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US 4,065,387 AGranted
Slime control method
AssigneeKurita Water Industries Ltd.
InventorsTakao Tsuneki, Norio Takahashi, Hirohisa Tashiro
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a slime control agent comprising a bromite substance as an effective component, and a method of controlling the formation of slime by adding a bromite substance to water systems at a rate of 1 to 200 ppm.
Claims8
A method for reducing the amount of slime that adheres on solid surfaces in contact with a circulating stream of process water wherein said process water contains microorganisms capable of forming and depositing a slime on said surfaces, which comprises the step of:
- adding to said circulating stream of process water from 1 to 200 ppm of a water-soluble bromite compound selected from the group consisting of sodium bromite and potassium bromite so that said bromite compound is effective to reduce the adhesion of slime on said solid surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.