Succinic acid is a useful dicarboxylic acid used in the synthesis of a number of chemical products and has been derived from petrochemical feed stocks or from bio renewables feedstocks. It is used as a raw material in the chemicals industry especially in the manufacture of detergents and soaps, the pharmaceutical industry, food processing and manufacture of personal products.

Sulfur is one of the elements in the periodic table and it has a symbol S and atomic number is 16. It is also present in forms such as; the free state, as in elemental sulfur, combined as sulfides and as sulfates and sulfites. Sulfur is involved in some vital activities in the body as it is an obvious component of amino acids the likes of cysteine and methionine which are vital for the formation of proteins. This is also applied extensively in several industries like sulphuric acid manufacturing, fertilisers and rubber goods in vulcanisation. Sulfur compounds are involved in environmental processes like the sulfur cycling and may thus be beneficial or have adverse effects depending of the ecosystem and the concentration level.