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EC / List no.: 205-592-6
CAS no.: 143-22-6
Mol. formula: C10H22O4
Butyl triglycol (also known as BTGE, butyl tri tetra, triethylene glycol butyl ether, butoxy triglycol and triglycol monobutyl ether) is a clear, colourless liquid with a mild odour and the formula C10H22O4 / CH3(CH2)3(OCH2CH2)3OH.
Butyl triglycol is part of a group of glycol ethers with low volatility and strong coupling properties.
Butyl triglycol is miscible in water and has surface tension properties, making it useful in household and industrial cleaners.
Technical Properties
Chemical and physical properties of butyl tri glycol:
Molecular Formula: C10H22O4 / CH3(CH2)3(OCH2CH2)3OH
Cas Number: 143-22-6
Molecular Mass: 206.151809 g/mol
Flashpoint: 290 °F / 143 °C
Boiling Point: 532.4 °F / 278 °C
Melting Point: -22 °F/ -30.0 °C
Freezing Point: -31 °F/ -35 °C
Water Solubility: miscible
Density: 0.9890 g/cu cm at 20 °C
How is Butyl triglycol produced?
The primary method of manufacturing butyl tri glycol is via reacting ethylene oxide with ethyl alcohol. This is done by vacuum distillation which separates and isolates the produced butyl tri glycol from the reaction.
Other methods of production include reacting of alcohols with ethylene oxide. Global consumption of butyl tri glycol ether is estimated at approximately 21,000 tonnes per year.
Handling, storage and distribution
Hazards and Safety
Butyl tri glycol has an NFPA health rating of 2, indicating that it can cause incapacitation or residual injury under emergency conditions.
Short term exposure to the eyes and skin can cause irritation, dryness, and cracking.
An NFPA fire rating of 1 demonstrates that it will not ignite under ambient temperatures unless preheated.
An NFPA instability rating of 0 shows that butyl tri glycol is stable underneath most conditions, including fire.
Full personal protective equipment should be worn when handling this product to prohibit contact with the skin, eyes, and throat.
This includes gloves, masks, and Safety Goggles.
In the case of a leak, respirators should be worn for protection against vapours.
The leak should be prevented from reaching sewers, waterways and basements and washed away with water.
Storage and distribution
Butyl tri glycol can be stored and transported in stainless steel, mild steel, or carbon steel drums and/or tanks and must be kept in a well-ventilated area.
Butyl triglycol is not classified as dangerous for any form of transport but is classed as an Irritant. Butyl triglycol has a flashpoint of 156 °C (closed cup) and a specific gravity of 0.985.
What is butyl tri glycol used for?
Industry Uses
Butyl tri glycol is used as a solvent for nitrocellulose, oils, paint removers, gums, soaps, dyes, grease, industrial cleaners, polish strippers, disinfectants, chlorinated rubber, wood paints, inks and levelling agents.
Butyl triglycol is also used as a component in the base blend used in the manufacture of cutting and hydraulic oils, including hydraulic brake fluids, as a useful component in paint stripping formulations as Butyl triglycol has low volatility, employed as a dye carrier in textile dyeing processes, as a coalescent for coatings, in the manufacture of plasticizers, as a dye carrier for textile dyes and as a solvent/intermediate for ester production.
Commercial Uses
Butyl tri glycol is found in many commercial products including de-icers, automotive care products, paints, inks, coatings, oils, greases, disinfectants and lubricants.
Butyl triglycol is used in the following products: hydraulic fluids, washing & cleaning products, inks and toners and textile treatment products and dyes.
Other release to the environment of Butyl triglycol is likely to occur from: indoor use (e.g. machine wash liquids/detergents, automotive care products, paints and coating or adhesives, fragrances and air fresheners), outdoor use as processing aid, outdoor use in close systems with minimal release (e.g. hydraulic liquids in automotive suspension, lubricants in motor oil and break fluids) and indoor use in close systems with minimal release (e.g. cooling liquids in refrigerators, oil-based electric heaters).
Other release to the environment of Butyl triglycol is likely to occur from: indoor use in long-life materials with low release rate (e.g. flooring, furniture, toys, construction materials, curtains, foot-wear, leather products, paper and cardboard products, electronic equipment).
Butyl triglycol can be found in products with material based on: fabrics, textiles and apparel (e.g. clothing, mattress, curtains or carpets, textile toys) and paper (e.g. tissues, feminine hygiene products, nappies, books, magazines, wallpaper).
Butyl triglycol is used in the following products: inks and toners, hydraulic fluids, lubricants and greases and metal working fluids.
Butyl triglycol is used in the following areas: printing and recorded media reproduction and formulation of mixtures and/or re-packaging.
Other release to the environment of Butyl triglycol is likely to occur from: indoor use (e.g. machine wash liquids/detergents, automotive care products, paints and coating or adhesives, fragrances and air fresheners), outdoor use as processing aid, outdoor use in close systems with minimal release (e.g. hydraulic liquids in automotive suspension, lubricants in motor oil and break fluids) and indoor use in close systems with minimal release (e.g. cooling liquids in refrigerators, oil-based electric heaters).
Butyl triglycol is used in the following products: inks and toners, hydraulic fluids and metal working fluids.
Release to the environment of Butyl triglycol can occur from industrial use: formulation of mixtures and manufacturing of the substance.
Butyl triglycol is used in the following products: inks and toners, textile treatment products and dyes, hydraulic fluids and metal working fluids.
Butyl triglycol is used in the following areas: printing and recorded media reproduction and formulation of mixtures and/or re-packaging.
Butyl triglycol is used for the manufacture of: textile, leather or fur.
Release to the environment of Butyl triglycol can occur from industrial use: in processing aids at industrial sites, of substances in closed systems with minimal release, in the production of articles and as processing aid.
Other release to the environment of Butyl triglycol is likely to occur from: indoor use in close systems with minimal release (e.g. cooling liquids in refrigerators, oil-based electric heaters) and outdoor use in close systems with minimal release (e.g. hydraulic liquids in automotive suspension, lubricants in motor oil and break fluids).
Chemical Properties
Butyl triglycol is a clear, colorless, viscous, stable liquid with a slightly sweetish odor.
Soluble in water; immiscible with benzene, toluene, and gasoline.
Combustible.
Because Butyl triglycol has two ether and two hydroxyl groups its chemical properties are closety related to ethers and primary alcohols.
Butyl triglycol is a good solvent for gums, resins, nitrocellulose, steam-set printing inks and wood stains.
With a low vapor pressure and a high boiling point, its uses and properties are similar to those of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol.
Because Butyl triglycol is an efficient hygroscopic agent Butyl triglycol serves as a liquid desiccant for removing water from natural gas.
Butyl triglycol is also used in air conditioning systems designed to dehumidify air.
Butyl triglycol is a solvent prepared from ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol.
In various plastics to increase pliability; in air disinfection.
Use and Manufacturing
Household & Commercial/Institutional Products
Information on 25 consumer products that contain Butoxytriglycol in the following categories is provided:
• Auto Products
• Inside the Home
• Personal Care
• General adhesives and binding agents for a variety of uses
• Antifreezing agents, or de-icing products
• Relatived to the maintenance and repair of automobiles, products for cleaning and caring for automobiles (auto shampoo, polish/wax, undercarriage treatment, brake grease)
• Binding agents, used in paint, sand, etc
• Various types of paint for various uses
• Related to the building or construction process for buildings or boats (includes activities such as plumbing and electrical work, bricklaying, etc)
• Chemicals detected in substances or products (note that these chemicals may be absent from an 'ingredient list' for the product and thus unexpected
• Related to all forms of cleaning/washing, including cleaning products used in the home, laundry detergents, soaps, de-greasers, spot removers, etc
• Byproducts of disinfection processes
• Contaminants or byproducts in drinking water, such as drugs, pesticides, and radionuclides
• Fillers for paints, textiles, plastics, etc
• Includes antifoaming agents, coagulating agents, dispersion agents, emulsifiers, flotation agents, foaming agents, viscosity adjustors, etc
• General fuels, fuel additives, motor/automotive fuels
• Industrial fluids such as hydraulic fluids, lubricating agents, functional fluids, etc
• Generic lubricants, lubricants for engines, brake fluids
• Relatived to the maintenance and repair of automobiles, products for cleaning and caring for automobiles (auto shampoo, polish/wax, undercarriage treatment, brake grease)
• Wood used as a building material, wood preservatives
• Related to manufacturing for export
• Furniture, or the manufacturing of furniture (can include chairs and tables, and more general furniture such as mattresses, patio furniture, etc.)
• Manufacturing of or related to machinery, for production of cement or food, air/spacescraft machinery, electrical machinery, etc
• Related to metals - manufacturing of metals, casting of metals, production of metals, surface treatment of metals, etc
• Crude oil, crude petroleum, refined oil products, fuel oils, drilling oils
• Related to the manufcturing of pulp or paper products, or paper products in general
• Plastic products, industry for plastics, manufacturing of plastics, plastic additives
• Rubber products (e.g. tires) and their manufacture
• Textiles used for clothing or furniture upholstery, processes related to textiles (e.g. softeners, antiwrinkle agents), or the processing/manufacturing of textiles
• Cooling agents
• Volatile and semivolative organic compounds
• Modifier included when source indicates the product is water based
• Personal care products for general use on the body (body makeup, body powder, body treatments, body cleansers)
• Substances used for preventing, destroying or mitigating pests
• Pesticide for non agricultural use
• Substances used for preventing, destroying or mitigating pests
• Inert ingredients in a pesticide
• Related to photography, film, photographic equipment, photographic laboraties, photochemicals, and developing of photographs
• Related to the process of printing (newspapers, books media, etc), printing inks, toners, etc
• Inks used for printing or writing
• Accelerators, activators, oxidation agents, reducing agents, etc
• Related to fracking, natural gas, industrial gases
• Vulcanizing agents and rubberizing materials
• Paint removers, graffiti removers, or general solvents
• Transmission medium, a material that can propagate energy waves
• Plasticizer, intermediate
Solvent for cellulose nitrate, cellulose ethers, chlorinated rubber, poly(vinyl acetate), colophony, many other natural and synthetic resins, stoving chemicals, wood paints, pharmaceutical and cosmetic preparations, as well as drying greases and oils, as a solubilizer for mutually incompatible liquids, in the production of household and metal cleansing agents as well as for wood preservation, in cutting and hydraulic oils, production of Indian inks, writing inks, and ballpoint pen pastes, as a leveling agent, and in the leather auxiliaries industry.
Used in the chemical, textile, and transportation industries.
Industry Uses
• Fuels and fuel additives
• Functional fluids (closed systems)
• Functional fluids (open systems)
• Intermediates
• Lubricants and lubricant additives
• Oil and Gas Exploration
• Printing ink manufacture
• Processing aids, specific to petroleum production
• Solvents (which become part of product formulation or mixture)
• Surface active agents
Consumer Uses
• Anti-freeze and de-icing products
• Automotive care products
• Fuels and related products
• Ink, toner, and colorant products
• Lubricants and greases
• Oil and Gas Exploration
• Paints and coatings
General Manufacturing Information
Industry Processing Sectors
• All other basic organic chemical manufacturing
• Construction
• Mining (except oil and gas) and support activities
• Oil and gas drilling, extraction, and support activities
• Petrochemical manufacturing
• Petroleum lubricating oil and grease manufacturing
• Petroleum refineries
• Printing ink manufacturing
• Transportation equipment manufacturing
Product Description
Butyl triglycol is a low-volatility, high solvency glycol ether with excellent coupling Properties.
The versatility of Butoxytriglycol is demonstrated by the variety of applications in which Butyl triglycol may find use.
The low volatility and excellent solvency makes this Butyl triglycol a highly effective carrier solvent for textile dye processes.
With superior surface tension characteristics, water solubility and solvency for oils, Butyl triglycol has potential for use in household, institutional, industrial and special-purpose cleaners.
The coupling ability of this product enhances performance and improves shelf stability of cleaning products...
Applications
• Active solvent for solvent-based coatings.
• Dye carrier for textile dye processes.
• Coupling agent and solvent in household and industrial cleaners, paint and floor polish strippers, hard surface cleaners, and disinfectants.
• Chemical process solvent and intermediate for ester production used as solvents, surfactants and plasticizers.
• Coupling agent for resins and dyes in water-based printing inks.
• Component of high-boiling hydraulic brake fluids.
• for solvent-based coatings.
• as coupling agent and solvent in household and industrial applications
• as solvents for surfactants and plasticizers
• as coupling agent for resins and dyes in water-based printing inks
• as component of drilling fluids, hydraulic fluids
BUTYL TRIGLYCOL is a type of glycol ether, which is the result from the reaction of alcohols or phenol with ethylene oxide.
Ideal for use in leathers and hydraulic fluids.
It results from the reaction of alcohols or phenol with ethylene oxide.
The reactions to obtain these compounds and their molecular structures are shown in the figure below, starting from methanol and ethanol.
This product has other denominations of Triethylene glycol butyl ether, TEGBE, and has a CAS No. of 143-22-6.
APPLICATIONS
BUTYL TRIGLYCOL, with the combination of ether, alcohol and hydrocarbon chain in one molecule, provide versatile solvency characteristics with both polar and non-polar properties.
The chemical structure of long hydrocarbon chain resist to solubility in water, while ether or alcohol groups introduce the promoted hydrophilic solubility performance.
This surfactant-like structure provides the compatibility between water and a number of organic solvents, and the ability to couple unlike phases.
Butyl triglycols are characterized by their wide range of hydrophilic/hydrophobic balances.
Butyl triglycols are used as diluents and levelling agents in the manufacture of paints and baking finishes.
Butyl triglycols series are used in the manufacture of nitrocellulose and combination lacquers. ,
Butyl triglycols are used as an additive in brake fluid.
Butyl triglycols are formulated for dying textiles and leathers and for insecticides and herbicides.
Butyl triglycols provides performance in cleaners products with oil-water dispersions.
Butyl triglycols are used in printing industries as they have a slow evaporation rate.
Butyl triglycols are used as a fixative for perfumes, germicides, bactericides, insect repellents and antiseptic.
Butyl triglycols are used as an additive for jet fuel to prevent ice buildup.
The term of cellosolve refers to ethylene glycol monoethyl ether or a group of glycol ether solvent as below.
The term of glyme refers to glycol dimethyl ether.
Monoglyme, diglyme, triglyme are ethylene glycol dimethyl ether, Diethylene glycol dimethyl ether, and triethylene glycol dimethyl ether respectively.
Ethylene glycol dimethyl ether is readily soluble in water.
Glymes, dimethyl ethers, have two terminal methyl groups which offer stability and high solvency.
They are used as a higher boiling alternative to diethyl ether or THF.
Glyme forms chelate and are useful as bidentate ligands.
They are useful as solubilizers and phase transfer catalysts.
Glymes offer the property required as an inert reaction medium chemical reaction due to their low chemical reactivity.
They are suitable particularly for organometallic and polymerization reactions.
Glycol ethers which contain hydroxyl groups are also useful chemical intermediates.
The hydroxyl group will undergo reaction with aldehydes (or ketones) to produce hemiacetals (or acetals), with epoxides to produce polyether alcohols, with halogenating agents to produce alkoxy alkyl halides, with carboxylic acid compounds or inorganic acids to produce a number of esters.
Butyl triglycol is used as a solvent for nitrocellulose, oils, gums, dyes, soaps, greas, paint removers, metal cleaners, and polymers.
Butyl triglycol is a coalescent for coatings.
Butyl triglycol is used in manufacturing plasticizers, cutting and hydraulic oils (particularly brake fluids), pesticide formulations, metal cleaning agents, stabilizers and wood preservation.
Butyl triglycol is a colorless, odorless and hygroscopic viscous liquid, which is used as solvent, extractant and desiccant, and also used as hygroscopic agent and softener for printing ink.
Butyl triglycol is a colorless, odorless and hygroscopic viscous liquid, which is soluble in water and ethanol.
Stable performance.
There are hydrophilic groups in the structure, which can improve water solubility.
Butyl triglycol is an important monomer for synthesizing photosensitive resin and crosslinking agent, and is also used in the adhesive of polyester film base.
Butyl triglycol should be stored in a cool and dry place. Triethylene glycol can be used as solvent for aromatic extraction, solvent for rubber and nitrocellulose, diesel additive and rocket fuel.
Butyl triglycol is widely used in medicine, coating, textile, printing and dyeing, food, paper making, cosmetics, leather making, photography, printing, metal processing and other industries.
Butyl triglycol is often used as spinning aid, solvent, plasticizer of rubber and resin, viscosity improver of lubricating oil and aromatic hydrocarbon extractant of reformate.
IUPAC names
2-(2-(2-Butoxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethanol
2-(2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethanol
2-(2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethanol
2-[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]ethan-1-ol
2-[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]ethano
2-[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]ethanol
2-[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]ethanol; TEGBE; Butyl triglycol monobutyl ether; butoxyButyl triglycol
2-{2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy}ethanol
3,6,9-Trioxatridecan-1-ol
butoxyButyl triglycol
butoxyButyl triglycol
butyltriglycol ether
Ethanol, 2-(2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy)-
Ethanol, 2-[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]-
TEGBE
Butyl triglycol
Butyl triglycol butyl ether
Butyl triglycol butyl ether
Butyl triglycol MONOBUTYL ETHER
Butyl triglycol Monobutyl Ether
Butyl triglycol monobutyl ether
Butyl triglycol monobutyl ether
Butyl triglycol monobutyl ether
Butyl triglycol, monobutyl ether
SYNOYNMS
Triethylene glycol monobutyl ether technical, ~70% (GC)
Triethylene glycol monobutyl ethe
TRIETHYLENE GLYCOL MONO-N-BUTYL ETHER
TRIETHYLENE GLYCOL MONOBUTYL ETHER
dowanoltbat
Poly-solv tb
poly-solvtb
triethylene glycol butyl ester
Triethylene glycol butyl ether
Triethylene glycol n-butyl ether
triethyleneglycolbutylether
triethyleneglycolmonobutylether(tgbe)
triethyleneglycoln-butylether
Triglycol monobutyl ether
triglycolmonobutylether
2-(2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy)-ethano
2-[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]-ethano
3,6,9-Trioxa-1-tridecanol
3,6,9-Trioxatridecan-1-ol
Butoxytriethylene glycol
butoxytriethyleneglycol
Dowanol TBAT
Butoxytriglycol
BUTYL TRIGLYCOL
2-[2-(2-BUTOXYETHOXY)ETHOXY]ETHANOL
Triethylenglykolmonobutylether
ETHANOL,2-[2-(2-BUTOXYETHOXY)
Triethylene glycol momobutyl ether
Ethanol, 2-2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy-
2-[2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]ethanol TEGBE triethylene glycol monobutyl ether butoxytriethylene glycol
Triethylene glycol monobutyl ether, tech. 75%
Triethylene Glycol M
Triethylene glycol monobutyl ether (BTG)
Triethylene Glycol Monobuthyl Ether
ethe
2-[2-(2-Butoxyethoxy)ethoxy]ethanol fandachem
BUTYL TRIGLYCOL ETHER
