- High quality sodium activated bentonite designed to meet the requirements of API / OCMA specifications.
- In the preparation of drilling mud fluid for oil well drilling
- Important Characteristics –
- High Surface area
- High swelling and thixotropic properties
- Good plasticity and lubricity
- Low filter loss & High viscosity
- High shear and compressive strength
- Low compressibility
- High Water Absorption & Minimum Fluid Loss
- Some iron ore concentrates consist of finely divided particles and must be pelletized with a binder before they can be used as a blast furnace feed. The conventional binder is high swelling Bentonite.
- Sodium based bentonite serves as one of the most important bonding material in IOP applications
- Bentonite is having high bonding nature which collects all iron ore fines together as balls easy for transportation
- Bentonite in pellets:
- High Bonding strength-less consumption
- Good thermal Stability – less dead clay
- Improves the mechanical properties of the fired pellets, reducing the quantity of fine particles produced
- It prevents air blows, pin holes and other casting defects
- Sodium Bentonite with high swelling is used as foundry green sand binder for all kind of compaction (pressing, blowing, vibration etc.) and for all foundry metals and methods of casting
- High bonding strength
- It gives excellent ram ability with good permeability prevents air blows, pin holes and other casting defects
- Bentonite has got an excellent THERMAL properties due to its high resistance to heat. Gives good green compressive strength
- When hot iron slurry is poured in to the mold the Bentonite slurry will act as media & not to stick hot iron.
- Bentonite designed to meet the requirements of civil engineering applications, especially for Construction of large diameter bored
- Bentonite in civil engineering applications is used traditionally as it decreases viscosity over a time, support and lubricant agent in diaphragm walls and for permanent foundations.
- High Water Absorption & Minimum Fluid Loss
- High swelling and thixotropic properties
- Good plasticity , lubricity & High viscosity
- Bentonite is used due to its viscosity and plasticity character.
- Natural high swelling Bentonite is used to improve Pellet quality and durability, to reduce caking or crumbling of the feed. It improves the flow ability
- In cattle feed cake used as cake binder and ultimately will be a part of cattle feed
- It also is used as an ion exchanger for improvement and conditioning of the soil
- When thermally treated, it can be used as herbicides and pesticides
- Bentonite is used for cat litter, due to its advantage of absorbing refuse by forming clumps (which can be easily removed) leaving the remaining product intact for further use
- It also reduces the odor
- Bentonite is crucial to paper making, where it is used in pitch control.
- To improve the efficiency of conversion of pulp into paper as well as to improve the quality of the paper.
- Bentonite also offers useful de-inking properties for paper recycling. In addition, acid-activated bentonite is used as the active component in the manufacture of carbonless copy paper.
