INDUSTRIAL SALT (SODIUM CHLORIDE)

Salt is the common name for the substance sodium chloride (NaCI), which occurs in the form of transparent cubic crystals. Although salt is most familiar as a food supplement, less than 5% of the salt produced in the United States is used for that purpose. About 70% is used in the chemical industry, mostly as a source of chlorine. Salt is also used for countless other purposes, such as removing snow and ice from roads, softening water, preserving food, and stabilizing soils for construction.

The earliest humans obtained their salt from natural salt concentrations, called licks, and from meat. Those people who lived near the ocean may have also obtained it by chewing seaweed or from the natural evaporation of small pools of seawater. Meat became a more important source of salt as hunting was developed, as did milk when sheep, goats, horses, camels, reindeer, and cattle were domesticated. Even today, certain peoples—such as the Inuit of the far north, the Bedouin of the Middle Eastern deserts, and the Masai of east Africa—use no other form of salt.

As agriculture developed, leading to an increased population and a diet consisting mostly of plants, it became necessary to devise ways of obtaining salt in greater amounts. The earliest method of salt production was the evaporation of seawater by the heat of the sun. This method was particularly suited to hot, arid regions near the ocean or near salty lakes and is still used in those areas. Solar evaporation was soon followed by the quarrying of exposed masses of rock salt, which quickly developed into the mining of underground deposits of salt. Two thousand years ago the Chinese began using wells to reach underground pools of salt water, some of which were more than 0.6 miles (1.0 km) deep.

INTRODUCTION
CHEMISTRY OF SODIUM CHLORIDE
RAW MATERIALS
USES AND APPLICATION
BIS SPECIFICATION & INTERNATIONAL STANDARD
PROPERTIES & CHARACTERISTICS
OCCURRENCE OF SALT
MARKET SURVEY
WORLD DEMAND OF SALT
IMPORT & EXPORT STATISTICS OF SALT IN EUROPEAN UNION
GLOBAL PRODUCTION OF SODIUM CHLORIDE
PRESENT MANUFACTURE OF INDUSTRIAL SALT (SODIUM CHLORIDE)
METHOD OF SALT MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF INDUSTRIAL SALT (SODIUM CHLORIDE)
PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM
METHOD OF PROCESSING TO MANUFACTURE SODIUM CHLORIDE
NOVAL SODIUM CHLORIDE PRODUCTION PROCESS
RAW MATERIAL CALCULATION
PLANT LAYOUT
PRINCIPLES OF PLANT LAYOUT
PLANT LOCATION FACTORS
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN THE PROJECT REPORT
SUPPLIERS OF PLANT & MACHINERIES
FILTER PRESS
SUPPLIERS OF PLANT AND MACHINERIES (IMPORTED)
SUPPLIERS OF RAW MATERIALS

APPENDIX – A :

1.      COST OF PLANT ECONOMICS
2.      LAND & BUILDING
3.      PLANT AND MACHINERY
4.      FIXED CAPITAL INVESTMENT
5.      RAW MATERIAL
6.      SALARY AND WAGES
7.      UTILITIES AND OVERHEADS
8.      TOTAL WORKING CAPITAL
9.      COST OF PRODUCTION
10.      PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS
11.      BREAK EVEN POINT
12.      RESOURCES OF FINANCE
13.      INTEREST CHART
14.      DEPRECIATION CHART
15.      CASH FLOW STATEMENT
16.      PROJECTED BALANCE SHEET