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What are Isopar Fluids?
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What makes Isopar Fluids unique among hydrocarbon fluids?
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What are the principal applications for Isopar Fluids, and why?
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What is the importance of the low latent heat of vaporization and narrow boiling ranges of Isopar Fluids?
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Can Isopar Fluids be used in food-contact applications?
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Can Isopar Fluids be emulsified?
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Which Isopar Fluids are not reportable as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in U.S and Canadian consumer products?
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In Europe, which Isopar Fluids are NOT volatile organic compounds (VOC) when used in applications covered within the scope of the EU Solvents Emission Directive (SED)?
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What is the importance of the low photochemical reactivity of Isopar Fluids?
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What are Isopar Fluids?
Isopar Fluids are ExxonMobil Chemical's line of isoparaffinic fluids. Their selected feedstocks and controlled manufacturing process yields highly pure products with consistent, uniform quality.
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What makes Isopar Fluids unique among hydrocarbon fluids?
Relative to other hydrocarbon fluids, Isopar Fluids have the following benefits/features:
High purity, low odor, narrow boiling range, low freeze point, low photochemical reactivity (i.e. low ozone forming potential when emitted to the air), low latent heat of vaporization, low electrical conductivity, low order of toxicity and low potential for skin irritation.
Isopar Fluids are colorless and color stable. They also have lower surface tension compared to other hydrocarbon chemistries and superior compatibility with plastics.
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What are the principal applications for Isopar Fluids, and why?
Isopar Fluids are essentially odorless with an odor detection threshold over 50 times lower than that of conventional mineral spirits. This property provides advantage and consumer acceptance in household and personal care products, odorless paints and stain blockers. Their low surface tension is critical in polishes, cleaners, and for wetting pigments in coatings and in inks. This property also reduces product foaming tendencies. The high electrical resistivity of Isopar Fluids enhances spray coverage in electrostatic coating operations. Stringent manufacturing controls eliminate olefinic and polar compounds resulting in high product purity needed in applications such as reaction diluents for polymerization and water treating processes. Their low toxicity and selective solvency make Isopar products an ideal choice for numerous specialty applications where avoidance of unwanted damage to metal surfaces or plastic packaging and worker safety are important.
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What is the importance of the low latent heat of vaporization and narrow boiling ranges of Isopar Fluids?
Isopar Fluids have a lower latent heat of vaporization and narrower boiling range compared to conventional volatile hydrocarbons. These properties allow faster drying times yielding potential energy savings and increased throughput in heat applied processes such as in polyolefin and adhesive manufacture. Additionally, narrow boiling ranges facilitate more uniform evaporation from coatings to avoid surface sagging and unleveling. A narrow boiling range is also important for improved viscosity stability in electrical discharge machine operations.
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Can Isopar Fluids be used in food-contact applications?
Isopar Fluids meet the requirements of many European directives and U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations published on food-contact applications. Therefore, Isopar Fluids may be used in a wide variety of direct and indirect food contact applications including components of packaging and coating materials, defoamers and adhesives.
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Can Isopar Fluids be emulsified?
Isopar Fluids may be incorporated into oil-in-water emulsions using nonionic emulsifiers with hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) values of about 11 to 12. The heavier, less volatile Isopar grades require surfactants with a higher HLB value in this range, while the lighter more, volatile grades require surfactants with lower values.
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Which Isopar Fluids are not reportable as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in U.S and Canadian consumer products?
Isopar M and Isopar V Fluids meet one or more of the approved criteria for qualification as a non-reportable low vapor pressure (LVP) fluid as prescribed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) and Environment Canada.
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In Europe, which Isopar Fluids are NOT volatile organic compounds (VOC) when used in applications covered within the scope of the EU Solvents Emission Directive (SED)?
Isopar P and Isopar V Fluids are not classified as volatile organic compounds, under the SED classification criteria. Therefore, there is no restriction to using these products in applications covered by the SED.
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What is the importance of the low photochemical reactivity of Isopar Fluids?
Photochemical reactivity is an indicator of a material’s ability to react in the presence of sunlight in the atmosphere at ground level. The components that constitute Isopar Fluids are among the least reactive, meaning that if emitted to air, they have among the lowest ozone forming potential. This suggests use of Isopar Fluids is an environmentally preferable choice, especially compared to conventional mineral spirits.
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