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Highly Stable Nonionic Fatliquors Based on Ethoxylated Overused Vegetable Oils

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Overused vegetable oils, which are considered to be a waste and available in huge quantities after frying processes, were directly ethoxylated using a conventional cheap catalyst in order to obtain an economically valuable ethoxylated product to replace the imported intermediate derivatives and at the same time the environment will be rid of one of its pollutants. Therefore, this work was devoted to exploring its application as a fatliquoring agent in the leather industry. Overused sunflower and olein oils were directly ethoxylated using ethylene oxide gas in the presence of 3% KOH catalyst at 180 °C for 20 h. The prepared products were applied as nonionic fatliquors. The fatliquoring process is the operation in which a fatty matter is introduced into the leather fibers. The results obtained showed that the prepared ethoxylated overused oils were effective fatliquors with high HLB values giving stable oil in water emulsion as well as high stability against acid, alkali and different metallic salts. The fatliquored leather had improved mechanical properties such as tensile strength and elongation at break. In addition, a significant enhancement of the texture of the treated leather by the two prepared fatliquors as indicated from the scanning electron microscope images was observed. Also the results indicated that ethoxylated overused sunflower oil gave better results than those of ethoxylated overused olein oil.

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  1. Department of Chemistry of Tanning Materials and Leather Technology, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

    EL-Shahat H. A. Nashy

  2. Fats and Oils Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

    Ghada A. Abo-ELwafa

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Nashy, ES.H.A., Abo-ELwafa, G.A. Highly Stable Nonionic Fatliquors Based on Ethoxylated Overused Vegetable Oils. J Am Oil Chem Soc 88, 1611–1620 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11746-011-1809-9

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