main components of the oil spill dispersant Corexit 9527, which was widely used following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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