Treating microbe contamination in water with THP salts and polymeric biopenetrants

• Main Authors: Talbot, Robert Eric, Jones, Christopher Raymond
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.01.2019
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CANDLES; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; CHEMISTRY; CLEANING; CLEANING IN GENERAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATIONOR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; DETERGENTS; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION INGENERAL; METALLURGY; MULTI-STEP PROCESSES FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLICMATERIAL INVOLVING AT LEAST ONE PROCESS PROVIDED FOR IN CLASSC23 AND AT LEAST ONEPROCESS COVERED BY SUBCLASS C21D OR C22F OR CLASS C25; NON-MECHANICAL REMOVAL OF METALLIC MATERIAL FROM SURFACE; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL; RESIN SOAPS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS

A synergistic composition comprising a THP salt and a biopenetrant, in which the biopenetrant comprises a polymer of an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a copolymer of an unsaturated carboxylic acid with a sulphonic acid, said polymer or copolymer being terminated by a mono- or diphosphonated unsaturated carboxylic acid group or having such monomers incorporated into the polymer backbone. This composition acts synergistically to enhance the biocidal efficacy of the THP salt against both planktonic (free-swimming) and sessile (attached) bacteria, and also acts synergistically to enhance the efficacy of the THP salt in the dissolution of iron sulphide scale.