Does Chlorine Dioxide have any uses other than municipal water treatment?
Chlorine dioxide is used extensively as a bleaching agent in the pulp and paper industry. In fact, in order to minimize the environmental effects of the bleaching process, ClO2 is rapidly becoming the chemical of choice. Chlorine dioxide is also being used as a disinfectant agent in the food industry for fruit and vegetable washing, flume water disinfection, meat and poultry disinfection, food process equipment sanitizing water and for odor control. In industrial processes, ClO2 is used in industrial water treatment (cooling systems/towers), ammonia plants, pulp mills (slime control, paper machines), oil fields, scrubbing systems/odor control, textile bleaching and the electronic industry. Chlorine dioxide is also being applied to medical wastes.
