Denatured alcohol is used as a solvent and as fuel for alcohol burners and camping stoves. Because of the diversity of industrial uses for denatured alcohol, hundreds of additives and denaturing methods have been used. Denatured alcohol, also called methylated spirit (in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom) or denatured rectified spirit, is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad-tasting, foul-smelling, or nauseating to discourage recreational consumption.
In the United States, mixtures sold as denatured alcohol often have much greater percentages of methanol, and can be less than 50% ethanol. Denaturing alcohol does not chemically alter the ethanol molecule. Rather, the ethanol is mixed with other chemicals to form a foul-tasting, often toxic, solution. For many of these solutions, there is no practical way to separate the components.
Global Denatured Alcohol market size will increase to 117200 Million US$ by 2025, from 69900 Million US$ in 2017, at a CAGR of 6.7% during the forecast period. In this study, 2017 has been considered as the base year and 2018 to 2025. As large demand of high-end products at home and abroad, growing number of enterprises enter the business of denatured alcohol production. But the gross margin of denatured alcohol production is relatively low because of the industry features. Alcohol used in industries is denatured alcohol which is usually ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH). This denatured alcohol is of two types: type a (completely denatured alcohol) and type b (special denatured alcohol). Type b ethyl alcohol is very common for industrial uses. Further, industrial alcohol or denatured alcohol is made by similar processes as for food-grade alcohol.