Caustic soda, also known as lye, has a wide variety of applications including candle making, homemade bio diesel, food preparation, soap making, and various chemistry experiments. We also provide it to the petroleum industry where they use it as an additive in drilling mud to increase mud viscosity and neutralize any acid gases as the drilling progresses.
What is Caustic Soda
Uses Of Caustic Soda
- Chemical manufacturing
- neutralizing agent in petrol. refining
- textile processing
- pulp and paper
- soaps
- vegetable oil refining reagent
- reclaiming rubber
- food additive; pH control
- solvent for colorants
- processing aid; etching and electroplating
- boiler water treatment, coagulation, corrosion/scale control
- rayon