Abstract: This invention is directed to a method of increasing retention and drainage in a papermaking furnish comprising adding to the furnish an effective flocculating amount of a high molecular weight water-soluble anionic or nonionic dispersion polymer.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a method of increasing retention and drainage in a papermaking furnish comprising adding to the furnish an effective flocculating amount of a high molecular weight water-soluble anionic or nonionic dispersion polymer.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of a particulate high molecular weight water soluble anionic or nonionic polymer is prepared by polymerizing 0-7 mole percent of at least one anionic monomer and 100-93 mole percent of at least one non-ionic monomer under free radical forming conditions in an aqueous solution of a water-soluble salt at a pH greater than 5 in the presence of an anionic water soluble stabilizer polymer containing from about 1.25 to about 20 mole percent 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-l-propanesulfonic acid.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a method of clarifying and dewatering industrial waste water using anionic and nonionic dispersion polymers.

Abstract: A dispersant system useful in the formation of dispersions of water soluble polymers is disclosed. The dispersant system comprises two polymers, the first being a copolymer of diallyldimethyl ammonium chloride with a C.sub.6 to C.sub.20 quaternary ammonium salt of a monomer selected the from the group consisting of dialkylaminoalkylacrylates, dialkylaminoalkylmethacrylates, dialkylaminoalkylacrylamides, and dialkylaminoalky (meth) acrylamides as well as certain alkyl esters of acrylic acid. The second polymer is a water soluble cationic polymer composed of at least 20 mole percent of a cationic monomer represented by the formula: ##STR1## where R.sub.4 is either hydrogen or CH.sub.3 ; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are each an alkyl group having 1 to 2 carbon atoms; R.sub.7 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 2 carbon atoms; A.sub.2 is either an oxygen atom or NH; B.sub.2 is either an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms or a hydroxypropylene group and X.sub.2.sup.- is an anionic counterion.

Abstract: A method for improving retention and drainage performance in a papermaking process is disclosed. The method comprises forming an aqueous cellulosic papermaking slurry, adding an effective amount of a hydrophilic dispersion polymer to the slurry, draining the slurry to form a sheet and drying the sheet. The hydrophilic dispersion polymer is preferably a copolymer of diallyldimethyl ammonium chloride and acrylamide.

Abstract: A method for improving retention and drainage performance in a papermaking process is disclosed. The method comprises forming an aqueous cellulosic papermaking slurry, adding an effective amount of a hydrophilic dispersion polymer to the slurry, draining the slurry to form a sheet and drying the sheet. The hydrophilic dispersion polymer is preferably a copolymer of dimethylaminoethyl acrylate methyl chloride quaternary and acrylamide.

Abstract: Hydrophilic cationic copolymers of acrylamide are prepared as dispersions in a salt media. These polymers have high molecular weights and are readily activated by diluting in water. These polymers are useful flocculants for such applications as sludge dewatering, raw water clarification aids, emulsion breakers and waste water clarification aids.

Abstract: Hydrophilic cationic copolymers of acrylamide are prepared as dispersions in a salt media. These polymers have high molecular weights and are readily soluble by diluting in water. These polymers are useful flocculants for such applications as sludge dewatering, raw water clarification aids, emulsion breakers and waste water clarification aids.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of water soluble nonionic and anionically charged vinyl and allyl addition polymers can be obtained by polymerizing in the presence of an anionically charged water soluble polymer stabilizer in a saturated salt solution. Methods for the preparation of these polymers, and their compositions are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention related to the use of certain cross-linked diallyldimethyl ammonium chloride polymers in water-in-oil emulsion form for use as coagulants in suspensions of inorganic solids. The diallyldimethyl ammonium chloride polymers are preferably polymers of diallyldimethyl ammonium chloride, acrylamide, and triallylamine. The water-in-oil emulsions are formulated to invert after addition to the inorganic solids suspension, as the suspension travels to a mechanical thickening device for further processing. The inorganic solids from refuse or concentrate mineral processing applications may be coal, copper ore, sand, gravel, taconite, beryllium, trona, kaolin or precious metals.

Abstract: A novel dispersant system is disclosed for use in forming dialkylaminoalkyl (meth)acylamide polymer dispersions.

Abstract: The invention comprises a process for synthesizing a high molecular weight hydroxamic acid polymer and other substituted amides onto a polyacrylic acid or a polymethacrylic acid latex backbone by reacting a stable, inverse polyacrylic acid or polymethacrylic acid latex with hydroxylamine sulfate, in the case of hydroxamic acid, or other primary amines, to produce the high molecular weight substituted amides. The invention further comprises a method of clarifying Bayer process liquors using the substituted amides produced by the process.

Abstract: A method of clarifying waters having an alkalinity of at least 100 ppm, calculated as CaCO.sub.3, which comprises:a. adding thereto, to form a treated water, an effective amount for the purpose of clarifying said waters of a low-basicity polynuclear aluminum species having the formula:Al.sub.n (OH).sub.m Z.sub.3n-mwherein, n is at least 1.0Z is a halide chosen from the group chloride, bromide, iodide, and mixtures thereof, andwherein the ratio of m/n ranges between about 0.25 to about 1.0 and at least 25 mole percent of the polynuclear aluminum species above has n equal to 2.0, and then,b. allowing sufficient time to form and build a floc dispersed in the treated water, which floc contains turbidity causing components, and then,c. phase separating the floc from the treated waters to obtain clarified water.

Abstract: Terpolymers of acrylic acid, sodium vinylsulfonate and vinyl acetate are disclosed. These materials are effective dispersants for industrial water systems.

Abstract: Discrete particles of sodium polyacrylate of high molecular weight and in which the majority of the particle size is in the range of not less than 0.5 mm. nor more than 1.0 mm. diameter are achieved, in an economy of production, by suspension polymerization in stages of 40.degree. C. (2 hours), 50.degree. C. (2 hours) and 60.degree. C. (2 hours) in the presence of a protective colloid.

Abstract: A method for the stabilization of both water-in-oil emulsions and solutions of poly trimethylamino methylol acrylamide is disclosed. The process consists of adding up to the water-in-oil emulsion or solution containing the polymer from 10-50 mole percent of orthophosphorus acid based on the weight of the polymer. Water-in-oil emulsions of polymer are then stabilized by heating the emulsion for a period of time to obtain a stabilized emulsion of a water-soluble quaternary salt of poly trimethylamino methylol acrylamide. Solutions of poly trimethylamino methylol acrylamide need not be heated and are stabilized by the addition of the orthophosphorus acid and mixing.

Abstract: An improved process for rapidly preparing amino methylated derivatives of dilute aqueous solutions of acrylamide polymers which comprises the steps:A. Preparing a 2.8-6% aqueous solution of an acrylamide polymer which has a molecular weight of at least 500,000;B. Adding to the solution formed in A approximately 1 mole of formaldehyde and approximately 1 mole of a dialkyl amine which contains from 2-4 carbon atoms based on the amide content of the acrylamide polymer under conditions of good agitation;C. Reacting the acrylamide polymer with the formaldehyde and the dialkyl amine at a temperature between 80-100.degree. C. for a period of time ranging between 2-15 minutes to form an amino methylated acrylamide polymer.C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl quaternary ammonium salt derivatives of these amino methylated acrylamide polymers may be prepared by adjusting the pH to 8.4-8.7 and reacting them with a lower alkyl quaternizing agent at a temperature ranging between 50.degree.-80.degree. C.

Abstract: A method for the stabilization of both water-in-oil emulsions and solutions of poly trimethylamino methylol acrylamide is disclosed. The process consists of adding to the water-in-oil emulsion or solution containing the polymer from 10-50 mole percent of orthophosphorus acid based on the weight of the polymer. Water-in-oil emulsions of polymer are then stabilized by heating the emulsion for a period of time to obtain a stabilized emulsion of a water-soluble quaternary salt of poly trimethylamino methylol acrylamide. Solutions of poly trimethylamino methylol acrylamide need not be heated and are stablized by the addition of the orthophosphorus acid and mixing.

Abstract: Stable water-in-oil emulsions of water soluble ethylenically unsaturated polymers are prepared using as a water-in-oil emulsifying agent a partially esterified lower N,N-dialkanol substituted fatty amide.Additionally, from 5-50 weight percent of the surfactant may be from surfactants of the following classes:A. salts of fatty tertiary amines, said fatty tertiary amine having one alkyl group containing from 15-22 carbon atoms, and two alkyl groups having from 1-3 carbon atoms, said salt selected from the group of anions consisting of halogens, sulfate, and sulfite;B. quaternary salts of the above fatty tertiary amines;C. alkali metal salts of fatty acids containing 15-22 carbon atoms; and,D. alkyl or alkyl aryl sulfates and sulfonates containing 8-22 carbon atoms.The above system yields latices of small particle size having improved storage stability.