Surfactant
Surfactant is a kind of very important product in fine chemicals domain. It has a lot of special application features including wettability, penetrating and water-proof, emulsification and demulsification, foaming and anti-foaming, dispersant and flocculation, detergency, anti-static, lubrication and solubilizing etc. It plays huge role in improving production technology, improving product quality, saving energy, decreasing costs, improving production efficiency, adding additional value, etc. Surfactant is called ‘monosodium glutamate in industry’.
It has been over 100 years since soap was used as surfactant in detergents. The application domain of surfactant has been extended from household detergency to industrial and agricultural departments, such as petroleum extraction, mine exploitation, foodstuff, agriculture, transportation, construction, environment protection, pharmaceutical etc.
Surfactant has almost been adopted in all kinds of production and technology economical domains.