Abstract:
A method of removing adherent scale from the internal surfaces of water heating, cooling or circulating systems such as boilers, cooling towers and the like. A descalant comprising a polyacrylate or a polymethacrylate, within a certain molecular weight and concentration range, is mixed with the water in the system and is circulated through the system for a period effective to dissolve the scale adhering to the surface. The descalant is used in a concentration which is effective both to dissolve the scale, and to permit the descalant itself to remain in solution after the scale has been dissolved. For scale remover having a molecular weight in the range of about 500 to about 100,000, the effective concentration is from about 125 ppm to about 1,000 ppm and preferably is from about 500 ppm to about 550 ppm. A preferred descalant is the sodium salt of polyacrylic acid having a molecular weight in the range of about 1,000 to 10,000 and used in a concentration in the range from about 500 to about 550 ppm.
Abstract:
Polyampholytes and their salts are used as scale and corrosion inhibitors, in drilling fluids and as a water oil ratio modifier in enhanced oil recovery. Novel polyampholyte polymers of intrinsic viscosity 0.05 to 4.5 in 1.0 M Na Cl are prepared from 20 to 90 weight % of a monomer of formula: in which each R. which may be the same as or different from the other, is hydrogen, phenyl, C 1-3 alkyl or -COOX. R' is a straight or branched chain of from 0 to 12 carbon atoms, and X is hydrogen or an alkali or alkaline-earth metal; 1.5 to 85 weight % of a monomer of formula: where each R 6 , which may be the same as or different from the other, is hydrogen, phenyl or C 1-3 alkyl, preferably hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl, and each R 2 , which may be the same as or different from the other, is hydrogen or C 1-3 alkyl; and 0.5 to 40 weight weight % of a cationic-containing monomer containing quaternary ammonium, phosphonium or sulfonium ion.
Abstract:
A method for controlling scale deposition from water containing scale forming impurities, which comprises: treating the water with at least about 0.5 part per million of a polymer of fumaric acid with from 0 to about 50 mole percent of at least one hydrophilic monomer selected from acrylamide, methacrylamide, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or maleic anhydride and from 0 to about 15 mole percent of at least one ethylenically unsaturated, hydrophobic monomer, the average molecular weight of the polymer being from about 300 to about 10,000; processes for the production of said polymers; polymeric intermediates of mono or dialkyl fumarate, and processes for their production.
Abstract:
A relatively high molecular weight polyvinyl sulfonate and a process for inhibiting scale deposition, particularly inorganic sulfate such as barium sulfate, wherein an aqueous fluid present in or produced from a subterranean formation is contacted with an aqueous solution having a relatively high molecular weight polyvinyl sulfonate dissolved therein. The aqueous fluid has a pH equal to or less than 6.0 and the polyvinyl sulfonate has a molecular weight of from about 9,000 to about 30,000.
Abstract:
Alkaline earth metal scales, especially barium sulfate scale deposits are removed from oilfield pipe and other tubular goods with a scale-removing composition comprising an aqueous alkaline solution having a pH of about 8 to about 14, preferably about 11 to 13, of a polyaminopolycarboxylic acid, preferably EDTA or DTPA and a catalyst or synergist comprising, in particular, oxalate, thiosulfate, nitriloacetate or monocarboxylic acid anions. When the scale-removing solution is contacted with a surface containing a scale deposit, substantially more scale is dissolved at a faster rate than is possible without the synergist.
Abstract:
Pulmonary administration of a pharmaceutically active substance useful for local or systemic action which comprises liposomes containing an effective amount of a pharmaceutically active substance, and an amount of alveolar surfactant protein effective to enhance transport of the liposomes across a pulmonary surface.
Abstract:
Anti-scaling derivatives of raffinose in which one or more of the hydroxyl groups thereof have been converted to sulphate half ester groups or such groups in salt form.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composition and method for inhibiting chloride-induced corrosion of and limescale formation on ferrous metals and alloys which contact aqueous solutions, the composition containing a corrosion inhibiting amount of at least one polycarboxylic acid and/or its alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salts and a sufficient amount of a base to bring the aqueous solution to a pH effective to inhibit both chloride-induced corrosion and limescale formation.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a metal corrosion inhibiting composition comprising in admixture: (a) an anodic silicate salt; (b) a silicate salt stabilizer; (c) a cathodic corrosion inhibitor; and water. Preferably, the corrosion inhibiting composition also contains a polymeric scale inhibitor. The invention also relates to a process for treating an open aqueous system with the corrosion inhibiting composition.
Abstract:
A method for inhibiting inorganic sulfate scale growth in an aqueous fluid present within or produced from a subterranean formation is preformed by contacting the aqueous fluid in situ with a scale inhibitor composition containing two homopolymers in solution within an aqueous liquid medium. The first homopolymer is a polyvinyl sulfonate and the second homopolymer is a polyacrylic acid. The weight ratio of the first homopolymer to second homopolymer is preferably at least about 1:1 and the aqueous fluid being contacted by the composition typically contains a relatively high concentration of precursor ions of inorganic sulfate scale, including scale-forming inorganic cations and scale-forming sulfate anions.