Potassium Chloride

We are offering Potassium Chloride.
the chemical compound Potassium Chloride (KCL) is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine. In its pure state, it is odorless and has a white or colorless vitreous crystal appearance, with a crystal structure that cleaves easily in three directions. Potassium chloride crystals are face-centered cubic.
it occurs naturally as the mineral sylvite and in combination with sodium chloride as sylvinite
a white crystal or crystalline powder used in buffers; fertilizers; and explosives. It can be used to replenish electrolytes and restore water-electrolyte balance in treating hypokalemia.
consumption
• 94-95% as a fertilizer component (primary plant nutrient); and 5-6% industrial use for other potassium salts (phosphate, hydroxide, permanganate, bromate, iodate, carbonate, & sulfate) (1975)
• more than 90% of the potassium chloride produced is used in single- or multi-nutrient fertilizers, either directly or after conversion to potassium sulfate.the remainder has various industrial uses and is the raw material for the mfg of potassium and its compounds.about 5% of the potassium chloride production worldwide is used as an industrial chemical, mainly for the production of potassium hydroxide and chlorine by chloralkali electrolysis
methods of manufacturing
• extracted from bedded deposits of salts, or from concentrated surface and/or subsurface brines, followed by milling, washing, screening, flotation, crystallization, refining and drying
• potassium chloride is produced in large quantities from mined potash ores and from salt-containing surface waters.
• potassium chloride is produced at carlsbad, nm from sylvinite, and at trona, ca and saldura marsh, ut, from brines; and at saskatchewan, canada, by both the room-and-pillar method & soln mining
• potassium chloride is produced mostly from solid ores using conventional and solution mining techniques, /and/ solar evaporation of natural brine
• (1) mined from sylvinite deposits in new mexico and saskatchewan, purified by fractional crystallization or flotation; (2) extracted from lake salt brine's and purified by re crystallization
uses
it is sometimes used in water as a completion fluid in petroleum and natural gas operation
a very bulk use of potassium chloride is in mines and oil drilling mud and chemicals.