Technical gas lump sulfur has a wide range of uses in the chemical,
agricultural, medical, food, paper, rubber industries, will be used
in the production of fertilizers, matches and gunpowder, dyes.
Relatively new areas of production and construction, including road
construction, deserve special attention. Here, lump sulfur is used
for the production of black foam and high-strength building
structures. In particular, in the production of sulfur concrete and
sulfur asphalt. Most of the lump sulfur produced in the world is
used as a raw material for the industrial production of sulfuric
acid.
Lump sulfur is extracted from compounds contained in natural gas,
in particular, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide. Global sulfur
production ranges from *0 to *0 million tons per year