Potassium chloride is widely used for drilling and processing fluids for oil and gas well perforation and killing. Clay minerals present in soils adversely affect well performance and cause swelling and undesirable changes in the formation permeability. Potassium chloride inhibits swelling and clay dispersion ensuring a better cement/formation binding.
Feed-grade Potassium chloride is a natural source of readily available potassium (K) and chloride (Cl), which are the key macronutrients for any animals and must be included in everyday feed. Potassium is required for ion exchange in animal bodies, plays an important role in acid-base balance and neurotransmission, and acts as an enzyme activator or enzyme cofactor. Potassium deficiency results in poor appetite and poor weight gain.
Muriate of Potash (MOP) is the most widely used and the most concentrated (min 60% K2O) source of potassium for plants. It is suitable for all types of soils and crops that are tolerant to chloride-containing fertilizers. Depending on the level of agricultural development, farmers apply MOP manually or with mechanical spreaders. Granular MOP is also used as a component in fertilizer blends. Granular MOP produced by Uralkali is similar in grain size to nitrogen and phosphate...
Standard MOP is a basic source of potassium for production of complex granular fertilizers. Complex granular NK, PK(S) and NPK(S) fertilizers contain several macronutrients in a given proportion. This form of fertilizers is very popular with farmers as it is ready for direct application to the soil. For producers of complex fertilizers, we offer Standard White or Pink MOP of 60 or 62% K2O.
Besides conventional fertilizer application by spreading, muriate of potash (MOP) can be applied as a water-soluble fertilizer through irrigation water. This method of supplying nutrients to plants is called ‘fertigation’.
Potassium chloride is widely used in metallurgy as an additive to hardening and soldering salts and as smelting salts and drossing fluxes in the foundry industry. High-purity reagents ensure desired metal properties.
Potassium chloride is used as an electrolyte for metal galvanization in weak acids. This method is one of the most convenient for improving metallic properties of final products. Its simplicity, cost-effectiveness and reliability make the galvanization extremely popular.
Potassium chloride is used for the production of premium chloride-free potassium nitrate fertilizer. Dissolved potassium chloride is reacted with a nitrate-containing substance, e.g. ammonium nitrate or sodium nitrate. To ensure the required purity of potassium nitrate, it is necessary to use completely water-soluble hot-leach and low-impurity MOP produced by Uralkali.
Potassium chloride is a common raw material for membrane electrolysis production of potassium hydroxide (KOH). Potassium chloride pellets produced by Uralkali were specifically developed for this industrial market. Due to high chemical purity and the absence of anticaking agent treatment this product meets all the raw material requirements for membrane electrolysis. Using of Uralkali potassium chloride assures the production of high purity potassium hydroxide.
Fine MOP is a basic raw material to produce potassium sulphate (SOP) using the Mannheim process, where potassium chloride reacts with sulphuric acid at 600-700°C in a muffle furnace. SOP is used in a powder or granular form primarily in agriculture as a chloride-free fertilizer. Due to its grain size, White Fine MOP produced by Uralkali reacts effectively and completely with sulphuric acid, while the low content of impurities in White Fine MOP ensures production of high purity SOP.
