Granular

Description

Granular Urea commercial uses

– As a component of fertilizer and animal feed, it provides a relatively cheap source of fixed nitrogen to promote growth.

– As a raw material for the manufacture of plastics specifically, urea-formaldehyde resin.

– As a raw material for the manufacture of various glues (urea-formaldehyde or urea-melamine-formaldehyde). The latter is waterproof and is used for marine plywood.

– As an alternative to rock salt in the deicing of roadways and runways. It does not promote metal corrosion to the extent that salt does.

– As an additive ingredient in cigarettes, designed to enhance flavor.

– Sometimes used as a browning agent in factory-produced pretzels.

– As an ingredient in some hair conditioners, facial cleansers, bath oils, and lotions.

– It is also used as a reactant in some ready-to-use cold compresses for first-aid use, due to the endothermic reaction it creates when mixed with water.

– Active ingredient for diesel engine exhaust treatment AdBlue and some other SCR systems.

– Used, along with salts, as a cloud-seeding agent to expedite the condensation of water in clouds, producing precipitation.

– The ability of urea to form clathrates (also called “loose compounds” host-guest complexes, inclusion compounds, and adducts) was used in the past to separate paraffins.

– As a flame-proofing agent.

– As a clean burning fuel for motor vehicles and stationary engines.

– As a NOx-reducing reactant in diesel exhaust.