Overview
ORC Chem is one of the best palmitic acid suppliers located in the heart of Selangor. As one of the best palmitic acid suppliers, it supplies only the best quality to its clients.
Palmitic acid is the most common saturated fatty acid you can find in animals, plants and microorganisms. You can find it largely in the oil from the fruit of oil palms, which makes up to 44% of its total fats. Your daily dairy foodstuffs such as meats, cheeses, and butter also contain palmitic acid which consists up to 50-60% of its contents.
During World War 2, aluminium salts found in palmitic acid and naphthenic acid were used as the gelling agents used with volatile petrochemicals to produce napalm.
Chemical Function/Application:
- Foods and foodstuffs: palmitic acid is known to be an inexpensive chemical and it adds texture and mouthfeel to processed foods. You can also find palmitic acid and its sodium salt used in foodstuffs. It is a permitted natural additive in organic products.
- Military use: The aluminium salt found in palmitic acid is used as a thickening agent of napalm for military actions.
- Schizophrenia: palmitic acid is used in anti-psychotic medication, paliperidone palmitate, to treat schizophrenia. It has been synthesized by using the oily palmitate ester as a long-acting release carrier medium when injected intramuscularly.
- Surfactant: palmitic acid is used to produce soaps, cosmetics, and industrial mold release agents. The applications use sodium palmitate, which is usually obtained by saponification of palm oil. Palm oil that is rendered from palm trees is then treated with sodium hydroxide. It causes hydrolysis of the ester groups, yielding glycerol and sodium palmitate.
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