Potassium chloride reduction

Thus potassium is obtained by heating potassium chloride with sodium, and barium by reduction of barium oxide with aluminium. 

Several methods are available for producing thorium metal it can be obtained by reducing thorium oxide with calcium, by electrolysis of anhydrous thorium chloride in a fused mixture of sodium and potassium chlorides, by calcium reduction of thorium tetrachloride mixed with... 

Prepared saltwater completion fluids are made of fresh surface water, with sufficient salts added to produce the proper salt concentration. Usually, the addition of 5 to 10% NaCl, 2% CaClj, or 2% KCl is considered satisfactory for clay inhibition in most formations. Sodium chloride solutions have been extensively used for many years as completion fluids these brines have densities up to 10 Ib/gal. Calcium chloride solutions may have densities up to 11.7 lb/ gal. The limitations of CaClj solutions are (1) flocculation of certain clays, causing permeability reduction, and (2) high pH (10 to 10.5) that may accelerate formation clays dispersion. In such cases, CaC12-based completion fluids should be replaced with potassium chloride solutions. Other clear brines can be formulated using various salts over wide range of densities, as shown in Figure 4-123 [28]. 

Polar organic solvents readily precipitate exopolysaccharides from solution. The solvents commonly used are acetone, methanol, ethanol and propan-2-ol. Cation concentration of the fermentation liquor influences the amount of solvent required for efficient product recovery. In the case of propan-2-ol, increasing the cation concentration can lead to a four-fold reduction in die volume of solvent required to precipitate xanthan gum. Salts such as calcium nitrate and potassium chloride are added to fermentation broths for this purpose. 

Cation and anion contaminant reduction. This technology uses a mixed-bed of acrylic and ceramic beads, with potassium chloride as a regenerant. 

Even very small amounts of calcium provide a desirable decrease in the Na/Ca ratio. Prior studies indicating potassium chloride totally negates permeability reduction may have utilized water that contained some small amount of calcium ion to measure KC1 solution permeability. A second factor, which might explain the lack of KC1 damage reported in prior studies is a low ionic concentration, especially calcium, in the water used to equilibrate the cores prior to the KC1 tests. 

Binary Compounds. The thermodynamics of the formation of HfCl2, of HfCl4, fused sodium and potassium chlorides have been described. The reduction of ZrXj (X = Cl, Br, or I) with metallic Zr or A1 in molten AICI3 has been studied at temperatures from 250 to 360 °C, depending on the halide. The electronic spectra of the initial reaction products were consistent with either a solvated Zr complex or an intervalence Zr "-Zr" species. Further reduction resulted in the precipitation of reduction products which were identified by analysis and i.r., electronic, and X-ray powder diffraction spectra. The stability of the trihalides with respect to disproportionation was observed to increase from chloride to iodide thus ZrC and ZrCl2,0.4AlCl3 were precipitated, whereas only Zrlj was formed. ... 

Electrolytic reduction and thermal decomposition have not yet been apphed in large scale commercial methods. Electrolysis of alkali or alkaline earth borates produces boron in low purity. Electrolytic reduction of fused melts of boron trioxide or potassium tetrafluroborate in potassium chloride yield boron in high purity. Also, boron tribromide or boron hydrides may be thermally dissociated hy heating at elevated temperatures. 

Lithium metal is produced commercially by electrolysis of a fused eutectic mixture of hthium chloride-potassium chloride (45% LiCl) at 400 to 450°C. The eutectic mixture melts at 352°C in comparison to the pure LiCl melting at 606°C. Also, the eutectic melt is a superior electrolyte to LiCl melt. (Landolt, P.E. and C. A. Hampel. 1968. Lithium. In Encyclopedia of Chemical Elements.C. A. Hampel, Ed. Reinhold Book Corp. New York.) Electrolysis is carried out using graphite anodes and steel cathodes. Any sodium impurity in hthium chloride may be removed by vaporizing sodium under vacuum at elevated temperatures. All commercial processes nowadays are based on electrolytic recovery of the metal. Chemical reduction processes do not yield high purity-grade metal. Lithium can be stored indefinitely under airtight conditions. It usually is stored under mineral oil in metal drums. 

Chemical reduction processes are employed nowadays in commercial, as well as, laboratory preparation of potassium. In one such process, molten potassium chloride is reduced with sodium at 760 to 880°C and the free metal is separated by fractionation ... 

Praesodymium metal can be obtained from its anhydrous halides by reduction with calcium. The metal also may be prepared by electrolysis of fused praesodymium chloride at elevated temperatures (about 1,000°C). Alternatively, an eutectic mixture of praesodymium chloride, potassium chloride, and sodium chloride may be electrolyzed. In such electrolysis graphite is the anode and tungsten the cathode. 

As evaporation proceeded, sodium chloride began to precipitate and later potassium chloride and potassium sulfate. The mother liquor then contained the iodides of sodium and postassium, part of the sodium chloride, sodium sulfate, sodium carbonate, cyanides, polysulfides, and some sulfites and hyposulfites resulting from the reduction of sulfates during calcination. 

The reaction was carried out in approximately 2.5Af potassium chloride medium, slightly acidic to prevent hydrolysis. The rate is both pH and chloride independent. This surprised us because we first expected this to be reduction of hydrogen ion. 

Reduction of the sodium chloride level can result in taste problems and flavour shifts. There are several approaches to maintain salt taste. Most often, potassium chloride is used, because it shows the most prominent salty taste of those applicable inorganic salts. Lithium chloride is the most salty salt but cannot be used for toxicological reasons. Most consumers, however, complain about the bitter, chalky taste of KCl-containing formulations. Development of sodium-reduced products using mineral salts is a challenge and the whole product formula has often to be adapted [25]. Therefore, the main focus of the research was the search for masking compounds or technologies to cover the bad taste of KCl, e.g. phenolic acids and derivatives [26] and lactisol [27]. 

The general methods for the production of the alkali metals are (1) Electrolytic processes involving the electrolysis of (a) the fused hydroxide, or (b) a fused salt— chloride, nitrate, cyanide, etc. (2) Chemical processes involving the reduction of hydroxide, or carbonate, or other salt with carbon, metal carbide, iron, calcium, magnesium, aluminium, etc. W. Spring 5 claims to have reduced a little potassium chloride by passing hydrogen over the salt at a red heat. 

Pour the solution obtained in reduction into a conical flask preliminarily filled with carbon dioxide and heat the reaction mixture in a stream of carbon dioxide in a water bath during an hour. Introduce 35 g of potassium chloride into the hot solution in small portions and evaporate the solution up to one-third of its volume. Close the flask with a rubber stopper and let it stand in the cold overnight. 

Amphotericin B is nephrotoxic in most patients and often causes a permanent reduction in the glomerular filtration rate. Furthermore, hypokalemia may occur, requiring the oral administration of potassium chloride. 

Tecator [20] has described a flow injection system for the determination of nitrate and nitrite in 2 mol/1 potassium chloride extracts of soil samples. Nitrate is reduced to nitrite with a copperised cadmium reductor and this nitrite is determined by a standard spectrophotometric procedure in which the soil sample extract containing nitrate is injected into a carrier stream. Upon the addition of acidic sulfanilamide a diazo compound is formed which then reacts with N-(l-naphthyl)ethylcncdiamine dihydrochloride provided from a second merging stream. A purple azo dye is formed, the intensity of which is proportional to the sum of the nitrate and the nitrite concentration. Nitrite in the original sample is determined by direct spectrophotometry of the soil extract without cadmium reduction. 

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