About This Product
Palm methyl ester, a fatty acid methyl ester, is made by reacting palm oil or palm-derived fatty acids with methanol, which replaces the glycerol backbone of the triglyceride with three separate methyl esters and releases glycerine as a co-product. The result is a clear to pale yellow liquid of far lower viscosity than the parent oil.
Breaking the triglyceride apart is what makes the material useful industrially. A triglyceride is a large, viscous molecule; the corresponding methyl esters are small, mobile and distillable, so they can be fractionated into narrow chain cuts, hydrogenated to fatty alcohols, or sulphonated to methyl ester sulphonates. As a solvent, palm methyl ester combines a high flash point, typically well above 150 degrees Celsius, with low volatility and ready biodegradability, which is why it displaces chlorinated and aromatic solvents in cleaning and degreasing where worker exposure and VOC limits are the constraint. Its cold-flow behaviour is the main limitation, as the saturated palmitic fraction begins to crystallise in cool conditions, so cloud point is a specification point.
It is supplied as a bio-based solvent and degreaser, a lubricant and metalworking fluid base, a fatty alcohol and surfactant feedstock, and for industrial oleochemical conversion.
Bio Green Oleo supplies palm methyl ester to specification on ester content, chain distribution, acid value, moisture, flash point, cloud point and colour.
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- ISO tank
- Flexitank
- IBC
Indicative price: $1.00–8.50/kg
Indicative bulk guide only. Prices are market-linked and updated regularly - please request a quote for current pricing and volume rates.
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Grade, origin and certification are confirmed for each proposed source. A vegetable-derived feedstock is not automatically certified sustainable, pharmaceutical grade or suitable for every application; request the evidence needed for your intended use.
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