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  Saponification With TEA

  Posted by ZivBA on March 21, 2017 at 11:07 am

  Hello everybody,

  Can someone help me with the right calculation:

  How to convert saponification value to the right amount of TEA?

  Thanks.

  johnb replied 7 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  belassi

  Member

  March 21, 2017 at 3:01 pm

  just use say, soapcalc.net and adjust according to the mole ratio.

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  ZivBA

  Member

  March 22, 2017 at 12:12 pm

  So you say it’s depend only on the mole ratio between KOH or NaOH to TEA?

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  belassi

  Member

  March 22, 2017 at 4:47 pm

  Sure. It’s just simple stoichiometry.

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  ZivBA

  Member

  March 26, 2017 at 9:04 am

  Belassi  Thank you very much!!!

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  johnb

  Member

  March 27, 2017 at 7:37 am

  Is it your intention to saponify fats (triglycerides) using TEA or are you neutralising fatty acids?

  If the former then it is likely you will get side reactions forming coloured by-products, slow reaction rates due to the intrinsic weakness of TEA as an alkali and, as the TEA soap will most likely be a liquid, problems in separating the soap from the glycerine formed during the saponification.

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