UCON LUBRICANT 50-HB-5100

The Dow Chemical Company offers a series of water-soluble and water-dispersible antifoams for a variety of industrial applications. Inverse solubility and food-grade status are key features which make UCON™ Antifoams desirable and effective as foam control agents. The chemical nature of UCON Antifoam gives them a physical property known as inverse solubility. This means that an increase in the temperature of an aqueous system in which UCON Antifoams are present causes a decrease in solubility of the UCON Antifoam being used. At or above the cloud point (the initial effective temperature), the UCON Antifoam separates from solution and acts as an extremely effective defoamer. Reduction of the system temperature below the cloud point enables the UCON Antifoam to again become solubilized. This cycling may be indefinitely repeated without degradation of the product, as long as the system temperature does not exceed 150°C.