Study on the synthesis and flocculating of a new flocculant

This paper reported the synthesis of a new flocculant, a carboxymethyl guar through a rapid semidry process, using a natural guar gum as basic material. The factors which affect degree of substitution (DS) of carboxymethyl guar, such as the reaction temperature, the reaction time, the consumption of chloroacetic acid, and the consumption of sodium hydroxide etc were studied. The best synthesis condition was concluded. The flocculating property of the produced flocculant was studied. The experiment results showed that the turbidity ratio of the micro-polluted water was better than other flocculants. The synthetic flocculant should have potential applications in the wastewater market.