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EP1228192A1 - Granules de tensioactifs presentant une vitesse de dissolution amelioree - Google Patents

Granules de tensioactifs presentant une vitesse de dissolution amelioree

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EP1228192A1
EP1228192A1 EP00975964A EP00975964A EP1228192A1 EP 1228192 A1 EP1228192 A1 EP 1228192A1 EP 00975964 A EP00975964 A EP 00975964A EP 00975964 A EP00975964 A EP 00975964A EP 1228192 A1 EP1228192 A1 EP 1228192A1
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Manfred Weuthen
Ditmar Kischkel
Rainer Eskuchen
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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
    • C11D17/00—Detergent materials or soaps characterised by their shape or physical properties
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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
    • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/0005—Other compounding ingredients characterised by their effect
    • C11D3/0052—Gas evolving or heat producing compositions
    • 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
    • C11D3/20—Organic compounds containing oxygen
    • C11D3/22—Carbohydrates or derivatives thereof
    • C11D3/222—Natural or synthetic polysaccharides, e.g. cellulose, starch, gum, alginic acid or cyclodextrin
    • 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
    • C11D3/37—Polymers
    • C11D3/3703—Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
    • C11D3/3707—Polyethers, e.g. polyalkyleneoxides
    • 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
    • C11D1/00—Detergent compositions based essentially on surface-active compounds; Use of these compounds as a detergent
    • C11D1/66—Non-ionic compounds
    • C11D1/662—Carbohydrates or derivatives

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  • the invention is in the field of solid detergents, dishwashing detergents and cleaning agents and relates to new surfactant granules which are distinguished by an improved dissolution rate, a process for their preparation and their use.
  • surfactants in a granular, practically anhydrous form are preferably used for the production of solid detergents, dishwashing detergents and cleaning agents.
  • a wide variety of methods have proven to be suitable for producing such forms of supply.
  • What is common to the commercially available surfactant granules, however, is that they have an inadequate dissolution rate, especially in cold water.
  • detergent tablets which are produced on the basis of alkyl sulfate or alkyl gluoside granules, cannot be used directly in the washing-up chamber of the washing machine, despite the use of considerable amounts of disintegrants, but must be added directly to the washing liquor.
  • the object of the present invention was therefore to provide surfactant granules which disintegrate particularly quickly on contact with cold water without the formation of a geophase, so that the disadvantages of the prior art are reliably overcome.
  • the invention relates to surfactant granules with an improved dissolution rate, which are obtained by granulating and compacting anionic and / or nonionic surfactants in the presence of disintegrants.
  • the granules according to the invention not only have excellent washing and cleaning performance, but also have a significantly improved dissolving speed, which in particular makes their use possible for the production of detergent tablets of this type which can be metered in directly via the washing-up chamber of the washing machines.
  • the use of other disintegrants in the manufacture of such Pills are often no longer required.
  • the description "disintegrate” is more appropriate here. The surfactant is released particularly quickly and can become active.
  • the present invention further relates to a process for the production of surfactant granules with an improved dissolution rate, in which anionic and / or nonionic surfactants are granulated and compacted in the presence of disintegrants.
  • anionic surfactants are soaps, alkylbenzene sulfonates, alkane sulfonates, olefin sulfonates, alkyl ether sulfonates, glycerol ether sulfonates, ⁇ -methyl ester sulfonates, sulfo fatty acids, alkyl sulfate sulfates, glycerol ether sulfates, hydroxymixed ether sulfates, fatty acid sulfate ethersulfate, monoglyme sulfate - and dialkyl sulfosuccinates, mono- and Dialkylsulfosuccina- mate, sulfotriglycerides, amide soaps, ether carboxylic acids and salts thereof, fatty acid isethionates, Fettsau- resarcosinate, fatty acid taurides, N-acylamin
  • anionic surfactants contain polyglycol ether chains, they can have a conventional, but preferably a narrow, homolog distribution.
  • Alkyl benzene sulfonates, alkyl sulfates, soaps, alkane sulfonates, olefin sulfonates, methyl ester sulfonates and mixtures thereof are preferably used.
  • Preferred alkylbenzenesulfonates preferably follow the formula (i)
  • R stands for a branched, but preferably linear alkyl radical having 10 to 18 carbon atoms
  • Ph for a phenyl radical
  • X for an alkali and / or alkaline earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium, alkanolammonium or glucammonium.
  • dodecylbenzenesulfonates, tetradecylbenzenesulfonates, hexadecylbenzenesulfonates and their technical mixtures in the form of the sodium salts are particularly suitable.
  • Alkyl and / or alkenyl sulfates which are also often referred to as fatty alcohol sulfates, are to be understood as meaning the sulfation products of primary and / or secondary alcohols, which preferably follow the formula (II)
  • alkyl sulfates that can be used in the context of the invention are the sulfation products of capron alcohol, caprylic alcohol, capric alcohol, 2-ethylhexyl alcohol, lauryl alcohol, myristyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, palmoleyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, isostearyl alcohol, oleyl alcohol, arachselyl alcohol, elaidyl alcohol, elaidyl alcohol alcohol, gadoleyl alcohol, behenyl alcohol and emcyl alcohol and their technical mixtures, which are obtained by high pressure hydrogenation of technical methyl ester fractions or aldehydes from Roelen's oxosynthesis.
  • the sulfation products can preferably be used in the form of their alkali metal salts and in particular their sodium salts.
  • Alkyl sulfates based on Ci6 / 18 tallow fatty alcohols or vegetable fatty alcohols of comparable carbon chain distribution in the form of their sodium salts are particularly preferred.
  • these are oxo alcohols, as are obtainable, for example, by converting carbon monoxide and hydrogen to aipha-containing olefins using the shop method.
  • Such alcohol mixtures are commercially available under the trade names Dobanol® or Neodol®. Suitable alcohol mixtures are Dobanol 91®, 23®, 25®, 45®.
  • oxo alcohols such as those obtained after the classic Enichema or Condea oxo process by adding carbon monoxide and hydrogen to olefins.
  • These alcohol mixtures are a mixture of strongly branched alcohols.
  • Such alcohol mixtures are commercially available under the trade name Lial®.
  • Suitable alcohol mixtures are Lial 91®, 111®, 123®, 125®, 145®.
  • the nonionic surfactants which are also suitable as surfactant components of the granules for the purposes of the present invention, can be, for example, fatty alcohol polyglycol ethers, alkylphenol polyglycol ethers, fatty acid polyglycol esters, fatty acid amide polyglycol ethers, fatty amine polyglycol ethers, alkoxylated triglycerides, mixed ethers or mixed formals ) yloligoglycosides, fatty acid-N-alkyl glucamides, protein hydrolyzates (especially vegetable products based on wheat), polyol fatty acid esters, sugar esters, sorbitan esters, polysorbates and amine oxides.
  • fatty alcohol polyglycol ethers alkylphenol polyglycol ethers
  • fatty acid polyglycol esters fatty acid amide polyglycol ethers
  • fatty amine polyglycol ethers alkoxylated triglycer
  • nonionic surfactants contain polyglycol ether chains, they can have a conventional, but preferably a narrow, homolog distribution. Preference is given to using nonionic surfactants which can be dried off, in particular alkyl and / or alkenyl oligoglycosides which preferably follow the formula (VI),
  • the alkyl and / or alkenyl oligoglycosides can be derived from aldoses or ketoses with 5 or 6 carbon atoms, preferably glucose.
  • the preferred alkyl and / or alkenyl oligoglycosides are thus alkyl and / or alkenyl oligoglucosides.
  • Alkyl and / or alkenyl oligoglycosides with an average degree of oligomerization p of 1.1 to are preferred 3.0 used. From an application point of view, preference is given to those alkyl and / or alkenyl oligoglycosides whose degree of oligomerization is less than 1.7 and in particular between 1.2 and 1.4.
  • the alkyl or alkenyl radical R 3 can be derived from primary alcohols having 4 to 1 1, preferably 8 to 10 carbon atoms.
  • Typical examples are butanol, capronic alcohol, caprylic alcohol, capric alcohol and undecyl alcohol and their technical mixtures, such as are obtained, for example, in the hydrogenation of technical fatty acid methyl esters or in the course of the hydrogenation of aldehydes from Roelen's oxosynthesis.
  • the alkyl or alkenyl radical R 3 can also be derived from p ⁇ mare ⁇ alcohols having 12 to 22, preferably 12 to 14 carbon atoms.
  • Typical examples are lauryl alcohol, myristyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, palmoleyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, isostearyl alcohol, oleyl alcohol, elaidyl alcohol, petroselinyl alcohol, arachyl alcohol, gadoleyl alcohol, behenyl alcohol, erucyl alcohol, brassidyl alcohol and the technical mixtures described above.
  • Alkyl oligoglucosides based on hardened Ci ⁇ m coconut alcohol with a DP of 1 to 3 are preferred.
  • anionic and nonionic surfactants are used together, it is advisable to use them in a weight ratio of 1:10 to 10: 1, preferably 1: 5 to 5: 1 and in particular 1: 2 to 2: 1.
  • disintegrant is to be understood as meaning substances which are contained in the surfactant granules in order to accelerate their disintegration when brought into contact with water. Overviews can be found, for example, in J.Pharm.Sci. 61 (1972) or Römpp Chemilexikon, 9th edition, volume 6, p. 4440.
  • the disintegrants can be present in the granules homogeneously distributed macroscopically, but from a microscopic point of view they can form zones of increased concentration due to the manufacturing process.
  • the preferred disintegrants include polysaccharides, such as, for example, natural starch and its derivatives (carboxymethyl starch, starch glycolates in the form of their alkali salts, agar agar, guar gum, pectins, etc.), celluloses and their derivatives (carboxymethyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose), polyvinylpyrrolidone , Kollidon, alginic acid and their alkali salts (alginates), amorphous or also partially crystalline layered silicates (bentonites), polyurethanes, polyethylene glycols and gas generating systems.
  • polysaccharides such as, for example, natural starch and its derivatives (carboxymethyl starch, starch glycolates in the form of their alkali salts, agar agar, guar gum, pectins, etc.), celluloses and their derivatives (carboxymethyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose), polyvinylpyrrolidone ,
  • disintegrants which may be present in the sense of the invention are, for example, the publications WO 98/40462 (Rettenmeyer), WO 98/55583 and WO 98/55590 (Unilever) and WO 98/40463, DE 19709991 and DE 19710254 (Henkel) refer to. Reference is expressly made to the teaching of these writings.
  • the surfactants and the disintegrants can be used in a ratio by weight of 1:10 to 10: 1, preferably 1: 5 to 5: 1 and in particular 1: 2 to 2: 1, based in each case on the solids content. It is also advisable to adjust the water content of the disintegrants or the surfactant granules so that swelling does not automatically occur during storage.
  • the residual water content should preferably not exceed 10% by weight.
  • the production of the surfactant granules ie the granulation and compacting, can be carried out in the manner known for detergents. It is particularly possible to compact the granules before, during or after the granulation. Compacting is imperative in order to achieve a sufficient increase in the resolution speed.
  • a particularly preferred way of producing the surfactant granules is to subject the mixtures to fluidized-bed granulation (“SKET” granulation). This is to be understood as granulation with simultaneous drying, which is preferably carried out batchwise or continuously.
  • the mixtures of surfactants and disintegrants can be used here Both in the dried state and as an aqueous preparation, preferably used fluidized bed apparatuses have base plates with dimensions of 0.4 to 5 m.
  • the granulation is preferably carried out at fluidizing air speeds in the range from 1 to 8 m / s.
  • the granules are discharged
  • the size of the granules is preferably obtained from the fluidized bed, for example by means of a sieving device or by means of an opposed air flow (sifting air) which is regulated in such a way that only particles above a certain particle size removed from the fluidized bed and smaller particles are retained in the fluidized bed.
  • the inflowing air is usually composed of the heated or unheated classifier air and the heated bottom air.
  • the soil air temperature is between 80 and 400, preferably 90 and 350 ° C.
  • a starting mass, for example a surfactant granulate from an earlier test batch, is advantageously introduced at the start of the granulation.
  • auxiliaries such as, for example, polyethylene glycol waxes, in quantities of 1 to 10 and preferably 2 to 5% by weight, based on the granules, of the surfactant granules. to add, which above all improve the gliding and adhesive behavior of the products and reduce the necessary energy consumption. If the desired grain size distribution is not already achieved by compacting alone, further steps, such as classification, can be added.
  • Another object of the invention relates to the use of the surfactant granules for the production of solid washing, rinsing and cleaning agents, in which they are present in amounts of 1 to 90, preferably 5 to 50 and in particular 10 to 25% by weight, based on the agent - May be included.
  • the agents can be in the form of powders, granules, extrudates, agglomerates or in particular tablets and can contain other typical ingredients.
  • the primary constituents of the agents can be, for example, further anionic, nonionic, cationic, amphoteric and / or zwitterionic surfactants, but anionic surfactants or combinations of anionic and nonionic surfactants are preferably present, provided that these are not identical to the ingredients of the granules according to the invention.
  • the detergents, dishwashing detergents and cleaning agents can furthermore contain inorganic and organic builder substances, the inorganic builder substances used being mainly zeolites, crystalline phyllosilicates, amorphous silicates and, where permissible, also phosphates, such as tripolyphosphate.
  • the amount of co-builder is to be counted against the preferred amounts of phosphates.
  • the fine crystalline, synthetic and bound water-containing zeolite which is frequently used as a detergent builder is preferably zeolite A and / or P.
  • zeolite P for example, zeolite MAP ( R ) (commercial product from Crosfield) is particularly preferred.
  • zeolite X and mixtures of A, X and / or P and Y are also suitable.
  • a cocrystallized sodium / potassium aluminum silicate composed of zeolite A and zeolite X, which as VEGOBOND AX ® (commercial product of the company Condea Augusta SpA) is commercially available.
  • the zeolite can be used as a spray-dried powder or as an undried stabilized suspension that is still moist from its manufacture.
  • the zeolite may contain minor additions of nonionic surfactants as stabilizers, for example 1 to 3% by weight, based on zeolite, of ethoxylated Ci ⁇ -Ci ⁇ fatty alcohols with 2 to 5 ethylene oxide groups, Ci2-Ci4 fatty alcohols with 4 to 5 ethylene oxide groups or ethoxylated isotridecanols.
  • Suitable zeolites have an average particle size of less than 10 ⁇ m (volume distribution; measurement method: Coulter Counter) and preferably contain 18 to 22% by weight, in particular 20 to 22% by weight, of bound water.
  • Suitable substitutes or partial substitutes for phosphates and zeolites are crystalline, layered sodium silicates of the general formula NaMSixO ⁇ x + ryH ⁇ O, where M is sodium or hydrogen, x is a number from 1, 9 to 4 and y is a number from 0 to 20 and preferred values for x are 2, 3 or 4.
  • Such crystalline layered silicates are described, for example, in European patent application EP 0164514 A1.
  • Preferred crystalline phyllosilicates of the formula given are those in which M is sodium and x is 2 or 3.
  • both ⁇ - and ⁇ -sodium disilicate Na ⁇ Si ⁇ Os-y ⁇ O are preferred, wherein ⁇ -sodium disilicate can be obtained, for example, by the method described in international patent application WO 91/08171.
  • Further suitable layered silicates are known, for example, from patent applications DE 2334899 A1, EP 0026529 A1 and DE 3526405 A1. Their usability is not limited to a special composition or structural formula. However, smectites, in particular bentonites, are preferred here.
  • Suitable layer silicates, which belong to the group of water-swellable smectites, are e.g. those of the general formulas
  • layered silicates can also contain hydrogen, alkali, alkaline earth ions, in particular Na * and Ca 2+ .
  • the amount of water of hydration is usually in the range of 8 to 20% by weight and depends on the swelling condition or the type of processing.
  • Useful layer silicates are known, for example, from US 3,966,629, US 4,062,647, EP 0026529 A1 and EP 0028432 A1.
  • preferential Layered silicates are used that are largely free of calcium ions and strongly coloring iron ions due to an alkali treatment.
  • the preferred builder substances also include amorphous sodium silicates with a modulus Na 2 0: S1O2 from 1: 2 to 1: 3.3, preferably from 1: 2 to 1: 2.8 and in particular from 1: 2 to 1 2.6, which are delayed release and have secondary washing properties.
  • the delay in dissolution compared to conventional amorphous sodium silicates can have been brought about in various ways, for example by surface treatment, compounding, compacting, compaction or by overdrying.
  • the term "amorphous” also means "x-ray amphi".
  • silicates in X-ray diffraction experiments do not provide sharp X-ray reflections, as are typical for crystalline substances, but at most one or more maxima of the scattered X-rays, which have a width of several degrees units of the diffraction angle.
  • it can very well lead to particularly good builder properties if the silicate particles deliver washed-out or even sharp diffraction maxima in electron diffraction experiments.
  • This should be integrated in such a way that the products have micro-stable areas of size 10 to a few hundred nm, values up to max. 50 nm and in particular up to max. 20 nm are preferred.
  • Such so-called X-ray silicates which also have a delay in dissolution compared to conventional water glasses, are described, for example, in German patent application DE 4400024 A1.
  • Compressed / compacted amorphous silicates, compounded amorphous silicates and over-dried X-ray amorphous silicates are particularly preferred.
  • phosphates As builders, provided that such use should not be avoided for ecological reasons.
  • the sodium salts of orthophosphates, pyrophosphates and in particular tripolyphosphates are particularly suitable. Their content is generally not more than 25% by weight, preferably not more than 20% by weight, in each case based on the finished composition. In some cases, it has been shown that tripolyphosphates in particular, even in small amounts up to a maximum of 10% by weight, based on the finished agent, in combination with other builder substances lead to a synergistic improvement in the secondary washing ability.
  • Usable organic builders are, for example, the polycarboxylic acids which can be used in the form of their sodium salts, such as citric acid, adipic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, tartaric acid, sugar acids, aminocarboxylic acids, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), provided that such use is not objectionable for ecological reasons, and mixtures of these.
  • Preferred salts are the salts of polycarboxylic acids such as citric acid, adipic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, tartaric acid, sugar acids and mixtures of these. The acids themselves can also be used.
  • the acids typically also have the property of an acidifying component and thus also serve to set a lower and milder pH value of detergents or cleaning agents.
  • Citric acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, adipic acid, gluconic acid and any mixtures thereof can be mentioned in particular.
  • Suitable organic builder substances are dextrins, for example oligomers or polymers of carbohydrates, which can be obtained by partial hydrolysis of starches.
  • the hydrolysis can be carried out by customary processes, for example acid-catalyzed or enzyme-catalyzed. They are preferably hydrolysis products with average molar masses in the range from 400 to 500,000.
  • DE dextrose equivalent
  • Both maltodextrins with a DE between 3 and 20 and dry glucose syrups with a DE between 20 and 37 as well as so-called yellow dextrins and white dextrins with higher molar masses in the range from 2,000 to 30,000 can be used.
  • a preferred dextrin is described in British patent application GB 9419091 A1 ,
  • the oxidized derivatives of such dextrins are their reaction products with oxidizing agents which are capable of oxidizing at least one alcohol function of the saccharide ring to the carboxylic acid function.
  • Such oxidized dextrins and processes for their preparation are known, for example, from European patent applications EP 0232202 A1, EP 0427349 A1, EP 0472042 A1 and EP 0542496 A1 as well as from international patent applications WO 92/18542, WO 93/08251, WO 93/16110, WO 94 / 28030, WO 95/07303, WO 95/12619 and WO 95/20608 are known.
  • An oxidized oligosaccharide according to German patent application DE 19600018 AI is also suitable.
  • a product oxidized at C ⁇ of the saccharide ring can be particularly advantageous.
  • Suitable cobuilders are oxydisuccinates and other derivatives of disuccinates, preferably ethylenediamine disuccinate.
  • glycerol disuccinates and glycerol trisuccinates are also particularly preferred, as are described, for example, in US Pat. Nos. 4,524,009, 4,639,325, European Patent Application EP 0150930 A1 and Japanese Patent Application JP 93/339896.
  • Suitable amounts for use in formulations containing zeolite and / or silicate are 3 to 15% by weight.
  • organic cobuilders are, for example, acetyiated hydroxycarboxylic acids or their salts, which may also be in lactone form and which contain at least 4 carbon atoms and at least one hydroxyl group and a maximum of two acid groups.
  • Such cobuilders are described, for example, in international patent application WO 95/20029.
  • Suitable polymeric polycarboxylates are, for example, the sodium salts of polyacrylic acid or polymethacrylic acid, for example those with a relative molecular weight of 800 to 150,000 (based on acid and measured in each case against polystyrene sulfonic acid).
  • Suitable copolymeric polycarboxylates are, in particular, those of acrylic acid with methacrylic acid and of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with maleic acid. Copolymers of acrylic acid with maleic acid which contain 50 to 90% by weight of acrylic acid and 50 to 10% by weight of maleic acid have proven to be particularly suitable. Their relative molecular weight, based on free acids, is generally 5,000 to 200,000, preferably 10,000 to 120,000 and in particular 50,000 to 100,000 (measured in each case against polystyrene sulfonic acid).
  • the (co) polymeric polycarboxylates can be used either as a powder or as an aqueous solution, with 20 to 55% by weight aqueous solutions being preferred.
  • Granular polymers are usually subsequently mixed into one or more basic granules.
  • biodegradable polymers made from more than two different monomer units, for example those which, according to DE 4300772 A1, are salts of acrylic acid and maleic acid, as well as vinyl alcohol or vinyl alcohol derivatives, or, according to DE 4221381 C2, of monomer salts Acrylic acid and 2-alkylallylsulfonic acid as well as sugar derivatives.
  • Further preferred copolymers are those which are described in German patent applications DE 4303320 A1 and DE 4417734 A1 and which preferably contain acrolein and acrylic acid / acrylic acid salts or acrolein and vinyl acetate as monomers.
  • polymeric aminodicarboxylic acids are also salts or their precursor substances. Polyaspartic acids or their salts and derivatives are particularly preferred.
  • polyacetals which can be obtained by reacting dialdehydes with polyolcarboxylic acids which have 5 to 7 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups, for example as described in European patent application EP 0280223 A1.
  • Preferred polyacetals are obtained from dialdehydes such as glyoxal, glutaraldehyde, terephthalic acid and mixtures thereof and from polyol carboxylic acids such as gluconic acid and / or glucoheptonic acid.
  • the agents can also contain components which have a positive influence on the oil and fat washability from textiles.
  • the preferred oil and fat-dissolving components include, for example, nonionic cellulose ethers such as methyl cellulose and methyl hydroxypropyl cellulose with a proportion of methoxyl groups of 15 to 30% by weight and of hydroxypropoxyl groups of 1 to 15% by weight, in each case based on the nonionic Cellulose ethers, as well as the polymers of phthalic acid and / or terephthalic acid or their derivatives known from the prior art, in particular polymers of ethylene terephthalates and / or polyethylene glycol terephthalates or anionically and / or nonionically modified derivatives thereof.
  • the sulfonated derivatives of phthalic acid and terephthalic acid polymers are particularly preferred.
  • Other suitable ingredients of the agents are water-soluble inorganic salts such as bicarbonates, carbonates, amorphous silicates, normal water glasses, which have no outstanding builder properties, or mixtures of these; in particular, alkali carbonate and / or amorphous alkali silicate, especially sodium silicate with a Na 2 0: Si0 2 molar ratio of 1: 1 to 1: 4.5, preferably 1: 2 to 1: 3.5, are used.
  • the content of sodium carbonate in the final preparations is preferably up to 40% by weight, advantageously between 2 and 35% by weight.
  • the content of sodium silicate in the agents (without special builder properties) is generally up to 10% by weight and preferably between 1 and 8% by weight.
  • the agents can contain other known additives, for example salts of polyphosphonic acids, optical brighteners, enzymes, enzyme stabilizers, defoamers, small amounts of neutral filler salts and colorants and fragrances and the like.
  • sodium perborate tetrahydrate and sodium perborate monohydrate are of particular importance.
  • Other usable bleaching agents are, for example, sodium percarbonate, peroxypyrophosphates, citrate perhydrates and H2O2-delivering peracidic salts or peracids, such as perbenzoates, peroxophthalates, diperazelaic acid, phthaloiminoperic acid or diperdodecanedioic acid.
  • the bleaching agent content of the agents is preferably 5 to 35% by weight and in particular up to 30% by weight, advantageously using boron monohydrate or percarbonate.
  • Bleach activators which can be used are compounds which, under perhydrolysis conditions, give aliphatic peroxocarboxylic acids having preferably 1 to 10 C atoms, in particular 2 to 4 C atoms, and / or optionally substituted perbenzoic acid. Substances which carry O- and / or N-acyl groups of the number of carbon atoms mentioned and / or optionally substituted benzoyl groups are suitable.
  • polyacylated alkylenediamines in particular tetraacetylethylene diamine (TAED), acylated triazine derivatives, in particular 1,5-diacetyl-2,4-dioxohexahydro-1,3,5-triazine (DADHT), acylated glycolurils, in particular tetraacetylglycoluril (TAGU), N-acylimides, especially N-nonanoylsuccinimide (NOSI), acylated phenol sulfonates, especially n-nonanoyl- or isononanoyl-oxybenzenesulfonate (n- or iso-NOBS), carboxylic acid anhydrides, especially phthalic anhydride, acylated polyhydric alcohols, especially triacid, especially triac 5-diacetoxy-2,5-dihydrofuran and the enol esters known from German patent applications DE 19616693 A
  • hydrophilically substituted acylacetals known from German patent application DE 19616769 A1 and the acyl lactams described in German patent application DE 196 16 770 and international patent application WO 95/14075 are also preferably used.
  • the combinations of conventional bleach activators known from German patent application DE 4443177 A1 can also be used. Bleach activators of this type are present in the customary quantitative range, preferably in amounts of 1% by weight to 10% by weight, in particular 2% by weight to 8% by weight, based on the total agent.
  • the sulfonimines and / or bleach-enhancing transition metal salts or transition metal complexes or transition metal complexes known from European patent EP 0446982 B1 and EP 0453 003 B1 can also be present as so-called bleaching catalysts.
  • the transition metal compounds in question include in particular the manganese, iron, cobalt, ruthenium or molybdenum-salt complexes known from German patent application DE 19529905 A1 and their N-analog compounds known from German patent application DE 19620267 A1, which are known from German Patent application DE 19536082 A1 known manganese, iron, cobalt, ruthenium or molybdenum carbonyl complexes, the manganese, iron, cobalt, ruthenium, molybdenum, titanium, vanadium, described in German patent application DE 196 05688 and copper complexes with nitrogen-containing tripod ligands, the cobalt, iron, copper and ruthenium amine complexes known from German patent application DE 19620411 A1, the manganese, copper and cobalt complexes described in German patent application DE 4416438 A1 , the cobalt complexes described in European patent application EP 0272030 A1, the manganese known from European patent application EP 0693550 A1 -Complex
  • bleach activators and transition metal bleach catalysts are known, for example, from German patent application DE 19613103 A1 and international patent application WO 95/27775.
  • Bleach-enhancing transition metal complexes in particular with the central atoms Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Mo, V, Ti and / or Ru, are used in customary amounts, preferably in an amount of up to 1% by weight, in particular 0.0025% by weight. % to 0.25% by weight and particularly preferably from 0.01% by weight to 0.1% by weight, in each case based on the total agent.
  • Enzymes in particular include those from the class of hydrolases, such as proteases, esterases, lipases or lipolytically active enzymes, amylases, cellulases or other glycosylhydrolases and mixtures of the enzymes mentioned. All of these hydrolases contribute to the removal of stains, such as stains containing protein, fat or starch, and graying in the laundry. By removing pilling and microfibrils, cellulases and other glycosyl hydrolases can help maintain color and increase the softness of the textile. To bleach or to inhibit color transfer, oxidoreductases can also be used.
  • Enzymes obtained from bacterial strains or fungi such as Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis, Streptomyces griseus and Humicola insolens are particularly suitable.
  • Proteases of the subtilisin type and in particular proteases which are obtained from Bacillus lentus are preferably used.
  • Enzyme mixtures for example, from protease and amylase or protease and lipase or Iipolytic enzymes or protease and cellulase or from cellulase and lipase or Iipolytic enzymes or from protease, amylase and lipase or Iipolytic enzymes or protease, lipase or Iipolytic enzymes and cellulase, but especially protease- and / or lipase-containing mixtures or mixtures with Iipolytic enzymes of particular interest.
  • Known cutinases are examples of such enzymatic enzymes.
  • Peroxidases or oxidases have also proven to be suitable in some cases.
  • Suitable amylases include in particular ⁇ -amylases, iso-amylases, pululanases and pectinases.
  • Cellobiohydrolases, endoglucanases and ⁇ -glucosidases, which are also called cellobiases, or mixtures thereof, are preferably used as cellulases.
  • the desired activities can be set by targeted mixtures of the cellulases.
  • the enzymes can be adsorbed on carriers and / or embedded in coating substances in order to protect them against premature decomposition.
  • the proportion of the enzymes, enzyme mixtures or enzyme granules can be, for example, about 0.1 to 5% by weight, preferably 0.1 to about 2% by weight.
  • the agents can contain further enzyme stabilizers.
  • enzyme stabilizers For example, 0.5 to 1% by weight sodium formate can be used. It is also possible to use proteases which are stabilized with soluble calcium salts and a calcium content of preferably about 1.2% by weight, based on the enzyme.
  • calcium salts magnesium salts also serve as stabilizers.
  • boron compounds for example boric acid, boron oxide, borax and other alkali metal borates such as the salts of orthoboric acid (H3BO3), metaboric acid (HBO2) and pyrobic acid (tetraboric acid H2B ⁇ 7), is particularly advantageous.
  • Graying inhibitors have the task of keeping the dirt detached from the fiber suspended in the liquor and thus preventing the dirt from being re-absorbed.
  • Water-soluble colloids of mostly organic nature are suitable for this, for example the water-soluble salts of polymeric carboxylic acids, glue, gelatin, salts of ether carboxylic acids or ether sulfonic acids of starch or cellulose or salts of acidic sulfuric acid esters of cellulose or starch.
  • Water-soluble polyamides containing acidic groups are also suitable for this purpose. Soluble starch preparations and starch products other than those mentioned above can also be used, for example degraded starch, aldehyde starches, etc. Polyvinylpyrrolidone can also be used.
  • cellulose ethers such as carboxymethylceliulose (sodium salt), methyl cellulose, hydroxyalkyl cellulose and mixed ethers, such as methylhydroxyethyl cellulose, methylhydroxypropyicellulose, methyl carbo- oxymethyl cellulose and mixtures thereof, and also polyvinyl pyrrolidone, for example in amounts of 0.1 to 5% by weight, based on the composition.
  • the agents can contain derivatives of diaminostilbenedisulfonic acid or its alkali metal salts. Suitable are, for example, salts of 4,4'-bis (2-anilino-4-mo ⁇ holino-1, 3,5-triazinyl-6-amino) stilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid or compounds of the same structure which instead of the morpho- linino group carry a diethanolamino group, a methylamino group, an anilino group or a 2-methoxyethylamino group.
  • Brighteners of the substituted diphenylstyrene type may also be present, for example the alkali salts of 4,4'-bis (2-suifostyryl) diphenyl, 4,4'-bis (4-chloro-3-sulfostyryl) diphenyl , or 4- (4-chlorostyryl) -4 '- (2-sulfostyryl) diphenyl. Mixtures of the aforementioned brighteners can also be used.
  • Uniformly white granules are obtained if, in addition to the usual brighteners, the agents are present in customary amounts, for example between 0.1 and 0.5% by weight, preferably between 0.1 and 0.3% by weight, and also in small amounts, for example Contain 10- 6 to 10 3 wt .-%, preferably by 10- 5 wt .-%, of a blue dye.
  • a particularly preferred dye is Tinolux® (commercial product from Ciba-Geigy).
  • Soil repellants are substances which preferably contain ethylene terephthalate and / or polyethylene glycol terephthalate groups, the molar ratio of ethylene terephthalate to polyethylene glycol terephthalate being in the range from 50:50 to 90:10.
  • the molecular weight of the linking polyethylene glycol units is in particular in the range from 750 to 5000, ie the degree of ethoxylation of the polymers containing polyethylene glycol groups can be approximately 15 to 100.
  • the polymers are characterized by an average molecular weight of approximately 5000 to 200,000 and can have a block, but preferably a random structure
  • Preferred polymers are those with molar ratios of ethylene terephthalate / polyethylene glycol terephthalate from about 65:35 to about 90:10, preferably from about 70:30 to 80:20.
  • Examples of commercially available polymers are the products Milease® T (ICI) or Repeiotex® SRP 3 (Rhône-Poulenc).
  • Wax-like compounds can be used as defoamers.
  • Compounds which have a melting point at atmospheric pressure above 25 ° C. (room temperature), preferably above 50 ° C. and in particular above 70 ° C. are understood as “waxy”.
  • the waxy defoamer substances are practically insoluble in water, ie at 20 ° C. they have a solubility of less than 0.1% by weight in 100 g of water.
  • all wax-like defoamer substances known from the prior art can be present.
  • Suitable wax-like compounds are, for example, bisamides, fatty alcohols, fatty acids, carboxylic acid esters of mono- and polyhydric alcohol - len as well as paraffin waxes or mixtures thereof.
  • the silicone compounds known for this purpose can of course also be used.
  • Suitable paraffin waxes generally represent a complex mixture of substances without a sharp melting point. For characterization, one usually determines its melting range by differential thermal analysis (DTA), as described in "The Analyst” 87 (1962), 420, and / or its solidification point , This is the temperature at which the paraffin changes from the liquid to the solid state by slow cooling. Paraffins which are completely liquid at room temperature, that is to say those having a solidification point below 25 ° C., cannot be used according to the invention. For example, the paraffin wax mixtures known from EP 0309931 A1 of, for example, 26% by weight to 49% by weight of microcrystalline paraffin wax with a solidification point of 62 ° C.
  • paraffin waxes which can be used according to the invention, this liquid fraction is as low as possible and is preferably absent entirely.
  • Particularly preferred paraffin wax mixtures at 30 ° C have a liquid content of less than 10% by weight, in particular from 2% by weight to 5% by weight, at 40 ° C a liquid content of less than 30% by weight, preferably 5 % By weight to 25% by weight and in particular from 5% by weight to 15% by weight, at 60 ° C. a liquid fraction of 30% by weight to 60% by weight, in particular 40% by weight % to 55% by weight, at 80 ° C a liquid content of 80% by weight to 100% by weight, and at 90 ° C a liquid content of 100% by weight.
  • the temperature at which a liquid content of 100% by weight of the paraffin wax is reached is still below 85 ° C., in particular at 75 ° C. to 82 ° C., in particularly preferred paraffin wax mixtures.
  • the paraffin waxes can be petrolatum, microcrystalline waxes or hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated paraffin waxes.
  • Suitable bisamides as defoamers are those which are derived from saturated fatty acids with 12 to 22, preferably 14 to 18 C atoms and from alkylenediamines with 2 to 7 C atoms.
  • Suitable fatty acids are lauric acid, myristic acid, stearic acid, arachic acid and behenic acid and mixtures thereof, as can be obtained from natural fats or hydrogenated oils, such as tallow or hydrogenated palm oil.
  • Suitable diamines are, for example, ethylenediamine, 1,3-propylenediamine, tetramethylenediamine, pentamethylenediamine, hexamethylenediamine, p-phenylenediamine and toluenediamine.
  • Preferred diamines are ethylenediamine and hexamethylenediamine.
  • Particularly preferred bisamides are bismyristoylethylene diamine, bispalmitoylethylene diamine, bisstearoylethylene diamine and mixtures thereof and the corresponding derivatives of hexamethylene diamine.
  • Suitable carboxylic acid esters as defoamers are derived from carboxylic acids with 12 to 28 carbon atoms. In particular, these are esters of behenic acid, stearic acid, hydroxystearic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, myristic acid and / or lauric acid.
  • the alcohol part of the carboxylic acid ester contains a mono- or polyhydric alcohol with 1 to 28 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbon chain.
  • suitable alcohols are behenyl alcohol, arachidyl alcohol, coconut alcohol, 12-hydroxystearyl alcohol, oleyl alcohol and lauryl alcohol, and also ethylene glycol, glycerin, polyvinyl alcohol, sucrose, erythritol, pentaerythritol, sorbitan and / or sorbitol.
  • Preferred esters are those of ethylene glycol, glycerol and sorbitan, the acid part of the ester being selected in particular from behenic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid or myristic acid.
  • Eligible esters of polyhydric alcohols are, for example, xylitol monopalmitate, pentarythritol monostearate, glycine monostearate, ethylene glycol monostearate and sorbitan monostearate, sorbitan palmitate, sorbitan monolearate, sorbitan dilaurate, sorbitan distearate, sorbitan danditanium diol and sorbitan ditane diolate.
  • Glycerol esters which can be used are the mono-, di- or triesters of glycerol and the carboxylic acids mentioned, the mono- or diesters being preferred.
  • Glycerol monostearate, glycerol monooleate, glycerol monopalmitate, glycerol monobehenate and glycerol distearate are examples of this.
  • suitable natural esters as defoamers are beeswax, which mainly consists of the esters CH 3 (CH2) 24COO (CH 2 ) 27CH3 and CH3 (CH2) 26COO (CH 2 ) 25CH 3
  • camauba wax which is a mixture of camauba acid alkyl esters , often in combination with small amounts of free camauba acid, other long-chain acids, high-molecular alcohols and hydrocarbons.
  • Suitable carboxylic acids as a further defoamer compound are, in particular, behenic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, myristic acid and lauric acid, and mixtures thereof, as are obtainable from natural fats or optionally hardened oils, such as tallow or hydrogenated palm oil. Saturated fatty acids with 12 to 22, in particular 18 to 22, carbon atoms are preferred.
  • Suitable fatty alcohols as a further defoamer compound are the hydrogenated products of the fatty acids described.
  • Dialkyl ethers may also be present as defoamers.
  • the ethers can be asymmetrical or symmetrical, i.e. contain two identical or different alkyl chains, preferably with 8 to 18 carbon atoms.
  • Typical examples are di-n-octyl ether, di-i-octyl ether and di-n-stearyl ether; dialkyl ethers which have a melting point above 25 ° C., in particular above 40 ° C., are particularly suitable.
  • Suitable defoamer compounds are fatty ketones, which can be obtained by the relevant methods of preparative organic chemistry. For their preparation, one starts, for example, from carboxylic acid magnesium salts which are pyrolyzed at temperatures above 300 ° C. with elimination of carbon dioxide and water, for example according to the German one Laid-open specification DE 2553900 OS.
  • Suitable fatty ketones are those which are prepared by pyrolysis of the magnesium salts of lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, elaidic acid, petroselinic acid, arachic acid, gadoleic acid, behenic acid or erucic acid.
  • Suitable defoamers are fatty acid polyethylene glycol esters, which are preferably obtained by base-homogeneously catalyzed addition of ethylene oxide to fatty acids.
  • the addition of ethylene oxide to the fatty acids takes place in the presence of alkanolamines as catalysts.
  • alkanolamines especially triethanolamine, leads to an extremely selective ethoxylation of the fatty acids, especially when it comes to producing low-ethoxylated compounds.
  • the paraffin waxes described are particularly preferably used alone as wax-like defoamers or in a mixture with one of the other wax-like defoamers, the proportion of paraffin waxes in the mixture preferably making up more than 50% by weight, based on the wax-like defoamer mixture.
  • the paraffin waxes can be applied to carriers if necessary. All known inorganic and / or organic carrier materials are suitable as carrier materials. Examples of typical inorganic carrier materials are alkali carbonates, aluminosilicates, water-soluble layer silicates, alkali silicates, alkali sulfates, for example sodium sulfate, and alkali phosphates.
  • the alkali silicates are preferably a compound with a molar ratio of alkali oxide to SiO 2 of 1: 1.5 to 1: 3.5.
  • the use of such silicates results in particularly good grain properties, in particular high abrasion stability and nevertheless high dissolution rate in water.
  • the aluminosilicates referred to as carrier material include in particular the zeolites, for example zeolite NaA and NaX.
  • the compounds referred to as water-soluble layered silicates include, for example, amorphous or crystalline water glass. Silicates which are commercially available under the name Aerosil® or Sipemat® can also be used.
  • suitable organic carrier materials are film-forming polymers, for example polyvinyl alcohols, polyvinyl pyrrolidones, poly (meth) acrylates, polycarboxylates, cellulose derivatives and starch.
  • Usable cellulose ethers are, in particular, alkali carboxymethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, ethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose and so-called cellulose mixed ethers, such as, for example, methyl hydroxyethyl cellulose and methyl hydroxypropyl cellulose, and mixtures thereof.
  • Particularly suitable mixtures are composed of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and methyl cellulose, the carboxymethyl cellulose usually having a degree of substitution of 0.5 to 0.8 carboxymethyl groups per anhydroglucose unit and the methyl cellulose having a degree of substitution of 1.2 to 2 methyl groups per anhydroglucose unit.
  • the mixtures preferably contain alkali carboxymethyl cellulose and nonionic cellulose ethers in weight ratios from 80:20 to 40:60, in particular from 75:25 to 50 : 50.
  • native starch which is made up of amylose and amylopectin. Native starch is starch as it is available as an extract from natural sources, for example from rice, potatoes, corn and wheat.
  • Carrier materials can be used individually or more than one of the abovementioned compounds, in particular selected from the group of alkali metal carbonates, alkali metal sulfates, alkane phosphates, zeolites, water-soluble layer silicates, alkali metal cates, polycarboxylates, cellulose ethers, polyacrylate / polymethacrylate and starch.
  • alkali carbonates in particular sodium carbonate, alkali silicates, in particular sodium silicate, alkali sulfates, in particular sodium sulfate and zeolites are particularly suitable
  • Suitable silicones are conventional organopolysiioxanes, which can have a content of finely divided silica, which in turn can also be silanized. Organopolysiioxanes of this type are described, for example, in European patent application EP 0496510 A1. Polydiorganosiloxanes which are known from the prior art are particularly preferred. However, compounds crosslinked via siloxane can also be used, as are known to the person skilled in the art under the name silicone resins. As a rule, the polydiorganosiloxanes contain finely divided silica, which can also be silanized. Silica-containing dimethylpolysiloxanes are particularly suitable.
  • the polydiorganosiloxanes advantageously have a Brookfield viscosity at 25 ° C. in the range from 5,000 mPas to 30,000 mPas, in particular from 15,000 to 25,000 mPas.
  • the silicones are preferably applied to carrier materials. Suitable carrier materials have already been described in connection with the paraffins.
  • the carrier materials are generally present in amounts of 40 to 90% by weight, preferably in amounts of 45 to 75% by weight, based on defoamers
  • fragrance compounds for example the synthetic products of the ester, ether, aldehyde, ketone, alcohol and hydrocarbon type, can be used as perfume oils or fragrances.
  • Fragrance compounds of the ester type are, for example, benzyl acetate, phenoxyethyl isobutyrate, p-tert-butylcyclohexyl acetate, linalyl acetate, dimethylbenzylcarbinylacetate, phenylethyl acetate, linalyl benzoate, benzyl formate, ethyl methylphenyl glycinate, allyl cyclohexyl propyl pentyl pentylate, and stally.
  • the ethers include, for example, benzyl ethyl ether, the aldehydes, for example, the linear alkanals with 8-18 C atoms, citral, citronellal, citronellyloxyacetaldehyde, cyclamenaldehyde, hydroxycitronellal, liial and bourgeonal, the ketones, for example, the ionones, ⁇ -isomethylionone and methylcedrylke - clay, to the alcohols anethole, citronellol, eugenol, geraniol, linalool, phenylethyl alcohol and Te ⁇ inol, to the hydrocarbons mainly belong the Te ⁇ enes like limonene and pinene.
  • the ketones for example, the ionones, ⁇ -isomethylionone and methylcedrylke - clay, to the alcohols anethole, citronellol, e
  • fragrances are preferably used, which together produce an appealing fragrance.
  • perfume moles can also contain natural fragrance mixtures as are available from plant sources, for example pine, citrus, jasmine, patchouly, rose or ylang-ylang oil.
  • the fragrances can be incorporated directly into the agents according to the invention, but it can also be advantageous to apply the fragrances to carriers which increase the adhesion of the perfume to the laundry and ensure a long-lasting fragrance of the textiles due to a slower fragrance release.
  • Cyclodextrins for example, have proven useful as such carrier materials, and the cyclodextrin-perfume complexes can additionally be coated with further auxiliaries.
  • the final preparations can also contain inorganic salts as fillers or fillers, such as sodium sulfate, which is preferably present in amounts of 0 to 10, in particular 1 to 5% by weight, based on the composition.
  • inorganic salts such as sodium sulfate, which is preferably present in amounts of 0 to 10, in particular 1 to 5% by weight, based on the composition.
  • the preparations obtainable using the surfactant granules according to the invention can be produced or used in the form of powders, extrudates, granules or agglomerates. It can be both universal and also fine or color detergent, optionally in the form of compact or super-compact.
  • the corresponding methods known from the prior art are suitable for producing such agents.
  • the agents are preferably prepared by mixing different particulate components which contain detergent ingredients.
  • the particulate components can be produced by spray drying, simple mixing or complex granulation processes, for example fluidized bed granulation. It is particularly preferred that at least one surfactant-containing component is produced by fluidized bed granulation. It can furthermore be particularly preferred if aqueous preparations of the alkali silicate and the alkali carbonate are sprayed together with other detergent ingredients in a drying device, wherein granulation can take place simultaneously with the drying.
  • the drying device into which the aqueous preparation is sprayed can be any drying apparatus.
  • the drying is carried out as spray drying in a drying tower.
  • the aqueous preparations are exposed to a drying gas stream in finely divided form in a known manner.
  • Patent publications by Henkel describe an embodiment of spray drying with superheated steam. The working principle disclosed there is hereby expressly made the subject of the present disclosure of the invention.
  • the mixtures are then subjected to a compacting step, further ingredients being added to the agents only after the compacting step.
  • the ingredients are compacted in a press agglomeration process.
  • the press agglomeration process to which the solid premix (dried basic detergent) is subjected can be carried out in various apparatuses. Different press agglomeration processes are distinguished depending on the type of agglomerator used.
  • the four most common and preferred press agglomeration processes in the context of the present invention are extrusion, roller pressing or compacting, hole pressing (pelletizing) and tableting, so that preferred press agglomeration processes in the context of the present invention are extrusion, roll compacting, pelletizing - or tableting processes.
  • binders can be used as an aid to compaction.
  • a binder is used which is already completely present as a melt at temperatures of up to 130 ° C., preferably up to 100 ° C. and in particular up to 90 ° C.
  • the binder must therefore be selected depending on the process and process conditions, or the process conditions, in particular the process temperature, must - if a particular binder is desired - be adapted to the binder.
  • the actual compression process preferably takes place at processing temperatures which, at least in the compression step, correspond at least to the temperature of the softening point, if not even the temperature of the melting point of the binder.
  • the process temperature is significantly above the melting point or above the temperature at which the binder is in the form of a melt.
  • the process temperature in the compression step is not more than 20 ° C. above the melting point temperature or the upper limit of the melting range of the binder. It is technically possible to set even higher temperatures; However, it has been shown that a temperature difference of 20 ° C. from the melting temperature or softening temperature of the binder is generally sufficient and even higher temperatures do not bring any additional advantages.
  • thermoly sensitive raw materials for example peroxy bleaching agents such as perborate and / or percarbonate, but also enzymes, can increasingly be processed without serious loss of active substance.
  • peroxy bleaching agents such as perborate and / or percarbonate, but also enzymes.
  • the possibility of precise temperature control of the binder in particular in the decisive step of compaction, i.e. between the mixing / homogenization of the premix and the shaping, permits an energetically very economical and extremely gentle process control for the temperature-sensitive components of the premix, since the premix only lasts for a short time exposed to higher temperatures.
  • the work tools of the press agglomerator (the screw (s) of the extruder, the roller (s) of the roller compactor and the press roller (s) of the pellet press) have a temperature of at most 150 ° C., preferably at most 100 ° C. and in particular to a maximum of 75 ° C and the process temperature is 30 ° C and in particular a maximum of 20 ° C above the melting temperature or the upper temperature limit of the melting range of the binder.
  • the duration of the temperature effect in the compression range of the press agglomerators is preferably a maximum of 2 minutes and is in particular in a range between 30 seconds and 1 minute.
  • Preferred binders which can be used alone or in a mixture with other binders are polyethylene glycols, 1,2-polypropylene glycols and modified polyethylene glycols and polypropylene glycols.
  • the modified polyalkylene glycols include in particular the sulfates and / or the disulfates of polyethylene glycols or polypropylene glycols with a relative molecular weight between 600 and 12,000 and in particular between 1,000 and 4,000.
  • Another group consists of mono- and / or disuccinates of the polyalkylene glycols, which again have relative molecular weights between 600 and 6,000, preferably between 1,000 and 4,000.
  • polyethylene glycols include those polymers which, in addition to ethylene glycol, also use C 3 -C 5 glycols and glycerol and mixtures thereof as starting molecules in the production thereof. Ethoxylated derivatives such as trimethylolpropane with 5 to 30 EO are also included.
  • the polyethylene glycols preferably used can have a linear or branched structure, linear polyethylene glycols being particularly preferred.
  • the particularly preferred polyethylene glycols include those with relative molecular weights between 2,000 and 12,000, advantageously around 4,000, polyethylene glycols with relative molecular weights below 3,500 and above 5,000, in particular in combination with poly- ethylene glycols with a relative molecular weight of around 4,000 can be used and such combinations advantageously have more than 50% by weight, based on the total amount of polyethylene glycols, of polyethylene glycols with a relative molecular weight of between 3,500 and 5,000.
  • polyethylene glycols can also be used as binders, which are per se in liquid state at room temperature and a pressure of 1 bar; here we are mainly talking about polyethylene glycol with a relative molecular mass of 200, 400 and 600.
  • these per se liquid polyethylene glycols should only be used in a mixture with at least one further binder, this mixture again having to meet the requirements according to the invention, that is to say having a melting point or softening point of at least above 45 ° C.
  • suitable as binders are low molecular weight polyvinylpyrrolidones and derivatives thereof with relative molecular weights of up to a maximum of 30,000. Relative molecular weight ranges between 3,000 and 30,000, for example around 10,000 are preferred.
  • Polyvinylpyrrolidones are preferably not used as sole binders but in combination with other used in particular in combination with polyethylene glycols.
  • the compressed material preferably has temperatures not above 90 ° C., temperatures between 35 and 85 ° C. being particularly preferred. It has been found that exit temperatures - especially in the extrusion process - from 40 to 80 ° C, for example up to 70 ° C, are particularly advantageous.
  • the detergent according to the invention is produced by means of an extrusion, as described, for example, in European patent EP 0486592 B1 or international patent applications WO 93/02176 and WO 94/09111 or WO 98/12299.
  • a solid premix is pressed in the form of a strand under pressure and the strand is cut to the predeterminable size of the granulate after it has emerged from the hole shape by means of a cutting device.
  • the homogeneous and solid premix contains a plastic pencil and / or lubricant, which causes the premix to become plastically softened and extrudable under the pressure or under the entry of specific work.
  • Preferred plasticizers and / or lubricants are surfactants and / or polymers.
  • the premix is preferably fed to a planetary wheat extruder or a 2-screw extruder or 2-screw extruder with co-rotating or counter-rotating screw guide, the housing and the extruder pelletizing head of which can be heated to the predetermined extrusion temperature.
  • the premix is compressed, plasticized, extruded in the form of fine strands through the perforated die plate in the extruder head and finally, under pressure, which is preferably at least 25 bar, but can also be lower at extremely high throughputs depending on the apparatus used the extrudate is preferably reduced to approximately spherical to cylindrical granules by means of a rotating trimming knife.
  • the hole diameter the perforated nozzle plate and the strand cut length are matched to the selected granule dimensions. In this way, the production of granules of an essentially uniformly predeterminable particle size succeeds, and in particular the absolute particle sizes can be adapted to the intended use.
  • particle diameters up to at most 0.8 cm are preferred.
  • Important embodiments provide for the production of uniform granules in the millimeter range, for example in the range from 0.5 to 5 mm and in particular in the range from approximately 0.8 to 3 mm.
  • the length / diameter ratio of the chopped-off primary granules is preferably in the range from about 1: 1 to about 3: 1. It is also preferred to feed the still plastic primary granules to a further shaping processing step; edges present on the crude extrudate are rounded off so that ultimately spherical to approximately spherical extrudate grains can be obtained.
  • small amounts of dry powder for example zeolite powder such as zeolite NaA powder, can also be used in this step.
  • extrusions / pressings can also be carried out in low-pressure extruders, in the Kahl press (from Amandus Kahl) or in the Bepex extruder.
  • the temperature control in the transition region of the screw, the pre-distributor and the nozzle plate is preferably designed such that the melting temperature of the binder or the upper limit of the melting range of the binder is at least reached, but preferably exceeded.
  • the duration of the temperature influence in the compression range of the extrusion is preferably less than 2 minutes and in particular in a range between 30 seconds and 1 minute.
  • the detergents according to the invention can also be produced by means of roller compaction.
  • the premix is metered in between two smooth rollers or with recesses of a defined shape and rolled out under pressure between the two rollers to form a sheet-like compact, the so-called Schülpe.
  • the rollers exert a high line pressure on the premix and can be additionally heated or cooled as required.
  • smooth rollers smooth, unstructured sliver belts are obtained, while by using structured rollers, correspondingly structured slugs can be produced in which, for example, certain shapes of the later detergent particles can be specified.
  • the Schüipenband is subsequently broken down into smaller pieces by a knocking-off and crushing process and can be processed into granules in this way, which can be refined by further known surface treatment processes, in particular in an approximately spherical shape.
  • the temperature of the pressing tools that is to say of the rollers, is preferably a maximum of 150 ° C., preferably a maximum 100 ° C and especially at a maximum of 75 ° C.
  • Particularly preferred production processes work in roller compacting with process temperatures which are 10 ° C., in particular a maximum of 5 ° C. above the melting temperature or the upper temperature limit of the melting range of the binder.
  • the duration of the temperature effect in the compression area of the smooth rollers or with depressions of a defined shape is a maximum of 2 minutes and is in particular in a range between 30 seconds and 1 minute.
  • the detergent according to the invention can also be produced by pelleting.
  • the premix is applied to a perforated surface and pressed through the holes by means of a pressure-producing body with plasticization.
  • the premix is compressed under pressure, plasticized, pressed by means of a rotating roller in the form of fine strands through a perforated surface and finally comminuted to granules using a knock-off device.
  • the most varied configurations of the pressure roller and perforated die are conceivable here. For example, flat perforated plates are used as well as concave or convex ring matrices through which the material is pressed using one or more pressure rollers.
  • the press rolls can also be conical in the plate devices, in the ring-shaped devices dies and press roll (s) can have the same or opposite direction of rotation.
  • An apparatus suitable for carrying out the method is described, for example, in German laid-open specification DE 3816842 A1.
  • the ring die press disclosed in this document consists of a rotating ring die penetrated by press channels and at least one press roller which is operatively connected to the inner surface thereof and which presses the material supplied to the die space through the press channel into a material discharge.
  • the ring die and the press roller can be driven in the same direction, which means that a reduced shear stress and thus a lower temperature increase in the premix can be achieved.
  • the temperature of the pressing tools is preferably at most 150 ° C., preferably at most 100 ° C. and in particular at a maximum of 75 ° C.
  • Particularly preferred production processes work in roller compacting with process temperatures which are 10 ° C., in particular a maximum of 5 ° C. above the melting temperature or the upper temperature limit of the melting range of the binder.
  • the production of molded articles is generally carried out by tableting or press aggiomerization.
  • the particulate press agglomerates obtained can either be used directly as detergents or aftertreated and / or prepared beforehand by customary methods.
  • the usual post-treatments include, for example, powdering with finely divided ingredients from detergents or cleaning agents, which generally further increases the bulk density.
  • a preferred aftertreatment is also the procedure according to German patent applications DE 19524287 A1 and DE 19547457 A1, whereby Dusty or at least finely divided ingredients (the so-called fine fractions) are adhered to the particulate process end products produced according to the invention, which serve as the core, and thus agents are formed which have these so-called fine fractions as the outer shell.
  • the solid detergents are in tablet form, these tablets preferably having rounded corners and edges, in particular for storage and transport reasons.
  • the base of these tablets can be circular or rectangular, for example.
  • Multi-layer tablets, in particular tablets with 2 or 3 layers, which can also have different colors, are particularly preferred. Blue-white or green-white or blue-green-white tablets are particularly preferred.
  • the tablets can also contain pressed and unpressed parts.
  • Shaped bodies with a particularly advantageous dissolution rate are obtained if the granular constituents have a proportion of particles, which have a diameter outside the range of 0.02 to 6 mm, of less than 20, preferably less than 10% by weight before being compressed.
  • a particle size distribution in the range from 0.05 to 2.0 and particularly preferably from 0.2 to 1.0 mm is preferred.
  • Manufacturing example H3 100 g of cellulose (Technocel® 150) were mixed with 100 g of coconut alkyl oligoglucoside (Plantacare® 1200 G, residual water content 5% by weight, Cognis Deutschland GmbH / DE) and 20 g of coconut alkyl sulfate sodium salt (Sulfopon® 1218 G, residual water content 5% by weight. -%, Cognis Deutschland GmbH / DE)) mixed and compacted using a gear wheel chair. A sieve fraction between 1.2 and 1.6 mm was then removed.
  • Comparative Example V Granular surfactant consisting of 50% by weight coconut alkyl oligoglucoside, 5% by weight coconut alkyl sulfate sodium salt, 5% by weight soda, 10% by weight sodium silicate and 30% by weight sodium sulfate (trade name: Glucopon 50 G, Cognis Deutschland GmbH / DE); Sieve fraction between 1.2 and 1.6 mm.
  • Comparative example V2 Surfactant granules consisting of 95% by weight coconut alkyl oligoglucoside (trade name: Plantacare® 1200G, Cognis Deutschland GmbH); Sieve fraction between 1.2 and 1.6 mm.

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L'invention concerne des granulés de tensioactifs présentant une vitesse de dissolution améliorée, qui s'obtiennent par granulation et compactage de tensioactifs anioniques et/ou non ioniques en présence d'accélérateurs de dispersion.
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