Replace Hydrocarbon Solvents
Switching from
Hydrocarbon Solvents
Switching from hydrocarbon solvents to alternative solvents with an improved EHS profile represents a significant stride towards a more sustainable and environmentally conscious approach in various industrial processes.
This transition brings about a multitude of technical, environmental, and health and safety benefits.
ESTI CHEM offers different technical solutions depending of the process requirements, customer´s EHS ambitions, and the financial framework:
- Using ESTISOL 242 or ESTISOL 190 as booster solvents for D-type hydrocarbon solvents. This enables the transition from aromatic solvents such as white spirit and solvent naphtha type materials to blends of 10-30% ESTISOL® and D-type solvents thereby avoiding aromatics. Such cleaners are used as cold cleaners on machine parts and heavily contaminated, painted surfaces.
- Combining two to three ESTISOL® ester solvents to form ESTISOL®-based cold cleaners, which are non-VOC cleaners without CLP label. ESTISURF CC03 or ESTISURF M27 may be applied as emulsifiers to create water-washable formulations. Such formulations have the same applications as the traditional hydrocarbon-based cold cleaners, but with clear EHS benefits.
- Using our best-in-class ESTICLEAN AR-PLUS MB water-in-oil microemulsion technology as cold cleaner. ESTICLEAN AR-PLUS MB is VOC-free, it has no CLP label, and is highly efficient for removing bitumen spots, cleaning heavy oils and other oily residues.
- Using ESTISURF MF20 MB as base raw material for the formulation of water-dilutable microemulsion cleaners for all-round cleaning and degreasing.
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High-flash White Spirit |
D100 |
20-30% ESTISOL + 70-80% D100 |
ESTISOL-based cleaner |
ESTICLEAN AR-PLUS MB |
ESTISURF MF20 MB based cleaner |
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Flash point, °C |
>55 |
100 |
>100 |
>100 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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VOC, % |
100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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GHS symbol |
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None |
None |
None |
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KB value |
35-50 |
24 |
40-100 |
50-200 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Key features
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Traditional hydrocarbon aromatic solvent, good cleaning properties but multitude of EHS issues |
Traditional hydrocarbon aliphatic solvent, modest cleaning properties but multitude of EHS issues |
Combination product of low-price aliphatic solvent and powerful ESTISOL® solvent, very high cleaning power and no aromatics, but still EHS issues related to aliphatic solvents |
Optimized ESTISOL® based degreaser, no hydrocarbon solvents, powerful degreaser, high bio-carbon content |
Best-in-class microemulsion degreaser based on ESTISOL® and ESTISURF® technology, powerful degreaser, outstanding cleaning properties, leaves a very clean surface |
Water-dilutable microemulsion cleaner based on ESTISOL® and ESTISURF® technology, excellent all-round cleaning properties also in dilution with water |
Please contact us to learn more about how you can move forward with a new generation of efficient degreasers and other formulated products using ESTI CHEMs well-proven ESTISOL® and ESTISURF® technology.