EP0965883A1 - Ökologische Reinigungsflüssigkeit für Entwicklungsbäder für Fotos - Google Patents

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EP0965883A1
EP0965883A1 EP98202038A EP98202038A EP0965883A1 EP 0965883 A1 EP0965883 A1 EP 0965883A1 EP 98202038 A EP98202038 A EP 98202038A EP 98202038 A EP98202038 A EP 98202038A EP 0965883 A1 EP0965883 A1 EP 0965883A1
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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
    • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
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    • C11D3/34—Organic compounds containing sulfur
    • C11D3/349—Organic compounds containing sulfur additionally containing nitrogen atoms, e.g. nitro, nitroso, amino, imino, nitrilo, nitrile groups containing compounds or their derivatives or thio urea
    • 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
    • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/16—Organic compounds
    • C11D3/26—Organic compounds containing nitrogen
    • C11D3/33—Amino carboxylic acids
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03C—PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C11/00—Auxiliary processes in photography
    • G03C11/005—Cleaning photographic processing and manufacturing apparatus
    • 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
    • C11D2111/00—Cleaning compositions characterised by the objects to be cleaned; Cleaning compositions characterised by non-standard cleaning or washing processes
    • C11D2111/10—Objects to be cleaned
    • C11D2111/14—Hard surfaces
    • C11D2111/20—Industrial or commercial equipment, e.g. reactors, tubes or engines
    • 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
    • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/16—Organic compounds
    • C11D3/34—Organic compounds containing sulfur
    • C11D3/3427—Organic compounds containing sulfur containing thiol, mercapto or sulfide groups, e.g. thioethers or mercaptales

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  • the present invention deals with an improved ecological one-step cleaning liquid for photographic processing equipment.
  • deposits can form on the walls of the various processor tanks and on the mechanical roller/belt system used to transport the photographic silver halide material through the processor. These deposits are likely to soil the next sheets or stripes of processed film or paper.
  • the deposits can be metallic silver, commonly referred to as “silver sludge", insoluble silver salts and alkali metal salts.
  • the deposits in the fixer tank can be silver salts, alkali metal salts, aluminum oxides and elemental sulphur.
  • the deposits in the wash tanks can be alkali metal salts, gelatin and gelatin by-products which induce the growth of fungi and algae.
  • the prior art utilizes different cleaning compositions for the various tanks.
  • the developer tank requires a combination of a strong oxidizing agent and a silver solvent system.
  • Commonly used prior art cleaning solutions contained chromate salts such as dichromate combined with sulphuric or sulphamic acid (see e.g. DE 1068840). Consecutively a neutralizer such as an alkali bisulfite solution was used to remove residual chromate salts.
  • a strong caustic solution is used to dissolve the salts and silver complexes.
  • the algae and fungi slime in the wash tanks can be cleaned by a chlorine bleach such as a hypochlorite solution. From a modern ecological point of view all the chemicals cited above are agressive and hazardous to the environment.
  • Chromium is recognized as a pollutant and a potential carcinogen.
  • Caustic solutions are very injurious to the eyes and skin.
  • the hypochlorite solution for cleaning the wash tank can react with residual caustic solution, used for the fixer, giving rise to the formation of toxic gaseous chlorine.
  • the cleaning composition contains hydrogen ions, ammonium ions and sulphate ions.
  • it is composed of sulphuric acid, ferric ammonium sulphate and water.
  • CA 734388 a five-steps process is disclosed for cleaning successively all sections of an automatic processor.
  • an aqueous solution with a pH of at most 1.0 and containing cerium(IV) ions is used, which however is corrosive.
  • US 4,021,264 silver deposits are removed with an aqueous solution containing an alkali mono- or di-peroxysulphate, an alkali bisulphate and thiourea.
  • the latter substance can cause photographic fog.
  • a cleaning liquid containing a peroxydisulphate compound, an iron(III) salt and optionally an activator.
  • JP-A 58-048052 describes an acidic cleaning solutiuon containing iodide or bromide ions.
  • the cleaning composition comprises water, a hydroxycarboxylic acid such as citric acid or tartaric acid, and a peroxymonosulphate compound.
  • a method for cleaning photographic treating equipment with a solution containing an aminopolycarboxylic acid ferric chelate and a silver complexing agent is disclosed in JP-A 2-311845.
  • a two-steps cleaning metod is described using a first composition containing a chelate of an iron(III) salt plus a complexing agent, and a second composition which comprises water, an acid or acid anhydride, a surfactant and a water soluble solvent.
  • the aqueous cleaning composition contains a peroxocompound, preferably sodium persulphate; in most examples sulfamic acid is also present.
  • the present invention extends the teachings on cleaning liquids for photographic processors. It is an object of the present invention to provide an
  • an aqueous cleaning composition for a photographic processor comprising,
  • a monophosphate salt e.g. an alkali monophosphate salt, is also present in the cleaning composition.
  • a principal ingredient of the cleaning composition according to the present invention is an aminopolycarboxylic acid chelate of an iron(III) salt.
  • This compound will take care of the oxidation of the metallic silver sludge to silver ions.
  • Suitable chelating agents for iron(III) ions are EDTA, DTPA, hydroxy(EDTA), PDTA, MIDA, ADA and NTA.
  • the four latter compounds show the advantage of being biodegradable.
  • Preferred compounds are sodium iron(III) EDTA, and ammonium iron(III) EDTA.
  • the most preferred compound is ammonium iron(III) EDTA.
  • the concentration of the iron complex salt must be at least 0.01 mole/l in order to be effective, and is preferably comprised between 0.025 and 0.2 mole/l.
  • Suitable silver complexing agents include sodium-, potassium-, and ammonium thiosulphate; sodium-, potassium- or ammonium thiocyanate; sodium dithionate; alkyl alkanolamines; alkyl amines; thiourea; alkyl thiourea; cysteine HCl; ammonium dithiocarbamate.
  • the most preferred silver complexing agent is ammonium thiosulphate.
  • Another preferred silver complexing agent is dithiaoctanediol.
  • the concentration of the silver complexing agent must be at least 0.05 mole/l.
  • An essential ingredient of the cleaning composition according to the present invention is a silver oxidizing accelerator belonging to a specific chemical class.
  • This compound is an organic heterocyclic compound having at least two nitrogen atoms in the heterocyclic nucleus and carrying a mercapto group.
  • Highly preferred silver oxidation accelerators according to the defined class include the compounds of following table 1 :
  • the most preferred silver oxidation accelerator is 3-mercapto-1,2,4-triazole (compound 3).
  • the concentration of the silver oxidation accelerator in the cleaning solution must be at least 0.001 mole/l, and is preferably comprised between 0.005 and 0.05 mole/l.
  • a silver oxidation accelerator as defined above it was necessary to use high concentrations of the chelated iron(III) salt, and the presence of a monophosphate salt was indispensable. Thanks to the presence of the silver oxidation accelerator moderate concentrations of the chelated iron(III) salt can be used and the presence of a monophosphate salt becomes optional.
  • a monophosphate salt is present preferably in a concentration between 0.02 and 0.15 mole/l.
  • the monophosphate ion functions as a supplementary oxidation accelerator and at the same time as a buffer substance.
  • the monophosphate salt is an alkali salt, e.g. potassium monophosphate or sodium monophosphate.
  • the cleaning solution can further optionally contain several other kinds of ingredients.
  • the composition can contain minor amounts of inorganic or organic acids, such as acetic acid and/or citric acid, in order to adjust the pH of the cleaning solution and strenghten the buffer capacity.
  • the pH of the cleaning composition is preferably comprised between 4 and 7.
  • the solution can further contain a sequestering agent for complexing calcium and magnesium ions originating from hard water.
  • the solution can further contain sulphite ions, preferably potassium sulphite. It assures the stabilisation of the thiosulphate.
  • the solution can further contain one or more surfactants in order to assure good spreading activity on processor surfaces and good dispersion of silver deposits.
  • a practical cleaning test is performed as follows.
  • An automatic Rapiline 66 processor (registered trademark of Agfa-Gevaert N.V.) was filled with a conventional hydroquinone/Phenidone developer and a conventional fixer.
  • About 80 m 2 of negative working red sensitive imagesetting film was processed with 50 ml/m 2 replenishment in dark light conditions to obtain clear film and to contaminate as much as possible the developer with dissolved silver halide.
  • the cleaning solution was put in (ready-for-use, as concentrate, or as powder) and the processor ran for 15 minutes with the cleaning solution at 23°C. Thereafter the cleaning solution was drained and the developing tank was rinsed twice with tap water at room temperature. There is no second cleaning phase necessary. The tank was drained and the rollers, guiding plates and walls where controlled on remaining black silver deposit. The results where quoted from 0 to 5 according to an arbitrary scale. Zero means that no remaining silver deposit was found. Five means no reduction in silver deposit with regard to the start of the cleaning.
  • a typical developer tank consists of the tank and the developer rack.
  • the developer rack has the transport function for the immersed photographic material. This means that the possible appearance of scratches, guiding plate marks and roller marks is dependent on the quality of the rack.
  • the entrance and the exit roller pair are the places where silver sludge contamination is most apparent, but the bottom guiding plate and rollers are the most contaminated ones.
  • the most common places where silver sludge is transferred on the photographic material are the rollers (cause pressure and slip) and the guiding plates (cause abration due to direct contact). To prevent this heavily disturbing problem chemical cleaning of the developer is necessary as decribed here.
  • Racks are to complex to clean mechanically. Also in closed tank and small guiding sleeves systems chemical cleaning at the spot is the only solution.
  • This example illustrates the efficiency of the presence of several different silver oxidation accelerators and compares there activity by means of a bleach-fix test.
  • This test is performed as follows. After 25 s of immersion in bright light in a conventional developer, and immersion in a fixer in an automatic Rapiline 66 processor of the photographic red sensitive, negative working recording paper Alliance HNp, having a silver coverage of 2.2 g/m 2 , a maximum density of above 2.00 is reached. The roll material was cut in small strips of about 3x10cm. The strips where partially immersed in 250ml of different stirred cleaning solutions at room temperature. The time of immersion was 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 and 0 seconds respectively.
  • the strips where rinsed in tap water (stop function) and consequetively rinsed in fixer and tap water, and dried.
  • the reflection density was measured with a MacBeth RD918 densitometer to follow the bleach-fixing activity and the results where put in a graph.
  • the (interpolated) time to reach a density of 0.5 was taken as representative. A time shorter than 40 seconds is considered as good.
  • the actual cleaning compositions contained 0.194 mole/l ammonium Fe(III)EDTA, 0.336 mole/l ammonium thiosulphate, 0.083 mole/l potassium sulphite, 0.022 mole/l of Na-sequestrene, and 0.01 mol/l of the different silver oxidation accelerators.
  • the pH was adjusted to 5.5 with acetic acid.
  • the interpolated times to reach a reflection density of 0.5 are illustrated in following table 2a.
  • compound No. time (s) D 0.5 cmpd 1 38 cmpd 2 29 cmpd 3 33 cmpd 4 36 cmpd 5 36 cmpd 6 38 cmpd 7 36 cmpd 8 28 cmpd 9 29 - (blank) 47
  • Table 2b shows the bleach-fix speed of a liquid containing compound 3 compared to a blank containing no oxidation accelerator.
  • time s
  • Density blade
  • Density cmpd 3

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DE2102713A1 (de) * 1971-01-21 1972-08-10 Agfa-Gevaert Ag, 5090 Leverkusen Härtende Bleichfixierbäder
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