Sulphites
Sulphites are the source of sulphur
dioxide gas in dry or liquid forms. Aditya Birla
Chemicals manufactures BIRLASULF®-SS
(Sodium Sulphite), BIRLASULF®-SM
(Sodium Metabisulphite) and BIRLASOL®-35
(Sodium Bisulphite) in technical, food, and photo
grades.
Birlasulf®-SS,
Sodium sulphite
Sodium sulphite is a white, odourless soluble
crystalline powder with a sulphur di oxide content
of around 49.5 per cent by weight. The solution
is alkaline in nature.
It is used in a wide variety of applications some
of which are, for water treatment and desalination
plants as an antichlor, for the reduction of waste
water in chrome plating industry, as a preservative
in Tri Nitro Toluene (TNT) manufacture, as a bleaching
agent in pulp mills, Detergent and leather, for
the manufacture of sodium thiosulfate, in power
plants and pulp mills for scrubbing sulfur dioxide
gas, as an oxygen scavenger in low pressure boilers
and in the manufacture of photographic chemicals.
Birlasulf-SM®,
Sodium metabisulphite
Sodium metabisulphite, also known as sodium pyrosulphite,
is a white to yellowish, soluble crystalline powder
with an odour of sulphur di oxide, containing
around 65.5 per cent of sulphur di oxide by weight.
It is a strong reducing agent.
Some of its major applications are, as a preservative
in starch and food industry, to control Melanisis
(black spot) in shrimps, for fermentation in wine
industry, as an antichlor in chemical industry
and as a redox catalyst in acrylic fiber industry.
Sodium metabisulphite is also used as a reducing
agent in the purification of aldehydes and ketones,
for the manufacture of sulphonated oil and sulphonated
resin, for the detoxification of cyanide in Gold
Ore processing plants and in the manufacture of
photographic chemicals.
Birlasol®-35,
Sodium bisulphite
Sodium bisulphite, also known as sodium hydrogen
sulphite, is a clear, colourless to yellowish
solution containing 34 to 36 per cent sodium metabisulphite
or approximately 23 to 24 per cent sulphur di
oxide by weight. It has an odour of sulphur di
oxide. It is a strong reducing agent.
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