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Can chlorine dioxide be used to disinfect swimming pools?

April 26, 2017chlorine DIOXIDE disinfect swimming pools Used

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Can chlorine dioxide be used to disinfect swimming pools?

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For swimming pool disinfection the combination of chlorine (Cl2) and chlorine dioxide (ClO2) can be applied. Chlorine dioxide is added to the water. Chlorine is already present in the water as hypochlorous acid (HOCl) and hypochlorite ions (OCl-). Chlorine dioxide breaks down substances, such as phenols. The advantages of chlorine dioxide are that it can be used at low concentrations to disinfect water, that it hardly reacts with organic matter, and that little disinfection byproducts are formed.