Production of chlorine dioxide

摘要

Chlorine dioxide is produced from sodium chlorate, sulphuric acid and methanol at the boiling point of the reaction medium under a subatmospheric pressure applied to a reaction zone. High purity of chlorine dioxide production is retained while the proportion of acid sodium sulphate in the product is decreased by effecting the reaction at high acidity in a physically-separate reaction zone from which the reaction products discharge into a mass of recycling sodium chlorate solution.