GB2135985A - Antifoam composition comprising a fatty acid reaction product and an acid phosphate - Google Patents

Antifoam composition comprising a fatty acid reaction product and an acid phosphate Download PDF

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GB2135985A
GB2135985A GB08405510A GB8405510A GB2135985A GB 2135985 A GB2135985 A GB 2135985A GB 08405510 A GB08405510 A GB 08405510A GB 8405510 A GB8405510 A GB 8405510A GB 2135985 A GB2135985 A GB 2135985A
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An antifoam composition is described which comprises: (A) 80 to 98 parts by weight of a product resulting from the reaction of a fatty acid containing from 12 to 20 carbon atoms with a product resulting from the condensation of propylene oxide and ethylene oxide with ethylenediamine, and (B) 2 to 20 parts by weight of an aliphatic acid phosphate, the aliphatic group containing 18 carbon atoms. This composition is useful for the cleaning of industrial installations and more particularly for the breaking of foams in the sugar industry. A

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SPECIFICATION Antifoam composition, comprising a fatty acid reaction product and an acid phosphate The present invention relates to an antifoam composition for reducing or suppressing foam in industrial applications. It comprises a mixture of a product resulting from the reaction of a fatty acid with an alkylene oxide/ethylenediamine condensation product, and an alkyl acid phosphate.
According to the invention, the formation of undesirable foams in or after certain industrial manufacturing processes can be reduced to a considerable degree by using a composition consisting of: (A) 80 to 98 parts by weight of a product resulting from the reaction of a fatty acid containing from 12 to 20 carbon atoms with a product resulting from the condensation of propylene oxide and ethylene oxide with ethylene-diamine, and (B) 2 to 20 parts by weight of an aliphatic acid phosphate, the aliphatic group containing 18 carbon atoms.
The reaction product (A) of the fatty acid with the condensation product can be obtained by reacting 1 molecule of the condensation product with at least 2 molecules of fatty acid. The reaction conditions are conventional; by way of example, a reaction of extended duration at a temperature of 120 to 160 C under reduced nitrogen pressure gives excellent results.
The condensation products can usually be obtained by first condensing propylene oxide with the ethylene-diamine to give a compound whose molecular weight is suitably 1,500 to 7,000, and then condensing the product with a quantity of ethylene oxide, typically 10 to 20% by weight of the total quantity of alkylene oxides used. A process of this type is described in U.S.
Patent 2,979,528. The condensation products based on ethylene-diamine which are preferred for the preparation of the composition have a molecular weight of 1,650 to 7,700. In the product, after subtraction of the weight of the rest of the initial ethylenediamine molecule, the propylene oxide preferably represents 80 to 90% of the remaining weight and the ethylene oxide represents 10 to 20%.
The fatty acids which can be reacted with the condensation product are suitably linear, saturated or unsaturated acids containing from 12 to 20 carbon atoms, such as lauric, myristic, stearic, oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids or mixtures thereof.
The aliphatic phosphate (B), which is the second constituent of the composition, is a phosphoric acid monoester and/or diester. Stearyl and oleyl acid phosphates are amongst the most common aliphatic phosphates containing 18 carbon atoms and, in practice, are most often in the form of mixtures of monoesters and diesters; they are respectively called MSAP and MOAP in the remainder of the description.
To make the composition easier to use, it is preferable, before use, to dissolve the aliphatic acid phosphate (B) in the reaction product (A). For example, a homogeneous composition can be obtained after mixing the two components hot, with agitation.
The composition according to the invention considerably improves the problem of breaking foams in installations in the sugar industry, especially in diffusion, but it is also of great value in equipment cleaning operations in installations in the dairy, beef butchery, pork butchery and brewing industries and also in making agricultural food products and papermaking.
This improvement is particularly noteworthy when the medium whose foaming power it is desired to reduce is cold.
For example, the extraction of sugar from beet is an operation which takes place at about 80 C and produces a sugarbeet juice having a high foaming power because of the presence of compounds of the saponin type. The presence of antifoam is therefore found to be necessary, but the commercially available antifoam products are not effective when the juices are cooled, for example in order to recover heat. By contrast, when the present antifoam is added to a hot diffusion juice, the resulting foaming and overflowing can be avoided and, furthermore, the antifoam properties can be retained when the juice is cooled below 40 C by energy recovery.
The examples which follow illustrate the present invention.
EXAMPLES 1-20 Antifoam properties are measured by determining the height of foam obtained by the vertical spraying of a cylindrical jet of a foaming solution, with or without antifoam, onto a surface of the same type.
The foaming solution contains: sucrose 13 g/litre saponins 1 g/litre peptone 1 g/litre diammonium phosphate 1 g/litre It represents a synthetic solution of sugarbeet juice.
This solution is contained in a jacketed glass tube of internal diameter 40 mm, which makes it possible to maintain a constant temperature.
The jet is produced by a stainless steel tube of length 70 mm and internal diameter 1.9 mm, the end of which is 750 mm from the surface of the liquid.
The solution is circulated by means of a variable-flow centrifugal pump.
When a temperature of 30 C is reached, the pump is started at a flow rate of 40 litres/hour and the height of foam obtained after 1 minute is taken to be equal to 100.
increasing quantities of antifoam are then injected into the solution and the height of foam is measured after 1 minute. The efficacy of the antifoam is expressed as the ratio of this height to the initial height:
The curves of the efficacy in per cent against the concentration in ppm can be drawn.
The table below indicates the efficacy in per cent for a concentration of 10 ppm, together with the efficiency, which is the concentration in ppm which gives an efficacy of 80%. The proportions and percentages of the products are understood as being by weight, unless indicated otherwise.
A B CONDENSATION ALIPHATIC PRODUCT ORGANIC ACID PHOSPHATE Ex Molecular Number of aliphatic % by Efficacy Effic No. weight PO% EO% Nature mol per radical weight for a iency mol of concentration for an condensation of 10 ppm efficacy product % of 80% ppm 1 3700 85 15 oleic 2 stearyl 3 93% 3.5 ppm 2 3700 85 15 stearic 2 stearyl 3 93% 3.5 ppm 3 3700 85 15 lauric 2 stearyl 3 93% 4 ppm 4 3700 85 15 decyclic 2 stearyl 3 80% 6 ppm 5 3700 85 15 caprioc 2 stearyl 3 71% 12 ppm 6 3700 85 15 acetic 2 stearyl 3 26% 22 ppm 7 3700 85 15 oleic 1 stearyl 3 84% 8 ppm 8 3700 85 15 oleic 3 stearyl 3 93% 3.5 ppm 9 3700 85 15 oleic 4 stearyl 3 93% 5.5 ppm 10 6900 84 16 oleic 2 stearyl 3 94% 5 ppm 11 4930 60 40 oleic 2 stearyl 3 0% > 100 ppm 12 7550 73 26 oleic 2 stearyl 3 6% 80 ppm 13 3000 99 0 oleic 2 stearyl 3 74% 14 ppm 14 3700 85 15 oleic 2 stearyl 2 93% 4 ppm 15 3700 85 15 oleic 2 stearyl 5 93% 3.5 ppm 16 3700 85 15 oleic 2 stearyl 10 93% 3.5 ppm 3.5 ppm 17 3700 85 15 oleic 2 stearyl 20 93% 4 ppm 18 3700 85 15 oleic 2 oleyl 3 93% 4 ppm 19 3700 85 15 - - stearyl 2 0 74 ppm 20 3700 85 15 oleic 2 - - 0 > 100 ppm Examples 1 to 3 illustrate the antifoam effect of compositions containing 97% of the products resulting from the reaction of a condensation product of molecular weight 3,700, containing 85% of propylene oxide and 15% of ethylene oxide, with organic acids containing from 12 to 1 8 carbon atoms, in a proportion of 2 molecules of acid to 1 of condensation product, and 3% of MSAP.
Examples 4 to 6, which are given by way of comparison, illustrate the fact that the antifoam effect is appreciably reduced when the organic acid possesses 10 carbon atoms or less.
Example 7, which is given by way of comparison, illustrates the advantage of having at least two molecules of fatty acid per molecule of surface-active agent.
Examples 8 and 9 illustrate the invention using fatty acid quantities of 3 and 4 molecules.
Example 10 illustrates the use of oleic acid according to the invention.
Examples 11 to 13, which are given by way of comparison, illustrate the advantage of having condensation products in which the quantity of ethylene oxide is from 10 to 20%.
Examples 14 to 17 illustrate compositions respectively containing 98, 95, 90 and 80% of the reaction product of oleic acid with the condensation product of Example 1, and 2, 5, 10 and 20% of MSAP. They show that the efficacy and efficiency are excellent.
Example 18 illustrates the composition in which the MSAP of Example 1 has been replaced by MOAP.
Examples 19 and 20, which are given by way of comparison, show the contrasting advantage of the composition A + B.

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1. An antifoam composition which comprises: (A) 80 to 98 parts by weight of a reaction product of a fatty acid containing from 12 to 20 carbon atoms with a product resulting from the condensation of propylene oxide and ethylene oxide with ethylenediamine, and (B) 2 to 20 parts by weight of an aliphatic acid phosphate, the aliphatic group containing 18 carbon atoms.
2. A composition according to Claim 1, in which the reaction product (A) has a molecular weight of 1,650 to 7,700.
3. A composition according to Claim 1 or 2, in which, the reaction product (A), after subtraction of the weight of the rest of the ethylenediamine molecule, the propylene oxide represents 80 to 90% of the remaining molecular weight and the ethylene oxide represents 10 to 20%.
4. A composition according to any one of Claims 1 to 3, in which the aliphatic acid phosphate (B) is in the form of a monoester, a diester or a mixture of monoester and diester.
5. A composition according to Claim 4, in which the ester is a stearyl or oleyl acid phosphate.
6. A composition according to Claim 1 substantially as described in any one of Examples 1 to 3,8 to 10 and 14 to 18.
7. A process for the manufacture of an antifoam composition as claimed in any one of Claims 1 to 6, which comprises, in a first step, preparing product A by reacting a fatty acid containing 12 to 20 carbon atoms with a product obtained by condensing propylene oxide with one molecule of ethylenediamine to give a compound having a molecular weight of 1,500 to 7,000, and then condensing ethylene oxide with the said compound in an amount which represents 10 to 20% by weight of the total quantity of alkylene oxides used, and, in a second step, mixing 80 to 98 parts by weight of this product A with 2 to 20 parts by weight of an aliphatic phosphate containing 18 carbon atoms.
8. A process according to Claim 7 in which, in the first step, at least two molecules of fatty acid are reacted with 1 molecule of the product obtained by condensing the alkylene oxides with ethylenediamine.
9. A process according to Claim 7 substantially is hereinbefore described.
10. An antifoam composition as defined in Claim 1 whenever prepared by a process as claimed in any one of Claims 7 to 9.
11. A process for reducing foaming during the extraction of sugar beet, during papermaking or during the production of an agricultural food product which comprises incorporating an antifoam composition as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6 and 10.
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