flocculant for wastewater treatment nts chemicals at chile
A process for producing a partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide which has a high molecular weight and high water solubility and can be suitably used as a flocculant for water treatment and a size for paper manufacture comprising polymerizing an aqueous solution of an acrylamide monomer in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide such as sodium hydroxide and boric acid, whereby a partial
1. Introduction. Partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) is the most widely used water-soluble non-toxic polymer in water treatment (Zheng et al., 2013), paper mills (Wong et al., 2006), ore processing and crude oil production processes (Pei et al., 2016).It is also used in irrigation water for soil-conditioning (Lee et al., 2011), pesticide formulation (Nair and Sawant, 2006), cosmetic
