GB1593111A - Use of dicarboxylic acid esters as antifoam additives in mineral-acid-containing cationic cleaning composition - Google Patents

Use of dicarboxylic acid esters as antifoam additives in mineral-acid-containing cationic cleaning composition Download PDF

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GB1593111A
GB1593111A GB5207/78A GB520778A GB1593111A GB 1593111 A GB1593111 A GB 1593111A GB 5207/78 A GB5207/78 A GB 5207/78A GB 520778 A GB520778 A GB 520778A GB 1593111 A GB1593111 A GB 1593111A
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
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(54) USE OF DICARBOXYLIC ACID ESTERS AS ANTI FOAM ADDITIVES IN MINERAL-ACID CONTAINING CATIONIC CLEANING COMPOSITIONS (71) We, BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, a German Joint Stock Company of 6700 Ludwigshafen, Federal Republic of Germany, do hereby declare the invention, for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement:- The present invention relates to the use of esters as antifoam additives in mineral-acid-containing cationic cleaning compositions.
In general, cationic compounds containing quaternary ammonium groups are used for the disinfectant cleaning of, primarily, equipment or apparatus used in the foodstuff and beverage industry. These cationic surfactants are frequently used in acid cleaning compositions. They have the disadvantage of a marked tendency to foam, which very greatly interferes with mechanical cleaning processes (circulation in pipeline systems, bottle-washing and the like).
German Published Application DAS 1,257,111 proposes antifoam additives which are effective when used in conjunction with anionic, non-ionic and cationic surfactants. These additives are neutral fatty acid esters of monohydric alcohols and monobasic carboxylic acids, in each case with alkyl being of 4 to 18 carbon atoms and having to have alkyl branches of 1 to 4 carbon atoms.
However, it has been found that these esters are not satisfactory, especially when used in conjunction with cationic surfactants in acid cleaning compositions, since frothing-over often occurs.
The present invention seeks to provide improved antifoam additives for acid cationic cleaning compositions.
According to the invention there are provided mineral-acid-containing cationic cleaning compositions containing as anti-foam additive a neutral ester of an aliphatic saturated dicarboxylic acid of 4 to 10 carbon atoms and a saturated monohydric alcohol of 10 to 15 carbon atoms. Using these anti-foam additives very good foam suppression is achieved, even in acid cationic cleaning compositions.
Not only are these esters substantially better anti-foam additives than conventional agents, e.g. silicones, phosphoric acid esters or esters of polyhydric alcohols with fatty acids, but their effect is also substantially superior to that of the monobasic carboxylic acid esters referred to in German Published Application DAS 1,257,111 (for example 2-ethylhexyl-2-ethylhexanoate).
The dicarboxylic acids for the manufacture of the antifoam additive esters have 4 to 10 carbon atoms. Examples are adipic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid and mixtures of these. A mixture of the said three acids in which their weight ratio is about from 25 to 35:from 15 to 30:from 40 to 50, has proved particularly advantageous.
The alcohol component is a monohydric, saturated alcohol of 10 to 15 carbon atoms. Preferred alcohols are isodecyl alcohol, isododecyl alcohol, an oxo-alcohol of 13/15 carbon atoms, a Ziegler alcohol of 12/14 carbon atoms and isotridecyl alcohol, which is of particular industrial interest.
These esters may be manufactured in a conventional manner by transesterifying the corresponding dicarboxylic acid lower alkyl esters, e.g. dicarboxylic acid methyl esters, or by directly esterifying the dicarboxylic acids with the particular alcohols. Both variants are conventional chemical processes which do The cationic cleaning compositions in general contain from 0.2 to 5% by weight, preferably from 0.5 to 3% by weight, of the anti-foam additive ester, based on the composition.
In addition, such a composition normally contains from 1 to 15% by weight, preferably from 2 to 10% by weight, of a cationic surfactant or surfactant mixture, with or without up to 10 /n by weight, preferably from l to 5% by weight, of a nonionic surfactant, from 5 to 60 /n by weight, preferably from 20 to 50% by weight, of a mineral acid component, and the balance water.
The cationic surfactants used are, above all, the conventional quaternary ammonium compounds, e.g. distearyldimethylammonium chloride, benzyltristearylammonium chloride, dibenzyldistearylammonium chloride, dimethylalkylbenzylammonium (where alkyl is of 12/14 carbon atoms) chloride or mixtures of these.
Where non-ionic surfactants are employed, these are, especially, fatty alcohol oxyethylates, fatty alcohols which have been reacted with ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, alkylphenol oxyethylates, block copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, and oxyalkylated polyalkylenepolyamines, e.g. oxyethylated/oxypropylated ethylenediamine.
The acid component is a mineral acid, e.g. sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid, preferably the latter.
When the above are used in coniunction with the anti-foam additive esters proposed according to the invention cleaning compositions which are particularly low-foaming are obtained.
This result must be regarded as surprising since German Published Application DAS 1,257,111 discloses that the anti-foam action of esters of fatty (monobasic) acids with polyhydric alcohols is not satisfactory.
The esters to be used according to the invention, which, as the following formulae show, structurally differ only very little from the above esters, are, unexpectedly, more active compounds.
(dicarboxylic acid ester) (glycol ester) The experimental results which now follow show the superiority of the antifoam additives to be used according to the invention.
Experimental Results The tests were carried out in a laboratory foam tester which simulates the mode of operation of pressure cleaning under industrial conditions. 0.5 per cent strength by weight clean composition solutions were sprayed by means of a pressure pump (running at about 1,200 rpm) through a nozzle into a double-walled glass vessel, the whole constituting a circulatory system. After 10 minutes circulation, the height of the foam in the glass vessel was measured inside and outside. The temperature was 300C or 800 C.
The foam heights achieved were given figures of merit, a height of more than 10 cm (i.e. frothing-over) being rated 6 and a height of 3 cm or less being rated 1.
Some of the antifoam additives proposed according to the invention were compared with ethylhexyl 2-ethylhexanoate proposed in German Published Application DAS 1,257,111.
The following esters proposed as antifoam additives according to the invention were tested: 1) dicarboxylic acid di-isotridecyl ester ("dicarboxylic acid"=a mixture of adipic acid, glutaric acid and succinic acid in the approximate ratio of 25:50:25).
2) dicarboxylic acid diisodecyl ester.
3) dicarboxylic acid di-Alfol ester (where the Alfol is of 12/14 carbon atoms) (Alfol is a Registered Trade Mark).
4) dicarboxylic acid di-oxo-alcohol ester (where the oxo-alcohol is of 13/15 carbon atoms).
5) di-isodecyl adipate.
6) di-isotridecyl adipate.
The results (foam figures of merit) may be seen in the Table which follows.
TABLE Foam Figures of Merit Obtained With Various Esters 2-Ethylhexyl 2-ethylhexanoate according to German Published Formulation Temperature Ester Application DAS [% by weight] [ C] 1 2 3 4 5 6 1,257,111
1.10% of dimethylalkylbenzylammonium chloride inside 1 1 4 4 3 3 6 30 # (where alkyl is of 12/14 carbon atoms) outside 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 5% of tallow fatty alcohol+14ethylene oxide+8 propylene oxide inside 2 3 3 3 2 1 4 20% of H3PO4 80 # 1% of ester remainder H2O outside 1 2 2 2 1 1 3 2.10% of dimethylalkylbenzylammonium chloride inside 3 4 4 4 3 2 6 (where alkyl is of 12/14 carbon atoms) 30 # 50% of H3PO4 outside 2 2 2 2 1 3 4 1% of ester inside 2 4 4 4 2 1 5 remainder H2O 80 # outside 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 It is found that even the less advantageous oxo-alcohol esters and Ziegler alcohol esters are distinctly superior to 2-ethylhexyl 2-ethylhexanoate as antifoam additives in acid cleaning compositions.

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WHAT WE CLAIM IS:
1. A mineral-acid-containing cationic cleaning composition containing as antifoam additive a neutral ester of an aliphatic saturated dicarboxylic acid of 4 to 10 carbon atoms and a saturated monohydric alcohol of 10 to 15 carbon atoms.
2. A cleaning composition as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the neutral ester is derived from a mixture of adipic acid, glutaric acid and succinic acid in a weight ratio of from 25 to 35: from 15 to 30: from 40 to 50 as acid component.
3. A cleaning composition as claimed in Claim 1 or 2, wherein the neutral ester is derived from isotridecyl alcohol.
4. A cleaning composition as claimed in any of Claims 1 to 3 containing from 0.2 to 5% by weight of the neutral ester.
5. A cleaning composition as claimed in any of Claims 1 to 4 which contains from 1 to 15 /" by weight of a cationic surfactant, from 0 to 10% by weight of a nonionic surfactant and from 5 to 60 /" by weight of a mineral acid component.
6. A cleaning composition as claimed in any of Claims 1 to 5, wherein a neutral ester identified hereinbefore as one of esters 1) to 6) is used as the antifoam additive.
7. A process for the disinfectant cleaning of equipment or apparatus used in the foodstuff or beverage industry wherein an acid cationic cleaning composition as claimed in any of Claims 1 to 6 is used.
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