FloMag H Magnesium Hydroxide

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Product Information

FloMag products are non-hazardous, environmentally-friendly, safe and cost-effective treatment options for alkalinity addition and pH adjustment of waste streams.

FloMag® H magnesium hydroxide slurry’s minimal requirements for safe handling, storage and use make it the smart choice for wastewater treatment versus caustic soda or lime. FloMag greatly reduces sludge compared to lime-treated sulfate systems and caustic treated heavy metal systems for reduced disposal costs. In addition, FloMag H Magnesium Hydroxide buffers to a maximum pH of 9 in most wastewater streams, making biomass damaging pH excursions less likely. (Lime and caustic soda can easily reach a pH of 12 and 14 respectively). FloMag H offers price stability relative to historical caustic soda price volatility.

Magnesium hydroxide provides 37% more alkalinity than caustic soda and 27% more alkalinity than hydrated lime on a per dry pound basis. However, it is on a delivered product basis that magnesium hydroxide demonstrates its superiority to the other alkalis. The data in Table 1 in this attachment shows the advantages of either FloMag®H over 50% caustic soda and 34% hydrated lime slurry. FloMag H provides 13.38 lbs of CaCO3 equivalent alkalinity per gallon. Caustic soda delivers only 7.43 lbs of CaCO3 equivalent per gallon while hydrated lime provides 4.68 lbs of CaCO3 equivalent per gallon. FloMag H provides 80% more alkalinity per gallon when compared to caustic soda and 2.9 times more than hydrated lime. Other benefits of magnesium hydroxide slurry are that it buffers to a pH of about 9.0, is much safer to handle than caustic soda, and does not scale equipment like hydrated lime. These benefits combined make magnesium hydroxide slurry superior to caustic soda and hydrated lime when selling into the wastewater treatment industry. Municipal wastewater treatment plants that are currently using caustic soda and hydrated lime to provide alkalinity during nitrification would be good candidates for conversion to magnesium hydroxide.

Monson supplies FloMag H in drum, tote and bulk shipments.