Patent ID: 6652889
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: A01N,C02F

Abstract:
An aqueous biocide composition comprising water having in solution therein an active bromine content of at least about 100,000 ppm (wt/wt), wherein said active bromine content is produced from (i) bromine chloride or a combination of bromine chloride and bromine, and (ii) an aqueous solution of alkali metal salt of sulfamic acid, or (iii) water and an alkali metal salt of sulfamic acid, or (iv) water, an alkali metal base, and sulfamic acid, or (v) any combination of (ii), (iii), and (iv), and in relative proportions of such that the atom ratio of nitrogen to active bromine in said biocide composition is greater than 0.93, and wherein the biocide composition has a pH of at least 10.