Antiseptics

For drinking water degassing, bleaching and purification, disinfection of surfaces in rooms, sanitary equipment, cleaning inventory, food tableware in medical and preventive treatment facilities and utilities facilities, for outdoor facility disinfection.

In chemical industry for producing sulphanole, synthetic rubbers, phenol, polyvinylchloride resin, ethylenediamine, sodium hypochloride, in production of majority of products of aniline-ink and paint industry, in producing plastics, reagents, chemical photographing industry and household chemicals, in producing mineral fertilizers, in oil and chemical industry when processing oil and gas liquefaction, in producing diesel fuel, lubricants, paraffin, ethylene, ethylbenzene, in paper and pulp industry when cooking and bleaching cellulose of any type, in producing paper, cardboard, MDF etc., in producing soap, vegetable oils, fatty acids, toiletries, in consumer industry when producing hosiery, plain-woven, silk, cotton fabrics, in mechanic engineering, machine tool industry and instrument engineering, electrical and radiotechnical industry for etching and disinfection during metal processing.

It is used as a raw material for producing plastics, paints, synthetic resins and adhesives, tanning agents, insulation materials, disinfectants and drug products, textile auxiliary substances; as a disinfectant in agriculture as well as in a number of organic syntheses.

Technical hydrogen peroxide is used as an oxidant, catalyst, hydrating or epoxidizing agent. It is used in various spheres of industry. In addition, it is used for cotton, fabric, hosiery, soap, paper and wood pulp bleaching, for producing bleaching and disinfecting agents.

Sodium of grades A and B is used in producing glass of any kind, including as follows: crystal, optical and medical glass, glass bricks, foam glass, soluble sodium silicate, ceramic tile, glaze frit; in iron and non-ferrous industry: for producing lead, zinc, wolframium, strontium, chrome, for cast iron desulfurization and phosphorus removal, in purification of exit gases, for media neutralization. For lamp glass production, sodium carbonate of grade A, premium quality, with a strict standardized granulometric composition is used. Sodium carbonate of grade B is used in chemical industry for producing synthetic detergents and fatty acids, in brine treatment, in production of phosphorous, chrome, barium, sodium salts as carbonate containing raw material, in production of glycerin, allyl alcohol; in pulp and paper, aniline-ink, paint and oil industries.

Household use includes as follows:

- using as an agent for disinfection and anti-bacterial treatment,

- using for fabric bleaching;

- chemical dissolution of sanitary deposits.

Industrial use includes as follows:

- industrial bleaching of fabrics, wood pulp and some other products,

- industrial disinfection and sanitary and hygienic processing,

- drinking water purification and disinfection for public water system,

- industrial waste purification and disinfection,

- chemical industry.

Use in medicine:

Using sodium hypochlorite for wound disinfection was offered in 1915 at latest for the first time. In modern medicinal practice, sodium hypochlorite antiseptic solutions are mainly used for external and topical application as an antiviral, antifungal and bactericidal agent for managing skin, mucosa and wounds.

Hypochlorite is active against many gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, majority of pathogenic fungi, viruses and protozoans. However, its efficacy decreases in the presence of blood or its components.