TY - CHAP AU - Erika C.A. Nunes Chrisman AU - Angela C.P. Duncke AU - Márcia C.K. Oliveira AU - Márcio N. Souza ED - Fathi Samir Soliman Y1 - 2019-02-12 PY - 2019 T1 - Wax Chemical and Morphological Investigation of Brazilian Crude Oils N2 - Paraffin waxes make up the majority of commercial waxes. Waxes are characterized by the carbon number, hardness, crystal shape, composition, and molecular weight. These characteristics determine the condition of separating the wax. Paraffin wax is widely used in different industries such as ink, paper, cosmetics, ceramics using powder injection molding and energy storage as phase change materials. Consumption of wax products has increased in the world; especially for food, pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, as well as specialty products. The increase of profitability of wax production will lie in the improvement of blending and modification techniques for macro and micro-crystalline waxes used as the base materials. BT - Paraffin SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.83736 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.83736 SN - 978-1-83880-595-1 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -