Water-solublepolymers, which perform various useful functions such as thickening, gelling,flocculating, rheology modifying and stabilizing in any given application, areused for a wide variety of applications including food processing, watertreatment, paper, enhanced oil and natural gas recovery, mineral processing,detergents, textiles, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, petroleumproduction, and surface coatings.
Water-solublepolymers can be categorized into the following three groups:
Water-soluble polymers are usedprimarily to disperse, suspend (thicken and gel), or stabilize particulatematter. However, they may perform any of the following functions:
Binding
Coagulating
Dispersing, suspending,stabilizing
Film forming
Flocculating
Lubrication and frictionreduction
Rheology modification andcontrol
Thickening, gelling
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