Patent ID: 8568701

Claim:
A cationic polyelectrolyte composition comprising: 1) a solid cationic synthetic water soluble polyelectrolyte comprising a polymer of (meth)acrylamide and one or more of i) a cationic (meth)acrylamide monomer, ii) a cationic (meth)acrylic acid monomer, and iii) hydrolysis stable cationic monomers wherein said polyelectrolyte is formed by adiabatic gel polymerization; and has a weight average molecular weight less than 2 million, a charge density of 0.001 meq/g to 4 meq/g, and a level of unreacted acrylamide monomer less than 50 ppm; 2) a phosphate ester surfactant; and 3) a solvent, wherein said polyelectrolyte is one of acrylamidopropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride/acrylamide copolymer or acrylamidopropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride/acrylamididoethyltrimethyl ammonium chloride/acrylamide terpolymer.