Electron beam applications in the chemistry of polymers are given, such as the production of acrylamide polymers which are of great interest in the treatment of waste industrial waters. These products have unique properties: the required dose is smaller by a factor of 10 to 100 as compared to the dose requirement for other polymeric materials and they are used in aqueous solutions in a concentration of one or two magnitude orders smaller than conventional anorganic flocculants. The acrylamide polymer technologies were first developed on a semi-industrial scale with γ-ray sources and then transferred to the linacs built in the Accelerator Laboratory in the Institute of Atomic Physics. An original feature was included in order to make our linear accelerators using an electron gun of the diode type to render them suitable to obtain programmed beam single shots and pulse trains. It is particularly useful for automatic control of irradiation processing in order to provide the maximum efficiency of the electron beam application. The preliminary results obtained using our electron beam sources make the assumption that the low output power linacs are economically attractive for commercial production of acrylamide type polymers: about 2000 kg per beam kWh.