Advantages of Powders
- Can be up to 100% active
- Long storage stability
- Freeze/thaw stability
- High percentage of ionic components, water conditioners, alkalinity
- Many combinations possible without interactions
- Can incorporate bleaches or enzymes
Disadvantages of Powders
- Difficult to dispense
- Cakes on storage
- Slow to dissolve in use solution
- Messy, dusty, hazardous
- Can't use aqueous surfactants
- Segregation
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Advantages of Liquids
- Controlled dispensing
- Immediate solubility
- Cheaper raw materials
- Many surfactant choices
- Available in bulk for large volume users
- Easy to manufacture
Disadvantages of Liquids
- Maximum concentration 45 percent
- Requires coupling agents which add cost
- Requires viscosity modifier
- Viscosity and dispenser delivery vary with temperature
- Freeze/thaw stability problems
- Storage stability
- Lower possible water conditioning
- Spills-corrosion, dangerous mixtures
- Precipitation plugs lines
- High shipping cost
- Service of dispensers-tubes maintenance, metering tips, etc.
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Advantages of Solids
- Can be up to 100% active
- Long storage stability
- Freeze/thaw stability
- High percentage of ionic components, water conditioners, alkalinity
- Many combinations possible without interactions
- Can incorporate bleaches or enzymes
- Excellent dispensing
- Will not segregate
- Cost effective product formulation
- Controlled dispensing
- Many surfactant choices
- Neat, clean, nonhazardous, can't spill
- No unnecessary couplers, fillers
- No viscosity variation with temperature
- Fewer service calls
- Low shipping cost
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