Application Scope:
- Used in the production of paper and cellulose pulp.
- Employed in the production of soap, synthetic detergents, synthetic fatty acids, and refining of animal and vegetable fats and oils.
- Utilized in the textile printing and dyeing industry as a scouring agent, boiling agent, and silk gloss agent.
- In the chemical industry, it is used in the production of borax, sodium cyanide, oxalic acid, phenol, etc.
- In the petroleum industry, it is used for refining petroleum products and in oil well drilling muds. It is also used in the surface treatment of aluminum oxide, zinc metal, and copper metal, as well as in glass, enamel, tanning, and dye industries.
- Food-grade sodium hydroxide is used in the food industry as a neutralizing agent, a depilatory agent for citrus fruits, peaches, etc., as well as a cleanser for empty bottles, cans, and as a decolorizing and deodorizing agent.
- It can also be used as an alkaline desiccant. Sodium hydroxide has extensive applications in the national economy, and many industrial sectors require it. For example, in papermaking, aluminum refining, tungsten refining, artificial silk, artificial cotton, and soap manufacturing industries. Additionally, in the production of dyes, plastics, and organic intermediates, the recycling of old rubber, the production of metallic sodium, electrolysis of water, and the production of inorganic salts such as borax, chromium salts, manganese salts, phosphates, etc., large quantities of sodium hydroxide are also used.
- In cosmetics creams, sodium hydroxide and stearic acid serve as emulsifiers in saponification, used to manufacture snow creams, shampoos, etc.
