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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1994
Use of polymers containing vinylamine/vinylformamide for the treatment of food processing wastewater
Anthony G. Sommese, Naperville, IL (US);
Daniel K. Chung, Burlington, CA;
Nalco Chemical Company, Naperville, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for conditioning food processing waste prior to mechanical dewatering with the use of environmentally friendly coagulants and flocculants. The method of the present invention comprises treating these waste waters with an effective amount of a vinylamine polymer including from about 1 to about 100 mole percent vinylamine and from about 1 to about 99 mole percent of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of amidine, vinylformamide, vinyl alcohol, vinyl acetate, vinyl pyrrolidinone and the esters, amides, nitriles and salts of acrylic acid and methacrytic acid. In an embodiment, the method of the present invention includes the further step of adding an effective amount of at least one flocculant to the food processing waste. The flocculent effectively agglomerates a portion of the colloidal organic solids into suspended solids.