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Microbicide
KLARIX™ 4000 Algicide for Industrial Cooling Water Systems
Description
Why Use KLARIX 4000 Microbicide?
As a Service Company committed to meeting the needs of your customers, you need the best technology and
products available to be successful. The newest member of our microbicide family, KLARIX 4000, was developed to
provide you and your customers with a solution to persistent algal contamination in industrial cooling waters. Its
unique blend of efficacy and human and environmental safety makes KLARIX 4000 microbicide the perfect addition
to your product line.
With KLARIX 4000 you can offer your customers a more effective solution to algal contamination and prevention.
In the field, KLARIX 4000 has demonstrated superior performance. In 1996, a Rohm and Haas Company product,
based on the same active ingredient in KLARIX 4000, was awarded the "U.S. Presidential Green Chemistry
Challenge Award" for excellence in environmental achievement. By offering your customers KLARIX 4000, you
deliver on their need for better-performing, safer products.
In the current regulatory climate, where increasing amounts of data are required by customers, regulatory
authorities and ecolabel associations, it is important to choose not only the right product, but also the right
supplier. Rohm and Haas Company, the inventors and leaders in isothiazolone chemistry, maintain extensive
regulatory, toxicology and environmental fate databases. Our extensive technical expertise on isothiazolone
chemistry, coupled with our support and commitment, enables you to market KLARlX 4000 with confidence.
Physical and Chemical Properties
Features
• Clear liquid microemulsion
• Physically stable product
• Chemically stable active ingredient
• Completely soluble at use concentrations
• Extremely effective against algae, cyanobacteria,
mold and yeast at low use rates
• Also effective against bacteria
• Compatible with oxidizing biocides and other
commonly used additives
• Compatible with most materials of construction
• Low viscosity
• Low, nonpersistent foam
• Odor-free
• Complete environmental package
Benefits
• Easy-to-dose product, eliminates the dosing issues
(e.g. pumping and adequate mixing) associated with
terbuthylazine-based products
• Superior algicidal activity vs. competitive products
reduces dosing frequency
• Rapid loss of "green" color in obviously fouled towers is
a visual reminder of KLARIX 4000's efficacy
• Excellent environmental fate package (does not
bioaccumulate in the environment, readily biodegrades
to nontoxic byproducts)
• Cost effective
Typical Physical Properties
These properties are typical but do not constitute specifications.
% Active (nominal) 4.25
Appearance Clear light amber liquid
Free from foreign matter
pH @ 25°C 4.0 - 6.0
Flash Point 155°C (seta-flash)
Viscosity (21°C) 60 cps
Specific Gravity @ 22°C 1.020 - 1.035 g/ml
Structure
The superior clarity of KLARIX 4000 microbicide is evident in this photograph of KLARIX 4000 (4.24% active ingredient) and a commercial
formulation of terbuthylazine (4.0% active ingredient).
Suggested Applications