EP0815195A1 - Verfahren zur herstellung von hochalkalischen waschmitteltabletten - Google Patents

Verfahren zur herstellung von hochalkalischen waschmitteltabletten

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EP0815195A1
EP0815195A1 EP96905625A EP96905625A EP0815195A1 EP 0815195 A1 EP0815195 A1 EP 0815195A1 EP 96905625 A EP96905625 A EP 96905625A EP 96905625 A EP96905625 A EP 96905625A EP 0815195 A1 EP0815195 A1 EP 0815195A1
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caustic
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alkali metal
water
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Kenneth James Roach
Patricia Anderson
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Diversey Inc
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/02—Inorganic compounds ; Elemental compounds
    • C11D3/04—Water-soluble compounds
    • C11D3/044—Hydroxides or bases
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D17/00—Detergent materials or soaps characterised by their shape or physical properties
    • C11D17/0047—Detergents in the form of bars or tablets
    • C11D17/0065—Solid detergents containing builders
    • C11D17/0073—Tablets
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/02—Inorganic compounds ; Elemental compounds
    • C11D3/04—Water-soluble compounds
    • C11D3/06—Phosphates, including polyphosphates
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D7/00—Compositions of detergents based essentially on non-surface-active compounds
    • C11D7/02—Inorganic compounds
    • C11D7/04—Water-soluble compounds
    • C11D7/06—Hydroxides
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D7/00—Compositions of detergents based essentially on non-surface-active compounds
    • C11D7/02—Inorganic compounds
    • C11D7/04—Water-soluble compounds
    • C11D7/10—Salts
    • C11D7/16—Phosphates including polyphosphates

Definitions

  • the institutional detergent market distributes a variety of products for washing silverware, pots and pans, dishes, floors, walls, stainless steel surfaces, tile and other areas.
  • Feed rate is a very important consideration.
  • Delivering consistent feedstock is very important. With a brick formulation, the product consistency can be maintained to a certain extent, but dissolution rate can be slow and, as with many forms, there may also be problems with disposing of the container.
  • U.S. Patent 5,078,306 discloses a bag of detergent tablets wherein the bag is a water soluble material. This product is apparently designed to minimize packaging, but has several significant disadvantages. Primarily, with a water soluble bag, the water will act to dissolve the plastic bag. However, the
  • Powdered cleaning compounds are typically dispensed with water. Given that premature exposure to water tends to increase the caking tendency of powders, clogging of the dispenser and uniform dispensing from powder systems, especially those prone to prolonged periods of inactivity, may be a problem.
  • hydroxide are, of course, very hygroscopic.
  • Typical detergent formulations generally include some free water, and certainly water of hydration from sources such as sodium tripolyphosphate hexahydrate. When tableting, the caustic comes into very close physical proximity to the water. The water is necessary for the tableting to occur at reasonable pressures. But once combined
  • the phosphate sequestrants i.e., sodium tripolyphosphate, anhydrous and hexahydrate
  • any liquid components including all free water.
  • caustic, filler and any bleaching agent are added.
  • the product can then be compressed to form tablets.
  • the hydration reaction is adequately controlled, i.e., the free water is absorbed by the species most capable of retaining it in the presence of caustic, thus reducing the potential for an exothermic reaction and subsequent deterioration of the tablet.
  • cooling can be employed to physically control the temperature of the mixture, thereby preventing an undesirable excessively exothermic reaction. This, however, requires significant cooling time.
  • the present invention is a method of making a high caustic tableted detergent, particularly a ware washing detergent.
  • This ware washing detergent will include a source of caustic, a hardness sequestering system including a hydrated phosphate, low molecular weight water-soluble polymers, non-ionic defoaming surfactants, processing aids and optionally bleaching sources.
  • the caustic source can be sodium or potassium hydroxide with sodium hydroxide preferred.
  • sodium hydroxide preferred.
  • this will include from about 20 to about 70% caustic with about 45% to about 57% caustic being preferred.
  • caustic will be less than fully hydrated and is preferably substantially anhydrous.
  • the hardness sequestering system can be a variety of different chemical components.
  • the primary sequestrants are alkali metal salts of poly phosphates.
  • Optional sequestrants include alkali metal salts of phosphonic acid and of gluconic acid, alkali metal salts of ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), alkali metal salts of nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and alkali metal salts of polycarboxylic acids such as polyacrylic acid, polymaleic acid and mixtures thereof.
  • Phosphates are commonly available in anhydrous or hexahydrate forms. For purposes of the present invention, a mixture of anhydrous and hydrated phosphates is preferred. The composition should include at least 10% hydrated phosphate sequestrant, based on total formulation.
  • the hardness sequestering system of the present invention will form 20 to about 80% of the overall mass of the detergent composition, and preferably about 35 to 40%.
  • the present invention can optionally include a chlorine
  • One preferred chlorine source is dichloroisocyanurate. This is added in amounts of up to 7% by weight.
  • Other bleaching aids are known in the art.
  • the detergent composition may include defoaming surfactants.
  • defoaming surfactants One typical class of anionic defoaming surfactants is the phosphate esters.
  • the defoaming non- ionic surfactant used herein is selected from the group consisting of alcohol alkoxylates, alkyl alkoxylates, block copolymers and mixtures thereof.
  • these nonionic surfactants are prepared by the condensation reaction of a suitable amount of ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide with a selected organic hydrophobic base under suitable oxyalkylation conditions. These reactions are well known and documented in the prior art. Generally, these will have a
  • One such surfactant is an ethylene oxide propylene oxide block copolymer.
  • Commercially available surfactants include Triton CF32, Triton DF12, Plurafac LF131 , Plurafac LF132, Plurafac LF231 , Industrol N3 and Genapol
  • PN30 can be included in an amount from about 0.5 to about 5% with about 1.5% preferred.
  • water-soluble polybasic acids such as polyacrylic acid, polymaleic or polymethacrylic acid or copolymeric acids can be used as sequestering aids, to inhibit growth of calcium carbonate crystals and to improve rinseability.
  • the water-soluble polymer will be a polycarboxylic acid such as polyacrylic acid having a molecular weight of around 5000.
  • the present invention should include from about 1 % to about 4% polyacrylic acid on an actives basis with about 2% preferred.
  • the detergent formulation may also include 1 % to 5% of a polyhydric water soluble alcohol.
  • Suitable water soluble polyhydric alcohols include propylene glycol, ethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, glycerine, pentaerythritol, trimethylol propane, triethanolamine, tri-isopropanol amine and the like. Propylene glycol is preferred. This acts as both a processing aid and a dissolution aid for the tablet, as is discussed below.
  • the present invention will include from about 2 to 10% liquid components, preferably less than 8%. Generally, this can be provided for by the nonionic surfactant, the polyalcohols and/or free water.
  • the formulation should also include 2% to 10% by weight of water of hydration. This also provides for a stronger tablet. Generally, there will be at least 0.5% up to 5% free water in the composition. This can be the
  • solvent for the polymer or surfactant It is preferable to keep the free water less than 5% and the total liquid at less than 10% to keep the product flowable and non-tacky during the tableting.
  • the detergent formulation can include optional ingredients commonly referred to as fillers such as soda ash, the silicates such as sodium and potassium silicate and
  • pol ⁇ silicate and sodium metasilicate and hydrates thereof, alkali metal chloride, alkali metal sulfates and alkali metal bicarbonate.
  • a preferred formulation for use in the present invention includes the following:
  • the sodium tripolyphosphate hexahydrate provides 3.8% water of hydration and the polyacrylic acid provides about 2.3% free water.
  • a very high caustic formula includes: Table 2
  • a third formulation which includes trisodium NTA is shown at Table 3.
  • the phosphates are combined together and mixed in a ribbon or paddle blender.
  • the fillers and other non-hygroscopic materials are not added at this time. Since a very low concentration of the liquid components is being added to the formulation, the liquid components should be combined prior to blending with the sequestrants. Normally, the ethylene oxide propylene oxide block copolym-ur will react with the polyacrylic acid to form a solid or gel. However, mixing the propylene glycol with these two liquid components prevents this reaction.
  • any liquid components such as polyacrylic acid dissolved in water, the nonionic surfactant and the propylene glycol, are thoroughly mixed together and then sprayed evenly on the phosphate with mixing and allowed to soak into the phosphate.
  • the caustic is added, then the fillers and finally the dichloroisocya ⁇ urate. If NTA or EDTA are added, these should generally be added with the fillers, i.e., after the caustic.
  • the temperature be kept at less than 75° C, preferably less than about 50° C and preferably less than 40° C. It is theorized that hydration of the caustic generates heat which, if excessive, will cause the STPP hexahydrate to liberate water, most likely accompanied by the decomposition of the tripolyphosphate anion, which will generate more heat, weakening the tablet. However, by allowing the free water to be effectively completely
  • the detergent blend is then pressed to form tablets using a standard tableting machine.
  • a standard tableting machine suitable for use in the present invention is the Stokes brand tableter.
  • the powder is subjected to 4 to 10 tons pressure.
  • the tablet will have a thickness of about 12 to 13 mm and a diameter of about 20 mm. The maximum diameter will be a function of the dispenser/feed water interface area.
  • the tablets of the end product after being produced do not weaken significantly over time. These can then be used in a typical ware washer apparatus equipped with a water spray detergent dispenser.
  • An initial method of achieving this result is to omit fillers and form the detergent with anhydrous and hydrated sequestrants, along with the previously mentioned liquid components, as shown in Table 2.
  • the phosphates are combined with the liquid component so that any free water present is adsorbed onto the sequestrants.
  • the caustic is then added and the mixture tableted. Again, because the phosphates hold the water relatively tightly, the temperature at all times is maintained at less than 75° C and generally less than 50° C and therefore the hexahydrate will not liberate water which can react with the caustic.
  • the formed tablets do not deteriorate rapidly after formation.
  • the fillers can be combined with the phosphates and the water
  • the formed tablets have a drastically improved storage stability and shelf life.
  • the end products are stronger, which means they are less likely during shipping to break apart and during use they will dissolve more slowly

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EP96905625A 1995-03-22 1996-03-14 Verfahren zur herstellung von hochalkalischen waschmitteltabletten Expired - Lifetime EP0815195B1 (de)

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US40853895A 1995-03-22 1995-03-22
US408538 1995-03-22
PCT/CA1996/000153 WO1996029387A1 (en) 1995-03-22 1996-03-14 Process for forming tableted high-caustic detergent

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AR (1) AR001372A1 (de)
AU (1) AU714999B2 (de)
BR (1) BR9607840A (de)
CA (1) CA2215206C (de)
DE (1) DE69602591T2 (de)
ES (1) ES2132895T3 (de)
TR (1) TR199701002T1 (de)
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