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Chemical industries, and if you want to know the importance of chemical industries you are in the right place. 

Chemical industries

Chemical industries are the place where raw materials are converted into required products or chemicals. Here question arises what are chemicals. 

The answer is that chemicals are refined and purified substances obtained by the elements or compounds scattered on the earth's surface and atmosphere. For example, minerals, ores,  fossil fuels, and air components are purified this way, we get metals, salts, coal, petroleum, oxygen, noble gases... These refined products are chemicals that are used to make specific products.  

So in chemical industries complex processes, and operations are applied to chemicals to manufacture the new products or chemicals.

For example in the production of petroleum chemicals,

 fractional distillation is carried out it involves many operations. In this way petroleum products like natural gas, greases, gasoline, kerosene oil, naphtha, paraffin e.t .c  obtained. Then separation techniques are applied. After separation purification is done.

This way chemicals industries provide refined and purified chemicals or products.

Importance of Chemical Industries;

     

Any product that we use in our life from our food, clothes we wear, sachet water, the house we live in, and so on. Chemical industries play an important role in the economy of any country. It creates plastics, and polymers, that are used in many other products like clothing, electronics, home decor, furniture, wiring e .t. c. In addition to storage pipes, PVC pipes are obtained from plastics.
In the health sector chemicals industries are also providing assistance. Producing pharmaceutical products plays a vital role to improve health. Chemical industries are also doing research work about artificial human organs, gene mutation by chemicals, and biochemicals. This way the chemical industries are doing well to improve society's standards. 
Similarly, chemical industries are providing fertilizers; and pesticides. These are necessary to improve crop yields and kill pests.

Chemical industries have also provided food preservatives, flavors, and taste enhancers e t c. In this way, not only is the storage capacity of food increased but also the taste of food maintain.

Working level of Chemical industries

From a working point of view chemicals industries are divided into the following levels,

  • primary: These chemicals industries use raw materials like air, seawater, minerals, oils, animal fat, coal, cereals, proteins, lipids e .t. c. Then basic operations are applied to get chemicals like oxygen, and noble gases obtain from the air, metals are extracted from ores, salts are obtained from minerals. These chemicals are called primary chemicals.
  • Secondary: These chemicals industries perform operations, and processes,  on the chemicals obtained from primary level industries. Here further chemical reactions are performed to obtain the secondary level chemicals or products. For example, fatty acids are synthesized from fats and oils, petroleum products from fossil fuels, and oils e .t. c.
  • Tertiary: These chemicals industries require the chemicals synthesized by secondary level chemical industries. And tertiary level operations are applied to get the final products. For example in the synthesis of margarine hydrogenation of fatty acids is done in tertiary industries. 

 


Products: These days products of chemicals industries are divided into



  • Basic chemicals:/Products

  1. Chemicals derived from oils, fossil fuels like petroleum
  2. Polymers
  3. Basic inorganics

Specialty chemicals:/Products                                                                                                                      It includes chemicals for

  • Crop protection
  • Paints
  • Inks
  • Colorants
  • Chemicals used by industries like textile, paper, and engineering.

   Consumer Products/chemicals 

Consumer chemicals are sold to the public directly. For example,

  • Detergents
  • Soaps
  • Toiletries
  • Cosmetics
  • Fragrances e. t .c.                                                                                                                               

Types of chemicals industries: Based on chemicals products chemical industries show many types as




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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