Bromine, Inorganic Compounds

Abstract

This article contains a survey of the physical and chemical properties, methods of preparation or manufacture, and updated uses and applications for a number of classes of inorganic bromine compounds. The main classes included are (a) bromamines, (b) hydrogen bromide and hydrobromic acid, (c) metal bromides, (d) non‐metal bromides, (e) bromine halides, (f) bromine oxides, (g) oxygen acids of bromine and their salts. This chapter also includes a brief discussion on applications of inorganic bromides in the area of drilling fluids, biocides, and concentrated aqueous solutions. Included are 122 references.

Electrochemical Oxidation of Bromides on DSA/RuO2Anode in the Semi-Industrial Batch Reactor for On-Site Water Disinfection

“…It hydrolyzes in water to form different species, from which hypobromous acid, HOBr, is the most powerful one. HOBr provides the same fast kill as HOCl, and is effective in killing most of the cooling water microbial organisms, 23 but at higher pH because of the hypobromous acid higher pK a value of 8.7 in comparisons with a hypochlorous acid pK a of 7.53. Additionally, bromine is generally less corrosive than chlorine and the compounds it forms with certain organics present in the cooling water, bromamines and bromophenols, are less toxic to the environment than their chlorine parallels.…”