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 LINEAR ALKYLBENZENE SULFONATE is the
PRODUCTION OF primary cleaning agent used in many laundry
detergents and cleaners. They are one of the
LINEAR oldest and most widely used synthetic detergents
and may be found in numerous personal-care
ALKYLBENZENE products (soaps, shampoos, toothpaste etc.) and
household-care products (laundry detergent,
SULFONATE dishwashing liquid, spray cleaner etc.). LINEAR
ALKYLBENZENE SULFONATE is produced by
sulfonation of LAB (LINEAR ALKYLBENZENE)
with a variety of sulfonating agents.
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 LINEAR ALKYLBENZENE SULFONATE
HISTORY OF THE LINEAR ALKYL
01 BENZENE SULFONATE
Linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS)
is an anionic surfactant. It was
introduced in 1964 as the
readily biodegradable
replacement for highly
branched alkylbenzene
sulfonates (ABS). Linear
alkylbenzene sulfonate is a mixture
of closely related isomers and
homologues, each containing
an aromatic ring sulfonated at
the para position and attached
to a linear alkyl chain.
HISTORY OF PRODUCTION
02
The first alkylbenzene
sulfonates were obtained by the
Friedel–Crafts alkylation of
benzene with propylene
tetramer. Nearly all LAB (Linear
Alkylbenzene) is converted to
linear alkylbenzene sulfonate
(LAS) by sulfonation.
IS LINEAR ALKYL BENZENE
03
SULFONATE STILL BEING
PRODUCED?
According to the study, the
consumption of LAS will
probably remain stable in the
largely advanced regions; it'll
increase by 3.0-6.0 per time in
some lower developed regions
or countries, similar as the
Middle East, Africa, and India,
where greasepaint cleansers
are still a veritably large part of
the laundry soup request. As a
result of the rapid-fire growth of
LAS demand in the Asia Pacific
region, demand in the region
reckoned for roughly half of
global demand in 2020.
WHAT ARE NOW THE The available acute toxicity data by the
MANUFACTURING oral route of exposure indicate that LAS
exhibits slight acute oral toxicity, with
PROCESS OF LAS? symptoms of toxicity and mortality at
high doses but not at lower doses.
Processes for preparing linear
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE alkylbenzene have been developed that
CURRENT avoid the use of chloroparaffins, but
IMPROVEMENT OR instead use olefins or n-paraffins as the
source of the alkyl group. Such
RESEARCH? processes involve Friedel-Crafts
alkylation of benzene with an olefin in
the presence of a suitable HF or solid
catalyst. These processes produce
alkylbenzene having greatly decreased
amounts of undesirable byproducts.
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