Quicked Lime
Quick Lime, chemically known as Calcium Oxide, is a highly reactive inorganic compound widely used in steel manufacturing, water treatment, construction, chemical processing, and industrial applications. It provides excellent alkalinity and purification properties. Its high calcium content, rapid reactivity, and dependable performance make it suitable for various commercial and manufacturing applications.
Quicklime : (or calcium oxide or burnt lime) is obtained by calcining pure limestone at temperature above 9000C.
This highly reactive product is essential to many industrial processes. Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.
It is a white, caustic, alkaline, crystalline solid at room temperature.
The broadly used term lime connotes calcium-containing inorganic materials, in which carbonates, oxides and hydroxides of calcium, silicon, magnesium, aluminium, and iron predominate.
Industrial Applications Include : Steel Making, FGD, Construction, Masonry & Mortars, Water Treatment, Chemical Processes, Mining Industry, sugar industry, Paper, Pulp and PCC, Remediation of Sludges and Wastes and Glass Manufacturing
CaCO3(s) -> CaO(s) + CO2(g)
The quicklime is not stable and, when cooled, will spontaneously react with CO2 from the air until, after enough time, it will be completely converted back to calcium carbonate unless slaked with water to set as lime plaster or lime mortar.