Actively expanding the ammonium chloride market may become the key to industry development

Ammonium chloride, referred to as ammonium chloride, also known as brine, is an inorganic substance with the chemical formula NH4Cl, which refers to the ammonium salt of hydrochloric acid and is mostly a by-product of the alkali production industry. Ammonium chloride contains 24%-26% nitrogen and is a colorless cubic crystal or white crystalline powder. It is easily soluble in water and ethanol, soluble in liquid ammonia, and insoluble in acetone and ether. Ammonium chloride is available in powdered and granular forms. Among them, granular ammonium chloride is not easy to absorb moisture and is easy to store, while powdered ammonium chloride is mostly used as a basic fertilizer for the production of compound fertilizers. As an important chemical product, ammonium chloride has a wide range of applications. At present, ammonium chloride is mainly used in dry batteries, storage batteries, ammonium salts, electroplating, precision casting, medicine and other fields.

At present, the main methods for producing ammonium chloride include recrystallization, metathesis, gas-liquid phase synthesis, combined alkali method, etc. Among them, the combined alkali method to produce ammonium chloride is a production method with Chinese characteristics. Alkali method is further divided into cold method and hot method. Since the successful start-up of the industrialized unit for the combined alkali process, the combined alkali process has developed rapidly in China, with its production capacity and technical level leading the world. At present, China’s largest ammonium chloride production companies include Sichuan Hebang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Hubei Shuanghuan Technology Co., Ltd., China Salt Inner Mongolia Chemical Co., Ltd., Huachang Chemical, Yuntu Holdings, etc. At this stage, there are many companies in the ammonium chloride industry, mainly concentrated in East China, North China, and Central China.

According to the “2022-2027 China Ammonium Chloride Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center, In recent years, with the continuous development of my country’s ammonium chloride industry and the continuous improvement of production technology in the industry, the production capacity of the ammonium chloride industry has increased significantly. Among them, in 2021, the output of China’s ammonium chloride industry will reach about 15 million tons. Moreover, China’s ammonium chloride production is dominated by dry ammonium, accounting for about 60% of the total, and wet ammonium production accounts for a smaller proportion.

Industrial researchers said that at present, ammonium chloride is mainly used to produce compound fertilizers. In the future, as the compound fertilizer industry moves towards The development in the direction of high concentration and the decline in the output of low-concentration compound fertilizers may lead to a decrease in the demand for ammonium chloride. Therefore, actively expanding the ammonium chloride market will become the key to the development of the ammonium chloride industry.