Aqua Bond offers potassium carbonate in different concentrations and powder format that covers many different industries. The main two markets are glass and cleaners. Potassium Carbonate is used mainly in the glass industry with 44% used for video glass and 10% for speciality glass and ceramics. The other 46% is described below in a variety of markets.
Potassium Carbonate 47% Soln. has been used for ages in making soaps and detergents. It has been used as an acidity regulator, buffering agents in many foods; bakery goods, soft drinks, confectionery, custard powder, mead and wine. Also in the food industry it is used as leavening agent in baked goods, debittering agent for cocoa beans, alfalfa drying, brewing beer, oriental noodles and additive in drying raisins. Potassium Carbonate is used for many organic synthesis. It is used as a fertilizer for acid soil as a micronutrient source. It is used as dye pigments (inks, dry colours, dyeing textiles, and printing fabrics) in the printing trade and the textile industry. The pharmaceutical industry uses it as a raw material and auxilliary. It is also used as electrolyte, flame retardants, in cooling brine, oxidizing/reducing agent, corrosion inhibitors and anti-scaling agent, as well as adsorbent and absorbent for the removal of carbon dioxide and other acid gases in potassium carbonate solution.
Potassium Carbonate 47% Soln.has a variety of different applications in the plating industry as plating agents and surface treating agents. In cadmium and silver plating Potassium Carbonate 47% Soln. adds to the conductivity of the bath and increases anode and cathode polarizations, which aids in increased throwing powder. Copper parts that are electroplated in cyanide bath are subjected to anodic pickling, which includes potassium carbonate in solution.
