USES AND

APPLICATIONS OF LIME
 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Agriculture
Increases fertilizer efficiency
Neutralize soil acidity

Soil stabilization
can be used to stabilize soil in wet, boggy conditions to allow earthworks to
continue

Food Industry
reacted with crude sugar juice for the production of both cane and beet
sugars
an ingredient in baking soda and helps keep fruit and vegetables fresh
 METALS INDUSTRY
Metals Extraction Industry
serves as a "flotation" vehicle in the recovery of copper, mercury, zinc,
nickel, lead, gold and silver

Aluminum industry
helps remove silica from bauxite ore during the manufacture of alumina

Steel Industry
is used as a flux for purifying steel and for removal of phosphorous, sulfur
and silicon impurities
lubricates steel rods as they are drawn through dies to form wire
prevents ingots sticking to the molds during pig iron casting
neutralizes traces of pickling acid adhering to steel products
 LEATHER AND PAPER
INDUSTRIES
Leather Industry
dehairing agent in leather

Paper Manufacture
recover caustic soda during the conversion of wood chips to pulp
bleaches the pulp and also dissolves non-cellulose components of
straw and disintegrates its fibers during the manufacture of
strawboard and pasteboard
 WATER AND ENVIRONMENT
Sewage treatment
reduces pollution by removing organic matter, phosphates and nitrogen from waste
water
prevents over vegetation in streams and lakes, controls odors from waste ponds
and precipitates heavy metals

Water and Wastewater Treatment

neutralizes acid wastes
removes silica, manganese, fluorides, iron and other impurities from water
softens water

Air Pollution Control

used to absorb sulfur dioxide from exhaust gases in smelters and power generation
plants
 CONSTRUCTION
Building industry
is used in the manufacture of lime silica bricks, insulation and building board
materials
is also used in the mortar to lay bricks and the render of walls
also added to concrete and plaster to improve their performance
mixed with an active form of silicon (either ground silica sand or pulverized fuel
ash), sand, water, aluminum powder and, depending on the quicklime quality,
cement to make aerated concrete

Road construction
converts unstable clay subgrades by breaking down clod formations
creates soil that will not swell or shrink
can provide a cementing action that stabilizes soil into a steadfast layer
impervious to water penetration
 CHEMICAL PRODUCTION

Calcium carbide production

Reacts with coke in a furnaces which are heated electrically to 2000 C

Glass production
Ingredient in glass production