Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Gerhard Bohnsack

Walter Radt

Herbert Kallfass

Hans Geffers

Roland Kleinstuck

A process for the treatment of cooling waters, particularly in thermal power stations, without or--optionally--with partial acid decarbonization of the make up water, the improvement wherein the make up water is mechanically coarse-clarified and the hardness is then stabilized with scale inhibitors. The scale inhibitors are then removed from the blow down and are optionally recovered.

Process for treating cooling water

Preventing corrosion and scale formation in water re-circulating systems by adding to the water to be circulated from about 5 to 100 g/m.sup.3, based on the weight of the water to be circulated, of a compound selected from the group consisting of those of the formula ##STR1## and the water-soluble salts thereof and then circulating said water in said system, R being hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl or alkinyl having up to 4 carbon atoms; phenyl; cycloalkyl having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; benzyl; phenethyl or ##STR2## wherein R' is hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or carboxyl, R' is hydrogen or methyl and R'' is carboxyl.

Process for preventing corrosion and the formation of scale in water

Preventing corrosion and scale formation in water re-circulating systems by adding to each cubic meter of the water being re-circulated from about 5 to 100 grams of a compound selected from the group consisting of those of the formula ##EQU1## and the water-soluble salts thereof R being hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl or alkinyl having up to 4 carbon atoms; phenyl; cycloalkyl having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; benzyl; phenethyl or ##EQU2## wherein R' is hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or carboxyl, R' is hydrogen or methyl and R'' is carboxyl.

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