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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2004
Stuart Greenhalgh, Smithfield, VA (US);
Kenneth Charles Symes, Keighley, GB;
Yvonne Armitage, Holmfirth, GB;
Jonathan Hughes, Huddersfield, GB;
Gary Richardson, Bradford, GB;
Stuart Greenhalgh, Smithfield, VA (US);
Kenneth Charles Symes, Keighley, GB;
Yvonne Armitage, Holmfirth, GB;
Jonathan Hughes, Huddersfield, GB;
Gary Richardson, Bradford, GB;
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments Ltd., West Yorkshire, Bradford, GB;
Abstract
A process for preparing a polymer of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, in which the monomer is obtainable from a biocatalysed reaction or a fermentation process, and wherein the monomer contains cellular material and/or components of a fermentation broth, forming the polymer by polymerizing the ethylenically unsaturated monomer or a monomer mixture comprising the ethylenically unsaturated monomer, wherein there is substantially no removal of the cellular material and/or components of the fermentation broth from the ethylenically unsaturated monomer.