Classifications

• • 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
  • C11D17/0039—Coated compositions or coated components in the compositions, (micro)capsules
• • 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
  • 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
  • C11D17/0078—Multilayered tablets

Definitions

• the invention is in the field of solid washing, rinsing and cleaning agents and relates to new moldings with improved water solubility, which are characterized by a content of disintegrants and special coated anionic surfactants.
• a method is also claimed Production of the moldings which are particularly suitable for tablet production.
• anionic surfactants such as sodium lauryl sulfate
• granules of anionic surfactants have been obtained either by drying the corresponding aqueous solutions or pastes or by direct neutralization of the acidic precursors of the surfactant, ie generally the sulfonic acids or sulfuric acid semiesters.
• the acidic precursors of the surfactant ie generally the sulfonic acids or sulfuric acid semiesters.
• spray mixing processes and drying in the thin layer are suitable. These processes share the task of producing products with a high surfactant content in order to be able to add the surfactants in high concentrations to detergents, dishwashing detergents and cleaning agents.
• Both water-soluble (eg sodium sulfate) and water-insoluble (eg zeolite) additives which serve as carriers, are incorporated into the solids, which are preferably granules.
• Other additives such as defoamers, builders and the like can also be used.
• the additives or additives are distributed essentially homogeneously during the shaping, for example in the manufacture of tablets [cf. eg WO 94/18291, WO 94/18293 (Henkel)].
• Detergent of this type are by no means entirely satisfactory in their properties, but show a strong tendency to stick together and - especially when introduced into the dosing chamber of a washing machine - low solubility in cold water.
• the object of the present invention was therefore to create new moldings, especially tablets for detergents, dishwashing detergents and cleaning agents, based on anionic surfactants have a lower tendency to stick during manufacture and at the same time are characterized by a improved solubility, especially in the dosing chamber of washing machines and in cold water, distinguish or where the proportion of disintegrants are reduced with the same solubility can.
• the invention relates to moldings with improved water solubility, containing surface-active Compounds and disintegrants which are distinguished by the fact that they contain additives, which consist of anionic surfactants as the core and a layer enveloping them, with the proviso that that the coating substances have a water solubility of at least 10 g / l at 20 ° C.
• anionic surfactants which form the core of the coated additives, are Soaps, alkyl benzene sulfonates, alkane sulfonates, olefin sulfonates, alkyl ether sulfonates, glycerol ether sulfonates, ⁇ -methyl ester sulfonates, sulfo fatty acids, alkyl sulfates, fatty alcohol ether sulfates, glycerol ether sulfates, Hydroxy mixed ether sulfates, monoglyceride (ether) sulfates, fatty acid amide (ether) sulfates, mono- and Dialkyl sulfosuccinates, mono- and dialkyl sulfosuccinamates, sulfotriglycerides, amide soaps, ether carboxylic acids and their salts, fatty acid isethionates, fatty
• anionic surfactants contain polyglycol ether chains, these have a conventional, but preferably a narrowed homolog distribution.
• these Preferably are alkyl sulfates, alkyl benzene sulfonates, olefin sulfonates, methyl ester sulfonates and their Mixtures coated.
• Preferred alkylbenzenesulfonates follow the formula (I) in which R stands for a branched, but preferably linear alkyl radical having 10 to 18 carbon atoms, Ph for a phenyl radical and X for an alkali and / or alkaline earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium, alkanolammonium or glucammonium.
• R stands for a branched, but preferably linear alkyl radical having 10 to 18 carbon atoms
• Ph for a phenyl radical
• X for an alkali and / or alkaline earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium, alkanolammonium or glucammonium.
• dodecylbenzenesulfonates, tetradecylbenzenesulfonates, hexadecylbenzenesulfonates and their technical mixtures in the form of the sodium salts are particularly suitable.
• Alkyl and / or alkenyl sulfates which are also often referred to as fatty alcohol sulfates, are to be understood as meaning the sulfation products of primary and / or secondary alcohols, which preferably follow the formula (II) in which R 2 represents a linear or branched, aliphatic alkyl and / or alkenyl radical having 6 to 22, preferably 12 to 18 carbon atoms and Y represents an alkali and / or alkaline earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium, alkanolammonium or glucammonium.
• R 2 represents a linear or branched, aliphatic alkyl and / or alkenyl radical having 6 to 22, preferably 12 to 18 carbon atoms
• Y represents an alkali and / or alkaline earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium, alkanolammonium or glucammonium.
• alkyl sulfates which can be used in the context of the invention are the sulfation products of capron alcohol, caprylic alcohol, capric alcohol, 2-ethylhexyl alcohol, lauryl alcohol, myristyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, palmoleyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, isostearyl alcohol, oleyl alcohol, petroselachcohol, elaidyl alcohol, Behenyl alcohol and erucyl alcohol and their technical mixtures, which are obtained from high pressure hydrogenation of technical methyl ester fractions or aldehydes from Roelen's oxosynthesis.
• the sulfation products can preferably be used in the form of their alkali metal salts and in particular their sodium salts.
• Alkyl sulfates based on C 16/18 tallow fatty alcohols or vegetable fatty alcohols of comparable C chain distribution in the form of their sodium salts are particularly preferred.
• these are oxo alcohols, as are obtainable, for example, by converting carbon monoxide and hydrogen to alpha-olefins using the shop method.
• Such alcohol mixtures are commercially available under the trade names Dobanol® or Neodol®. Suitable alcohol mixtures are Dobanol 91®, 23®, 25®, 45®.
• oxo alcohols such as those obtained after the classic Enichema or Condea oxo process by adding carbon monoxide and hydrogen to olefins.
• These alcohol mixtures are a mixture of strongly branched alcohols.
• Such alcohol mixtures are commercially available under the trade name Lial®.
• Suitable alcohol mixtures are Lial 91®, 111®, 123®, 125®, 145®.
• the additives contain the substances enveloping the anionic surfactant grain - based on solids - preferably in total amounts from 1 to 25, preferably from 5 to 20 and in particular from 10 to 15 % By weight.
• These coating substances are preferably compounds which have a Have water solubility at 20 ° C of at least 50 g / l and in particular 100 g / l and advantageously have further properties that are useful for the overall formulation, such as, for example the complexation of hardness and heavy metal ions.
• the coating can also from the melt as long as the coating substances have the required water solubility after drying exhibit.
• these coating materials can be the salts of inorganic mineral acids .
• these coating materials are the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal salts, aluminum or zinc salts of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, boric acid and silicic acid, in particular the alkali metal sulfate, alkali borates and perborates, the various alkali metal silicates ( Water glasses ”) and alkali phosphates should be mentioned.
• Typical examples are magnesium sulfate heptahydrate or borax.
• the salts of organic carboxylic acids are also suitable. Typical examples are the alkali and / or alkaline earth metal salts, aluminum or zinc salts of monocarboxylic acids with 1 to 22 carbon atoms, such as formic acid, acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, valeric acid, caproic acid, caprylic acid, 2-ethylhexanoic acid.
• the use of sodium acetate is particularly preferred.
• corresponding C 2 -C 6 dicarboxylic acids can also be used, so that the appropriate salts in the same manner as above are the corresponding salts of succinic acid, maleic acid, fumaric acid, glutaric acid and adipic acid.
• salts of hydroxy-functionalized polyvalent carboxylic acids can also be used, such as the above-mentioned salts of malic acid, tartaric acid and in particular citric acid.
• alkali metal citrates is particularly preferred here.
• the third group of suitable coating substances are the water-soluble polymers , which can be, for example, protein hydrolyzates, polyamides, polyacrylates and polyurethanes. Urea and polyurea are also suitable. Saccharides and polysaccharides, such as sucrose, maltose or starch hydrolysates, are also suitable.
• the moldings can contain the coated anionic surfactants in amounts of 1 to 50, preferably 5 to 35 and in particular 10 to 20 wt .-% - based on the moldings.
• the coated anionic surfactants can be manufactured using processes that are already in production of detergents are known and are the subject of a further patent application by the applicant. Basically, the anionic surfactant grain is first dried and optionally granulated a corresponding aqueous solution or paste, which is then mixed with an aqueous Solution of the coating substance is brought into contact. This is preferably done at higher temperatures, whereby the coating substance is deposited on the grain and essentially encloses it.
• the production of the coated anionic surfactants takes place in such a way that one first dries an aqueous solution or paste of the anionic surfactant and forms on it Grain precipitates a coating substance from an aqueous solution or melt, if appropriate while the water evaporates.
• the process has one stage or can be carried out in two stages. In the latter case, you first become an appropriate surfactant solution or paste and dry the dried powder, which in turn is also can trade a conventional market product, then coat. In one stage, preferably continuous processes are either the aqueous surfactant solutions or pastes or the dried surfactant powder used together with the coating agents.
• the drying device into which the surfactant solutions or pastes are introduced, preferably sprayed can be any drying apparatus.
• the drying is carried out as spray drying in a drying tower.
• Aqueous gas solutions or pastes are exposed in a known manner to a drying gas stream in finely divided form.
• Anionic surfactant powders are obtained, which are then intimately mixed with the required amount of coating substances in the form of an aqueous solution in a second step.
• components such as paddle mixers from Lödige or in particular spray mixers from Schugi are advantageous, in which the anionic surfactant powder is placed in the mixing chamber and the aqueous solutions of the coating materials are sprayed on. It is also possible to carry out the drying of the anionic surfactant solutions or pastes and the mixing simultaneously in a fluidized bed dryer.
• a particularly preferred option is then to use the aqueous surfactant precursors in a fluidized bed granulation ( SKET "granulation).
• SKET "granulation” This is to be understood as granulation with simultaneous drying, which is preferably carried out batchwise or continuously.
• the anionic surfactants can be used both in the dried state and as an aqueous preparation.
• the aqueous solutions or melts of the coating materials become simultaneous or introduced one after the other into the fluidized bed via one or more nozzles.
• anionic surfactant powder is continuously blown into a fluidized bed approximately filled with seed material via a nozzle and the coating materials are metered through a second nozzle.
• Fluidized bed apparatuses which are preferably used have base plates with dimensions of 0.4 to 5 m.
• the granulation is preferably carried out at fluidizing air speeds in the range from 1 to 8 m / s.
• the granules are preferably discharged from the fluidized bed via a size classification of the granules.
• the classification can take place, for example, by means of a sieve device or by means of an opposed air flow (classifier air) which is regulated in such a way that only particles of a certain particle size are removed from the fluidized bed and smaller particles are retained in the fluidized bed.
• the inflowing air is usually composed of the heated or unheated classifier air and the heated bottom air.
• the soil air temperature is between 80 and 400, preferably 90 and 350 ° C.
• a starting mass for example an anionic surfactant granulate from an earlier test batch, is advantageously introduced at the start of the granulation.
• the water evaporates from the emulsions or dispersions, producing dried to dried germs, which are coated with further amounts of defoamer, granulated and, in turn, dried at the same time.
• the aqueous solutions of the coating substances can also be used together with the surfactant precursors, but this can lead to some of the coating materials ending up in the grain and the coating of the grain being incomplete.
• disintegrant is to be understood as meaning substances which are added to the shaped bodies in order to accelerate their disintegration when they come into contact with water. Overviews can be found, for example, in J.Pharm.Sci. 61 (1972) or Römpp Chemilexikon, 9th edition, volume 6, p. 4440.
• the disintegrants can be macroscopically distributed homogeneously in the molded body, but microscopically they form zones of increased concentration due to the manufacturing process.
• the preferred disintegrants include polysaccharides, such as, for example, natural starch and its derivatives (carboxymethyl starch, starch glycolates in the form of their alkali salts, agar agar, guar gum, pectins etc.), celluloses and their derivatives (carboxymethyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose), polyvinylpyrrolidone, collidone, alginic acid and their alkali salts, amorphous or also partially crystalline layered silicates (bentonites), polyurethanes, polyethylene glycols and gas-generating systems.
• polysaccharides such as, for example, natural starch and its derivatives (carboxymethyl starch, starch glycolates in the form of their alkali salts, agar agar, guar gum, pectins etc.), celluloses and their derivatives (carboxymethyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose), polyvinylpyrrolidone, collidone, alg
• disintegrants which may be present in the sense of the invention are, for example, the publications WO 98/40462 (Rettenmeyer), WO 98/55583 and WO 98/55590 (Unilever) and WO 98/40463, DE 19709991 and DE 19710254 (Henkel) refer to. Reference is expressly made to the teaching of these writings.
• the moldings can contain the disintegrants in amounts of 0.1 to 25, preferably 1 to 20 and in particular 5 to 15% by weight, based on the moldings.
• the molded articles are generally produced by tableting or press agglomeration.
• the particulate press agglomerates obtained can either be used directly as detergents or aftertreated and / or prepared beforehand by customary methods.
• the usual aftertreatments include, for example, powdering with finely divided ingredients from washing or cleaning agents, which generally further increases the bulk density.
• a preferred aftertreatment is also the procedure according to German patent applications DE 19524287 A1 and DE 19547457 A1 , in which dusty or at least finely divided ingredients (the so-called fine fractions) are adhered to the particulate end products of the process, which serve as the core, and thus give rise to agents , which have these so-called fines as an outer shell. In turn, this advantageously takes place by melting agglomeration.
• the solid detergents are in tablet form, these tablets preferably having rounded corners and edges, in particular for storage and transport reasons.
• the base of these tablets can be circular or rectangular, for example.
• Multi-layer tablets, in particular tablets with 2 or 3 layers, which can also have different colors, are particularly preferred. Blue-white or green-white or blue-green-white tablets are particularly preferred.
• the tablets can also contain pressed and unpressed parts.
• Shaped articles with a particularly advantageous dissolution rate are obtained if the granular constituents of the coated anionic surfactants, before pressing, have a proportion of particles which have a diameter outside the range from 0.02 to 6 mm of less than 20, preferably less than 10,% by weight. % exhibit.
• a particle size distribution in the range from 0.05 to 2.0 and particularly preferably from 0.2 to 1.0 mm is preferred.
• inorganic and organic Builder substances are inorganic and organic Builder substances, whereby as inorganic builder substances mainly zeolites, crystalline Layered silicates and amorphous silicates with builder properties and - where permitted - also phosphates how tripolyphosphates are used.
• the builder substances are preferably in the final formulations in amounts of 10 to 60 wt .-% - based on the agent - included. If the substances are water soluble are, at the same time, they can also be used as envelopes for the inclusion of the surfactant grain. This applies, for example, to the silicates, dextrins, polyacrylates and the like described below to.
• the fine crystalline, synthetic and bound water-containing zeolite which is frequently used as a detergent builder is preferably zeolite A and / or P.
• zeolite P for example, zeolite MAP (R) (commercial product from Crosfield) is particularly preferred.
• zeolite X and mixtures of A, X and / or P and Y are also suitable.
• a cocrystallized sodium / potassium aluminum silicate made of zeolite A and zeolite X, which as VEGOBOND AX® (commercial product from Condea Augusta SpA) is commercially available.
• the zeolite can be used as a spray-dried powder or as an undried stabilized suspension that is still moist from its manufacture.
• the zeolite may contain minor additions of nonionic surfactants as stabilizers, for example 1 to 3% by weight, based on zeolite, of ethoxylated C 12 -C 18 fatty alcohols with 2 to 5 ethylene oxide groups , C 12 -C 14 fatty alcohols with 4 to 5 ethylene oxide groups or ethoxylated isotridecanols.
• Suitable zeolites have an average particle size of less than 10 ⁇ m (volume distribution; measurement method: Coulter Counter) and preferably contain 18 to 22% by weight, in particular 20 to 22% by weight, of bound water.
• Suitable substitutes or partial substitutes for phosphates and zeolites are crystalline, layered sodium silicates of the general formula NaMSi x O 2x + 1 .yH 2 O, where M is sodium or hydrogen, x is a number from 1.9 to 4 and y is a number from 0 to 20 and preferred values for x are 2, 3 or 4.
• Such crystalline layered silicates are described, for example, in European patent application EP 0164514 A1 .
• Preferred crystalline layered silicates of the formula given are those in which M represents sodium and x assumes the values 2 or 3.
• both ⁇ - and ⁇ -sodium disilicate Na 2 Si 2 O 5 .yH 2 O are preferred, it being possible, for example, to obtain ⁇ -sodium disilicate by the process described in international patent application WO 91/08171 .
• Further suitable layered silicates are known, for example, from patent applications DE 2334899 A1, EP 0026529 A1 and DE 3526405 A1 . Their usability is not limited to a special composition or structural formula. However, smectites, in particular bentonites, are preferred here.
• small amounts of iron can be incorporated into the crystal lattice of the layered silicates according to the above formulas.
• the layered silicates can contain hydrogen, alkali, alkaline earth ions, in particular Na + and Ca 2+ .
• the amount of water of hydration is usually in the range of 8 to 20% by weight and depends on the swelling condition or the type of processing.
• Useful layer silicates are known, for example, from US 3,966,629, US 4,062,647, EP 0026529 A1 and EP 0028432 A1 .
• Layer silicates are preferably used which are largely free of calcium ions and strongly coloring iron ions due to an alkali treatment.
• the preferred builder substances also include amorphous sodium silicates with a modulus Na 2 O: SiO 2 from 1: 2 to 1: 3.3, preferably from 1: 2 to 1: 2.8 and in particular from 1: 2 to 1: 2, 6, which are delayed release and have secondary washing properties.
• the delay in dissolution compared to conventional amorphous sodium silicates can be caused in various ways, for example by surface treatment, compounding, compacting / compression or by overdrying.
• the term “amorphous” is also understood to mean “X-ray amorphous”.
• silicates in X-ray diffraction experiments do not provide sharp X-ray reflections, as are typical for crystalline substances, but at most one or more maxima of the scattered X-rays, which have a width of several degree units of the diffraction angle.
• it can very well lead to particularly good builder properties if the silicate particles deliver washed-out or even sharp diffraction maxima in electron diffraction experiments. This is to be interpreted as meaning that the products have microcrystalline areas of size 10 to a few hundred nm, values up to max. 50 nm and in particular up to max. 20 nm are preferred.
• Such so-called X-ray amorphous silicates which also have a delay in dissolution compared to conventional water glasses, are described, for example, in German patent application DE 4400024 A1 .
• Compacted / compacted amorphous silicates, compounded amorphous silicates and over-dried X-ray amorphous silicates are particularly preferred.
• phosphates As builders, provided that such use should not be avoided for ecological reasons.
• the sodium salts of orthophosphates, pyrophosphates and in particular tripolyphosphates are particularly suitable. Their content is generally not more than 25% by weight, preferably not more than 20% by weight, in each case based on the finished composition. In some cases, it has been shown that tripolyphosphates in particular, even in small amounts up to a maximum of 10% by weight, based on the finished agent, in combination with other builder substances lead to a synergistic improvement in the secondary washing ability.
• Usable organic builders are, for example, the polycarboxylic acids that can be used in the form of their sodium salts, such as citric acid, adipic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, tartaric acid, sugar acids, aminocarboxylic acids, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), as long as such use is not objectionable for ecological reasons, and mixtures of these.
• Preferred salts are the salts of polycarboxylic acids such as citric acid, adipic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, tartaric acid, sugar acids and mixtures of these. The acids themselves can also be used.
• the acids typically also have the property of an acidifying component and thus also serve to set a lower and milder pH value of detergents or cleaning agents.
• Citric acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, adipic acid, gluconic acid and any mixtures thereof can be mentioned in particular.
• dextrins for example oligomers or polymers of carbohydrates, which can be obtained by partial hydrolysis of starches.
• the hydrolysis can be carried out by customary processes, for example acid-catalyzed or enzyme-catalyzed. They are preferably hydrolysis products with average molecular weights in the range from 400 to 500,000.
• DE dextrose equivalent
• Both maltodextrins with a DE between 3 and 20 and dry glucose syrups with a DE between 20 and 37 as well as so-called yellow dextrins and white dextrins with higher molar masses in the range from 2,000 to 30,000 can be used.
• a preferred dextrin is described in British patent application GB 9419091 A1 .
• the oxidized derivatives of such dextrins are their reaction products with oxidizing agents which are capable of oxidizing at least one alcohol function of the saccharide ring to the carboxylic acid function.
• Such oxidized dextrins and processes for their preparation are known, for example, from European patent applications EP 0232202 A1, EP 0427349 A1, EP 0472042 A1 and EP 0542496 A1 as well as from international patent applications WO 92/18542, WO 93/08251, WO 93/16110, WO 94 / 28030, WO 95/07303, WO 95112619 and WO 95/20608 are known.
• An oxidized oligosaccharide according to German patent application DE 19600018 A1 is also suitable.
• a product oxidized at C 6 of the saccharide ring can be particularly advantageous.
• Suitable cobuilders are oxydisuccinates and other derivatives of disuccinates, preferably ethylenediamine disuccinate .
• glycerol disuccinates and glycerol trisuccinates are particularly preferred in this context, as described, for example, in US Pat. Nos . 4,524,009, 4,639,325 , in European patent application EP 0150930 A1 and in Japanese patent application JP 93/339896 .
• Suitable amounts used in formulations containing zeolite and / or silicate are 3 to 15% by weight.
• organic cobuilders are, for example, acetylated hydroxycarboxylic acids or their salts, which may also be in lactone form and which contain at least 4 carbon atoms and at least one hydroxyl group and a maximum of two acid groups.
• Such cobuilders are described, for example, in international patent application WO 95/20029 .
• Suitable polymeric polycarboxylates are, for example, the sodium salts of polyacrylic acid or polymethacrylic acid, for example those with a relative molecular weight of 800 to 150,000 (based on acid and measured in each case against polystyrene sulfonic acid).
• Suitable copolymeric polycarboxylates are, in particular, those of acrylic acid with methacrylic acid and of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with maleic acid. Copolymers of acrylic acid with maleic acid which contain 50 to 90% by weight of acrylic acid and 50 to 10% by weight of maleic acid have proven to be particularly suitable.
• the relative molecular weight, based on free acids, is generally 5,000 to 200,000, preferably 10,000 to 120,000 and in particular 50,000 to 100,000 (measured in each case against polystyrene sulfonic acid).
• the (co) polymeric polycarboxylates can be used either as a powder or as an aqueous solution, with 20 to 55% by weight aqueous solutions being preferred.
• Granular polymers are usually subsequently mixed into one or more basic granules.
• biodegradable polymers composed of more than two different monomer units, for example those which, according to DE 4300772 A1, as salts of acrylic acid and maleic acid as well as vinyl alcohol or vinyl alcohol derivatives or as DE 4221381 C2 as monomer salts of acrylic acid and the 2-alkylallylsulfonic acid and sugar derivatives.
• Further preferred copolymers are those which are described in German patent applications DE 4303320 A1 and DE 4417734 A1 and which preferably have acrolein and acrylic acid / acrylic acid salts or acrolein and vinyl acetate as monomers.
• polymeric aminodicarboxylic acids their salts or their precursor substances. Polyaspartic acids or their salts and derivatives are particularly preferred.
• polyacetals which can be obtained by reacting dialdehydes with polyolcarboxylic acids which have 5 to 7 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups, for example as described in European patent application EP 0280223 A1 .
• Preferred polyacetals are obtained from dialdehydes such as glyoxal, glutaraldehyde, terephthalaldehyde and their mixtures and from polyol carboxylic acids such as gluconic acid and / or glucoheptonic acid.
• the agents can also contain components that make the oil and fat washable made of textiles.
• the preferred oil and fat dissolving components include, for example nonionic cellulose ethers such as methyl cellulose and methyl hydroxypropyl cellulose a proportion of methoxyl groups from 15 to 30 wt .-% and of hydroxypropoxyl groups from 1 to 15% by weight, based in each case on the nonionic cellulose ether, and those from the prior art Polymers of phthalic acid and / or terephthalic acid or their derivatives known in the art, in particular polymers of ethylene terephthalates and / or polyethylene glycol terephthalates or anionic and / or nonionically modified derivatives of these. Of these are particularly preferred the sulfonated derivatives of phthalic acid and terephthalic acid polymers.
• Suitable ingredients of the agents are water-soluble inorganic salts such as bicarbonates, carbonates, amorphous silicates, normal water glasses, which have no outstanding builder properties, or mixtures of these; in particular, alkali carbonate and / or amorphous alkali silicate, especially sodium silicate with a molar ratio Na 2 O: SiO 2 of 1: 1 to 1: 4.5, preferably of 1: 2 to 1: 3.5, are used.
• the content of sodium carbonate in the final preparations is preferably up to 40% by weight, advantageously between 2 and 35% by weight.
• the content of sodium silicate in the agents (without special builder properties) is generally up to 10% by weight and preferably between 1 and 8% by weight.
• the agents can be other known detergents, dishwashing detergents and cleaning agents commonly used additives, for example salts of polyphosphonic acids, optical brighteners, enzymes, enzyme stabilizers, small amounts of neutral filling salts as well as color and Contain fragrances, opacifiers or pearlescent agents.
• bleaching agents which serve as bleaching agents and supply H 2 O 2 in water
• sodium perborate tetrahydrate and sodium perborate monohydrate are of particular importance.
• Further bleaching agents which can be used are, for example, sodium percarbonate, peroxypyrophosphates, citrate perhydrates and H 2 O 2 -producing peracid salts or peracids, such as perbenzoates, peroxophthalates, diperazelaic acid, phthaloiminoperacid or diperdodecanedioic acid.
• the bleaching agent content of the agents is preferably 5 to 35% by weight and in particular up to 30% by weight, advantageously using perborate monohydrate or percarbonate.
• Bleach activators which can be used are compounds which, under perhydrolysis conditions, give aliphatic peroxocarboxylic acids having preferably 1 to 10 C atoms, in particular 2 to 4 C atoms, and / or optionally substituted perbenzoic acid. Suitable substances are those which carry O- and / or N-acyl groups of the number of carbon atoms mentioned and / or optionally substituted benzoyl groups.
• Multi-acylated alkylenediamines in particular tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED), acylated triazine derivatives, in particular 1,5-diacetyl-2,4-dioxohexahydro-1,3,5-triazine (DADHT), acylated glycolurils, in particular tetraacetylglycoluril (TAGU), N- Acylimides, in particular N-nonanoylsuccinimide (NOSI), acylated phenolsulfonates, in particular n-nonanoyl- or isononanoyloxybenzenesulfonate (n- or iso-NOBS), carboxylic acid anhydrides, in particular phthalic anhydride, acylated polyhydric alcohols, in particular triacetyloxy, 2,5-acetiacetyl, ethylene glycol 2,5-dihydrofuran and the enol esters known
• hydrophilically substituted acylacetals known from German patent application DE 19616769 A1 and the acyl lactams described in German patent application DE 196 16 770 and international patent application WO 95/14075 are also preferably used.
• the combinations of conventional bleach activators known from German patent application DE 4443177 A1 can also be used. Bleach activators of this type are present in the customary quantitative range, preferably in amounts of 1% by weight to 10% by weight, in particular 2% by weight to 8% by weight, based on the total agent.
• the sulfonimines and / or bleach-enhancing transition metal salts or transition metal complexes known from European patents EP 0446982 B1 and EP 0453 003 B1 can also be present as so-called bleaching catalysts.
• the transition metal compounds in question include in particular the manganese, iron, cobalt, ruthenium or molybdenum-salt complexes known from German patent application DE 19529905 A1 and their N-analog compounds known from German patent application DE 19620267 A1 , which are known from German Patent application DE 19536082 A1 known manganese, iron, cobalt, ruthenium or molybdenum carbonyl complexes, the manganese, iron, cobalt, ruthenium, molybdenum, titanium, vanadium described in German patent application DE 196 05 688 - and copper complexes with nitrogen-containing tripod ligands known from the German patent application DE 19620411 A1 cobalt, iron, copper and ruthenium-ammine complexes, the manganese described in the German patent application DE 4416438 A1, copper and cobalt complexes, the cobalt complexes described in European patent application EP 0272030 A1, which are known from the European patent application EP 0693550 A1 manganes
• Bleach-enhancing transition metal complexes in particular with the central atoms Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Mo, V, Ti and / or Ru, are used in customary amounts, preferably in an amount of up to 1% by weight, in particular 0.0025% by weight. % to 0.25% by weight and particularly preferably from 0.01% by weight to 0.1% by weight, in each case based on the total agent.
• Particularly suitable enzymes are those from the class of hydrolases, such as proteases, esterases, lipases or lipolytically active enzymes, amylases, cellulases or other glycosyl hydrolases and mixtures of the enzymes mentioned. All of these hydrolases contribute to the removal of stains, such as stains containing protein, fat or starch, and graying in the laundry. By removing pilling and microfibrils, cellulases and other glycosyl hydrolases can help maintain color and increase the softness of the textile. Oxidoreductases can also be used for bleaching or for inhibiting color transfer.
• hydrolases such as proteases, esterases, lipases or lipolytically active enzymes, amylases, cellulases or other glycosyl hydrolases and mixtures of the enzymes mentioned. All of these hydrolases contribute to the removal of stains, such as stains containing protein, fat or starch, and graying in the laundry. By removing pilling and micro
• Enzymes obtained from bacterial strains or fungi such as Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis, Streptomyces griseus and Humicola insolens are particularly suitable.
• Proteases of the subtilisin type and in particular proteases which are obtained from Bacillus lentus are preferably used.
• Enzyme mixtures for example, from protease and amylase or protease and lipase or lipolytically active enzymes or protease and cellulase or from cellulase and lipase or lipolytically active enzymes or from protease, amylase and lipase or lipolytically active enzymes or protease, lipase or lipolytic enzymes and cellulase, but especially protease- and / or lipase-containing mixtures or mixtures with lipolytic enzymes of particular interest.
• Known cutinases are examples of such lipolytically active enzymes.
• Peroxidases or oxidases have also proven to be suitable in some cases.
• Suitable amylases include in particular ⁇ -amylases, iso-amylases, pullulanases and pectinases.
• Cellobiohydrolases, endoglucanases and ⁇ -glucosidases, which are also called cellobiases, or mixtures thereof, are preferably used as cellulases. Since the different cellulase types differ in their CMCase and avicelase activities, the desired activities can be set by targeted mixtures of the cellulases.
• the enzymes can be adsorbed on carriers and / or embedded in coating substances around them protect against premature decomposition.
• the percentage of enzymes, enzyme mixtures or enzyme granules can be, for example, about 0.1 to 5% by weight, preferably 0.1 to about 2% by weight.
• the agents can contain further enzyme stabilizers .
• enzyme stabilizers 0.5 to 1% by weight sodium formate can be used.
• proteases which are stabilized with soluble calcium salts and a calcium content of preferably about 1.2% by weight, based on the enzyme.
• calcium salts magnesium salts also serve as stabilizers.
• boron compounds for example boric acid, boron oxide, borax and other alkali metal borates such as the salts of orthoboric acid (H 3 BO 3 ), metaboric acid (HBO 2 ) and pyrobic acid (tetraboric acid H 2 B 4 O 7 ), is particularly advantageous.
• Graying inhibitors have the task of keeping the dirt detached from the fiber suspended in the liquor and thus preventing the dirt from being re-absorbed.
• Water-soluble colloids of mostly organic nature are suitable for this, for example the water-soluble salts of polymeric carboxylic acids, glue, gelatin, salts of ether carboxylic acids or ether sulfonic acids of starch or cellulose or salts of acidic sulfuric acid esters of cellulose or starch.
• Water-soluble polyamides containing acidic groups are also suitable for this purpose. Soluble starch preparations and starch products other than those mentioned above can also be used, for example degraded starch, aldehyde starches, etc. Polyvinylpyrrolidone can also be used.
• cellulose ethers such as carboxymethyl cellulose (sodium salt), methyl cellulose, hydroxyalkyl cellulose and mixed ethers, such as methyl hydroxyethyl cellulose, methyl hydroxypropyl cellulose, methyl carboxymethyl cellulose and mixtures thereof, and polyvinylpyrrolidone, for example in amounts of 0.1 to 5% by weight, based on the detergent, are preferred used.
• the agents can contain derivatives of diaminostilbenedisulfonic acid or its alkali metal salts. Suitable are, for example, salts of 4,4'-bis (2-anilino-4-morpholino-1,3,5-triazinyl-6-amino) stilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid or compounds of similar structure which instead of the morpholino- Group carry a diethanolamino group, a methylamino group, anilino group or a 2-methoxyethylamino group.
• Brighteners of the substituted diphenylstyryl type may also be present, for example the alkali salts of 4,4'-bis (2-sulfostyryl) diphenyl, 4,4'-bis (4-chloro-3-sulfostyryl) diphenyl, or 4- (4-chlorostyryl) -4 '- (2-sulfostyryl) diphenyl. Mixtures of the aforementioned brighteners can also be used.
• Uniformly white granules are obtained if, in addition to the usual brighteners, the agents are present in customary amounts, for example between 0.1 and 0.5% by weight, preferably between 0.1 and 0.3% by weight, and also in small amounts, for example Contain 10 -6 to 10 -3 wt .-%, preferably by 10 -5 wt .-%, of a blue dye.
• a particularly preferred dye is Tinolux® (commercial product from Ciba-Geigy).
• dirt-repellent polymers are those substances which preferably contain ethylene terephthalate and / or polyethylene glycol terephthalate groups, the molar ratio of ethylene terephthalate to polyethylene glycol terephthalate being in the range from 50:50 to 90:10 .
• the molecular weight of the linking polyethylene glycol units is in particular in the range of 750 to 5000, ie the degree of ethoxylation of the polymers containing polyethylene glycol groups can be approximately 15 to 100.
• the polymers are characterized by an average molecular weight of approximately 5000 to 200,000 and can have a block, but preferably a random structure with molar ratios of ethylene terephthalate / polyethylene glycol terephthalate from about 65:35 to about 90:10, preferably from about 70:30 to 80:20. Also preferred are those polymers which have linking polyethylene glycol units with a molecular weight of 750 to 5000, preferably of 1000 to about 3000 and a molecular weight of the polymer from about 10,000 to about 50,000. Examples of commercially available polymers are the products Milease® T (ICI) or Repelotex® SRP 3 (Rhône-Poulenc).
• Wax-like compounds can be used as defoamers .
• “Waxy” are understood to mean those compounds which have a melting point at atmospheric pressure above 25 ° C. (room temperature), preferably above 50 ° C. and in particular above 70 ° C.
• the wax-like defoamer substances are practically insoluble in water, ie at 20 ° C. a solubility of less than 0.1% by weight in 100 g of water. In principle, all wax-like defoamer substances known from the prior art can be present.
• Suitable wax-like compounds are, for example, bisamides, fatty alcohols, fatty acids, carboxylic acid esters of mono- and polyhydric alcohols and paraffin waxes or mixtures thereof, or alternatively the silicone compounds known for this purpose can of course also be used.
• Suitable paraffin waxes generally represent a complex mixture of substances without a sharp melting point. For characterization, one usually determines its melting range by differential thermal analysis (DTA), as described in "The Analyst” 87 (1962), 420 , and / or its solidification point . This is the temperature at which the paraffin changes from the liquid to the solid state by slow cooling. Paraffins which are completely liquid at room temperature, that is to say those having a solidification point below 25 ° C., cannot be used according to the invention. For example, the paraffin wax mixtures known from EP 0309931 A1 of, for example, 26% by weight to 49% by weight of microcrystalline paraffin wax with a solidification point of 62 ° C.
• paraffins or paraffin mixtures which solidify in the range from 30 ° C. to 90 ° C. are preferably used. It should be noted that even paraffin wax mixtures that appear solid at room temperature can contain different proportions of liquid paraffin.
• this liquid fraction is as low as possible and is preferably absent entirely.
• Particularly preferred paraffin wax mixtures at 30 ° C have a liquid fraction of less than 10% by weight, in particular from 2% by weight to 5% by weight, at 40 ° C a liquid fraction of less than 30% by weight, preferably of 5 % By weight to 25% by weight and in particular from 5% by weight to 15% by weight, at 60 ° C. a liquid fraction of 30% by weight to 60% by weight, in particular 40% by weight % to 55% by weight, at 80 ° C a liquid content of 80% by weight to 100% by weight, and at 90 ° C a liquid content of 100% by weight.
• the temperature at which a liquid content of 100% by weight of the paraffin wax is reached is still below 85 ° C. in particularly preferred paraffin wax mixtures, in particular at 75 ° C. to 82 ° C.
• the paraffin waxes can be petrolatum, microcrystalline waxes or hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated paraffin waxes.
• Suitable bisamides as defoamers are those which are derived from saturated fatty acids with 12 to 22, preferably 14 to 18 C atoms and from alkylenediamines with 2 to 7 C atoms.
• Suitable fatty acids are lauric acid, myristic acid, stearic acid, arachic acid and behenic acid and mixtures thereof, as can be obtained from natural fats or hydrogenated oils, such as tallow or hydrogenated palm oil.
• Suitable diamines are, for example, ethylenediamine, 1,3-propylenediamine, tetramethylenediamine, pentamethylenediamine, hexamethylenediamine, p-phenylenediamine and toluenediamine.
• Preferred diamines are ethylenediamine and hexamethylenediamine.
• Particularly preferred bisamides are bismyristoylethylene diamine, bispalmitoylethylene diamine, bisstearoylethylene diamine and mixtures thereof and the corresponding derivatives of hexamethylene diamine.
• Suitable carboxylic acid esters as defoamers are derived from carboxylic acids with 12 to 28 carbon atoms.
• these are esters of behenic acid, stearic acid, hydroxystearic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, myristic acid and / or lauric acid.
• the alcohol part of the carboxylic acid ester contains a mono- or polyhydric alcohol with 1 to 28 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbon chain.
• suitable alcohols are behenyl alcohol, arachidyl alcohol, coconut alcohol, 12-hydroxystearyl alcohol, oleyl alcohol and lauryl alcohol as well as ethylene glycol, glycerin, polyvinyl alcohol, sucrose, erythritol, pentaerythritol, sorbitan and / or sorbitol.
• Preferred esters are those of ethylene glycol, glycerol and sorbitan, the acid part of the ester being selected in particular from behenic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid or mystonic acid.
• Eligible esters of polyhydric alcohols are, for example, xylitol monopalmitate, pentarythritol monostearate, glycerol monostearate, ethylene glycol monostearate and sorbitan monostearate, sorbitan palmitate, sorbitan monolaurate, sorbitan dilaurate, sorbitan dististearate, sorbitan dandghenoate and mixed sorbitan dibehenate, and sorbitan dandebehenate, and sorbitan dandebehenate, and sorbitan dandebehenate, as well as sorbitan dandebehenate and mixed sorbitan dibehenate.
• Glycerol esters which can be used are the mono-, di- or triesters of glycerol and the carboxylic acids mentioned, the mono- or diesters being preferred. Glycerol monostearate, glycerol monooleate, glycerol monopalmitate, glycerol monobehenate and glycerol distearate are examples of this.
• Suitable natural esters as defoamers are beeswax, which mainly consists of the esters CH 3 (CH 2 ) 24 COO (CH 2 ) 27 CH 3 and CH 3 (CH 2 ) 26 COO (CH 2 ) 25 CH 3 , and camauba wax , which is a mixture of camauba acid alkyl esters, often in combination with small amounts of free carnauba acid, other long-chain acids, high molecular weight alcohols and hydrocarbons.
• Suitable carboxylic acids as a further defoamer compound are, in particular, behenic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, myristic acid and lauric acid and mixtures thereof, as can be obtained from natural fats or optionally hardened oils, such as tallow or hydrogenated palm oil. Saturated fatty acids with 12 to 22, in particular 18 to 22, carbon atoms are preferred.
• Suitable fatty alcohols as a further defoamer compound are the hydrogenated products of the fatty acids described.
• Dialkyl ethers may also be present as defoamers.
• the ethers can be constructed asymmetrically or symmetrically, ie contain two identical or different alkyl chains, preferably with 8 to 18 carbon atoms. Typical examples are di-n-octyl ether, di-i-octyl ether and di-n-stearyl ether; dialkyl ethers which have a melting point above 25 ° C., in particular above 40 ° C., are particularly suitable.
• Suitable defoamer compounds are fatty ketones , which can be obtained by the relevant methods of preparative organic chemistry. For their preparation, one starts, for example, from carboxylic acid magnesium salts which are pyrolyzed at temperatures above 300 ° C. with the elimination of carbon dioxide and water, for example according to the German laid-open specification DE 2553900 OS .
• Suitable fat ketones are those which are prepared by pyrolysis of the magnesium salts of lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, elaidic acid, petroselinic acid, arachic acid, gadoleic acid, behenic acid or erucic acid.
• Suitable defoamers are fatty acid polyethylene glycol esters , which are preferably obtained by base-homogeneously catalyzed addition of ethylene oxide to fatty acids.
• the addition of ethylene oxide to the fatty acids takes place in the presence of alkanolamines as catalysts.
• alkanolamines especially triethanolamine, leads to an extremely selective ethoxylation of the fatty acids, especially when it comes to producing low-ethoxylated compounds.
• those with a melting point above 25 ° C, especially above 40 are preferred ° C.
• the paraffin waxes described are particularly preferably used alone as wax-like defoamers or in a mixture with one of the other wax-like defoamers, the proportion of paraffin waxes in the mixture preferably making up more than 50% by weight, based on the wax-like defoamer mixture.
• the paraffin waxes can be applied to carriers if necessary. All known inorganic and / or organic carrier materials are suitable as carrier materials. Examples of typical inorganic carrier materials are alkali carbonates, aluminosilicates, water-soluble sheet silicates, alkali silicates, alkali sulfates, for example sodium sulfate, and alkali phosphates.
• the alkali silicates are preferably a compound with a molar ratio of alkali oxide to SiO 2 of 1: 1.5 to 1: 3.5.
• the use of such silicates results in particularly good grain properties, in particular high abrasion stability and nevertheless high dissolution rate in water.
• the aluminosilicates referred to as carrier material include, in particular, the zeolites, for example zeolite NaA and NaX.
• the compounds referred to as water-soluble layered silicates include, for example, amorphous or crystalline water glass. Silicates which are commercially available under the name Aerosil® or Sipernat® can also be used.
• suitable organic carrier materials are film-forming polymers, for example polyvinyl alcohols, polyvinyl pyrrolidones, poly (meth) acrylates, polycarboxylates, cellulose derivatives and starch.
• Usable cellulose ethers are, in particular, alkali carboxymethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, ethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose and so-called cellulose mixed ethers, such as, for example, methyl hydroxyethyl cellulose and methyl hydroxypropyl cellulose, and mixtures thereof.
• Particularly suitable mixtures are composed of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and methyl cellulose, the carboxymethyl cellulose usually having a degree of substitution of 0.5 to 0.8 carboxymethyl groups per anhydroglucose unit and the methyl cellulose having a degree of substitution of 1.2 to 2 methyl groups per anhydroglucose unit.
• the mixtures preferably contain alkali carboxymethyl cellulose and nonionic cellulose ethers in weight ratios from 80:20 to 40:60, in particular from 75:25 to 50:50.
• native starch which is composed of amylose and amylopectin. Starch is referred to as native starch, as it is available as an extract from natural sources, for example from rice, potatoes, corn and wheat.
• Carrier materials which can be used individually or more than one of the abovementioned compounds, in particular selected from the group of alkali metal carbonates, alkali metal sulfates, alkali metal phosphates, zeolites, water-soluble sheet silicates, alkali metal silicates, polycarboxylates, cellulose ethers, polyacrylate / polymethacrylate and starch.
• alkali carbonates in particular sodium carbonate, alkali silicates, in particular sodium silicate, alkali sulfates, in particular sodium sulfate and zeolites are particularly suitable.
• Suitable silicones are conventional organopolysiloxanes, which can have a content of finely divided silica, which in turn can also be silanized. Such organopolysiloxanes are described, for example, in European patent application EP 0496510 A1 . Polydiorganosiloxanes which are known from the prior art are particularly preferred. However, compounds crosslinked via siloxane can also be used, as are known to the person skilled in the art under the name silicone resins. As a rule, the polydiorganosiloxanes contain finely divided silica, which can also be silanized. Silica-containing dimethylpolysiloxanes are particularly suitable.
• the polydiorganosiloxanes advantageously have a Brookfield viscosity at 25 ° C. in the range from 5,000 mPas to 30,000 mPas, in particular from 15,000 to 25,000 mPas.
• the silicones are preferably applied to carrier materials. Suitable carrier materials have already been described in connection with the paraffins.
• the carrier materials are generally present in amounts of 40 to 90% by weight, preferably in amounts of 45 to 75% by weight, based on defoamers.
• fragrance compounds for example the synthetic products of the ester, ether, aldehyde, ketone, alcohol and hydrocarbon type, can be used as perfume oils or fragrances .
• Fragrance compounds of the ester type are, for example, benzyl acetate, phenoxyethyl isobutyrate, p-tert-butylcyclohexyl acetate, linalyl acetate, dimethylbenzylcarbinyl acetate, phenylethyl acetate, linalyl benzoate, benzyl formate, ethyl methylphenylglycinate, allylcyclohexylpropylatepylatepylatepylatepionate, stally.
• the ethers include, for example, benzyl ethyl ether
• the aldehydes include, for example, the linear alkanals with 8-18 C atoms, citral, citronellal, citronellyloxyacetaldehyde, cyclamenaldehyde, hydroxycitronellal, lilial and bourgeonal
• the ketones include, for example, the jonones, ⁇ -isomethylionone and methylcedryl ketone the alcohols anethole, citronellol, eugenol, geraniol, linalool, phenylethyl alcohol and terpineol
• the hydrocarbons mainly include the terpenes such as limonene and pinene.
• Perfume oils of this type can also contain natural fragrance mixtures such as are obtainable from plant sources, for example pine, citrus, jasmine, patchouly, rose or ylang-ylang oil. Also suitable are muscatel, sage oil, chamomile oil, clove oil, lemon balm, mint oil, cinnamon leaf oil, linden blossom oil, juniper berry oil, vetiver oil, olibanum oil, galbanum oil and labdanum oil as well as orange blossom oil, neroliol, orange peel oil and sandalwood oil.
• the fragrances can be incorporated directly into the agents according to the invention, but they can also be advantageous to apply the fragrances on carriers, which the perfume adheres to the laundry intensify and ensure a long-lasting fragrance of the textiles through a slower fragrance release.
• Cyclodextrins for example, have proven successful as such carrier materials, the cyclodextrin-perfume complexes can also be coated with other auxiliaries.
• the final preparations can also contain inorganic salts as fillers or fillers, such as sodium sulfate, which is preferably present in amounts of 0 to 10, in particular 1 to 5% by weight, based on the composition.
• inorganic salts such as sodium sulfate, which is preferably present in amounts of 0 to 10, in particular 1 to 5% by weight, based on the composition.
• a fluidized bed was filled with powdered dodecylbenzenesulfonate sodium salt as the seed material with up to 70% of the fluidized bed capacity. Subsequently, at a soil air temperature of 160 ° C. (ie a temperature of approx. 95 ° C. in the fluidized bed), further surfactant powder was introduced continuously using a first nozzle. A 50% by weight aqueous sodium acetate solution was introduced through a second nozzle to coat the surfactant grain. The material flows were adjusted by regularly checking the discharged and classified coated granules from the fluidized bed in such a way that the acetate content in the end product was 42% by weight.
• Example H2 was repeated using powdered coconut alcohol sulfate sodium salt (Sulfopon® 1218 G, Cognis GmbH, Dusseldorf / FRG). The coating was carried out with a 37% by weight aqueous solution of sodium citrate dihydrate. The material flows were adjusted so that the content of sodium citrate in the end product was 20% by weight.
• the two coated anionic surfactant granules H1 and H2 and the two uncoated starting materials were used in detergent formulations.
• the preparations were pressed into tablets (weight 40 g), packed airtight and then stored at 40 ° C. for 2 weeks.
• the composition of the detergent tablets is shown in Table 1.
• Formulations 1 and 2 are according to the invention, formulations V1 and V2 are used for comparison.
• To assess the dissolution behavior the tablets were placed on a wire frame which was in water (0 ° d, 25 ° C). The tablets were completely surrounded by water. The disintegration time from immersion to complete dissolution was measured. The disintegration times are also shown in Table 1.
• Test formulation for detergent tablets and solubility tests (figures in% by weight, water ad 100%) composition 1 2nd V1 V2 Anionic surfactant granules H1 13.4 - - - Anionic surfactant granules H2 - 9.2 - - Dodecylbenzenesulfonate sodium salt - - 7.8 - Coconut alcohol sulfate sodium salt - - - 7.4 C 12/18 coconut fatty alcohol + 7EO 6.2 6.2 6.2 Palm kernel fatty acid sodium salt 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 Sodium sulfate 22.2 22.2 22.2 22.2 Sodium silicate 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 Sodium percarbonate 12.0 12.0 12.0 12.0 Microcrystalline cellulose 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 Zeolite A 24.0 24.0 24.0 24.0 TAED 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3 Dehydran®

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