Process of producing polymers
AssigneeCiba Specialty Chemicals Water Treatments Ltd.
InventorsStuart Greenhalgh, Kenneth Symes, Yvonne Armitage, Jonathan Hughes, Gary Richardson
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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 polymerising 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.
Claims18
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 polymerising 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.
A process according to 1 in which the cellular material comprises fractured cellular material.
A process according to 1 in which the components of the fermentation broth are selected from the group consisting of sugars, polysaccharides, proteins, peptides, amino acids, nitrogen sources, inorganic salts (including metal salts), vitamins, growth regulators,enzyme inducers and complex fermentation medium components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.