Product
Hydrochloric Acid
Hydrochloric Acid (30–33%) is a strong mineral acid used for steel pickling, ion-exchange regeneration, oil well acidising, pH control and chemical manufacture.
- Grades / forms
- 30–33%
- Documents
- TDS · SDS to view and download
Overview
Hydrochloric acid is a solution of hydrogen chloride gas in water, commonly sold at 30–33% concentration. It is mostly co-produced in chlor-alkali and chlorination plants. It is a strong, fast-acting acid whose chloride salts are almost all water-soluble, which makes it ideal for cleaning and dissolving jobs.
Steel mills use it to pickle away mill scale before galvanising or cold rolling. Water treatment plants use it to regenerate cation exchange resins and to adjust pH. Oilfields pump diluted, inhibited blends down wells to dissolve carbonate rock and improve flow. It also goes into food processing, gelatin, calcium chloride and many other chemicals.
Applications
- 1Steel pickling before galvanising and rolling
- 2Regeneration of ion-exchange resins
- 3Oil and gas well acidising (stimulation)
- 4pH control in water and effluent treatment
- 5Calcium chloride, gelatin and chemical manufacture
- 6Descaling of industrial equipment
Specification
- Total Acidity (As HCl) (% by Mass)
- 33.0% Min.
- Iron as Fe (PPM)
- Max 10
- Sulphite (As SO₂) (% by Mass)
- Nil
- Free Chlorine (PPM)
- Max 50.00
- Heavy Metals (as Pb) (PPM)
- Nil
- Mercury (As Hg) (PPM)
- Nil
- Residue on Ignition (% by Mass)
- Max 0.1
- Baume Gravity at 15.5/15.5°C
- 17 to 20.8
- Ammonium Compounds as NH₄ (% by Mass)
- Nil
- Arsenic as As (% by Mass)
- 0.0002% Max
Specification as stated on our Technical Data Sheet, which you can download below.
Documents
PDF documents from our quality records.
Packing & storage
Packing
- 35 kg HDPE carboys
- 250 kg HDPE drums
- 1000 L IBCs
Storage & handling
Corrosive and fuming. Store in HDPE, FRP or rubber-lined tanks with fume scrubbing, away from metals, alkalis and hypochlorite (contact releases chlorine gas). Ships as UN 1789, Class 8.
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- SDS in destination format
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- Private label packing
Questions
Hydrochloric Acid, answered.
Matrix acidising usually uses about 15% hydrochloric acid, prepared by diluting 30–33% acid with water and adding corrosion inhibitors, iron control agents and surfactants. Higher or lower strengths are used depending on the formation.
Yes. Hydrochloric acid ships as UN 1789, Class 8 (corrosive), Packing Group II, in UN-approved carboys, drums or IBCs.
HDPE, FRP with a suitable resin liner, PVC and rubber-lined steel are used for hydrochloric acid. It attacks carbon steel and most stainless steels, so metal storage is unsuitable.
Yes. Cosmo Chemistry manufactures and exports Hydrochloric Acid from Surat, Gujarat, India to more than 55 countries, for customers in the water treatment, mining & oil drilling and basic industrial chemicals industries. Send your grade, quantity and destination port for a quotation within one business day.
Every shipment of Hydrochloric Acid from Cosmo Chemistry includes a batch-specific Certificate of Analysis (COA) and Safety Data Sheet (SDS). Certificate of Origin, third-party pre-shipment inspection and destination-specific regulatory documentation are arranged on request.
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