Guar Gums becoming the bare essential for petrochemical industries worldwide

Guar Gums industry is largely produced in India, amounting to 80% of the total worldwide production. Haryana and Rajasthan are the states that aggressively cultivate the guar beansthen the dried beans are ground to produce the guar gums. The adhesiveness, thickening, emulsifying and binding properties they are heavily in demand in the naturalgas and oil extraction industry.

The exchange data from the Forward Market Commissions quotes that price for per quintal guar gums are fluctuating in the export market, from 92,090 to 71,970. Drugs, host of foods, fire retardant, explosives and paper as well as cosmetics industry benefits from the guar gum, in manufacturing various products.

In hydraulic fracturing consisting of water, sand and chemicals is important in the hydrocarbons from shale, in the oil and gas industry. The petrochemical industry is capitalizing on the effectiveness of these guar gums, as they have the high fracking properties, perfectly suitable for the industry.

The cost of guar gums has shot up around 800% since January 2011, as the petrochemical industry discovered its utility in oil extraction. Around 3 billion pounds of guar gum seeds were consumed in the year 2011, by the oil industry alone. The fracturing costs get a 5.5% contribution from guar gums, hence you could easily realise the effect it has on the market and the gas and oil retrieving sector.
It acts as the best and most cost effective agent for thickening and as it is natural, it has less adverse effects on the environment.

We see thousands of machines running in every sector of the industry and some equipment performs right in front of our eyes. Heat Exchangers work behind the scenes. These wonderful machines work, so that the household or industrial equipment it is built in to support, stays cool and up for performance.

Heat Exchangers work efficiently to transfer heat from one medium to the other, while both the media are kept separate through a solid wall to prevent them, getting in contact with each other. Air conditioning, space heating, chemical plants, refrigeration, petrochemicals and power plants make use of these heat exchanging machineries.

Sewage treatment and natural gas processing plants also use the technology of a heat exchanger.The best example of heat exchangers is the coolants in an internal combustion engine, where it flows through the radiator coils and air passes past the coils. As a result the incoming air is being heated and the coolant gets cooled on the process.

There are varieties of heat exchangers available in the market. We are going through some of them;

Plate heat exchanger, fluid heat exchanger, shell and tube heat exchanger, plate fin heat exchanger, HVAC air coils, spiral heat exchangers and direct contact heat exchangers are the major ones in the industry.

In refrigerators and air conditioning systems, heat exchanger is an integral part, when it breaks down the performance of the appliance drops down and the power consumption shots up. Compressors in both the above machines are the exchangers of heat, which keep them fit and active, save your electricity bill and make you a satisfied consumer.