Ethyl Alcohol Properties
Ethanol , also called ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol, is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid with the structural formula CH3CH2OH, often abbreviated as C2H5OH or C2H6O. It is also used as a psychoactive drug and one of the oldest recreational drugs still used by humans.
Food Grade Ethyl Alcohol Specification
Alcohol content | Min 95% |
Appearance | Colorless Clear |
Density | 0.8078 |
Water Solubility | Without Turbidity |
Phenol Phthalein Alkality | NO |
Acidity as Acetic Acid | Max 30 mg/l |
Esters as Ethyl acetate | Max 40 mg/l |
Aldehydes as acetaldehyde | Max 5 mg/l |
Higher alcohol (Fusel) | Max 1 mg/l |
Methanol | Max 100 mg/l |
Dry residue (total solids) | Dry residue (total solids) |
Other specification
ITEM | SPECIFICATION | RESULTS |
content | 99.5%min | 99.8% |
Density | 0.789~0.791 | 0.790 |
Miscibility with water | Pass | Pass |
water | 0.3%max. | 0.1% |
Nonvolatile residue | 0.001%max | 0.0007 |
Acidity,mmol/100g | 0.04%max | 0.015% |
Alkalinity, mmol/100g | 0.01%max | 0.007% |
Methanol | 0.05%max | 0.01% |
Isopropyl alcohol | 0.01%max | 0.001% |
-C=O | 0.003%max | pass |
Substance | 0.00025%max | pass |
Easily carbonized matters | pass | pass |
Ether | 100ppm max | 5ppm |
Mellow oil | 40ppm max | 2ppm |
CONCLUSION |
| PASS |
Applications
It is a good middle boiling point solvent. The main applications:
(1) paint solvent; ink solvent; plexiglass solvent; photographic developing agent; PVC stabilizer; medicine, synthetic resin solvent; ointment or liquid medicine; solvent for meat products stamp-pad ink and ball-point pen oil.
(2) carpet degreaser; crater cleaning agent; silicone solvent stabilizer; benzyl ester or ether intermediate.
(3) It is a kind of very useful perfume fixative. It is an indispensable spice when jasmine, tuberose or ylang is mixed, and used to compound soap and daily cosmetics.
