Liquid purification or separation – Processes – Chemical treatment
Patent
1987-08-03
1990-05-08
Lacey, David L.
Liquid purification or separation
Processes
Chemical treatment
422 28, 422 29, 422 32, C02F 168
Patent
active
049236199
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to disinfectant compositions and to a method of disinfection for liquids or infected surfaces.
The compositions and method according to the invention are particularly usable for disinfecting liquids such as waters or cutting oils. They are also usable for infected surfaces, such as surfaces of industrial or hospital installations, in particular, tanks, pipes and tubes, . . . of the food industry, more particularly of the breweries, dairies, . . .
In the case of the use of the disinfectant composition in the food industry such as defined hereabove, the composition may also be associated, without any loss of effectiveness, to a cleaning product such as a surfactant, preferably of the non-ionic type.
In a particular application, the compositions and the process according to the invention are usable, on the one hand, for treating water which must or may be recycled such as, for example, water of swimming pools and, on the other hand, for treating residual waters and even effluents which must or may not be recycled and which are used, for example, in air conditioning, in domestic water, drink water, etc.
It is known to disinfect, i.e. to eliminate bacterial germs from water of swimming pools, by using halogens, in particular chlorine or bromine. However, the use of these products has disadvantages, such as the apparition of offensive smell, the irritation of some mucous membranes and even the formation of halogenous compounds having a cancerogenic action.
It is also known to use peroxide compounds such as hydrogen peroxide or persulphate of sodium or potassium in order to remove bacterial germs from the water of swimming pools. In the same way, the removal of algae and germs may also be effected by treating water with copper or/and silver ions.
The simultaneous use of peroxide compounds and copper and/or silver ions, as well as the use of ammonium quaternary compounds and hydrogen peroxide, have also been proposed (see German patents DE-A-22 35 539, 25 30 487 and 29 11 288).
Finally, the treatment of water of swimming pools and of industrial water by means of a combination (a) of ammonium quaternary compounds, (b) of water-soluble copper and/or silver salts and (c) of peroxide compounds releasing oxygen such as monopersulphate or peroxidisulphate of potassium is known.
Applicant has found that the simultaneous use of an ammonium quaternary polymer and also of very small amounts of copper and/or silver and/or manganese ions allows to disinfect water, cutting oils and infected surfaces in a very short time without using at the same time a peroxide compound.
In particular, Applicant has discovered a clearly synergistic effect by using simultaneously at least one ammonium quaternary polymer or copolymer and copper and/or silver and/or manganese ions instead of using the ammonium polymer or copolymer alone, copper ions alone, silver ions alone or manganese ions alone.
The present invention thus relates to a disinfectant composition containing, as active ingredients, at least one ammonium quaternary polymer and ions of metals selected among copper, silver and manganese, this disinfectant composition being essentially characterized in that it contains as ammonium quaternary polymer at least one polymer or copolymer obtained by condensation of at least one difunctional tertiary amine having one of the following formulae (I), (II) and (III): ##STR1## with at least one organic dihalide having the following formula (IV): the following meanings:
R designates a lower alkyl radical or the radical --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --OH;
X designates a halogen atom, preferably a chlorine or bromine atom, and
A and B, which may be identical or different, have one of the five following formulae: ##STR2## in which one of the substituents --CH.sub.2 may be in an ortho, meta or para position, ##STR3## where D designates hydrogen or an alkyl radical containing less than four carbon atoms, and x and y are integers lower than 5, one of which may have a value equal to 0, while the sum x+y is at least equal to 1 and at most e
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