Description
Vinci dioxide, a two
component system is an innovative product to generate pure Chlorine
Dioxide onsite. Purity without any byproducts like chlorite and
chlorates puts Vinci dioxide as a frontrunner in most disinfection
and sanitation applications where other chlorine dioxide products
fail. Vinci dioxide is a very effective and remarkable biocide that
can kill legionella plus a wide range of bacteria, fungus, moulds
and other microbes.
Advantages:
- Virtually **0% pure
- No risk
of explosion
- No
taste, no odors
- Very
effective against legionella plus a wide range of bacteria, algae,
fungi, yeast moulds salmonella, listeria. e.coli, and
shigellaand other microbes and
Pathogens
- Practically does not contains almost no THM’s AOX,
Mutagen X (Carcenogenic)
- Requires very simple dosing and measuring
equipment.
- Reduces
bacteria that cause food spoilage, therefore increasing shelf life
and saving money.
- Works
at wide range of PH (***0)
- Reduces
turbidity by oxidizing bacterial residues
- Micro
organisems cannot built resistance aganist chlorine
dioxide
Applications:
- Disinfection of potable water
- Industrial waste water
treatment
- Food
processing( meat, chicken, sea food & fruits and
vegetable)
- Aqua
culture, hatcharies and processing
- Poultries, Hatcharies, surface sanitation and
drinking water
- Paper
and pulp bleaching and waste water treatment
- Cooling
tower and heat exchange
- Odour
control in paper, sugar mills and petrochemical
refineries
Overview of Chlorine Dioxide
(ClO2)
The
compound chlorine dioxide (ClO2), now commercially important, is
not in fact a recent discovery. The gas was first produced by
Humphrey Davy in ***1 when reacting hydrochloric acid with
potassium chlorate. This yielded "euchlorine", as it was then
termed. Watt and Burgess, who invented alkaline pulp
bleaching in ***4, mentioned euchlorine as a bleaching agent in
their first patent. Chlorine dioxide then became well known
as a bleach and later a disinfectant. Since the beginning of
the twentieth century, when it was first used at a Spa in Ostend,
Belgium, ClO2 has been known as a powerful disinfectant of
water. The production of ClO2 from the chlorate is
complicated however, and the gas is explosive, so that it could not
be easily utilized practically until the production of sodium
chlorite by Olin Corporation in ***0. Chlorine dioxide could
now be released when necessary from the chlorite salt. In
municipal water supplies this is usually done by adding chlorine to
the chlorite solution, and in the laboratory by adding an acid to
the chlorite solution. Alliger showed in ***8, ,that ClO2
could be applied topically by the individual
user.
Although ClO2 is a strong
oxidizing agent and a particularly fast disinfectant, there are no
reports in the scientific literature of toxicity by skin contact or
ingestion, or moreover of mutagenicity. It would seem that
effective application of this compound as a topical medication for
skin diseases,,as a disinfectant on food, as well as a cold
sterilant on instruments and glassware, is long
overdue.
ClO2 in some respects is
chemically similar to chlorine or hypochlorite, the familiar
household bleach. However, ClO2 reactions with other organic
molecules are relatively limited as compared to chlorine.
When ClO2 is added to a system – whether a wound or a water supply
– more of the biocide is available for disinfection and not
consumed by other materials., Until ***3 hypochlorite was a
standard product of the British Pharmacopoeia (for skin
medications), and burn patients even now are bathed in hypochlorite
solution at some U.S. burn centers. However, for many reasons
ClO2 makes a likely substitute for the better known
hypochlorite since it is far less toxic and irritating when applied
to the human body. ClO2 for example, does not hydrolyze
to form HCl as does chlorine, but remains a true gas dissolved in
solution. ClO2, unlike chlorine or hypochlorite, does not
form chlorinated hydrocarbons when in contact with organic matter,
or readily add to double bonds. This is a prime concern since
many chlorinated hydrocarbons are known to be carcinogenic.
Of the amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, only aromatic
amino acids and those containing sulfur react with ClO2. When
hypochlorite is applied to the skin, nitrogen trichloride is
formed, a compound which appears in trace quantities but is toxic
and irritating. Also, hypochlorite in swimming pool water
produces chloramine, an eye irritant, and in wastewater,
chloroform. Lastly, unlike hypochlorite or chlorine,
ClO2 can treat water at about *0 ppm with no harmful effects
to fish. The LC*0 for rainbow trout at *6 hours is **0
ppm. For this reason ClO2, rather than chlorine, is favored
in commercial aquarium water, especially in mammal
tanks.
Residuals of available chlorine
in effluents from sewage treatment plants, including the
hypochlorite ion and chloramines, adversely influence aquatic life
in receiving waters **-the potential adverse effects both on the
public health and on aquatic ecosystems due to increased exposure
to chlorinated compounds suggests that the use of chlorine relative
to other available techniques for the treatment of sewage and other
waste-waters must be reevaluated.
At
the time of World War I, when Dakins Solution (0.5% hypochlorite)
gained fairly wide acceptance as a wound disinfectant,
ClO2 was not similarly adopted as there was, again, no easy
way to produce the gas in small quantities, or to transport
it. The application of ClO2 to the body is still not
practiced, nor does it seem particularly obvious that it can
be. The gas needs to be released or "activated", normally
done with strong acids or chlorine just before use. This
process appears somewhat unattractive therefore as a disinfectant
in the lab or as a home remedy for the skin. Further, once
ClO2 is activated, shelf life is normally on the order of
hours.
