kenya chemical is one of the leading Triethanolamine or TEA distributors, manufacturers, exporters, and suppliers in Fujairah, Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait, kenya. We are supplied to various industrial markets including Household, Institutional Cleaning, Personal Care, and Industrial sectors including Oil fields, chemical, Animal feed additive, Food additive, Agrochemical, Fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, Minerals, Lubricants, Marine Industry, Metal Working chemical industry, and Coatings markets.
Triethanolamine or TEA is a viscous organic compound that is both a tertiary amine and a triol. It is a colorless compound although samples may appear yellow because of impurities.
Triethanolamine is used primarily in making surfactants, such as for emulsifiers. It is a common ingredient in formulations used for both industrial and consumer products. The triethanolamine neutralizes fatty acids, adjusts and buffers the pH, and solubilizes oils and other ingredients that are not completely soluble in water.
Triethanolammonium salts in some cases are more soluble than salts of alkali metals that might be used otherwise and results in fewer alkaline products than would from using alkali metal hydroxides to form the salt. Some common products in which triethanolamine is found are sunscreen lotions, liquid laundry detergents, dishwashing liquids, general cleaners, hand sanitizers, polishes, metalworking fluids, paints, shaving cream, and printing inks.
Cement production
Triethanolamine is also used as an organic additive (0.1 wt%) in the grinding of cement clinker. It facilitates the grinding process by preventing agglomeration and coating of the powder at the surface of balls and mill walls.
Cosmetics and medicine
Various ear diseases and infections are treated with eardrops containing triethanolamine polypeptide oleate-condensate, such as Cerumenex in the United States. In pharmaceutics, triethanolamine is the active ingredient of some eardrops used to treat impacted earwax. It also serves as a pH balancer in many different cosmetic products, ranging from cleansing creams and milk, skin lotions, eye gels, moisturizers, shampoos, shaving foams, TEOA is a fairly strong base: a 1% solution has a pH of approximately 10, whereas the pH of skin is less than pH 7, approximately 5.5−6.0. Cleansing milk–cream emulsions based on TEOA are particularly good at removing makeup.
In the laboratory and in amateur photography
Another common use of TEOA is as a complexing agent for aluminium ions in aqueous solutions. This reaction is often used to mask such ions before complexometric titrations with another chelating agent such as EDTA. TEOA has also been used in photographic (silver halide) processing. It has been promoted as a useful alkali by amateur photographers.
In holography
TEOA is used to provide a sensitivity boost to silver-halide-based holograms, and also as a swelling agent to color shift holograms. It is possible to get the sensitivity boost without color shift by rinsing out the TEA before squeegee and drying.
In electroless plating
TEOA is now commonly and very effectively used as a complexing agent in electroless plating.
In ultrasonic testing
2-3% in water TEOA is used as a corrosion inhibitor (anti-rust) agent in immersion ultrasonic testing.
In aluminium soldering
Triethanolamine, diethanolamine and aminoethyl ethanolamine are major components of common liquid organic fluxes for the soldering of aluminium alloys using tin-zinc and other tin or lead-based soft solders.
Application:
TEA is mainly used as an active agent, detergent, stabilizer, emulsifier, fabric softener, hydrogen sulfide absorber, anti-corrosion additive for lubricating oil, cement reinforcing agent, and lubricant, as a decarbonizing liquid in the fertilizer industry, etc.
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