Sulphites
Sulphites sources of sulphur
dioxide gas in dry or liquid form. 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 dioxide 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 as an antichlor in water-treatment
and desalination plants, in the reduction of waste
water in the chrome-plating industry, as a preservative
in the manufacture of trinitrotoluene (TNT), as
a bleaching agent in pulp mills, in leather treatment,
in power plants and pulp mills for scrubbing sulphur
dioxide gas, as an oxygen scavenger in low-pressure
boilers and in the manufacture of detergent, sodium
thiosulphate and photographic chemicals.
Birlasulf®
SM sodium metabisulphite
Sodium metabisulphite, also known as sodium pyrosulphite,
is a white-to-yellowish, soluble crystalline powder
with the odour of sulphur dioxide and is 65.5
per cent sulphur dioxide by weight. It is a strong
reducing agent.
Some of its major applications are as a preservative
in the starch and food industry, to control melanosis
(black spot) in shrimp, for fermentation in the
wine industry, as an antichlor in the chemical
industry and as a redox catalyst in the acrylic
fibre 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 that is 34– 36 per cent sodium metabisulphite
or approximately 23–24 per cent sulphur dioxide
by weight. It has the odour of sulphur dioxide
and is a strong reducing agent.
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