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Pool Chemicals | Pros and Cons of Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate (Disinfectant)

Among swimming pool chemicals, sodium dichloroisocyanurate is a common and commonly used swimming pool disinfectant for swimming pool maintenance. So why is sodium dichloroisocyanurate so popular? Now let's analyze the advantages and disadvantages of sodium dichloroisocyanurate disinfectant.

Sodium dichloroisocyanurate, alsoknown as excellent chlorine net, molecular formula: (C3C12N303)Na, referred to as SDIC, is a widely used organochlorine disinfectant, and its properties are relatively stable. Contains 55%+ effective chlorine, white powder or granule or flake solid, with chlorine smell.

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Advantages of sodium dichloroisocyanurate:

It has the advantages of high efficiency, broad spectrum, stability, high solubility and low toxicity. It can quickly kill viruses, bacteria and their buds, and can effectively prevent hepatitis and other infectious diseases. The addition of sodium dichloroisocyanurate to the swimming pool water, not only the water color is blue, clear and shiny, the pool wall is smooth, there is no adhesion, the swimmers feel comfortable, and it is harmless to the human body under the use concentration, and the sterilization efficiency is high.

It is very beneficial to protect people's health. When used as a swimming pool disinfectant, the bactericidal effect of sodium dichloroisocyanurate is stronger than that of sodium hypochlorite, the dosage is small, and the duration is long.

Disadvantages of sodium dichloroisocyanurate:

The bactericidal effect is greatly affected by the conditions of use, and it has sensitization to eyes and skin, and has peculiar smell. It can be used as an impact treatment and also contains the stabilizer cyanuric acid, which is UV stable and suitable for use in outdoor swimming pools, but can cause over-stabilization problems in indoor swimming pools. The disadvantage of lower effective chlorine content in swimming pool disinfectant compared with trichloroisouric acid.

To sum up, considering many factors, when swimming pool owners choose to disinfect and clean their swimming pools, they will decisively choose dichloride.

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  • Post time: Apr-26-2022