kenya chemical is one of the Sodium sulfate distributors, manufacturers, exporters, and suppliers of 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, Agriculture, Lubricants, Marine Industry, Metal Working chemical industry, and Coatings markets.
Sodium sulfate (also known as sodium sulfate or sulfate of soda) is the inorganic compound with the formula Na2SO4 as well as several related hydrates. All forms are white solids that are highly soluble in water. With an annual production of 6 million tonnes, decahydrate is a major commodity chemical product. It is mainly used as a filler in the manufacture of powdered home laundry detergents and in the Kraft process of paper pulping for making highly alkaline sulfides.
The largest use is as filler in powdered home laundry detergents, consuming approx. 50% of world production. This use is waning as domestic consumers are increasingly switching to compact or liquid detergents that do not include sodium sulfate.
The glass industry provides another significant application for sodium sulfate, as the second-largest application in Europe. Sodium sulfate is used as a fining agent, to help remove small air bubbles from molten glass. It fluxes the glass and prevents scum formation of the glass melt during refining.
Food industry
Sodium sulfate is used as a diluent for food colours. It is known as E number additive E514.
Small-scale applications
In the laboratory, anhydrous sodium sulfate is widely used as an inert drying agent, for removing traces of water from organic solutions. It is more efficient but slower-acting than the similar agent magnesium sulfate. It is only effective below about 30 °C, but it can be used with a variety of materials since it is chemically fairly inert. Sodium sulfate is added to the solution until the crystals no longer clump together; the two video clips (see above) demonstrate how the crystals clump when still wet, but some crystals flow freely once a sample is dry.
Uses of Sodium Sulphate
Sodium sulfate is used to dry organic liquids.
As a filler in powdered home laundry detergents.
As a fining agent which removes small air bubbles from molten glass.
Glauber’s salt, the decahydrate was used as a laxative that removes certain drugs such as acetaminophen from the body.
For defrosting windows, in carpet fresheners, starch manufacture, as an additive to cattle feed.
In the manufacture of detergents and in the Kraft process of paper pulping.
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