Liquid Aluminum Sulfate
When water pours from a faucet, customers anticipate a clear, odorless, colorless liquid with no noticeable taste. Bell Chem, a water treatment product and chemical supplier, is recommended to bring water closer to what is regarded as potable water.
Liquid aluminum sulfate removes phosphorus, total organic carbon, biochemical oxygen demand, and suspended solids. It also buffers water by negating its charge and bringing it closer to a neutral pH of 7. As it flocculates small, floating particles of phosphorus, the heavier precipitate filters to the base of the container to be filtered out, a process known as sedimentation. The remaining water is less turbid and significantly clearer.
In a similar manner, liquid aluminum sulfate benefits freshwater lakes and ponds as it flocculates phosphates and other nutrients necessary for the growth of algae. When algae no longer have a source of food, the rate of algal blooms is greatly reduced.
The acidic component of chicken litter falls significantly with the addition of liquid aluminum sulfate in poultry houses. The resulting odor is much less pungent.
In paper mills, liquid aluminum sulfate stabilizes the pH of the water bath, controls the pitch, removes impurities, and catalyzes rosin sizing.
In dye production, liquid aluminum sulfate acts as a mordant as it fixes dyes to both hard and soft surfaces.
Other interesting uses of liquid aluminum sulfate include foam in fire extinguishers, baking soda, the production of soap and deodorants, in fertilizer as a soil additive, and in the manufacture of major league baseball covers, giving the ball a tough, durable hide.
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