kenya chemical is one of the biggest Sodium hydrosulfite distributors, manufacturers, exporters, and suppliers in Fujairah, Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait, kenya. We are supplied to various industrial markets including Household, Institutional Cleaning, Personal Care, and Industrial sectors including Oil fields, chemical, Animal feed additive, Food additive, Agrochemical, Fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, Minerals, Lubricants, Marine Industry, Metal Working chemical industry, and Coatings markets.
Sodium dithionite (also known as sodium hydrosulfite) is a white crystalline powder with a weak sulfurous odor. Although it is stable in dry air, it decomposes in hot water and in acid solutions.
Chemical industry textile grade sodium hydrosulfite SHS 85% 88% 90% is a white sand crystal or light yellow powder. The infusible powder is insoluble in ethanol, soluble in sodium hydroxide solution, reacts violently with water, and burns.
The aqueous solution of the insurance powder is unstable in nature and has a strong reducing property, belonging to a strong reducing agent. It is easily exposed to oxygen in the air and oxidizes. At the same time, it easily absorbs moisture and degenerates, and it can seize oxygen in the air and give off a pungent sour taste.
Application :
1. Widely used in the textile industry for vat dyeing, reduction cleaning, printing and stripping, textile bleaching.
2. It is also used in bleaching paper pulps, especially mechanical pulps, it’s the most fittable bleaching agent in pulps.
3. It is used in bleaching kaolin clay, fur bleaching and reductive whitening, bleaching of bamboo products and straw products,
4. It is used in minerals, the compound of thiourea, and other sulfides.
5. It is used as a reducing agent in the chemical industry.
6. Sodium hydrosulfite food additive grade is used in foodstuffs, as bleaching agent and preservative dried fruits, dried vegetable, vermicelli, glucose, sugar, rock sugar, caramel, candy, liquid glucose, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and canned mushrooms.
Sodium Hydrosulfite/SHS Application
(1) Sodium Hydrosulfite/SHS is widely used in the textile industry for reducing dyeing, reducing cleaning, printing, and decolorizing, and for the bleaching of fabrics such as silk, wool, and nylon. Since it does not contain heavy metals, the fabric after bleaching is very bright and not easy to fade.
(2) Sodium Hydrosulfite/SHS can also be used for bleaching foods, such as gelatin, sucrose, candied fruit, and bleaching of soaps, animal oils, bamboo utensils.
(3) Sodium Hydrosulfite/SHS can also be applied to organic syntheses, such as dyes, pharmaceuticals as reducing agents, or bleaches.
(4) Sodium Hydrosulfite/SHS is the most suitable bleach for wood pulp.
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