Product Overview
Potassium Bicarbonate FCC USP Grade is a dry, water-soluble potassium salt (KHCO₃, CAS 298-14-6) stocked and shipped from our Taylor, TX warehouse. Buyers use it where two things matter at once: a mild, controllable source of alkalinity and a clean source of potassium ions. That combination puts it in pharmaceutical formulation rooms, food production lines, water-treatment plants, and agricultural blending operations. It is not classified as hazardous under GHS based on available data (per the product's GHS classification), which makes it one of the easier alkalinity sources to receive, store, and dose compared with hydroxides.
Also sold under the names Potassium Hydrogen Carbonate and Kalium Bicarbonate. If a spec sheet or recipe calls for either synonym, this is the same material.
Why This Concentration
This is a USP Grade product. In practice, that grade designation is the purchasing decision: it signals the material is supplied to compendial-quality expectations, which is what pharmaceutical, food, and other regulated buyers need to pass incoming QC and defend their own audits. A technical-grade bicarbonate might work in a boiler room, but it will not survive a pharma or food-plant document review.
Pick this grade when your process feeds anything ingestible, when your quality system requires lot-level documentation, or when trace contamination would scrap a batch. Because it ships with a lot-specific Certificate of Analysis, your QC lead can verify the received lot against your specification before it enters production rather than after.
Chemical Profile
Potassium bicarbonate carries the formula CHKO₃ (commonly written KHCO₃) with a molecular weight of 100.115, under CAS 298-14-6. We supply it as a dry powder in solid form. It is soluble in water, which is the property most buyers are paying for: it dissolves readily into a mild alkaline solution without the handling burden of a caustic. One practical note from the warehouse floor — as a bicarbonate salt it will pick up moisture from humid air, so keep containers closed between uses and plan pack sizes around your actual draw-down rate.
Industrial Applications
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Pharmaceutical buffering: maintains pH in formulations where a gentle, well-characterized alkalinity source is required and grade documentation is mandatory.
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Food production: functions as a leavening agent and pH regulator in food products; the FCC/USP designation is what lets it into a food plant in the first place.
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Water treatment: raises and stabilizes pH in treatment processes with far less overshoot risk than a hydroxide, simplifying dosing control for operators.
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Agriculture: supplies potassium to soil and crop programs as a readily soluble potassium source.
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Laboratory work: serves as a reagent in chemical reactions and analyses where a defined bicarbonate is called for.
Across all of these, the working principle is the same: dissolve, dose, and let the bicarbonate buffer the system. It resists both acidification and runaway alkalinity, which is why operators reach for it when pH stability matters more than raw alkaline strength.
Handling & Storage
This product is not classified as hazardous under GHS based on available data (per the product's GHS classification) — there is no signal word or hazard statement assigned. Treat it with standard industrial-dust discipline anyway: wear gloves and safety goggles, ventilate the work area to avoid inhaling dust, and wash up after handling.
Store it cool and dry, out of direct sunlight, in HDPE or glass containers to prevent contamination. Keep it away from strong acids (which will react with the bicarbonate) and oxidizing agents. Reseal containers promptly — moisture uptake is the main way this material degrades in storage, not chemical instability.
Hazmat & Shipping
Canonical transport status is not regulated. Review the current SDS and carrier requirements before shipment.
Documentation
Every order ships with a Safety Data Sheet, available in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese. A lot-specific Certificate of Analysis accompanies the material so your QC team can verify the exact lot received, and a Technical Data Sheet is available for full product specifications. If your quality system needs the documents before the freight arrives, ask — we send them ahead.
Why Buy from Alliance Chemical
We are a chemical distributor that ships daily from Taylor, Texas — this material sits on our shelves, gets packed by our crew, and leaves on today's trucks, not a drop-shipper's timeline. Orders range from 2 lb jars for bench and pilot work up to 50 lb production packs, all packed to DOT-compliant standards by people who handle regulated freight every day. Shipping and handling guidance on this page is reviewed by Andre Taki, DOT Hazmat Specialist. When your line is down to its last pail, that operational discipline is the difference between a delivery date and an apology.
