1. Product Profiles Kerala Investment Potential
Products based upon 2 Ethyl Hexanol from Propylene Derivatives Petrochemical Project (PDPP) of BPCL Kochi Refinery (BPCL KR)
Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation
Sep 2017
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2. 2-Ethyl Hexanol (Octanol) is a clear, colorless liquid,soluble in most organic solvents used as low volatility solvent and has got natural plant fragrances. It is starting material for the manufacture of plasticizers, lubricants and other chemical products such as raw materials for paints and coatings
IUPAC Nomenclature: 2-Ethylhexan-1-ol
Chemical Formula: C4H18O 
Potential Products : used as a low volatility solvent production of plasticisers, coatings, adhesives and other speciality chemicals. feedstock in the manufacture of low-volatility esters. It is used as a low volatility solvent for resins, waxes, animal fats, vegetable oils, disinfectants and insecticidal sprays, and petroleum derivatives
Soluble in organic solvents
Clear, mobile and neutral liquid with a characteristic odour
PROPERTIES
Reduces viscosity and increases brushability
Used as a low volatility solvent
Readily forms esters with various acids
great resistance to high and low temperatures

3. Origin
Parameter
Description
Plant
Oxo Alcohol Unit, Propylene Derivative Petrochemical Project (PDPP) of BPCL- KR
Raw Material
Propylene and Synthesis Gas
Process Description
Produced industrially by aldol condensation of n-butyraldehyde, followed by hydrogenation of the resulting hydroxyaldehyde
Quantity
47 KTPA

4. Technical Information
Parameter
Description
Supplied
Drums 200 litre capacity, Tank Trucks, Iso Containers
Physical Form
Colourless, mobile solvent of medium volatility miscible with all common solvents, e.g. alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, ethers, glycols and aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons
Density at 20 °C
g/cm3
Boiling range °C
Process description
Produced by low pressure hydro-formylation of olefin with synthesis gas followed by hydrogenation of intermediate aldehyde in presence of rhodium catalyst

5. Other Uses
– Low-volatility solvent (e. g. for resins, waxes, animal fats, vegetable oils
and petroleum derivatives).
- Low-volatility ingredient in solvent blends for the dyestuffs and coatings
industry.
- Flow and gloss improver in baking finishes.
- Feedstock for the manufacture of ethoxylates (products of reaction
between 2-ethylhexanol and ethylene oxide).
- Feedstock in the manufacture of herbicides.
- Feedstock in the manufacture of extractants (e.g. for heavy metals). - In
the production of the corresponding diester of maleic acid for use as
a starting material for surfactants.
- Feedstock in the manufacture of 2-ethylhexyl sulphate which is used as
a surfactant for electrolytes.
- In the production of 2-ethylhexyl esters of trialkyl phosphites which can
serve as a thermal stabilizer and antioxidant in plastics.
- In the manufacture of particularly pure grades of DOP which act as
polychlorinated biphenyl substitutes in heavy-duty capacitors.
- In antifoams for almost all aqueous systems (e. g. in the textile and
paper industries)