Industrial Uses of Caustic Soda Flakes

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Industrial Uses of Caustic Soda Flakes
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Caustic Soda Flakes

• Caustic soda flakes or sodium hydroxide flakes is
  a white solid mass which is hygroscopic and
  highly soluble in water and alcohol.
• Caustic Soda Flakes is mainly used for
• Manufacturing of pulp and paper
• Water treatment
• Soap and detergents
• Chemical production and petroleum products.
• Moreover, other applications include food,
  textiles, metal processing, mining, glass making,
  etc.

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Chemical Industry

• Caustic soda is used for basic chemical
  industrial production such as preparing metallic
  sodium sodium dichromate, acid neutralization,
  manganese carbonate and production of organic
  fibers and resins.

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Textile Industry

• In textile, the caustic soda is mainly used for
  making chemical fibre, printing and dyeing
  clothes. The caustic soda is also used for
  producing manmade fibers

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Caustic Soda in Soap Detergents

• Caustic Soda is an essential part of soap making.
  Both caustic soda and triglyceride are chemically
  transformed during the saponification reaction
  creating soap and glycerin.

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Petroleum Products

• Caustic soda flakes are used as a caustic wash
  for removing mercaptans and other sulfur
  compounds from petroleum products.

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Bleach Manufacturing

• Caustic soda is used in the production of
  silicates and metasilicates, silicas, phosphates,
  fibres, detergents, soaps, bleach and food
  processing.

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Water Treatment

• Here, it's used for water treatment to check if
  the water is acidic or not. The Sodium carbonate
  and Sodium hydroxide raise the potential of
  hydrogen in water to near neutral when injected
  into a water system.

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Conclusion

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  soda manufacturers in Middle East,
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