Potash / Potassium Chloride (KCL) Fertilizer for Industrial Use
Potash / Potassium Chloride (KCL) As Fertilizer and For Industrial Use. Potassium chloride is one of the essential nutrients, which is absorbed by crops in large quantities. This nutrient is indispensable for plant growth, increasing production and improving the quality of crops.
The Salar de Atacama is a source of underground brines containing lithium and potassium found under the salt surface crust. Salar brines are located in the nucleus of the Salar de Atacama. From this natural resource Albemarle produces lithium carbonate, lithium chloride, potassium chloride, and magnesium chloride.
- Encourage water retention
- Improves resistance to freeze damage
- Increase turgor
- Aid photosynthesis
- Increase root development
- Decrease plant stress
- Improve resistance to diseases and pests
In addition to its use as a fertilizer, potassium chloride is important in industrialized economies, where it is used in aluminum recycling, by the chloralkali industry to produce potassium hydroxide, in metal electroplating, as an oil-well drilling fluid, in snow and ice melting, steel heat-treating, and water softening.
Fertilizer
Potash (potassium chloride) is commonly used as fertilizer in the agricultural industry to enhance the productivity and the ability to grow healthy plants.
It improves water retention, yields, nutrient value, taste, color, texture and disease resistance of food crops. It has wide application to fruit and vegetables, rice, wheat, and other grains, sugar, corn, soybeans, palm oil, and cotton, all of which benefit from the nutrient’s quality-enhancing properties.
Potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen are the three most important nutrients applied to crop growth. Among other nutrients, potassium is found to occur naturally in soils.
Other Applications and Markets
Potassium chloride is important in industrialized economies, where it is used
- in aluminum recycling,
- in the chloralkali industry to produce potassium hydroxide,
- in metal electroplating,
- as an oil-well drilling fluid,
- in snow and ice melting,
- in heat-treatment of steel,
- and water softening.