CA2072009A1 - Use of a combination of non-ionic surface-active agents - Google Patents

Use of a combination of non-ionic surface-active agents

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CA2072009A1
CA2072009A1 CA002072009A CA2072009A CA2072009A1 CA 2072009 A1 CA2072009 A1 CA 2072009A1 CA 002072009 A CA002072009 A CA 002072009A CA 2072009 A CA2072009 A CA 2072009A CA 2072009 A1 CA2072009 A1 CA 2072009A1
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Bernd Stedry
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
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Abstract

USE OF A COMBINATION OF NON-IONIC SURFACTANTS
Abstract of the Disclosure The present invention relates to the use of a com-bination of non-ionic surfactants, containing (a) at least one alk(en)yl-ethoxylate having the general formula (I) R1-O(CH2CH2O)n-H (I) wherein R1 represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms and n represents a number within the range of from 2 to 12, and (b) at least one alk(en)yl-ethoxylate-propoxylate having the general formula (II) R2-O-(CH2CH2O)p-A-H (II) wherein R2 represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms, p represents a number within the range of from 2 to 10, and A represents a group of the type -(CH2-CH(CH3)-O)q- and -(CH(CH3)-CH2-O)r-, with the sum (q + r) being a number within the range of from 2 to 8, while the ratio by weight of the components a : b is within the range of from 10 : 1 to 1 : 10, for cleaning hard surfaces.

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D 8376 _ -' USE OF A COMBINATION OF NON-IONIC SURFACTANTS

The present invention relates to the use of a combination of non-ionic surfactants - optionally with conventional additives - for cleaning hard surfaces.
For such tasks there are usually employed so-called "industrial cleaners".

Such industrial cleaners are mainly used for cleaning and passivating in spray-cleaning units in the automotive industry and in the supplying industry there-of. They are suited for intermediate and final cleaning of parts which have been subjected to chipless working or machining in compound machinery-producing and -assembling plants. Virtually all relevant materials may be treated such as iron and steel, aluminum, SiluminWz, copper, brass, zinc and plastics, and the majority of organic or inorganic contaminations can be removed such as coolants/lubricants, rust-preventive oils, machining oils, drawing auxiliaries, pigments and light abraded metals. Such cleaning agents may also be applied by a conventional immersion procedure, while the application by a spray procedure is usually preferred.

The chemical base components of such industrial cleaners conventionally are surfactants and organic -, corrosion inhibitors. The latter will warrant a tempor-ary protection from corrosion during and after the treatment. Said cleaning agents, as a rule, will contain additional substances which are capable of counteracting an undesired foam development. The use of such foam-inhibiting additives in most cases is due to the fact that the contaminations removed from the substrates and being accumulated in the cleaning baths tend to act as foam-forming agents. Besides, the use of so-called anti-foam agents may be necessary because of the fact that the cleaning agents themselves contain components which under the given working conditions -i.e. especially with spraying procedures - give rise to an undesirable foam formation, for example anionic surfactants or non-ionic surfactants foaming at the respective working temperature.

From "Ullmanns Encyklopadie der technischen Chemie", 4th Edition, Volume 22 (1982), Pages 489 to 493, there has been known the use of fatty alcohcol-polyethyleneglycolethers - also called fatty alcohol ethoxylates - as the surfactant component in washing and cleaning agents. However, such addition products of ethylene oxide to fatty alcohols are not suitable for the use in spray operations, because they will much foam at application temperatures of from 15 C to 80 C. It has further been ~nown to employ fatty alcohol-ethoxylate-propoxylates as weakly foaming washing raw materials; cf., for example, the above-quoted volume of Ullmann, page 494.

In contrast thereto it was the object of the present invention to provide combinations of surfactants for cleaning hard surfaces, which combinations of sur-factants exhibit low-foaming properties over the whole D 8376 - 3 - ~ `$~- 9 temperature range that is application-technologically relevant, namely within the range of from 15 C to 80 C, and, hence, are suitable to be used in spraying operations. Moreover, said combinations of surfactants are intended to have a high cleaning power and excellent wetting properties to the substrates treated therewith;
furthermore these combinations of surfactants are to be well confectionable with additives as usual in industri-al cleaners, are to allow the cleaning solutions to run well off the treated substrate surfaces without leaving stains and spots, and are to have demulsifying proper-ties with respe¢t to non-self-emulsifying oils and fats.

Surprisingly it has been shown that mixtures of the above-mentioned non-ionic surfactants over a wide mixing range will meet the requirements described in the above wording of the object.

Thus, the present invention relates to the use oS a combination comprising non-ionic surfactants, containing (a) at least one alk~en)yl-ethoxylate having the general formula (I) R 0 (CH2CH20)n H (I) wherein R1 represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms and n represents a number within the range of ~rom 2 to 12, and (b) at least one alk(en)yl-ethoxylate-propoxylate having the general formula (II) R2-0-(CH2CH20)p-A-H (II) D 8 376 _ 4 _ ~ 9 wherein R2 represents a linear or branche~ alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms, p represents a number within the range of from 2 to 10, and A represents a group o~
the type ~(CH2~CH(CH3)~0)q~ and -(CH(C~3)-C~2-O)r~, with the sum (q ~ r) being a number within the range of from 2 to 8, while the ratio by weight of the components a : b is within the range of from 10 : 1 to 1 : 10, for cleaning hard surfaces.

As to the surfactant components (a) and (b) as usable according to the invention, the following is applicable:

In the general formula (I) as defined above of the components (a), Rl represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms.
Thus, the substituent Rl may be one of the following residues: n-hexyl, n-heptyl, n-octyl, n-nonyl, n-decyl, n-undecyl, n-dodecyl, n-tridecyl, n-tetradecyl, n-penta-decyl, n-hexadecyl, n-heptadecyl and n-octadecyl as well as the branched-chain isomers o~ said alkyl groups. In the place of the saturated alkyl groups, Rl may also represent the unsaturated alkyl residues (alkenyl groups) having a number of carbon atoms within the range mentioned above, which likewise may be linear or branch-ed. Furthermore, R1 may also stand for a cyclic alkyl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms, i.e. cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl. The number of the ethoxy moieties in the molecule - index n - is within the range of from 2 to 12.

D 8376 _ 5 -Within the scope of the invention, those compounds of the general formula (I~ are preferably used as the component (a), wherein Rl represents a linear al~yl or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms and n represents a number within the range of from 2 to 10.
According to a particularly preferred embodiment of the present invention, the reaction product of octanol (R1 =
linear alkyl group of 8 carbon atoms) with 4 moles of ethylene oxide is employed as the surfactant component (a)-As to the preparation of the compounds having thegeneral formula (I), reference may be made, for example, to the Ullmann monograph as quoted above. Such products are also commercially available, for example under the mark designation DEHYDOL(R) (Henkel KGaA, Dusseldorf).

In the general formula (II) as defined above of the components (b), R2 represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having S to 6 carbon atoms.
Thus, the substituent R2 may be one of the residues that have already been described above in the context of the substituent Rl of the general formula (II). The number of the ethoxy moieties in the molecule - index p - is within the range of from 2 to 10. The substituent A in the general formula (II) stands for propoxy moieties, while the number of the propoxy moieties in the molecule - index (q + r) - is within the range of from 2 to 8.

Within the scope of the invention, those compounds of the general formula (II) are preferably used as the component (b), wherein R2 represents a linear alkyl group having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms, p represents a number within the range of from 2 to 5 and A represents
2~ J . ;.. ~ ~ ~ 9 propoxy moieties, and the sum of (q + r) is a number within the range o~ from 4 to 6. According to a parti-cularly preferred embodiment of the present invention, the reactlon product o~ commercial grade lauryl alcohol - which comprises alkyl groups of from 12 to 18 carbon atoms ~about 80% of which comprise 12 to 14 carbon atoms) - with from 2 to 4 moles of ethylene oxide and from 4 to 6 moles of propylene oxide or the reaction product of n-octanol with from 2 to 6 moles of ethylene oxide and from 2 to 5 moles of propylene oxide is employed as the surfactant component (b).

As to the preparation of the compounds having the general formula (II), reference may be also made, for example, to the Ullmann monograph as quoted above. Also such products are commercially available, for example under the mark designation DEHYPON(R)-LS or -LT, respectively (Henkel KGaA, Dusseldorf).

Further non-ionic surfactants may be added to the combinations of surSactants to be used according to the invention, depending on th~ field and purpose of use.
According to a further preferred embodiment of the present invention, the surfactant combinations to be used according to the invention contain, as an addition-al component (c), at least one alk(en)yl ethoxylate mixed ether having the general formula (III) R3-o-(CH2CH20)s-R4 (III) wherein ~3 represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic al~yl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms, s represents a number within the range of from 2 to 12 and R4 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having .

`. 3 from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, the ratio by weight of the components (a + b) : c within the range of from 1 : (O,1 to 4).

Thus, in the general formula (III) of the surfact-ant components (c), R3 stands for a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms. Thus, the substituent R3 may be any of those moieties as already described above in the context of the substituent R of the general formula (I). The number of the ethoxy moieties in the molecule - index s - here is within the range of from 2 to 12. The substi-tuent R4 in the general formula (III) stands for a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms; i.e. for methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, n-butyl, n-pentyl, n-hexyl, n-heptyl, n-octyl as well as for the corresponding branched-chain isomers. Such alk(en)yl-ethoxylate mixed ethers which are also designated as end-capped fatty alcohol polyethyleneglycol ethers, have been described in greater detail in the German Laid-Open Patent Applications 33 15 951, 37 27 378 and 38 00 490.
In said German ~aid-Open Patent Applications, the preparation of said non-ionic surfactants has also been disclosed in detail.

Within the scope of the invention it is preferred to employ, as an additional component (c) of the surfactant combination at least one alkyl ethoxylate mixed ether of the general formula ~III), wherein R3 represents a linear alkyl group having from 8 to 10 carbon atoms, s represents a number within the range of from 3 to 5 and R4 represents an n-butyl moiety.
Especially preferred alkyl ethoxylate mixed ethers o~

D 8316 - 8 - ~ $n9 the general formula (III) are addition products of fro~
3.5 to 4.5 moles of ethylene oxide to fatty alcohols having from 8 to 10 carbon atoms, ~hich havs been etherified with an n-~utyl moiety.

The surfactant combinations are further distin-guished by a certain ratio by weight of the components a : b which generally is within the range of from lo : 1 to 1 : 10. If only these two components will be used in the manner according to the invention, then the prefer-red ratio by weight of the components a : b is within the range of from 2 : 1 to 1 : 2. If, however, the surfactant combination to be used according to the invention contains the additional component (c), then the ratio by weight of the components ~a + b) : c is within the range of from 1 : 0.1 to 1 : 4, and prefer-ably within the range of from 1 : 0.1 to 1 : 1,5.

The surfactant combinations to be used according to the invention are distinguished by a high cleaning power at temperatures within the range of from 15 C to 80 'C.
Moreover, in said temperature range they are also applicable by the spraying procedure without causing any problems, because they do not give rise to any un-desirable foam development. Further advantages are:
Very good wetting properties, very good demulsifying properties with respect to non-self-emulsifying oils and fats and the property of being well confectionable with additives as conventionally used in industrial cleaners.

The additives which are preferably employed according to the invention in addition to the surfactant combinations to be employed according to the invention may include: 3uilder substances and/or complexing ' .

D 8376 _ 9 ~ t~9 agent~, corrosion inhibitors and bases or acids. If so desired, stabilizers, solubilizers or antimicrobial agents may be employed as additives.

As the builders and/or complexing agents there may be employed, for example, alkali metal orthophosphates, polyphosphates, silicates, borates, carbonates, poly-acrylates and gluconates, as well as phosphonic acids or phosphonoalkanecarboxylic acids and/or the water-soluble alkali metal salts thereof, for example l-hydroxyethane-l,1-diphosphonic acid or 2-phosphonobutane-1,2,4-tri-carboxylic acid. Straight-chain or branched carboxylic acids and/or salts thereof are suitable as efficient corrosion inhibitors. Here, more specifically, alkanol-amine salts of straight-chain or branched monocarboxylic acids having from 3 to 11 carbon atoms are employed as corrosion inhibitors. Depending on the purpose of use, the aqueous solutions of the surfactant combinations to be used according to the invention may be acidic or alkaline; accordingly they will contain an excess of an acid or bases, for example sodium hydroxide and/or potassium hydroxide.

The preparation of the combinations of surfactants to be used according to the invention is effected by simply mixing the individual components. In the same way the production of the respective powdery or liquid cleaning agents is also effected by the addition of the surfactant combinations to be used according to the invention with the other additives and optionally with water. Within the scope of the invention, such cleaning agents contain from 1 to 70 % by weight, and preferably from 2 to 20 % by weight, of the surfactant combinations to be employed according to the invention.

, D 8376 - 10 - 2~ 5 ~ r~,g Within the scope of the invention, the surfactant combinations to be employed according to the in~ention are preferably used in the for~ of water-diluted appli-cation solutions. Said application solutions preferably contain the surfactant combinations to be used according to the invention in concentrations of from 0.0001 to 1.5% by weight, and especially of from 0.0005 to 0.5% by weight. Such ready-to-use application solutions which within the scope of the invention may be employed by a spraying procedure for cleaning hard surfaces may likewise be from strongly acidic to strongly al~alin~
(pH values ranging from 1 to 14) and preferably exhibit pH values within the range of from 3.5 to 11. Such application solutions are prepared by simply mixing tha surfactant combinations with water.

The invention is further illustrated by the follow-ing Examples.

EXAMP~E

Surfactant combinations according to the invention The abbreviations used hereinbelow have the following meanings: EO - Ethylene oxide, PO ~ Propylene oxide.

A 10 parts of hexanol + 10 EO
1 part of Cl2_l8-fatty alcohol + 2 EO + 4 PO
B l part of octanol + 4 EO
l part of C12_l8-fatty alcohol + 8 EO + 6 PO

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- 2 ~ ` 7 ~ ~ 9 C 10 parts of octadecenol + 2 E0 1 part of C12_18-fatty alcohol + 3 EO + 6 PO
D 1 part of decanol + 2,9 E0 10 parts of C12_l8-fatty alcohol + 4 E0 + 5 Po E 1 part of octanol + 4 E0 2 parts of C12_14-fatty alcohol + 5 E0 + 4 P0 F 1 part of octanol + 4 EO
5 parts of Cl2_l8-fatty alcohol + 3 E0 + 6 Po 1 part of c8 1O-fatty alcohol + 4 E0-butylether G 1 part of hexanol + 2,5 EO
1 part of Cl2 l4-fatty alcohol + 5 EO + 4 Po 3 parts of C8 1O-fatty alcohol + 3 E0-butylether H 1 part of octanol + 4 EO
1 part of C12_18-fatty alcohol + 4 E0 ~ S PO

Cleaning agent bases as additives to the surfactant combinations according to the invention Base material 1:

55,3 parts of water 7.0 parts of ethanolamine 10.0 parts of triethanolamine 8.0 parts of diethanolamine 15.0 parts of C9-carboxylic acid, branched 1.0 parts of 2-phosphonobutane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid 0.2 parts of tolyltriazole 3.5 parts of pentapotassium triphosphat~
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D 8376 - 12 - ~ ~ 9 Base material 2:

59,2 parts of water lo.o parts o~ ethanolamine 10.0 parts of triethanolamine 5.0 parts of diisopropanolamine 5.0 parts of n-octan acid 2.0 parts of Cg-carboxylic acid, branched, 5.0 parts of C8-carboxylic acid, branched, 3.0 parts of boric acid 0.8 parts of polyacrylate (MW about 1,500) Base material 3:

1 part of disodium tetraborate . 10 H20 1 part of tetrasodium diphosphat~ . 10 H2O

Base material 4:

~2.3 parts of water 9.0 parts of potassium hydroxide 2.5 parts of sodium hydroxide 5.0 parts of pentapotassium triphosphate 5.0 parts of potassium gluconate 5.0 parts of a mixture of branched carboxylic acids having from 9 to 11 carbon atoms (Versatic acid, Shell) 1.2 parts of l-hydroxyethane-l,l-diphosphonic acid Base material 5:

80.0 parts of water 15.0 parts of o-phosphoric acid 5.0 parts of sodium hydroxide .

, D 8376 - 13 - ~S'~ 9 Base material 6:

1 part of pentasodium triphosphate 1 part of tetrasodium diphosphate 1 part of trisodium phosphate . 12 H20 The application-technological properties of the surfactant combinations to be used according to the invention according to EXAMPLE 1 were tested in cleaning agent base material according to EXAMPLE 2 in a laboratory spraying apparatus. In said test, steel sheets (grade St 37) adhered with a corrosion-preventing oil were treated by way of a spraying procedrue with aqueous application solutions as specified in the following Table 1 (spray pressure from 2.5 to 5 bar).
The cleaning ef~ect, the foaming property and the wetting effect onto the sheet surfaces as well as the run-off property of the application solutions were visually evaluated.

In all cases of the individual examples summarized in Table 1, there was evident a good cleaning effect provided by the tested application solutions. Further-more it Wa5 found that the application solutions employ-ed were well sprayable at the temperaturea set forth in Table 1 and did produce any adverse foam developments.
The results obtained each with respect to "wetting" and "run-off property" are represented in Table 1 in the column "remar~s".

The individual column of Table 1 are explained as follows:

D 8376 - 14 - ~ 9 "Base material":
Indication of the number of the base material accordi~g to EXAMPLE 2 of the cleaning agent used in the respective Example.

~Surfactant combination":
Indication of the designation (reference character) of the surfactant combination according to EXAMPLE
used in the respective Example.

"Amount":
refers to the concentration in % by weight of the respective surfactant combination relative to the cleaning agent base material.

"Concentration":
Concentration in g/liter of the cleaning agent in the application solution.

"Water quality":
Grade of the water employed for the preparation of the application solutions with respect to the water hardneQ~; the abbreviations have the following meanings:
VEW = fully de-salted water DIN - water hardness of 20 'd BW = industrial water, hardness about 16 d.

"Spray temperature":
Temperature of the application solution when used in the spraying procedure without occurrence of any adverse foam formation.

In the case of EXAMPLE 3.8, aluminum sheets were additionally treated: thereupon, no undesirable dis-colorations of the aluminum surface were observed.

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In comparative experiments, the component (a) of the surfactant combination to be used according to the invention - i.e. octanol + 4EO - was tested alone by itsel~ using a test according to Example 3. Therein, the surfactant was used in a concentration of 1% by weight in the cleaning agent base materials at spraying temperatures of between 20 'C and 70 C at a spray pressure of 3 bar - water quality: VEW.

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Claims (7)

C L A I M S:
1. Use of a combination comprising non-ionic surfact-ants, containing (a) at least one alk(en)yl-ethoxylate having the general formula (I) R1-O-(CH2CH2O)n-H (I) wherein R represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms and n represents a number within the range of from 2 to 12, and (b) at least one alk(en)yl-ethoxylate-propoxylate having the general formula (II) R2-O-(CH2CH2O)p-A-H (II) wherein R2 represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from S to 5 carbon atoms, p represents a number within the range of from 2 to 10, and A represents a group of the type -(CH2-CH(CH3)-O)q- and -(CH(CH3)-CH2-O)r-, with the sum (q + r) being a number within the range of from 2 to 8, while the ratio by weight of the components a : b is within the range of from 10 : 1 to 1 : 10, for cleaning hard surfaces.

The use according to claim 1, characterized in that there is employed, as the component (a) of the surfact-ant combination, at least one alk(en)yl-ethoxylate having the general formula (I), wherein R1 represents a linear alkyl or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms and n represents a number within the range of from
2 to 10.
The use according to claim 1, characterized in that there is employed, as the component (b) of the surfact-ant combination, at least one alkyl-ethoxylate-propoxyl-ate having the general formula (II), wherein R2 re-presents a linear alkyl group having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms, p represents a number within the range of from 2 to 5 and A represents the moieties set forth above, and the sum of (q + r) is a number within the range of from
4 to 6.

The use according to anyone of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the combination of surfactants contains, as an additional component (c), at least one alk(en)yl ethoxylate mixed ether having the general formula (III) R3-O-(CH2CH2O)s-R4 (III) wherein R3 represents a linear or branched alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms or a cyclic alkyl group having from 5 to 6 carbon atoms, s represents a number within the range of from 2 to 12 and R4 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, the ratio by weight of the components (a + b) : c within the range of from 1 : (0,1 to 4).
5. The use according to claim 4, characterized in that there is employed, as the additional component (c) of the surfactant combination, at least one alkyl ethoxyl-ate mixed ether having the general formula (III), wherein R3 represents a linear alkyl group having from 8 to 10 carbon atoms, s represents a number within the range of from 3 to 5 and R4 represents an n-butyl moiety.
6. The use according to anyone of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the combination of surfactants additionally contains builder substances and/or complex-ing agents, corrosion inhibitors and bases or acids.
7. The use according to anyone of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the combination of surfactants is employed in the form of water-diluted application solutions in concentrations of from 0.0001 to 1.5% by weight, and preferably of from 0.0005 to 0.5% by weight.
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