1. Water retention, leveling and film-forming: its water retention capacity is twice as high as that of methyl cellulose, with excellent flow regulation and excellent film-forming, filtration reduction, mixing and protective colloidal properties.

2. High temperature and water solubility: hydroxyethyl cellulose can dissolve in hot water and also in cold water when compared with that of methyl cellulose (MC) dissolved in cold water. High temperature or boiling does not precipitate, so that it has a wide range of solubility and viscosity characteristics, and non thermal gelatinization.

3. Salt resistance: due to its non-ionic type, it can coexist with other water-soluble polymers, surfactants and salts in a wide range. Therefore, compared with the ionic carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), hydroxyethyl cellulose has better salt resistance. Hydroxyethyl cellulose HEC is a kind of non-ionic water-soluble cellulose ether products. It is widely used in building coatings, petroleum, polymer polymerization, medicine, daily use, papermaking and printing ink, fabric, ceramics, construction, agriculture and other industries. It has thickening, bonding, emulsifying, dispersing and stabilizing functions, and can maintain water content and form It is easy to dissolve in cold water and hot water, and can provide a wide range of viscosity solutions.

1. Latex coatings

Hydroxyethyl cellulose is the most commonly used thickener in latex coatings. In addition to thickening the latex coating, it can also play the role of emulsification, dispersion, stability and water retention. It is characterized by remarkable thickening effect, good color spreading, film forming and storage stability. Hydroxyethyl cellulose is a non-ionic cellulose derivative, which can be used in a wide range of pH. It has good compatibility with other materials such as pigments, additives, fillers and salts. The coating thickened with hydroxyethyl cellulose has good rheological properties and pseudoplasticity under various shear rates. Brush coating, roller coating, spraying and other construction methods can be adopted. Good construction, not easy to drop, sagging and splash, leveling is also good.

2. Daily chemical industry

Hydroxyethyl cellulose is an effective film forming agent, adhesive, thickener, stabilizer and dispersant in shampoo, hair spray, neutralizer, hair care and cosmetics. It is a kind of redeposition agent in detergent powder. Hydroxyethyl cellulose dissolves quickly at high temperature, which can speed up the production process and improve the production efficiency. Detergents containing hydroxyethyl cellulose can improve the smoothness and mercerization of fabrics.

3. Polymer polymerization

Hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) has the functions of dispersion, emulsification, suspension and stabilization in the polymerization and copolymerization of synthetic resin, and can be used as protective colloid. The product is characterized by strong dispersing ability, thin particle size, uniform particle shape, loose type, good fluidity, high transparency and easy processing. Because hydroxyethyl cellulose can be dissolved in cold water and hot water without gelatinizing temperature, it is more suitable for various polymerization reactions. The important physical properties of dispersant are the surface (or interfacial) tension, interfacial strength and gelation temperature of the aqueous solution. These properties of hydroxyethyl cellulose are suitable for the polymerization or copolymerization of synthetic resins. Hydroxyethyl cellulose has good compatibility with other water-soluble cellulose ethers and PVA. The composite system can obtain the comprehensive effect of learning from each other. After compounding, the resin product not only has good quality, but also reduces material loss.

4. Oil drilling and production

In oil drilling and production, high viscosity hydroxyethyl cellulose is mainly used as a viscosifier for completion fluid and finishing fluid. Low viscosity hydroxyethyl cellulose is used as fluid loss additive. Hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) is used as thickener in various kinds of mud for drilling, completion, cementing and fracturing operations to obtain good fluidity and stability. It can improve the sand carrying capacity of mud and prolong the service life of bit. In low solid completion fluid and cementing fluid, hydroxyethyl cellulose has excellent water loss reduction performance, which can prevent a large amount of water from entering the reservoir from the mud and improve the production capacity of the reservoir.

5. Agriculture

Hydroxyethyl cellulose is used in pesticide emulsion and suspension formulation as thickener for spray emulsion or suspension. It can reduce the chemical drift and make it firmly adhere to the leaf surface of the plant, so as to increase the application effect of foliar spraying. Hydroxyethyl cellulose can also be used as film-forming agent in seed coating coating agent, as adhesive and film-forming agent in tobacco leaf recycling.

6. Architecture

Hydroxyethyl cellulose can be used in construction products such as concrete mixture, fresh mortar, gypsum plaster or other mastic, etc. it plays a water retaining role in the construction process before their setting and hardening. In addition to improving the water retention of building products, hydroxyethyl cellulose can also extend the correction and opening time of plaster or mortar. It can reduce the phenomenon of crust, slip and sagging. Therefore, the construction performance can be improved, the work efficiency can be improved, and the time can be saved. At the same time, the capacity increasing rate of the mortar can be increased, so as to save the raw materials.

7. Paper and ink

Hydroxyethyl cellulose can be used as a sizing agent on paper and paperboard, as well as thickening and suspending agent of water-based ink. In the process of papermaking, the excellent properties of hydroxyethyl cellulose include compatibility with most gum, resin and inorganic salts, low foam, less oxygen consumption and smooth surface film. The membrane has low surface permeability and high gloss, and can also reduce the cost. Paper coated with hydroxyethyl cellulose can be used for printing high quality pictures. In the production of water-based ink, the water-based ink thickened with hydroxyethyl cellulose can dry fast, and has good color diffusion, and will not produce adhesion.

8. Ceramics

It can be used to prepare high strength adhesive for ceramics.

9. Toothpaste

It can be used as thickener in toothpaste manufacture.

10. Fabric

It can be used as adhesive and sizing agent in textile printing and dyeing size and latex coating, and thickener for carpet back sizing material. In glass fiber, it is used as molding agent and adhesive; in leather paste, it can be used as modifier and adhesive. It can provide a wide range of viscosity for these coatings or adhesives, make the coating more uniform and fast, and improve the printing and dyeing clarity.

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