silica gel in the industrial applications

Silica gel in the industrial applications

Silica gel is the most common product in industrial applications. its use and applications are increasing day by day. It indicates that in the next 5 years, it will have a huge hype in the market. It is available in 3 colors commonly such as white, blue and orange. But the color indicating gels have an ability to change its color while absorbing moisture.

Blue, White, and Orange silica gels are diverse and cost-effective for various industrial applications to various industries where require the adsorption and removal of moisture elements during processing and packaging.

In the market, it is available a wide range of silica gel (indicating and non-indicating) which can be used in different industries based on their adsorbent requirement. High quality of silica gel (Non - indicating) which is non-toxic, non-flammable, organic, DMF free, and no hazardous for food and drug packaging products.

Another common name for silica gel is desiccant. In most places, it is known as a desiccant. but both are the same. For different applications, a different type of silica gel is available on the market. The purpose and content are the same for all the products. However, it is manufactured with little changes for different industrial applications.

The main purpose of all the types od desiccants is absorbing moisture from the surroundings of any products. It can not place in the open air. Because it will start absorbing moisture from the atmosphere at the time of removal of the lid. Therefore wherever we are seeing silica gel or desiccant, it should be inside the packets, cans or bags.

Regeneration of silica gel

Once silica desiccant is saturated with water, the indicating gel can be regenerated by heating it to 100-120 degrees Celcius for 1-2 hours. When it completely regenerated, they will regain all of its abilities as the new product. It can return to its original color also.

Moisture Absorbing Solutions

Moisture Absorbing Solutions

Absorbing moisture from the surface of a product is a type of safety process. In industries, the moisture-absorbing solution has a major role to protect their product. Whatever the product, to get a long life it should be moisture-free.

In the shipment processes, products should be safe in containers. In many cases, it will take many months to reach the destination. In this period it is not possible to check whether the product is safe or not by removing the covering. So we have to make sure our product is safe before the journey starts. That time desiccants can help us.

No need to worry about the type of good that you are going to ship, or the distance and climates of the journey, moisture-absorbing solutions will reduce the risk of damage to your products from humidity and condensation.

As the distance, the climate is also a big problem during shipment. If it is by fights or ships, the atmospheric differences will take place. Due to the climate or atmospheric change, there is a chance for getting disturbed by the packing products. Moisture inside the containers is the main issue to damage the products. The most common and the best in the industry are Clariant desiccant,  Clariant oxy-guard, and Clariant container Dri.

Therefore we have to make sure the product is free from moisture. We can use moisture-absorbing solutions for this purpose, like desiccant, oxy-guard or silica gel. These products are commonly used to absorb the moisture from the surface of the products. 

There should be a big loss if we did not care about this issue. For example, if one thousand containers worth 25 thousand dollars each experience a monetary loss of 3%, it means 750,000 dollars cargo loss. If it is 6%, the cargo loss will be 1.5 million Dollars. This is a huge loss. To avoid this, moisture-absorbing solutions are using commonly all over the world.