Pourable liquid surfactant concentrate

US5346973A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Feustel · Monheim, DE
• Uwe Held · Velbert, DE
• Rainer Hoefer · Goldkronach, DE
• Thomas Engels · Goldkronach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 28, 1992
• Grant date: Sep 13, 1994
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C09K23/018
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A pourable aqueous liquid surfactant concentrate containing from about 50 to about 90% by weight of a surfactant mixture comprising: PA1 A) from about 10 to about 90% by weight of at least one compound of the formula EQU R.sup.1 --O--(CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 O).sub.n --H (I) PA1 in which R.sup.1 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical of a primary C.sub.8-22 alcohol attached by carbon and n is a number of from 10 to 60; and B) from about 90 to about 10% by weight of at least one compound of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.2 is a saturated or unsaturated C.sub.6-14 radical attached by carbon, and p and q are each a number of from 0 to 25, the sum of p and q being a number from of 5 to 25. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of the above surfactant concentrate and to the use of the concentrate in emulsion polymerization reactions.