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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
J Michael Brown, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Assignee:
Betz Laboratories, Inc., Trevose, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210674 ; 210698 ; 210700 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of inhibiting the formation of scales such as barium and strontium sulfate in low pH aqueous system. The method involves treating the aqueous system with a scale control treatment including polyepoxysuccinic acid. Typical low pH aqueous systems where the present invention is particularly useful are oilfield produced water, resin bed water softeners during acid regeneration operations.