Best Overall Cost

Purate® technology is sodium chlorate based, as compared to sodium chlorite, like
competing processes. Why does that matter? Sodium chlorite producers make sodium
chlorite form sodium chlorate. It involves an expensive process of producing
chlorine dioxide and then converting to sodium chlorite so that it can be reconverted
to chlorine dioxide at the users site. Eka simply produces the chlorine dioxide on
site for sodium chlorate, a sizable economic advantage.
How Does Purate® Do It?
Easy - 1 Step vs. 3 Steps
Purate® Process
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Step 1. |
Purate® (containing sodium chlorate) produces chlorine dioxide on site. |
Chlorite Process
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Step 1.
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Sodium chlorate is reacted with chemicals at the producers
site to make chlorine dioxide. |
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Step 2. |
The chlorine dioxide is reacted with hydrogen peroxide and sodium hydroxide at the producers site to make sodium chlorite. |
Step 3. |
The sodium chlorite is converted back to chlorine dioxide on site by reacting with more chemicals. |
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