Product code RXSOL-68-1436-025Category Metal Treatment

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Overview

Salt inhibited with the corrosion inhibitor resulting corrosion protection, as well as efficient heat transfer.

Product description

Salt inhibited with the corrosion inhibitor resulting corrosion protection, as well as efficient heat transfer. Heat Transfer Salt with the increased use of high-temperature operations, the chemical and petroleum process industries need an economical, efficient, heat transfer medium

Applications

Heat Transfer Salt kept in between steam and direct-fire heating.  Heat Transfer salt has low melting point  to create a molten salt bath also have high heat transfer rate and its proprietory blend of heat transfer salt is stable at high temperatures, and is non-corrosive to steel.  The salts are used for indirect heating and cooling or as quenching baths in the annealing of iron and steel.

Where it is used

Heat Transfer Salt Molten salts are also used in applications of solar power plants (CSP), where the salt can store heat obtained from sunlight for long periods of time. Some of these CSP systems flow the salt directly through the receiver tubing, where sunlight hits a parabolic mirror and concentrates the sunlight to a tube in which the salt flows. 
 
Other systems may use molten salts for preheating natural gas lines or keeping reactors hot by using the molten salt in the jacket around a tank. Salts also have relatively high latent heat capacity — similar to many of the phase-change waxes that are used today — and are sometimes used in phase-change applications. When salts melt, they absorb large amounts of heat, and when they freeze, they release large amounts of heat. By utilizing this phenomenon, it is possible to create advanced thermal storage or temperature-regulating systems, depending on the process.

Industries and related products

Molten salt is salt that is solid at standard temperature and pressure (STP) but enters the liquid phase due to elevated temperature. A salt that is normally liquid even at STP is usually called a room temperature ionic liquid, although technically molten salts are a class of ionic liquids.
 
Molten salts have a variety of uses. Molten chloride salt mixtures are commonly used as baths for various alloy heat treatments, such as annealing and martempering of steel. Cyanide and chloride salt mixtures are used for surface modification of alloys such as carburizing and nitrocarburizing of steel.
 
Cryolite (a fluoride salt) is used as a solvent for aluminium oxide in the production of aluminium in the Hall-Héroult process. Fluoride, chloride, and hydroxide salts can be used as solvents in pyroprocessing of nuclear fuel. Molten salts (fluoride, chloride, and nitrate) can also be used as heat transfer fluids as well as for thermal storage. This thermal storage is commonly used in molten salt power plants.
 
Molten salts, sometimes referred to as salt melts, are a family of products used for a wide range of applications like high-temperature process heating, heat treating and annealing of steel, and thermal storage in solar thermal power plants. These salts are composed of fluoride, chloride, and nitrate salts.
 
Molten salt By Product Type
 
Binary Molten Salt
Ternary Molten Salt
 
Molten salt Applications Type
 
Thermal Energy Storage
Chemical Industry
Metallurgical Production
 
 
 
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Dosage

Heat Transfer Salt with the increased use of high-temperature operations, the chemical and petroleum process industries need an economical, efficient, heat transfer medium that is between steam and direct-fire heating.  Sodium nitrite can be mixed with nitrate salts to create a molten salt bath.  It has a low melting point, high heat transfer rate, is stable at high temperatures, and is non-corrosive to steel.  The salts are used for indirect heating and cooling or as quenching baths in the annealing of iron and steel.

Also known as

Quadtherm Heat Transfer Salt

Notes

Now a days Uses of Molten Salts as a Heat Transfer Fluid and Thermal-Storage Medium is common. One of the most commonly used molten salts is a eutectic blend of sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate. 


Heat Transfer salts contains Nitrate  are stable and have low toxicity, but they are oxidizers. In the presence of fire or open flames, they can break down and liberate oxygen, providing a fuel source for the flame. Molten nitrate salts should be kept away from open flame, sparks and other sources of ignition. If proper precautions are taken, the salts should not pose any hazards.

Remarks

Why use Heat Transfer molten salts?

Heat Transfer Salt extend the upper range of the temperature limits in which a liquid heat transfer media can be used.

Where we supply

Oman. Stocked at our warehouse in Barka, South Al Batinah, and supplied to Muscat, Ruwi, Mutrah, Seeb, Rusayl, Barka, Sohar, Shinas, Saham, Buraimi, Nizwa, Ibri, Sur, Salalah, Duqm, Khasab and every other governorate.

Ports and free zones. Port Sultan Qaboos (Mutrah), Mina Al Fahal, Sohar Port and Freezone, Port of Salalah and Salalah Free Zone, Port of Duqm and the Duqm Special Economic Zone, Port of Sur, Khasab Port and Al Mazunah Free Zone.

Industrial areas. Rusayl, Sohar, Barka (Sanaya), Raysut (Salalah), Nizwa, Sur, Buraimi and Duqm industrial estates, Knowledge Oasis Muscat, and oil and gas sites across Oman.

Beyond Oman. We have branches in the UAE (including Fujairah) and in India (Kandla, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Chennai and Mumbai), and we also supply to South Africa.