Project on Vim Prodction

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CHAPTER ONE 1. INTRODUCTION Vim powder is a widely used house hold and laboratory product. It is used in cleaning of glass wares in the laboratory and cleaning of metallic and ceramic products such as: tiles, toilet bowls, bath tubs, pots, rinsing sinks etc. in homes. From ancient times, Chemical additives were recognized for the ability to facilitate the mechanical washing with water. The Italian used a mixture of sulphur and water with charcoal to clean cloth. Egyptians added ashes and silicates to soften water. Soaps were the first vim. The vim effects of certain synthetic surfactant were noted in Germany in 1917, in 1917, in response to shortage of soap during World War 1. In the 1930s, commercially viable routes to fatty alcohols were converted to their sulfate esters, key ingredients in commercially important German brand FEWA, produced by BASF, and DREFT, the U.S brand produced by porter and gamble. Such vim was used in industry until after World War 2. By then, new developments and the later conversion of aviation fuel plants to produce tetra propylene used in household vim caused a fast growth of domestic use in the late 1940s. The use of enzymes for laundry was introduced in the early part of the 1900s by Otto Rohm. Only in the later part of the with the availability of thermally robust bacterial enzymes did this technology become mainstream. At the present time, soap has largely been displaced as the main cleaning agent in developed countries. Soap is by weight relatively ineffective, and it is highly sensitive to deactivation to hard water. By the 1950s, soap had almost been completely replaced by branched alkyl benzene sulfonates, but this vim is found to be poorly biodegradable. Linear alkyl benzene sulfonates (LABS), however proved to be both highly effective in cleaning and more biodegradable than the branched relatives. LABS remain the vim
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