What is sodium humate used for?

Sodium humate is a type of natural humic acid that is formed by the long-term decomposition and transformation of plant residues through the action of microorganisms. It is a complex of a large number of organic acids, quinones and other phenolic compounds. It is generally rectangular brown-black powder or granule, convenient to carry, for daily use, it can also be made into Sodium Humate Flake, and both shapes can be dissolved in water. It has good adsorption and complexation properties.

Sodium humate is applied to many aspects in our agricultural aspect:

Improve soil structure:Sodium humate can improve soil’s perfect structure, increase soil’s porosity, and promote soil’s permeability. So it’s convenient for air and water’s exchange.

Improve soil fertility: sodium humate can improve soil’s earth-holding capacity, healing-moisture capacity, promote soil’s stabilization, and it has rich nutrient elements which are good for plants.

Adjusted soil ph: sodium humate can alleviate soil’s acidication or alkalination situations. For example, for crops, most crops can grow well at the appropriate ph value. Applying sodium humate ph can keep fruit sweet, bright-colored, and hard; applying sodium humate ph can keep vegetables high nutritional and delicious; applying sodium humate ph can keep grains full, and enhanced the product quality. Suitable ph value can make plants accumulate specific nutrient and secondary metabolite. For example, plants like some medical plants, raising plants ph can make them produce natural medicine.

Sodium humate can stimulate plant roots to grow, promote crop root growth, improve plant nutrient absorption, reduce root rot bacteria, strengthen plant disease immunity, and increase output.

Regarding the industrial use, sodium humate can be utilized in the following applications:

Water treatment: sodium humate has a good flocculation effect and can make suspended particles, colloids and impurities in the water coagulate and precipitate, such as the treatment of printing and dyeing wastewater, which can make dye molecules and other substances congregate. It is easier for impurities to be treated separately.

Drilling fluid: sodium humate can be used in drilling fluid as an additive. It can reduce the viscosity and filtration loss of pellets, improve the stability and lubricity of pellets, reduce the resistance in the drilling process, and avoid wellbore collapse. For example, in the process of oil and gas drilling, it can be appropriate to add sodium humate to make the viscosity of the mud suitable to the conditions of different formations and improve the drilling speed.

Ceramic field: sodium humate can be added in the ceramic industry link. For instance, it can make the building or sanitary ceramics more plasticity and cohesiveness, thereby increasing the strength of the green body. It can also reduce the cracks in the shaping and drying process and firing, which can also increase the product yield.

Environmental protection: soil bioremediation, so that heavy metal contaminated soil reclamation, can be decomposed into toxic elemental biological reduction activity, reduce the impact of heavy metal pollution on the environment. Moreover, it can also reduce the amount of chemical fertilizer application and the use of pesticides.

Prospect and outlook of sodium humate applications

As more and more countries around the world attach importance to environmental protection and sustainable development, sodium humate because of its unique physical properties and strong chemical function cannot be ignored in soil improvement, especially for manufacturers at home. The existence of sodium humate will play a more and more important role in agriculture like all the effects mentioned above, because no one can ignore the ecological environment and healthy food. With the continuous improvement of science and technology in future, sodium humate production process will be more mature and its application in agriculture is gradually extensive. It is believed that sodium humate, as a beneficial auxiliary material resources, will be industrialized application in modern agriculture and helping to maintenance of human life cycle provides more security quality agricultural products.