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General
- The chemical compound
sodium alginate is the sodium salt of alginic acid.
- Sodium alginate has
no discernable flavor.
- The alginate polymer
itself is anionic (i.e., negatively charged) overall.
- Alginates belong to
the class of products known as hydrocolloids.
Extraction
- Alginates are
extracted from brown seaweed and are available in sodium, ammonium and
potassium derivatives.
- Its form as a gum,
when extracted from the cell walls of brown seaweed .
- A blend membrane of
sodium alginate and “konkoli” gum-g-polyacrylamide (KG-g-PAAm) can be
developed for bioremediation of wastewater.
Uses
- Sodium alginate is a
good chelator for pulling radioactive toxins such as iodine-131 and
strontium-90 from the body.
- Sodium alginate is
used as a food additive, especially in the production of gel-like foods.
- Sodium alginate is
the most popular of the dye thickeners.
- Sodium alginate works
as a cold gelling agent that needs no heat to gel.
Market
- Total world
production of alginates is difficult to determine but, according to data
supplied to us by Alginate Industries Limited, appears
currently to be about 22,500 tonnes per annum.
- The sodium alginate
market caused ISP Alginates to reduce harvests by about 50 percent.
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