Industrial Applications for Sodium Borohydride

Paper and Pulp

The largest market for Sodium Borohydride solution is in the paper industry where it is used in the manufacture of reductive bleach to brighten magazine and newsprint grade paper.

Pharmaceuticals Industry

The fastest growing market for Sodium Borohydride is in the synthesis of many prescription and OTC drugs used for the treatment of hypertension, depression, allergies and is finding wider acceptance in the development of many new pharmaceutical products.

Organic Chemical Purification

Sodium Borohydride is used to improve color, odor and stability of many organic chemicals by reducing aldehydes, ketones, peroxides and metals that create carbonyl impurities in fine chemical compounds.

Metal Recovery

Sodium Borohydride is effective in reducing metal ions back to their free metal state and has been used as a tool to remove metals such as silver, copper, and nickel from chelated wastewater streams for environmental and economic purposes.

Textiles

Sodium Borohydride is useful in the removal of color from textile fabrics and dye wastewater streams when used in combination with Sodium Bisulfite.

Fuel Cell Technology

Sodium Borohydride is more than 10% by weight Hydrogen and produces more than 20% by weight Hydrogen when decomposed in the presence of water. Hydrogen is the energy source of choice in many fuel cell applications thus Sodium Borohydride is proving very useful as a carrier for Hydrogen.