Oxychem manufactures caustic soda using either membrane or diaphragm electrolytic cells.
Caustic soda storage tank material.
Caustic soda solution is highly corrosive and can be hazardous to personnel.
Also known as caustic soda or liquid lye sodium hydroxide is used to adjust ph in water and wastewater treatment and in the manufacture of chemicals rayon cellophane pulp and paper aluminum detergents soaps and a wide range of other products.
The weight of 50 caustic soda solution is 1 5 times that of an equal volume of water.
Stainless steel and other alloys can also be used.
Oxychem does not use mercury based electrolytic cells to produce caustic soda.
Caustic soda sodium hydroxide or naoh is most commonly manufactured by the electrolysis of a sodium chloride nacl solution.
Since impurities especially sodium carbonate tend to concentrate at the top or bottom of the container dipping caustic from the surface will not provide a representative sample.
This will contain iron sodium carbonate and when mercury rayon grade is stored mercury.
To be representative the sample must include material from every level of the tank car or tank truck.
Recommendations are for storing caustic solutions in polyethylene storage tanks rated to 1 9 specific gravity and solution temperatures retained beneath 100 f.
The viscosity of 50 caustic soda solution increases rapidly when its temperature falls below 65 f 16 c.
Schedule 80 pvc or cpvc fittings epdm gaskets and stainless steel bolts are recommended sodium hydroxide storage tank component materials.
Bulk storage tanks of 50 caustic can be made from mild steel if iron pick up is not a concern to the process.
What i am asking is whether caustic embrittlement and stress corrosion cracking will be a issue with the caustic at this temperature and concentration.
Fiberglass tanks and the storage of caustic soda november 19 2013 in blog liquid caustic soda is corrosive.
Test the atmosphere in the tank for oxygen and mercury vapour before entering.
The caustic naoh solution will be stored in the tanks at 70 c and at 300 g l which are made out of mild steel as149.
The product is shipped in tank trucks railcars barges and ships.
Caustic soda sodium hydroxide solution 5 51 following prolonged storage in metal tanks a black sludge will collect at the bottom of the tank.
Sodium hydroxide polypropylene tanks.
The caustic soda solution is inventoried in storage tanks prior to shipment.
Home chemical storage sodium hydroxide defying a chemical that finds leaks.
