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| Demeon® D or Dimethyl Ether |
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Demeon® D is Akzo Nobel Base Chemicals' trade name for dimethyl ether (DME). DME is a widely used propellant for aerosol products. DME offers unique advantages such as solvency power and water miscibility. Based on the flexibility in use offered by these advantages, DME is an appreciated propellant in many aerosol products like hairsprays and other cosmetic aerosol products, paintsprays and other technical aerosol products.
Base Chemicals delivers DME in bulk, in dedicated 30-ft tank containers specially designed in Duplex steel for optimal intermodal use and in 20-ft ISO containers for export purposes.
As the dedicated aerosol propellant supplier for the aerosol industry, Akzo Nobel facilitates an Aerosol Safety and Application Laboratory (ASAL). Akzo Nobel is active with DME since 1964 (propellant for aerosol products), producer of DME since 1990, plant in Europoort, near Rotterdam in the Netherlands, with capacity of 20,000 mt/annum. |
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| The use of Demeon® D |
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| Demeon® D is also known as dimethyl ether, DME, methyl ether, methyl oxide, dimethyl oxide, DMO, wood ether, methoxy methane and used in several ways such as: Refrigerant, (co-)blowing agent for foam, propellant for aerosol products, solvent, extraction agent, chemical reaction medium, fuel for welding, cutting and brazing, multi-purpose fuel (power generation, heating, transportation) and can be used pure and in mixtures with other products. |
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