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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1996
Jasbir S Gill, McKees Rocks, PA (US);
Jennifer R Parsons, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Calgon Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
An aqueous system containing scale forming salts including both calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate and characterized by high pH and high calcite concentrations which further contains a synergistic effective amount of a combination comprising (A) a polyether polyamino methylene phosphonate, (B) a terpolymer comprising the monomers of acrylic acid, sulfophenoxymethallyl ether and maleic acid, (C) a hydroxyphosphonoacetic acid, and (D) a phosphonocarboxylic acid copolymer comprising the monomers of acrylic acid, telomer with (1-hydroxy-1-methylethyl) phosphinic acid monosodium salt, and 2-acrylamido 2 methylpropane sulfonic acid, is disclosed. A method for inhibiting the formation, deposition and adherence of such scale forming salts in the aqueous system employing the synergistic combination is also provided.