EP0071481A1 - Agents de réglage de la mousse et compositions détergentes les contenant - Google Patents

Agents de réglage de la mousse et compositions détergentes les contenant Download PDF

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EP0071481A1
EP0071481A1 EP82304013A EP82304013A EP0071481A1 EP 0071481 A1 EP0071481 A1 EP 0071481A1 EP 82304013 A EP82304013 A EP 82304013A EP 82304013 A EP82304013 A EP 82304013A EP 0071481 A1 EP0071481 A1 EP 0071481A1
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suds
gelatinised starch
detergent composition
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Louis Ho Tan Tai
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/0005Other compounding ingredients characterised by their effect
    • C11D3/0026Low foaming or foam regulating compositions
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D17/00Detergent materials or soaps characterised by their shape or physical properties
    • C11D17/0039Coated compositions or coated components in the compositions, (micro)capsules
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/16Organic compounds
    • C11D3/18Hydrocarbons
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/16Organic compounds
    • C11D3/20Organic compounds containing oxygen
    • C11D3/22Carbohydrates or derivatives thereof
    • C11D3/222Natural or synthetic polysaccharides, e.g. cellulose, starch, gum, alginic acid or cyclodextrin
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/16Organic compounds
    • C11D3/37Polymers
    • C11D3/3703Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
    • C11D3/373Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds containing silicones

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  • This invention relates to detergent compositions containing suds control agents and to a process for their manufacture.
  • Detergent compositions particularly fabric washing detergent powders, which produce only a relatively small amount of suds in washing machines are gaining an increasing share of the European market as automatic (drum- type) washing machines become more widespread.
  • existing products generally use a mixture of soaps for controlling suds produced by anionic surfactants, or by mixtures of anionic and nonionic surfactants, it is now generally accepted in the industry that such products are not ideal, since the soap tends to have adverse effects, for example, on powder-properties. Consequently, there are now a large number of proposals in the literature for alternative suds-control agents which do not contain soap.
  • gelatinised starch is a useful material for forming the basis of a silicone-based suds control agent in that it has an optimum combination of sorbency and solubility characteristics.
  • the present invention provides a detergent composition comprising an anionic surfactant and a suds-control agent, characterised in that the suds-control agent comprises a core of gelatinised starch having a mixture of a silicone oil and hydrophobic silica adsorbed thereon.
  • a silicone oil compound This mixture of silicone oil and hydrophobic silica will now be referred to as a silicone oil compound.
  • the suds-control agent is coated with a layer of wax, preferably paraffin wax, since we have discovered that the storage characteristics of such coated agents are superior to those of uncoated ones.
  • the invention provides a process for making a detergent composition characterised by the steps of
  • gelatinised starch for the adsorbent core of the suds-control agent.
  • Gelatinised starch is essentially a partially hydrolysed starch which can be obtained by suspending granules of starch, such as maize starch, in water and drying the suspension in steam heated drums.
  • gelatinised starches sold under the registered Trade Mark "Amijel” by Society des Produits du Mais of Clamart, France, but we believe that other gelatinised starches will be just as effective.
  • the suds-control effect of silicone oil compounds is quite easily deactivated and two factors in the characteristics of the gelatinised starch which have been found to be important are its ionic character.and its pH. We prefer, for the stability reason referred to, that the gelatinised starch should be nonionic in character and also that the pH should be in the range 5.5 to 9.
  • the gelatinised starch Further important characteristics of the gelatinised starch are its particle size and its particle size distribution. Small particle size, that is to say a weight average particle size of from 50 to 500 microns is important from the viewpoint of maximising the surface area of the gelatinised starch, so that it can adsorb as much silicone oil compound as possible.
  • the particle size distribution is preferred to be narrow so that if it is decided to granulate the gelatinised starch, then the resultant granules are relatively uniform in size and shape.
  • the subsequent coating with a layer of wax is then more likely to be of uniform thickness and to be coherent than if particles of a widely different particle size are used to form the granule.
  • silicone oils used in the silicone oil compounds of the invention are generally from the chemical class of alkyl polysiloxanes. These materials are well known to industrial chemists and are available in a wide range of molecular weights, the higher molecular weight materials, as is usually the case with polymers, tending to be more viscous. Silicone oils are available from various suppliers, and Dow Corning Corporation of Illinois, USA, and Rhone-Poulenc Chemie, supply mixtures of silicone oils and silicas of various types, including hydrophobic silicas, which we have found very satisfactory for use as silicone oil compounds in this invention.
  • the process of this invention involves a granulation or agglomeration step.
  • Granulation and agglomeration are well-known techniques in which liquid is added to particles of a solid, with agitation, and in which large particles are formed.
  • the "Eirich" pan (registered Trade Mark) is an apparatus which is well-known in the food and detergents industry which was developed especially for granulation processes.
  • fluidised bed apparatus such as the "Anhydro" fluidised bed (registered Trade Mark) for granulation or, more preferably a Schugi (registered Trade Mark) mixer.
  • This type of mixer consists essentially of a closed cylinder provided with a set of mixer blades rotatable about its major axis. The blades are of variable pitch and are arranged so that they can impart a spiral mixing motion to particles in the mixer.
  • the side-walls of the cylinder are provided with spray nozzles for the introduction of liquid.
  • the process also involves a coating step and this can be a spraying step in which a solution of a wax in an organic solvent is sprayed onto the granules produced in the previous step. The solvent is then evaporated to leave a coherent coating of the wax on the granules.
  • a molten wax can be used in the coating step.
  • the type of wax used is not critical since, as it is _present in only a relatively thin layer, it will dissolve off the granules or agglomerates in the warm, detergent-rich environment of the-wash. liquor.
  • the softening point of the wax should be below the temperature at which washing generally takes place, that is to say below about 80°C.
  • wash temperatures it is becoming increasingly common for wash temperatures to be specified at as low as 60° or even 40°C. We prefer to use paraffin wax of these softening points, but there is no reason why other waxes, should not be used.
  • the relative proportions of the essential components in the preferred suds-control agents of the invention can vary quite widely, although since the gelatinised starch is intended to be present as an adsorbent it will normally be present in an amount greater than the silicone oil which it is intended to adsorb. Preferred relative proportions are: the percentages being based on the total weight of the suds-control agent.
  • the suds-control agent will normally be present in detergent compositions in accordance with the invention in amounts of from 0.1 to 2%, preferably 0.1 to 1%.
  • this invention is concerned with a suds-control agent and consequently no attempt has been made in this specification to describe all possible detergent compositions to which the component could be added. It is self-evident that the usual detergent composition components are appropriate provided that they . have no adverse reaction with the components of the suds-control agent.
  • anionic surfactants such as alkylbenzene sulphonates, primary and secondary alkyl sulphates, secondary alkane sulphonates, soaps and olefine sulphonates can be used.
  • Nonionic surfactants either alone or in combination with anionic surfactants can also be used, the preferred nonionic surfactants being C 7 to c24 primary or secondary alcohols ethoxylated with from 1 to 25 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of alcohol. Typical amounts of surfactant are from 3 to 25% by weight when only one species is present, and from 1 to 16% by weight when more than one is present.
  • Builders may be present in amounts of from 5 to 50% by weight.
  • Typical of the inorganic builders are sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium pyrophosphate and sodium orthophosphate, sodium carbonate and the crystalline and amorphous forms of aluminosilicates.
  • Organic builders such as sodium nitrilotriacetate, sodium citrate, sodium carboxymethyloxysuccinate, and the host of other materials have been been suggested as phosphate replacers are also appropriate.
  • sodium silicate as a corrosion inhibitor and powder structurant
  • oxygen bleaches such as sodium perborate and sodium percarbonate
  • bleach precursors such as tetraacetylethylene diamine, fluorescers, antiredeposition agents and anti- ashing agents, suds-suppressing agents other than the silicone granules of the invention, and moisture.
  • a fabric washing powder having the following formulation was prepared by conventional spray-drying and dry-dosing techniques:
  • the suds assessment test is performed by washing a standard load of clean washing in a Brandt 433 (registered trade mark) washing machine.
  • the washing machine was specially modified to provide a window and the window had an arbitrary scale on it from which suds height could be read.
  • the reservoir holding the wash liquor is fitted with a thermometer.
  • Example 2 A similar experiment to that in Example 1 was performed, but in this example the suds-control granules were prepared from 46 parts of the gelatinised starch and 46 parts of the silicone oil compound.
  • the granules were combined with the remaining components of the fabric washing powder, and the suds control performance of the powder was assessed as described above except that the powder formulation contained 1% of sodium hardened rape seed oil soap and a correspondly reduced amount of water.
  • the results of the suds control -assessment are shown in Table 2.

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EP0094250A1 (fr) * 1982-05-11 1983-11-16 Unilever Plc Procédé pour la préparation de granules contenant un agent antimousse à base de silicone
EP0109247A3 (en) * 1982-11-10 1985-04-03 Unilever Plc Hydrocarbon anti-foam granules
GB2178444A (en) * 1985-07-30 1987-02-11 Procter & Gamble Suds-controlled, granular, detergent compositions
EP0206522A3 (en) * 1985-05-23 1987-05-27 Unilever Plc Antifoam ingredient for detergent compositions
EP0213953A3 (en) * 1985-09-04 1988-01-13 Unilever Plc Antifoam ingredient for detergent compositions
EP0684303A2 (fr) 1994-05-27 1995-11-29 Unilever Plc Compositions détergents
US6521587B1 (en) 1999-08-13 2003-02-18 Dow Corning S.A. Silicone foam control agent
US6521586B1 (en) 1999-08-13 2003-02-18 Dow Corning S.A. Silicone foam control agent
US7279453B2 (en) * 2001-02-22 2007-10-09 Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien Foam regulating granulate
WO2010028898A1 (fr) * 2008-09-12 2010-03-18 Unilever Plc Améliorations se rapportant à des assouplisseurs de tissu
CN114786739A (zh) * 2019-12-16 2022-07-22 库珀轮胎和橡胶公司 二氧化硅涂覆的淀粉

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FR2462184A1 (fr) * 1979-07-31 1981-02-13 Eurand France Nouvelles compositions antimousses sous forme de granules utilisables notamment dans les lessives en poudre
EP0040091A1 (fr) * 1980-05-12 1981-11-18 Unilever Plc Granulés supprimant la mousse à utiliser dans des compositions détergentes

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FR2462184A1 (fr) * 1979-07-31 1981-02-13 Eurand France Nouvelles compositions antimousses sous forme de granules utilisables notamment dans les lessives en poudre
EP0040091A1 (fr) * 1980-05-12 1981-11-18 Unilever Plc Granulés supprimant la mousse à utiliser dans des compositions détergentes

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EP0094250A1 (fr) * 1982-05-11 1983-11-16 Unilever Plc Procédé pour la préparation de granules contenant un agent antimousse à base de silicone
EP0109247A3 (en) * 1982-11-10 1985-04-03 Unilever Plc Hydrocarbon anti-foam granules
EP0206522A3 (en) * 1985-05-23 1987-05-27 Unilever Plc Antifoam ingredient for detergent compositions
GB2178444B (en) * 1985-07-30 1989-12-28 Procter & Gamble Detergent compositions.
GB2178444A (en) * 1985-07-30 1987-02-11 Procter & Gamble Suds-controlled, granular, detergent compositions
EP0213953A3 (en) * 1985-09-04 1988-01-13 Unilever Plc Antifoam ingredient for detergent compositions
US4818292A (en) * 1985-09-04 1989-04-04 Lever Brothers Company Antifoam ingredient for detergent compositions
EP0684303A2 (fr) 1994-05-27 1995-11-29 Unilever Plc Compositions détergents
EP0684303A3 (fr) * 1994-05-27 1996-07-10 Unilever Plc Compositions détergents.
US6521587B1 (en) 1999-08-13 2003-02-18 Dow Corning S.A. Silicone foam control agent
US6521586B1 (en) 1999-08-13 2003-02-18 Dow Corning S.A. Silicone foam control agent
US7279453B2 (en) * 2001-02-22 2007-10-09 Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien Foam regulating granulate
WO2010028898A1 (fr) * 2008-09-12 2010-03-18 Unilever Plc Améliorations se rapportant à des assouplisseurs de tissu
CN114786739A (zh) * 2019-12-16 2022-07-22 库珀轮胎和橡胶公司 二氧化硅涂覆的淀粉
CN114786739B (zh) * 2019-12-16 2023-10-31 固特异轮胎和橡胶公司 二氧化硅涂覆的淀粉

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