Rhone-poulenc Industries

Rhone-poulenc Chimie De Base

Rhone-poulenc Specialites Chimiques

Rhone-poulenc Chimie

Jean Boutin

Jean Neel

Jean-Pierre Communal

Andre Combet

Guy Nineuil

Bruno Jamet

Maurice Chambon

Bernard Guenot

Francois Wachowski

Alain Bartissol

A novel basic aluminum chlorosulfate, well adopted for the improved purification of aqueous media, has the formula:

Basic aluminum chlorosulfate flocculant

A novel basic aluminum chlorosulfate, well adopted for the improved purification of aqueous media, has the formula

Basic aluminum chlorosulfate flocculating process

Clear and colorless solutions of basic aluminum chlorosulfates are prepared by reacting a slurry of calcium chloride and calcium carbonate with aluminum sulfate, separating calcium sulfate solids and a solution of basic aluminum chlorosulfate from the medium of reaction, and flocculating said solution of basic aluminum chlorosulfate with at least one nonionic or cationic polyelectrolyte flocculant.

Clear and colorless basic aluminum chlorosulfates

Storage-stable, discrete free-flowing flakes of a hydrophilic or water-soluble polymer gel, such flakes comprising a thin adherent film coating of a processing aid powder, are facilely produced by comminuting a larger shaped article of said polymer gel, e.g., a block, sheet, strip or layer thereof, in the presence of said processing aid powder, and said powder being present during comminution in an amount in excess of that required for otherwise complete coating of the flakes which result.

Free-flowing flakes of hydrophilic/water-soluble polymer gel

Water-soluble (meth)acrylic acid/methallylsulfonate copolymers, containing less than 20% by weight of the methallylsulfonate comonomer, are well suited as scale inhibitors for aqueous environments, especially those comprising essentially equal amounts by weight of both acrylic and methacrylic acids.

(Meth)acrylic acid/methallylsulfonate copolymers

Water-soluble (meth)acrylic acid/methallysulfonate copolymers, containing less than 20% by weight of the methallylsulfonate comonomer, are well suited as scale inhibitors for aqueous environments, especially those comprising essentially equal amounts by weight of both acrylic and methacrylic acids.

Scale inhibition method employing (meth)acrylic acid/methallylsulfonate

High molecular weight water-soluble polymers essentially devoid of residual monomer content and well adapted for use as flocculating agents, are prepared by photopolymerizing a thin layer of a deoxygenated aqueous solution of an olefinically unsaturated monomer continuously deposited upon a travelling support substrate, said aqueous solution containing a photopolymerization photoinitiator and said photoinitiator comprising benzil dimethylacetal.

Photopolymerization of olefinically unsaturated monomers utilizing

Crude wet process phosphoric acid is pretreated, to ensure against impurity precipitation and objectionable coloration during the downstream processing, e.g., liquid-liquid extraction thereof, by first homogeneously admixing same with an impurity adsorbent, next mixing the liquid dispersion which results with a liquid suspension of a flocculating agent, maintaining the resulting admixture under nonshearing agitation until same separates into a flocculated phase and a liquid solution phase, and then separating therefrom the flocculated phase and a purified, product acid liquid solution phase.

Pretreatment of crude wet process phosphoric acid

Water soluble polymeric flocculants are prepared by photopolymerizing olefinically unsaturated hydrophilic monomer(s), the photopolymerization recipe including a polyhydroxylated organic additive, such as gluconic acid. Such polyhydroxy compound facilitates solubilization of the resultant flocculants, without substantial decrease in the molecular weight thereof, and ensures against the by-production of water insoluble fractions.

Preparation of water soluble polymeric flocculants by

The thin rubbery layer resulting from the photopolymerization of a thin layer of an aqueous solution of acrylic monomer(s) is face surface coated with a coating of an alkali metal sulfite and/or metabisulfite, and is then shredded, dried and ground to provide acrylic polymer/copolymer from which virtually all residual monomer has been depleted and which is well suited for use as a polymeric flocculant.

Photopolymerized acrylic polymer essentially devoid of residual

Aqueous solutions of olefinically unsaturated hydrophilic monomers are deoxygenated, advantageously pH adjusted, and prepared for direct photopolymerization by photoinitiator addition and countercurrent scrubbing with an inert gas in a contactor column, preferably a packed column.

Aqueous monomer solutions adapted for direct photopolymerization

Water soluble polymeric flocculants are prepared by photopolymerizing olefinically unsaturated hydrophilic monomer(s), the medium of photopolymerization being enveloped in a moist, humid gaseous atmosphere. The humidity of the enveloping environment facilitates solubilization of the resultant flocculants, without substantial decrease in the molecular weights thereof, and ensures against the by-production of water insoluble fractions.

Water-soluble acrylic polymers are prepared by a sequential photopolymerization process. A monomer solution is deposited on a support which is subsequently irradiated to effect polymerization. Photopolymerization promoters are incorporated in the monomer solution to facilitate polymerization.

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