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 70 to 80 million tons per year
