isopropyl alcohol

Isopropyl alcohol is a very good cleaning agent and often used for cleaning electronic devices such as contact pins (like those on ROM cartridges), magnetic tape deck and floppy disk drive heads, the lenses of lasers in optical disc drives (e.g. CD, DVD) and removing thermal paste from CPUs. It is also used to clean glass computer monitor screens (at some risk to the anti-reflection coating of the screen), and used by many music shops to give second-hand or worn records newer looking sheens. It cleans dry-erase boards very well and other unwanted ink related marks. The total capacity of isopropyl alcohol is around 2.3 million t/a in the world, 37％ in the United States, 4％ in Canada, 3％ in Latin America, 38％ in West Europe, 8％ in Japan and 10％ in the Asian-Pacific Region. The United States, Japan and West Europe are also major consumers in the world and the consumption accounts for 70％ of the world total. In these countries and regions isopropyl alcohol is mainly used as solvent and in acetone processing and the consumption in these two fields accounts for 60 - 70％ of the total. In terms of isopropyl alcohol derivatives, the demand in cleaning.