There are several advantages to employing chlorine dioxide for water treatment. For more than fifty years, this chemical has been known to be a superior and effective disinfectant for water. Early on it's use, it was primarily used for disinfecting potable water. However, now it is used as an agent to control odour and tastes, to manage manganese and iron and to control phenolic and sulfide compounds.
Chlorine dioxide disinfects by means of oxidation, but it doesn't chlorinate. It is a molecule that is very small, active and has elevated atomic energy. It is a dense and reddish-yellow gas that is mainly used as whitener or bleach and a disinfecting compound.
It can become volatile and create cause for alarm or danger. This is due to the fact that if not handled and stored correctly it can become agitated due to it's instability. Consequently becoming quite a hazardous gas.
It has been passed and endorsed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This is because it is regarded to be friendly to our environment. This compound is often used in place of chlorine as chlorine has been shown to create carcinogenic by-products.
This chemical can be used in the disinfection of drinking water or the in the pre-treatment of it. There are also various benefits to using it, such as exclusive disinfection, prevention of nitrification in chloramine systems and in comparison to chlorine gas it improves safety.
It is great for use with the treatment in water used in both industrial or commercial and community and residential water treatment systems. It is also great for use in much smaller water systems like hospital or health care facility water systems. It has been proven to be the best agent to attack and destroy the germ responsible for Legonnaires' disease as well.
All in all chlorine dioxide is a great product that can be used in place of the classical chlorine chemicals.
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