Product Introduction
Potassium Chloride, with the chemical formula KCl, is a key inorganic compound. It exists as colorless cubic crystals, white granules, or powder in its pure form. It has strong water solubility, and its aqueous solution is neutral. As an essential source of potassium, it plays a critical role in agricultural fertilizer production, industrial manufacturing, and other fields, providing a vital nutrient for crop growth and serving as a raw material for chemical processes.
Product Specification
Potassium Chloride
Item |
Test Standard |
Test Result |
Appearance |
Powder/granular |
Powder/granular |
K2SO4 |
99%min |
99.3% |
K20 |
50%min |
52.6% |
Moisture |
1.5%max |
0.95% |
CL |
1.5%max |
1.5% |
S |
17%min |
18% |
Free Acid(H2SO4) |
1.5%max |
1.45% |
PH |
3-5 |
4.5 |
Water Soluble |
100% |
100% |
Heavy Metal |
0.01%max |
0.002% |
Calcium |
0.1%max |
0.04% |
Iron(Fe) |
0.1%max |
0.02% |
Packaging & Shipping
Product Application
- Agricultural Field (Main Application):
- Potassium Fertilizer: As the most widely used potassium - containing fertilizer, it provides potassium ions (K+) needed for crop growth, promoting photosynthesis, enhancing crop stress resistance (drought, disease, lodging resistance), and improving yield and quality. For example, in potassium - deficient soils, applying potassium chloride to crops like rice, corn, and fruits can significantly increase yields.
- Compound Fertilizer Raw Material: Mixed with nitrogen, phosphorus fertilizers (such as urea, diammonium phosphate) to prepare NPK compound fertilizers, meeting the comprehensive nutrient needs of crops and simplifying fertilization operations.
- Industrial Field:
- Chemical Raw Material: Used to produce other potassium compounds (such as potassium hydroxide, potassium sulfate), and as an electrolyte raw material in electroplating, metallurgy industries, playing a role in conducting electricity and providing potassium ions.
- Food Industry: Food - grade potassium chloride can be used as a salt substitute (reducing sodium intake) in low - sodium salt products, and as a food additive to regulate the electrolyte balance of products (such as in sports drinks, canned foods).
- Medical Field: As a potassium supplement drug raw material, used to prepare potassium chloride injections, oral solutions, etc., for treating hypokalemia and supplementing potassium for patients with insufficient potassium intake.
- Other Fields: Used as a snow - melting agent in winter road maintenance (lowering the freezing point of water to accelerate snow melting, less corrosive to roads than sodium chloride in some cases); also applied in sewage treatment to adjust the potassium ion concentration in wastewater and maintain the microbial growth environment.
In summary, potassium chloride, with its diverse application scenarios and significant roles, is an important industrial and agricultural basic raw material, making contributions to agricultural production, industrial manufacturing, and people's daily lives.