Petrofine Products - Ours is a petroleum products trading company catering to the numerous industrial as well as customer requirements in and around Mumbai. With strong principles and efficient services the company visualizes to embark on various manufacturing, consultancy & trading services in India.
The company also undertakes retailing of waxes (both petroleum and natural) for the art of candle making under the name of "Weaxfine Products" in Mumbai.
Currently, the company offers the following services:
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Trading and retailing of petroleum products: |
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Trading and retailing of Natural waxes: |
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Trading and retailing of Synthetic Products: |
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Literature and Consultancy on Petroleum Products |
Introduction to Waxes:
The word 'Wax' is derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon word, 'Weax'. Waxes are among the oldest worked materials used by humans. Their value as versatile construction materials (“man's first plastic”) was discovered very early. The use of waxes is expected to increase in the future because of their generally favorable toxicological and ecological properties.
Typically waxes do not consist of a single chemical compound, but are often very complex mixtures. Being oligomers or polymers in many cases, the components differ in their molar mass, molar mass distribution, or in the degree of side-chain branching. Functional groups (e.g., carboxyl, alcohol, ester, keto, and amide groups) can be detected in waxes, sometimes several different groups.
According to this definition, waxes must have:
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A drop point (mp) >40 °C |
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Their melt viscosity must not
exceed 10 000 mPa · s at 10 °C above the drop point |
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They should be polishable
under slight pressure and have a strongly temperature-dependent
consistency and solubility |
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At 20 °C they must be
kneadable or hard to brittle, coarse to finely crystalline,
transparent to opaque, but not glassy, or highly viscous or liquid |
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Above 40 °C they should melt
without decomposition |
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Above the mp the
viscosity should exhibit a strongly negative temperature dependence
and the liquid should not tend to stringiness |
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Waxes should normally melt
between ca. 50 and 90 °C (in exceptional cases up to 200 °C) |
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Waxes generally burn with a
sooting flame after ignition |
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Waxes can form pastes or gels
and are poor conductors of heat and electricity (i.e., they are
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Today, waxes are used mostly as additives and active substances, their use in industry can be listed as below:
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Branches of industry in which waxes are used |
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For more literature on waxes and allied products: Contact Us or refer the Literature Page
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