INDUSTRIAL and ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
NEWS EDITION Vol. 1 5 , N o . 2 4
DECEMBER 20, 1937
Vol. 29, Consecutive No. 48
Published by t h e American Chemical Society Harrison E. Howe, Editor Publication Offices Baaton, Pa. Cablet Jieohem (Washington)
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Uses of Specially Denatured Alcohol Fiscal Year Ended J u n e 3 0 , 1 9 3 6 Our Newly Elected Officers
Statistics o n the Uses o f Specially D e n a t u r e d Alcohol0 by Kinds of Products o r U s e s , Fiscal Y e a r E n d e d J u n e 30, 1936
PRODUCT OR U S E CELLULOSE, RESIN, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
PRESIDENT WHTTMORE
PRESIDENT-ELECT KRAUS
HE election concluded on De T cember 15 has resulted as follows: President-Elect, Charles A. Kraus. Directors: from the second district, E. M. Billings; from the fifth district, H. H. Willard; at large, G. J. Esselen. Councilors-at-large, W. M. Clark. A. C. Fieldner, B. S. Hopkins, and A. S. Richardson.
HE accompanying statistics on the use of specially denatured alcohol have T been developed in connection with a spe
cial administrative survey designed to simplify the Treasury Department's régulât ions regarding the denaturation of alcohol for special uses. Although not comparable with statistics on the uses of alcohol published by the department for the fiscal years 1928 to 1934,' inclusive, the data from the special survey are being released for such interest as they may have for producers and users of denatured alcohol and the general public. These statistics have been tabulated on the basis of a classification of the uses of specially denatured alcohol according to the functional aspects involved. There are three broad uses of specially denatured alcohol. First, and most important, is its 1
See "Statistics Concerning Intoxicating Liquors" for the fiscal years 1028 to 1933. inclusive. Datai or the fiscal year 1934 were published in "Statistics on Industrial and Beverage Alcohol/·
Lacquers, varnishes, and enamels: Cellulose Synthetic resins (with or without natural resin* but containing no cellulose compounds) Shellac (containing no cellulose or synthetic resins) Other natural resins (containing no celluloee, synthetic renin. or shellac) Coatings made exclusively from other materials Total lacquers, varnishes, and enamels Plastics: Celluloee compounds All other plastics (containing no cellulose) Total plastics Photographic film (including emulsions) Explosives Polishes Adhesives Soldering flux Inks, etajne, and dye solutions (containing no cellulose or renin) Miscellaneous celluloee or resin solutions Total celluloee, resin, and related products
AMOUNT USED PER NUMBER INCLUDINO CENT OP PER- RE-USED ( W I N E R E MITTEES GALLONS) *> IRED US 21 447
4.281,60Γ» 455 834 3,410.540
119 10
120,455 38,740
12 2
707 e
9.307.174
7
13 13 26* 47 7 63 51 57 128 47
4.744,577 722,270
69
5.466.847 1.221.384 411,562 254.345 211.516 122.787 108.864 41.651
60 72 77
857 «
17.146,130
30
30 72
9.212.266 1.344.463
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SOLVENTS AND THINNERS FOR CELLULOSE AND RESIN PRODUCT*:
Proprietary solvents Other industrial thinners Total solvents and thinners
97 «
10.556.729
PROCESSING INDUSTRIAL, FOOD. DRUO. AND OTHER PRODUCTS
Dehydrated nitrocellulose Petroleum oils Pectin Other food products Drug products Sodium hydrosulfite Dyes and intermediates Other chemical* Miscellaneous products Total processing industrial, food, drug, and other product·*
8 10 6 ο·» 162 4 14 20 28
10.805.203 2.744.932 4.717.550 255.145 5.281.064 909.592 561,017 1.462,122' 387.807
240 «
27.124.432
80 92 97 77 83 89 59 9 7G 81
TOILET PRÉPARATIONS AND RELATED PRODUCTS
Hair and scalp preparations, exclusive of shampoos Shampoos Bay rum Other face and hand lotions Toilet waters Perfume and perfume tinctures Toilet eoape (including shaving cream) Mouth washes Tooth pastes and powders Total toilet preparations
930 173 338 778 628 492 78 351 39
906,28* 161,653 256,354 452,127 545.547 173,749 102,837 645,009 61,360
1.7650
3.304,924
124 51 310 451
254,021 80.306 2.851,727
PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS FOB EXTERNAL U S E
Products manufactured in accordance with formulas of the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary (except tincture of iodine) Tincture of iodine Rubbing alcohol Other preparations for external use not listed in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary
191.455
Total pharmaceutical products 709· 3.377.509 ° Includes specially denatured rum. 64 Includes amounts re-used after recovery where alcohol has not become part of finished product. Represents number of permittees operating within each major grouping. d Includes use by one manufacturer in production of a dénaturant for completely denatured alcohol.
537
INDUSTRIAL A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY use as a solvent; secondly, its use as & raw material, which reacts im the formulation* of other chemicals; and thirdly, the small est use, is as a fluid, where it neither exer cises a solvent action aor enters into a cheinical reaction. Inasmuch as th-e major classifications are based upoa t h e immediate use of the alcohol rather than the ultimate use of the product, certain products according to common terminol ogy may appear in more than one classi fication. For example, dyes are lasted under three headings: first, alcohol may he employed as a chemical to produce dyes ; secondly, it may b e employed as a solvent to purify dyes; finally, it ma.y b e employed as a solvent t o produce a dye solution for the trade. Inasmuch as the solvent use of specially denatured alcohol predominates, sufc>groupings within the solvent function have been made on the basis o f related products and are shown as the first 6 groups in t h e tabulation, as follows: cellulose, resin, and related products; solvents and thin ners for cellulose and resin products; toilet preparations and related products; pkarmaceut ical products for external use; clean ing, preserving, and Savoring prepara tions; processing industrial, food, drug?, and other products. Tfcte last subgroup combines unrelated products obtained t>y processes in which the alcohol, although used as a solvent, functions primarily a s an extracting or purifying agent. Ex amples are removing water from nitro cellulose, purifying drug products, etc. In certain processes where specially de natured alcohol is used,2 part of the origi nal alcohol is recovered and made avail able for re- use. In accounting for specially denatured alcohol used, permittees are required to consider quantities recovered! for re-use the same as new alcohol. I n some instances the amount reported a s used represent s many times the amount « >f new alcohol entering the process. Where large amounts of recovered alcohol arc reported in the accompanying statistics, an attempt has been made t o approximate the percentage of recovered alcohol repre sented in the total reported used. These percentages are shown i n the last column of the attached tabulation. « Chiefly in the solvent classification, *'Pri_>c·eseing industrial, food, drug, and other prrvd-
Hawaiian Section Establishes A . C . S. M e m b e r s h i p Awasd HE Hawaiian Section of the AMERICAN
T prize award,
CHEMICAL SOCIETY bas made its first
which consists of a junior
membership in the AMERICAN CHESMCAL
SOCIETY for one year, including member ship in the Hawaiian Section as well. The successful candidate will receive subscriptions to the Journal of the Ameri can Cheinical Society and INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY, both for
one year. The winner of the award will have his name engraved o n a plaque t o be kept in a display cabinet belonging to the Chemistry Department of the Uni versity of Hawaii. The annual selection of the prize winner is made by a committee composed of the Chairman of t h e Hawaiian Sec tion, the Head of the Chemistry Depas-tment of the University of Hawaii, and a third member to be cfciosen by tne fii-st two. This year the committee is cornposed of H. D. Kirschinan, F. T . Dilliragham, and J. H. Payne.
VOL. 15, NO. 24 AMOUNTS U S E D Pen NUMBER INCLUDING CENT OF P E R - RE-USED ( W I N S R»ftflTTSBS Q ALLONS) * USED
PaooucT OR UBE CLEANING, PBSISERVINO, AND FLAVORING PREPARATIONS
Tobacco sprays and flavors Cleaning preparations (including cleaning operations) Deodorant sprays (nonbody) Disinfectants, insecticides, etc. Embalming fluids Sterilising and preserving solutions Industrial soaps
Total cleaning, preserving, and flavoring solutions
104 213 110 103 34 48 18
1,451,082 263,779 78,237 37.201 31.350 25.505 11,095
Λ98c
1.898.249
35 11 4 37 8 5 8 5 2 5 3 2 6 21
5,789,043 6,957.907 5,975,198 553.191 644.555 16,650,777 658.990 6.256.479 436,602 420.847 307.683 278,377 166.634 161,782
130 e
45.258.065
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CONVSBTBD A S A R A W MATERIAL· IN C B B M I C A O M A N U F A C T U R I N G
Vinegar Ethyl acetate Ethyl chloride Other ethyl esters Dyes and intermediates Aldehydes Ethyl ether (sulfuric ether) Other ethers Ethylene dibromide Ethylene gas Xanthates Acetone Fulminate of mercury Miscellaneous
Total converted in chemical manufacturing FLUID USES
Brake fluids Cutting oils Other fluid uses (including door check») Total fluid uses FaKLS LABORATOBT AND EXPERIMENTAL U S E »
7 7 56
233,130 22,228 33.551
70 β
283,909 67.275 111,610
8 1,129
GRAND TOTAL
4.267
109,133.841
3 48 35 65 11 91 4 47 11 51 39
41
Represents actual number of permittees operating.
The selection of tin* prize winner is made from those senior students in the University of Hawaii who are majoring in chemistry, and is based on the stu dent's record in the university, with greater weight placed on grades in chem istry and on general aptitude towards that science. The committee has selected Robert 1\ dill to receive this first award. A t t e n t i o n , Local S e c t i o n s Ί Π Η Ε Local Section Officers' Group was I. organized years ago to discuss the function and activities of the several local
a local section? How can it best perform its work and further the interest in chem istry locally, as well as improve the status of the profession generally and strengthen the
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY?
The officers will be pleased to have you formulate your questions and send two copies to either the chairman or the secre tary. From those received a program for discussion at the Dallas and possibly the Milwaukee meetings will be prepared. Your cooperation is solicited and you are urged to act in the interests of local sec tion officers.
Radio Talk o n Chemicals in Industry CIETY. For years its principal task was the arrangement through the secretary of ^ΗΕ eighth in a series of broadcasts of the group of tours of speakers to the vari stories of American industry, pre ous sections. This activity became too great a burden for purely voluntary ser sented by the U. S. Department of Com vice and has been assigned by vote of the merce, was given December 7, when the Council to the office of INDUSTRIAL AND subject was "Chemicals in Industry." Harry R. Daniel, the speaker, presented ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY. More lately an appreciable amount of attention has the story of Charles Martin Hall's pro been given by a committee of the group to duction of aluminum while still a student the problem of finances for the local sec at Oberhn College, the condemnation of Lavoisier by the Revolutionary tribunal tions, with a view especially to helping the in 1793, Perkin's discovery of mauve, and smaller isolated groups. The recom the development of Bakélite. A feature mendation on this question is now in the hands of the directors of the AMERICAN of the broadcast was the appearance of Dr. Baekeland himself on the program, followCHEMICAL SOCIETY. ing the dramatization of his discovery. The officers of the group are Ed. F. Copies of the radio talks may be had on Degering, chairman, Purdue University, request from the Department of ComLafayette, Ind., and F. O. Rice, secretary, merce, Washington, D. C. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. These gentlemen are desirous of having be fore the group for discussion at the Dallas meeting such problems as may be of com mon interest to local section officers. Some members have already made sug gestions, but there must be many other problems that could properly come before this group for consideration. For ex ample, just what is the proper function of sections of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL S O
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