The
calcium chloride from the chemical plant will be supplied mostly for the purposes of the markets of North and South America, Western Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
The company has received the contract to provide engineering and project management services for the construction of USD300m soda ash and
calcium chloride production facility in Jubail's Second Industrial City, the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
To decrease the consequences of corrosion caused by chlorides when spreading roads with these mixtures, already in the 1970's the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of USA identified the mixture of calcium magnesium acetates as the low-corrosion chemical, compared to chlorides, alternative to rock salts and
calcium chloride salts in a cold period of the year (Holleman, Wiberg 2001).
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calcium chloride.
That is then mixed with a
calcium chloride brine to treat roads in the winter.
The targeted end use market is initially automotive, with applications foreseen as charge air coolers, exhaust mufflers, turbo air ducts, engine mounts, resonators, cylinder head covers, oil pans, EGR coolers, oil modules, thermostats, transmission components such as front covers, and radiator end tanks where
calcium chloride resistance is essential to withstand road treatments.
TETRA's primary raw material to produce
calcium chloride is hydrochloric acid (HCl), which is a coproduct of other chemical processes.
Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, Tetra is the world's largest vertically integrated producer, marketer and distributor of
calcium chloride.
When the sodium alginate contacted the
calcium chloride, the calcium displaced the sodium and formed a network of bonds between chains of the polysaccharide, explains McQuade.
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