Making a Reactive Chemical System Inherently Safer at a Small Company:Case Study of the CDG Gas:Solid~(TM)Chlorine Dioxide Generator

摘要

It is perceived that management of reactive chemical hazards is especially challenging to small companies due to their limited resources relative to large chemical manufacturers.However,many small companies are very innovative and can quickly find and implement solutions to reactive chemical challenges that threaten the success of their business.In this paper we describe an innovative solution to a reactive chemical challenge faced by a small company,CDG Technology,Inc.in 2000 and 2001.At the time,CDG was a small company with about 10 employees,just emerging from the startup phase.CDG produces systems for the on-site production of high-purity chlorine dioxide gas,ranging from laboratory scale to plant scale applications for disinfection of municipal drinking water,medical sterilization,and biological decontamination.