Products > Bleaching Earth > Applications
Broadly speaking Bleaching Earth finds use in following fields
- Refining of Vegetable oils
- Refining of hydrogenated Vanaspati ghee oils, Margarine & shortening
- Refining of Animal Fats like tallow oil, fish oil, lard oil
- Refining of Mineral Oils like
- Insulating oil
- Rolling oil
- Lube oil
- Waste oil
- Industrial triglycerides and fatty acids used for paints, varnishes and soaps
- Paraffins and Waxes
- Decolourising by removing colour pigments like carotenoids, chlorophyll, Pheophytine
- Removal of gums (phospholipids), FFA and soap contents and traces of heavy metals in vegetable oils
- Reducing and Controlling different oil parameters like Peroxide value, Anisidine value,
UV-absorption value.FFA contents etc.
- Purification of Aromatic Compounds in case of mineral oils & waxes and removal of Sulphuric acid, Tars acid, Sludge, Sulfonic acid etc.
- Other Applications like
- Bleaching of Sulphur
- In Effluent treatment plants
