RE: dioxin and hcb in ferric chloride

["Ms. Viv Mountford" <vivmount@greener.u-net.com>]

I missed this discussion when it happened originally.  Our local ICI 
chemical plants which produce chlorine and various chlorine-products (VC, 
PVC, refrigerants, solvents etc)  produces large quantities of excess HCl, 
much of which will be contaminated with dioxin etc judging from the high 
dioxin levels in the wastes, but my recollection is that ICI don't say 
whether they have tested the HCl or not.
ICI say there is not enough market to sell all this excess HCl, so they now 
burn an amount, but is it possible that a lot of contaminated HCl which is 
on sale, comes from chlorine/vinyl production plants like ours?
Viv Mountford (Ms)
Industry & Pollution Activist
Halton Friends of the Earth Group,  Cheshire, England
Email vivmount@greener.u-net.com
Phone (44)-1928-566236



-----Original Message-----
From:	Alan Muller [SMTP:amuller@dca.net]
Sent:	Tuesday, November 24, 1998 11:55 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L
Subject:	Re: dioxin and  hcb in ferric chloride

The ferric
>manufacturers purchase the majority of their ferric from steel mill that
>produce the product after cleaning the steel with HCL. My guess is a
>contaminated HCL stream purchased by the steel mills. Any data on
>contaminated HCL ?? Sources of the HCL (pesticide manufacturing???) .
>
I don't know.  But, ferric cl has other sources, one of which is as a 
byproduct of titanium dioxide manufacture.  This has all manner of stuff in 
it, but mostly inorganic I'd assumed.

am