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    <schemaVersion>X0306</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4/A</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2019-08-15</periodOfReport>

    <dateOfOriginalSubmission>2019-08-19</dateOfOriginalSubmission>

    <notSubjectToSection16>0</notSubjectToSection16>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000081362</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>QUAKER CHEMICAL CORP</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>KWR</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001783821</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Bijlani Jeewat</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>QUAKER CHEMICAL CORPORATION</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>ONE QUAKER PARK, 901 E. HECTOR STREET</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>CONSHOHOCKEN</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>PA</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>19428-2380</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>SVP - Managing Director, Ams.</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <derivativeTable>
        <derivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Employee Stock Option (right to buy)</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>154.92</value>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2019-08-15</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>2421</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0.00</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F2"/>
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            <expirationDate>
                <value>2025-02-26</value>
            </expirationDate>
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                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </derivativeTransaction>
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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Employee Stock Option (right to buy)</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>154.92</value>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
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                <value>2019-08-15</value>
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            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
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            <transactionAmounts>
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                <transactionPricePerShare>
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            <exerciseDate>
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            <expirationDate>
                <value>2026-02-25</value>
            </expirationDate>
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                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Common Stock</value>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">The exercise price of the employee stock option was inadvertently omitted on the reporting person's original Form 4.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">This award represents time-based restricted stock and stock options granted to the reporting person for the 2018-2020 Performance Period under the Company's 2016 Long-Term Performance Incentive Plan. The restricted stock vests on February 26, 2021 and the stock options are exercisable in three installments:  807 shares at grant; 807 shares on February 26, 2020; and 807 shares on February 26, 2021.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">This award represents time-based restricted stock and stock options granted to reporting person for the 2019-2021 Performance Period under the Company's 2016 Long-Term Performance Incentive Plan. The restricted stock vests on February 25, 2022 and the stock options are exercisable in three consecutive annual installments:  842 shares on February 25, 2020; 842 shares on February 25, 2021; and 842 shares on February 25, 2022.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Victoria K. Gehris, Attorney-in-Fact for Jeewat Bijlani</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2019-08-19</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
