US3799880A - Spray dried controlled density detergent composition - Google Patents

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US3799880A
US3799880A US00215405A US21540572A US3799880A US 3799880 A US3799880 A US 3799880A US 00215405 A US00215405 A US 00215405A US 21540572 A US21540572 A US 21540572A US 3799880 A US3799880 A US 3799880A
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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
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    • 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
    • C11D1/00—Detergent compositions based essentially on surface-active compounds; Use of these compounds as a detergent
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    • 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
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    • 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
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  • the present invention relates to the control of the bulk density of low-density spray-dried nonionic detergent powders. More particularly the present invention relates to a spray-dried detergent composition containing a nonionic detergent, a soap, and a polymer which is a copolymer of maleic anhydride and either ethylene or methyl vinyl ether.
  • soap when used as the sole density-control agent, has been effective in a spray-drying tower with co-current hot air flow, it has not been effective in countercurrent operations to produce a product having a desirably low bulk density, namely a bulk density of about 0.2 to about 0.35 gram per ml., and at the same time produce a freefiowing powder.
  • a particulate detergent composition is free flowing and has satisfactory flow properties when the particle-to-particle adhesive forces are sufiiciently weak to prevent substantially any particle agglomeration which, under conditions wherein the composition is in fluid motion, inhibits or greatly lessens a tendency to cake, or to exhbit a lagging flow, or creep.
  • copolymers are also known as stabilizers against phase separation of liquid detergent compositions containing a high concentration of inorganic salts and wherein the active detergent is primarily nonionic, as disclosed and claimed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,060,- 124, which issued on Oct. 23, 1962, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,235,505, which issued Feb. 15, 1966, and in U.S. Pat. No. 3,301,829, whichissued on Jan. 31, 1967, and in U.S. Pat. No. 3,328,309, which issued on June 27, 1967.
  • interpolymer of methyl vinyl ether and maleic anhydride is known to provide a higher viscosity and to impart a soapy feel to nonionic detergent compositions in liquid form, as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 2,702,277, which issued on Feb. 15, 1955.
  • soap to stabilize nonionic detergent crutcher slurries is known where soap is the sole stabilizing agent, as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 2,925,390, which issued on Feb. 16, 1960 and U.S. Pat. No. 2,947,701, which issued on Aug. 2, 1960.
  • bulk density is meant the density in grams per ml. of loosely packed particles determined in the fol lowing manner:
  • a one-liter container is loosely filled with the spraydried powder to be tested, the top scraped level, and the net weight determined.
  • the bulk density is defined as the weight in grams of one milliliter of the loosely packed powder.
  • the bulk density figures given in the examples are based on the weight of a one-liter volume of powder obtained by allowing the powder to fall freely from the bottom of the spray-drying tower to the container. The figures given are the average of the bulk densities of several samples taken at intervals during the run.
  • the present invention relates to the control of the bulk density of a built nonionic-based detergent composition spray dried in a countercurrent stream of a hot gas.
  • the invention relates to a spray-dried built, nonionic based, detergent composition of low bulk density which has been spray-dried in a counter-current stream of hot gas, and which contains a soap and a copolymer of maleic anhydride with ethylene or methyl vinyl ether.
  • the invention concerns a process for controlling the bulk density of a spray-dried built nonionic detergent composition and for obtaining a desirably low bulk density thereof comprising preparing an aqueous slurry of the components to be spray dried, incorporating in said slurry a soap and a copolymer of maleic anhydride and ethylene or maleic anhydride and methyl vinyl ether, and spray drying the slurry countercurrently.
  • the process comprises charging a mixing vessel with water and adjusting the temperature thereof within the range of about 140 F. to about 210 R, either before or after charging the water to the vessel, adding thereto the desired quantity of a nonionic detergent, thereafter adding the copolymer component and mixing energetically for a period of time from about 15 minutes to about 2 hours.
  • R and R are either R or H, and only one of R and R is R,
  • ROH represents the nonionic detergent
  • R represents ethylene (CH CH or methoxyethylene (SCI-Is).
  • reaction medium is on the acid side, the pH being usually from about 2.5 to about 3.2.
  • the copolymer may be pre-reacted with a small amount of a nonionic detergent in an aqueous medium, and the resulting aqueous system then diluted With water containing the remainder of the desired amount of nonionic detergent.
  • the nonionic detergent which is reacted with the copolymer need not be the same as the nonionic used as the active detergent in the product.
  • This variation can be important as a time-saving device in commercial operations since a large quantity of pre-reacted mixture, sufiicient for several crutcher batches, can be prepared at one time and the required amount portioned into each crutcher batch.
  • the ratio of the copolymer to the nonionic detergent by weight is conveniently about 2: 1 to about 100:1, and preferably about 3:1 to about :1.
  • the neutralization of the carboxyl groups suitably to a pH of about 7 to about 11 by adding as the next component an alkali in sufiicient quantity at least to react with the carboxyl groups in the above-described halfester.
  • the alkali may be an alkali metal hydroxide, carbonate, phosphate, borate, etc.
  • the alkali metal hydroxides, particularly the hydroxides of sodium or potassium, are preferred.
  • the soap component is preferably the next component to be added, followed by the detergent builders, and optionally miscellaneous a j Such s Optical brighteners, colorants, anticaking agents, suds modifiers, etc.
  • the mixing is continued.
  • the time of mixing following the incorporation of the last ingredient is not critical to the invention, but will be at least suflicient to provide thorough distribution of the solids.
  • the aqueous mixture described above is in the form of a suspension or slurry containing undissolved builder or builders. Water comprises about 25% to about 50% of the slurry.
  • the slurry is spray dried in a conventional manner whereby the slurry is forced through nozzles to form droplets, which are allowed to fall in a tower, which may be of conventional design, through a rising current of an inert hot gas, at about 180 F. to about 750' F., preferably air, thereby forming a free-flowing particulate detergent product.
  • a tower which may be of conventional design
  • an inert hot gas at about 180 F. to about 750' F., preferably air
  • the polymer and the soap coact, each assisting the other to perform a combined function. It appears that the soap component tends to expand the particle after the slurry leaves the nozzle, but that this is not sufiicient- 1y effective unless the polymer is present to maintain the nonionic component uniformly distributed throughout the particle and that it is necessary that the nonionic be uniformly dispersed and distributed throughout the particle in order that the soap may function as an expanding agent.
  • compositions of the invention contain four essential components, namely a nonionic detergent, a copolymer, a soap, and a detergent builder, described hereinafter.
  • Water is a fifth essential element of the slurry prepared for spray drying.
  • the nonionics suitable for use in the present invention are the surfactants which may be broadly described as the condensation products of ethylene oxide and a hydrophobic base having a labile hydrogen or sulfur atom in an alcoholic or phenolic hydroxyl group, or a thio (-SH) group.
  • the hydrophobic base may be an alkyl phenol having about 6-12 carbon atoms in the alkyl group, alkanols having about 8-22 carbon atoms in the molecule, and the condensates of propylene glycol or ethylenediamine and propylene oxide. Included within the foregoing description are the random condensates of propylene oxide and ethylene oxide as described hereinafter.
  • the hydrophobic base may also be an alkyl thiophenol, a long-chain mercaptan, or oleic nitrile.
  • nonionic detergent or nonionic surfactant are used in the instant specification and claims it is intended that the terms describe compounds falling within the foregoing broad description.
  • nonionic detergent species suitable for use within the instant invention are the reaction products of long chain mercaptans having about 6 to 18, preferably about 12-18, carbon atoms, with about 5 to 20 moles of ethylene oxide, such as the condensates of ethylene oxide and tertiary mercaptans described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,642,400.
  • nonionics are the Pluronics (trademark of the Wyandotte Chemicals Corp.), formed by condensing propylene oxide with propylene glycol to a molecular weight of about 600-2500 to form a base followed by condensing ethylene oxide to this base to the extent of about 30 to about total molecule basis, for example those disclosed in US Pats. Nos. 2,674,619 and 2,677,700; compounds formed by the simultaneous polymerization of propylene oxide and ethylene oxide, and containing randomly positioned oxypropylene and oxyethylene groups, and having over 30% ethylene oxide by weight, such as those described in US. Pats. Nos.
  • alkyl phenols having 6-12 carbon atoms in the alkyl portion (straight or branched) ethoxylated with 6-25 molar proportions of ethylene oxide; ethoxylates of straight or branched fatty alcohols having 8-22 carbon atoms per molecule and 5 to 30 molar proportions of oxyethylene groups.
  • nonionic detergent compounds are: branched-chain nonyl phenol condensed with 8-14 molar proportions of ethylene oxide, a condensation product of a secondary alcohol mixture (Tergitol 15-S) having 11-15 carbon atoms and 9-14 molar proportions of ethylene oxide, a mixed C C alcohol made by the Oxo process (Neodol 45) condensed with 9-12 moles ethyl- 10 ene oxide, or a mixture of 65% C and 35% C synthetic straight chain primary alcohols condensed with 9- 15 molar proportions of ethylene oxide, a polyoxypropylene hydrophobic base having a' molecular weight of 1500-1800 condensed with %-30% ethylene oxide 15 (Pluronic L-62), and a condensate of a mixed alcohol having 10-14 carbon atoms derived from coconut oil, with about 5 to 30 molar proportions of ethyleneoxide.
  • nonionic detergent may vary widely, and it is not critical to the operation of the invention that 20 any particular nonionic be used within the generic types disclosed.
  • the copolymers useful in accordance with the invention may be described as the linear or cross-linked copolymers of maleic anhydride and either ethylene or methyl vinyl ether.
  • the ethylene/maleic anhydride copolymers are also referred to as EMA resins or DX resins, and the methyl vinyl ether/maleic anhydride copolymers as PVM/ MA resins.
  • the linear copolymers of the invention may be characterized by their specific viscosity, and the cross-linked copolymers may be characterized by their viscosity in aqueous solution, measured as described hereinbelow.
  • the specific viscosity of a substance is defined as the ratio of the viscosity of a solution of the substance at a stated concentration to the viscosity of the solvent.
  • the specific viscosity of the linear ethylene maleic anhydride copolymers useful in the invention is determined in a 1% solution of the copolymer in dimethyl formamide at 25 C.; that of the PVM/MA resins in a 1% solution in methyl ethyl ketone at 25 C.
  • the EMA resins suitable for use in the invention may vary over a wide range of molecular weights and viscosities.
  • the specific viscosity, as defined hereinabove, may range from about 0.1 to 1.
  • the specific viscosity of the PVM/ MA resins may range from about 0.1 to about 3.5.
  • the cross-linked EMA resins have higher molecular weights than the linear EMA resins, and have viscosities ranging from about 100 cps. to about 8500 cps. as measured at 25 C. on a 2% aqueous solution without pH adjustment, using a Brookfield viscometer, No. 6 spindle at 5 r.p.m.
  • Suitable EMA resins are disclosed in US. Pats. Nos. 3,235,505 and 3,328,309, and in Monsantos Product Information Bulletin No. 1066, Water-Soluble Copolymers of Ethylene-Maleic Anhydride.”
  • Suitable linear copolymers of ethylene and maleic anhydride are available from the Monsanto Company under the designations DX-840-2l, DX-840-31, DX-840-4118, etc.
  • Cross-linked copolymers are available under the designations DX-840-61, DX-840-71, DX-840-81, DX-840-9l and similar materials in this series.
  • the monomers are polymerized at 1:1 ratio, the resin having molecular weights ranging from about 1500 and upwards.
  • the cross-linked copolymers are generally cross-linked with a diamine, an alkylene polyamine, or a di-olefinic material such as an ether or a hydrocarbon, etc.
  • polyamine crosslinking agents examples include diethylene triamine, triethylene tetramine, tetraethylene pentamine, and higher molecular weight polyethylene polyamines.
  • Exemplary di-olefinic cross-linking agents include divinyl benzene, diallyl ether, vinyl crotonate, diallyl esters, and the like.
  • the linear and cross-linked copolymers which can be utilized in preparing the compositions of the invention include the following. 7 5
  • Gantrex AN 119 0.1-0.5 Gantrex AN 139 1.0-1.4 Gantrex AN 149 1.5-2.0 Gantrex AN 169 2.6-3.5
  • the viscosities in 2% aqueous solution at the unadjusted pH levels of the linear and cross-linked EMA resins suitable for use in the present invention are as follows:
  • the soaps which have utility in the present invention are the well-known alkali-metal salts of fatty (alkanoic or alkenoic) acids, rosin (abietic) acid, tall oil, or synthetic fatty acids having about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms, preferably 12-18 carbon atoms. All contain a hydrophobic hydrocarbon moiety and a hydrophilic carboxyl group, and may be described as alkali-metal carboxylates of an alicyclic or acyclic hydrocarbon having about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms.
  • the soaps obtained from natural fats and oils have a straight chain hydrocarbon group of about 7 to about 21 carbon atoms, those from rosin have an alicyclic structure wherein the hydrocarbon group has about 20 carbon atoms, those from tall oil are mainly alkenoates and alicyclic carboxylates, and the synthetic soaps may be straight chain, resembling the soaps from the natural fats, or may be branched.
  • the soaps may be used singly, or in admixture. Soaps having the fatty acid distribution of coconut oil may provide the lower end of the broad molecular weight range, while soaps having the fatty acid distribution of peanut or rapeseed oil, or their hydrogenated derivatives, may provide the upper end of the broad molecular weight range.
  • the soaps having the fatty acid distribution of coconut oil or tallow, or mixtures thereof since these are among the more readily available fats.
  • the proportion of fatty acids having at least 12 carbon atoms in coconut oil soap is about 84%. This proportion will be greater when there is admixed with coconut or similar oils, the higher molecular weight fats or oils, for example tallow, wherein the principal chain lengths are C and higher.
  • the preferred soap for use in the present invention then has at least 84% fatty acids having at least 12 carbon atoms.
  • the coconut oil may be substituted in whole or in part by other high-lauric oils, generally exemplified by the tropical nut oils of the coconut oil class, such as palm kernel oil, babassu oil, ouri curi oil, tucum oil, cohune nut oil, murumuru oil, and for present purposes, ucuhuba butter, a vegetable triglyceride high in myristic acid esters.
  • other high-lauric oils generally exemplified by the tropical nut oils of the coconut oil class, such as palm kernel oil, babassu oil, ouri curi oil, tucum oil, cohune nut oil, murumuru oil, and for present purposes, ucuhuba butter, a vegetable triglyceride high in myristic acid esters.
  • a suitable soap for use in the present invention is the alkali-metal salt of about equal parts by weight of a mixture of hexadecanoic and octadecanoic acids, namely about equal parts by weight of alkali metal stearate and alkali metal palmitate, or from a mixture of about 45% to about 55% of each.
  • soaps of single chain length may be employed, for example alkali metal caprate (C laurate (C12), myristate (C palmitate (C stearate (C arachidate (C behenate (C oleate (C gadoleate (C erucate (C ricinoleate (C etc.
  • the preferred alkali-metal cation is sodium, although the cation may be potassium, rubidium, cesium, or lithium.
  • the soaps may be incorporated in the slurry by adding the fatty acid and alkali separately to form the soap in situ.
  • the soaps may be made by the well-known kettle boiling process from natural fats and oils such as tallow or coconut oil or their equivalents, by boiling with an alkalimetal hydroxide, using procedures Well known to those skilled in the art.
  • the soaps may be made by neutralizing fatty acids, such as lauric (C myristic (C palmitic (C or stearic (C acids with an alkali metal hydroxide or carbonate. Rosin, which is primarily abietic acid, may be converted to rosin soap by neutralization as in the case of fatty acids.
  • the synthetic acids may be neutralized as in the case of fatty acids.
  • the proportions of soap expressed herein refer to proportions calculated on the basis of dry, substantially pure soap.
  • the builder substance employed in the present process may be any one of the water soluble substances known to have a detergency-enhancing effect when used with an organic detergent material. Suitable are alkaline detergent builders such as alkali-metal tripolyphosphate, pyrophosphate, metaphosphate, carbonate, nitrilotriacetate, orthophosphate, silicate, borate, sesquicarbonate, etc.
  • alkali-metal oxydisuccinate oxydiacetate, carboxymethyloxysuccinate, hydrofuran tetracarboxylate, starch maleate, cellulose phthalate, glycogen succinate, semi-cellulose diglycolate, N (2 hydroxy-ethyl)-nitrilodiacetate, ethylenediamine tetraacetate, hydroxyethylenediamine tetraacetate, and diethylenetriamino .pentaacetate.
  • the alkali metal may be sodium or potassium. Sodium is preferred.
  • Specific builders are for example sodium carbonate, sodium sesquicarbonate, sodium tripolyphosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, sodium metaphosphate, trisodium orthophosphate, sodium metasilicate, sodium silicate having an SiO to Na O ratio of about 2,4, sodium tetraborate, trisodium nitrilotriacetate, etc.
  • Preferred alkaline electrolyte builders are sodium carbonate, sodium tripolyphosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, trisodium nitrilotriacetate, and sodium carboxymethyloxysuccinate.
  • sodium silicate When present in the composition, sodium silicate functions as a builder and as a corrosion inhibitor. Suitable sodium silicates are those having ratios of SiO to Na O between about 1 and about 3.2. Specific suitable silicates are metasilicate having an SiO to Na O ratio of 2.4, and N-silicate having an SiO to Na O ratio of 3.2. A potassium silicate may be substituted for sodium silicate. When a silicate is present in the composition as a corrosion inhibitor only, relatively small proportions are required, for example about 2% to about and usually about 3% to about 6% are employed. When used as a detergent builder, about 20% to about 65% may be used.
  • the proportions of the essential components of the detergent compositions of the instant invention are tabulated below.
  • the proportions, except for the water content, are based on the dry weight of the product.
  • Nonionic detergent 1 ca. 4-30 ca. 9-25 Copolymer ca. 0.1-5.0 ca 0.2-0.7 Soap ca. 0.055.0 ca 0.5-1.5
  • Detergent builder ca. 20-65 ca. 40-55 molecular weight, and consequently the proportion by weight of the polymer in the spray-dried product.
  • an inert filler may be present, usually in the proportions of about 2 to 35 parts by weight and preferably about 15 to 30 parts by Weight.
  • The. product will usually contain various adjuvants of the types set forth elsewhere herein.
  • the Water content of the spray-dried product may range from about 2 to 20, and preferably from about 10 to 15, parts by weight of the whole composition.
  • the inert filler may be any water-soluble or water-insoluble substance that is compatible with the components of the composition. This will usually be sodium sulfate but may be for example any other substance having substantially no function in the compositions of the invention other than to dilute or to fill the composition to adjust the proportions of the other components to desired levels, such as sodium chloride, magnesium sulfate, magnesium chloride, calcium sulfate, calcium chloride, silica, kieselguhr.
  • the water-soluble non-hygroscopic diluents are preferred, such as sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, magnesium sulfate, and calcium sulfate.
  • the proportions of the several ingredients in the compositions of the invention are most conveniently expressed on the dry basis.
  • the percentage compositions shown on the dry basis have been calculated from the mixing formulas. It is evident that the percentage compositions on the dry basis of a given formula in an aqueous slurry and in the product spray dried therefrom are identical.
  • the product may be formulated with a proportion of one or more ingredients omitted from the composition in slurry form and added to the spray-dried powder in amounts to reduce the proportions of the spraydried ingredients to the desired levels.
  • Ingredients which may advantageously be omitted from the slurry and added to the spray-dried powder are for example perfumes, amide or alkanol suds modifiers, detergency enhancers, etc. which may exhibit adverse behavior under spraydrying conditions.
  • the proportion of nonionic detergent in the slurry may be as low as about 4%, dry basis.
  • the minimum amount in the spray-dried powder will usually be about 7%, dry basis.
  • EXAMPLE 1 The following are charged to a mixing vessel.
  • Tergitol15-S-9 amixture of secondary aliphatic alcohols having 11-15 carbon atoms condensed with an average of 9 molar proportions of ethylene oxide.
  • a mixture of equal parts by weight of two ethylene-maleic anhydride resins i.e., a linear resin identified as EMA-21 (or DX-840-21) having a specific viscosity of 0.6, and a cross-linked resin identified as EMA-61 (or DX-840-61) having a viscosity in 1% aqueous solution of 12,000 cps., siaid slpeclific viscosity and viscosity being determined as hereinbetore escn e N lggflaqueous solution of sodium silicate having a ratio of slot to at o d Formed in situ from NaOH and a fatty acid composed of about 45% stearic acid and about 55% palmitic acid.
  • Example 2 same composition as that of Example 1, and spray dried lly the same conditions, the only essential difierence being that the soap content is 0.5% instead of 1%.
  • Slurry water content percent 34. 38. 0 38. 0 84. 0 Water in spray-dried product percent 4-9 9 11-12 10-18. 4 Slurry temperature, F... 140 152 170 Inlet air temperature, F. 525-625 595-620 610-620 Exhaust air temperature, 260-280 270-280 270-272 Inlet fan speed, r.p.m-...- 1, 300 1, 160 1, 330 Bulk density, g./ml 0. 23 0. 32 0. 29
  • Example 8 The slurry prepared in Example 8 produces an unsatisfactory powder in that the particles are too fine and the flow characteristics are poor.
  • the flow characteristics of the products in Examples 6, 7, and 9 are satisfactory.
  • Slurry water content percent 37. 0 37. 0 37. 0 37. 0 Water in spray-dried product, percent 8-12 4-6. 5 10-11 9-13
  • Slurry temperature 160 155 160 160 Inlet air temperature
  • F 430-475 390-430 420-430 480
  • Exhaust air temperature F 182 182-188 180 180-188 Inlet fan speed, r.p.m 1, 356 1, 300 1, 350 1, 350 Bulk density, g./m.l 0. 31 0. 41 0. 43 0. 48
  • d N-silicate is a solution of sodium silicate having 37. 1% solids and an SiOmNa O ratio of 8. 2.
  • Footnote-Components a, b, c, e and f are defined as in Examples 1-9.
  • Examples 11-13 are outside the invention, the products 50 having a bulk density higher than desired.
  • the density of the product of Example 10 is within desired limits and the flow properties are good.
  • a process for controlling the bulk density of a spraydried particulate detergent composition containing a nonionic detergent substance and a detergent builder comprising:
  • nonionic detergent substance is a condensation product of a secondary alcohol mixture having 11-15 carbon atoms and 9-14 molar proportions of ethylene oxide.
  • copolymer is a copolymer of ethylene and maleic anhydride, said copolymer being linear and having a specific viscosity of about 0.1 to about 1.0.
  • copolymer is a copolymer of ethylene and maleic anhydride, said copolymer being cross-linked and having a viscosity in a 2% aqueous solution of about 100 to about 8500 centipoises at 25 C.
  • copolymer is a copolymer of methyl vinyl ether and maleic anhydride, said copolymer being linear and having a specific viscosity of about 0.1 to about 3.5.
  • said soap is an alkali-metal salt of a mixture of fatty acids at least about 84% by weight of said fatty acids having at least 12 carbon atoms.
  • alkali-metal soap is a mixture of about equal parts by weight of alkali-metal stearate and alkali-metal palmitate.
  • said builder is selected from the group consisting of alkalimetal carbonate, sesquicarbonate, tripolyphosphate, pyrophosphate, metaphosphate, orthophosphate, silicate, borate, nitrilotriacetate, N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-nitrilodiacetate, ethylenediamine tetraacetate, hydroxyethylenediamine tetraacetate, diethylenetriamino pentaacetate, oxydisuccinate, oxydiacetate, carboxymethyloxysuccinate, hydrofuran tetracarboxylate, starch maleate, cellulose phthalate, glycogen succinate, semi-cellulose diglycolate, said alkali metal being selected from the group consisting of sodium and potassium.
  • said detergent builder is a substance selected from the group consisting of sodium carbonate, sodium tripolyphosphate, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, trisodium nitrilotriacetate, and sodium carboxymethyloxysuccinate.
  • a process in accordance with claim 1 wherein said detergent builder is sodium tripolyphosphate.
  • a spray-dried detergent composition produced by the process of claim 1.

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