Sodium carbonate monohydrate dehydration

In 1993, the world capacity for sodium peroxoborate hexahydrate (tetrahydrate) was about 900,000 metric tons, of which about one-third was converted to the dehydrated compound (monohydrate). At the then prevailing prices, the total value of this business was about 6 x 10 . The world capacity for sodium carbonate peroxohydrate (percarbonate) was about 60,000 metric tons, valued at about 70 x 10 . ... 

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