Potassium Formate 75% Solution

Potassium Formate 75% can be used as a concentrated component in formate-based drilling-fluid systems. The final drilling-fluid performance depends on reservoir conditions, fluid composition, additives, target density and field-testing results. Perstorp identifies drilling and completion fluids as a principal application of Potassium Formate 75%.

Specific Use Scenarios

• Water-based drilling-fluid formulation
• Shale-inhibition systems
• Clear or low-solids brines
• Horizontal and extended-reach wells
• High-temperature drilling-fluid programs
• Offshore and environmentally sensitive operations
• Brine-density adjustment at blending plants

The liquid grade can be used in the preparation of selected completion and workover fluid systems where clean, predictable and solids-controlled brine performance is required.

It may be considered for:

• Well completion brines
• Workover fluids
• Well-control fluids
• Formation-sensitive operations
• Fluids requiring reduced chloride content
• Operations where rapid liquid blending is important

The customer’s technical team should verify formation compatibility, corrosion control, elastomer compatibility and the required brine density before field use.

Potassium Formate 75% may be used as a concentrated raw material for preparing secondary cooling and heat-transfer fluids.

Potential application areas include:

• Industrial refrigeration
• Cold-storage systems
• Food-processing refrigeration systems
• HVAC secondary circuits
• Process cooling
• Low-temperature circulation systems
• Ground and pavement temperature-control systems

The final heat-transfer formulation should include suitable corrosion control and be tested against the metals, seals, pumps and other materials present in the system. Potassium formate is commercially identified as a raw material for secondary heat-transfer fluids.

Potassium Formate 75% can be used as a concentrated base material for manufacturing liquid de-icing and anti-icing formulations.

Potential formulated products include:

• Road de-icers
• Bridge and tunnel anti-icing fluids
• Parking-area de-icers
• Industrial-site winter-maintenance fluids
• Logistics-yard de-icers
• Airport-side winter-maintenance formulations

For airport runway, taxiway or apron applications, the finished de-icing product—not merely the raw potassium formate—must meet the applicable performance, corrosion and aviation requirements. Certified commercial liquid runway deicers are formulated products and may comply with SAE AMS 1435.

Potassium Formate 75% may also be used in selected industrial processes, including carbon-black production and specialty chemical formulations.

Potential customers include:

• Carbon-black manufacturers
• Specialty-fluid formulators
• Chemical-blending companies
• Industrial-process chemical distributors
• Manufacturers requiring a concentrated potassium formate solution

Carbon-black additive and industrial-fluid applications are included in commercial potassium formate product documentation.

Where the product grade, impurity profile and local regulations are suitable, potassium formate may be evaluated as a potassium source in selected foliar, fertigation and specialty crop-nutrition formulations.

Potential applications include:

• Liquid potassium fertilizer formulation
• Fertigation products
• Foliar-nutrition products
• Specialty nutrient blends

Low-chloride potassium formulation