Abstract:
Described is the use, as water-treatment agents, of water-soluble graft polymers obtained by the radical-initiated polymerization of (A) monomer mixtures containing as monomers monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, their alkali-metal salts and/or their ammonium salts, in the presence of (B) monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, oxidatively, hydrolytically or enzymatically degraded polysaccharides, chemically modified mono-, oligo- or polysaccharides, or mixtures of these compounds, in the ratio, by mass, of A:B of (95 to 20):(5 to 80).
Abstract:
A scale removal composition for removal of hard water scale from solid surfaces which includes an aliphatic alpha-hydroxy carboxylic acid, a natural or synthetic gum or polymer which is soluble in water at a pH of about 3 or less, water, and, optionally, sodium silicate.
Abstract:
The invention concerns the use of oxidized carboxy-group-containing polyglucosans and/or soluble salts thereof as threshold-action scale inhibitors in aqueous systems. Normally, it is sufficient to add 50 to 5000 ppm of the oxidized polyglucosan or its salt to the aqueous system.
Abstract:
A soap composition for the removal and prevention of scale in aqueous media comprising a 1:1 stoichiometric equivalent of an organic carboxylic acid and an amine base. The organic carboxylic acid is selected from the group consisting of hydroxy-acetic, citric, acetic, gluconic, salicylic, tartaric and benzoic, and mixtures thereof. The amine base is selected from the group consisting of monoisopropanolamine, diisopropanolamine, triisopropanolamine, monoethanolamine, diethanolamine, triethanolamine, diethylamine, and mixtures thereof.
Abstract:
Procédé empêchant la formation d'incrustations sur des surfaces métalliques en contact avec des systèmes aqueux et consistant à ajouter une quantité limite de copolymères d'acide 2-acrylamido-2-méthylpropane sulfonique et d'acide acrylique ou méthacrylique ou de leurs sels solubles dans l'eau.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the use of water soluble polymers comprising repeat unit moieties wherein R, is H or lower alkyl (C,-C 3 ); R 2 is OH, OM, or NH 2 ; M is a water soluble cation; R 3 is a hydroxy substituted alkyl or alkylene radical having from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms or a non-substituted alkyl or alkylene radical having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; X is an anionic radical; Z is H or hydrogens or a water soluble cation or cations which together counterbalance the valence of X, and a is 0 or 1. These copolymers, and terpolymeric derivatives, can be used in a method for inhibiting calcium phosphate or calcium phosphonate deposition in aqueous systems; and also to function to provide a passivated oxide film along treated metal surfaces when used conjointly with a water soluble orthophosphate source.
Abstract:
Water-soluble copolymers are useful in treating industrial process water in threshold inhibition amounts. Such copolymers are selected from copolymers of an acrylic acid, an acrylamide, and an alkoxyalkyl acrylate ester; and copolymers of an acrylic acid or a salt thereof, a lower alkenyl carboxylate, and optionally a salt of a lower alkenyl sulfonate.
Abstract:
Water soluble copolymer comprising 85 to 97 weight percent of acrylic acid units and 15 to 3 weight percent of hydrophobic comonomer comprising one or more of (C 2 to C.)-alkyl acrylates, (C 1 to C 3 -alkyl methacrylates and vinyl aromatic compounds, having a weight average molecular weight of 2,000 to 5,000 has been found useful in combating the formation of inorganic particulate material, such as hardness ion salt scale, in an aqueous system and/or for dispersing inorganic particulate matter, such as calcium carbonate or clay, present in an aqueous system. The aqueous system is preferably a cooling water system.
Abstract:
A two-step process is disclosed for preparing an essentially non-crossiinked random copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with esters of the acids which esters are formed by reaction with an alkylene oxide. Raw materials are (meth)acrylic acid and alkylene oxide. in a first step, a predetermined amount of a particular esterification catalyst is used, and with close control of process conditions, the (meth)acrylic acid yields both mono- and polyalkoxylated esters. in the second step polymerization is effected without separating the esterification catalyst or purifying the esters formed. The resulting random copolymer formed consists essentially of a terpolymer of (i) acrylic acid or methacrylic acid (together "(meth)acrylic"), (ii) a hydroxymonoalkylated (meth)acryiate, and (iii) a hydroxypolyalkyleneoxylated (meth)acrylate the monomeric moieties being present in specified relative proportions. Despite the presence of the polyalkyleneoxylated ester moiety the terpolymer is soluble in water, and is surprisingly effective in the treatment of industrial process water used in recirculating water systems.