WO2002018280A1 - Cleaning method - Google Patents
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- WO2002018280A1 WO2002018280A1 PCT/GB2001/003927 GB0103927W WO0218280A1 WO 2002018280 A1 WO2002018280 A1 WO 2002018280A1 GB 0103927 W GB0103927 W GB 0103927W WO 0218280 A1 WO0218280 A1 WO 0218280A1
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Definitions
- This invention relates to a method of cleaning using aqueous solutions.
- the invention relates products useful in such methods.
- waste water containing the sequestrant
- waste water may be regarded as environmentally undesirable.
- Another example from a domestic context is water jugs having a filter cartridge through which water trickles from an upper chamber to a lower chamber.
- the cartridges typically contain an ion exchange resin and activated charcoal . They are reasonably effective but many consumers decline to purchase such jugs, which are, of necessity, bulky and cumbersome .
- a method of cleaning household articles wherein cleaning water is contacted with a container having an enclosing wall and containing a substantially water-insoluble modifying agent able to bind calcium ions, the wall being permeable to the water and to components dissolved therein but retaining the substantially water-insoluble modifying agent.
- substantially water-insoluble modifying agent we mean a modifying agent, more than 50% wt, preferably at least 70% wt, more preferably at least 85% wt and most preferably at least 95% wt, and optimally 100% wt, of which is retained in the container, when the container is used under the most rigorous conditions for which it is intended.
- a method of cleaning may be a method of ware washing using a machine, for example a clothes washing machine or a dishwashing machine; the household article accordingly may be an item of kitchenware and tableware, for example crockery, glassware and tableware, or a textile article such as an item of clothes or bed linen or a towel.
- the modifying agent may soften the washing water, reduce or eliminate the formation of scum in the water and reduce or eliminate the deposition of limescale, and preferably other metal compounds, from the water.
- the container is preferably present during the rinse cycle; either only the rinse cycle, or preferably, throughout the washing operation, including the rinse cycle.
- a cleaning agent is delivered to the machine by dissolution of a liquid or solid cleaning concentrate loaded into the machine prior to the start of the washing operation.
- a surfactant for example an anionic surfactant, or a non- ionic surfactant, or a cationic surfactant, or an amphoteric surfactant, or any combination thereof.
- They typically also include one or more builders, which themselves act as sequestrants .
- a suitable anionic surfactant used in such a method of the invention is an anionic organic surfactant, which is usually employed in a soluble salt form, preferably as an alkali metal salt, especially as a sodium salt.
- anionic detergents such as higher fatty acyl sarcosides, alkyl sulphosuccinates, alkyl ether sulphosuccinates, alkylamide sulphosuccinates, alkyl sulphosuccinates, alkyl sulphoacetates, alkyl phosphates, alkyl ether phosphates, acyl isothionates, N-acyl taurates and acyl lactylates, or conventional "soaps" of fatty acids, the preferred anionic surfactants employed are those which are described as being of a sulphonate or sulphate type.
- linear higher alkylaryl sulphonates for example alkylbenzene sulphonates
- alkyl sulphates for example alkylbenzene sulphonates
- alkyl sulphates for example alkylbenzene sulphonates
- alkyl ether sulphates for example alkyl ether sulphates
- alkylamidoether sulphates for example alkyl ether sulphates
- alkylarylpolyether sulphates monoglyceride sulphates, alkyl sulphonates, alkylamido sulphonates, higher fatty alcohol sulphates, higher fatty alcohol polyalkoxylate sulphates, olefin sulphonates, oc-methyl ester sulphonates and paraffin sulphonates.
- anionic detergents including such sulph(on)ate surfactants
- sulph(on)ate surfactants sulph(on)ate surfactants
- the higher alkyl group of such anionic surfactants is of 8 to 24, especially 10 to 20 carbon atoms, preferably 12 to 18 carbon atoms, and the alkoxylate content of such anionic surfactants that are alkoxylated (preferably ethoxylated or ethoxylated/ propoxylated) is in the range of 1 to 4 alkoxy groups per mole.
- anionic surfactants comprise the alkali metal (preferably sodium) alkyl sulphates, preferably having linear C ⁇ 2 - ⁇ s alkyl groups.
- anionic surfactants comprise alkali metal (preferably sodium) alkylaryl sulphonates (especially alkylbenzene sulphonates) , preferably having linear C10-13 alkyl groups.
- a preferred non-ionic surfactant used in this method of the invention is a condensation product of a higher fatty alcohol or alkyl phenol with a lower alkylene oxide, such as ethylene oxide or a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide.
- a higher fatty moiety will normally be of 7 to 16 carbon atoms and there will usually be present from 3 to 20, preferably 4 to 15 moles of alkylene oxide per mole of higher fatty alcohol .
- non-ionic surfactants that could be used are sorbitan esters of fatty acids having from 10 to 24 carbon atoms, for example sorbitan mono-oleate.
- amphoteric surfactants which may be used include amphoteric betaine surfactant compounds having the following general formula:
- R is a hydrophobic group which is an alkyl group containing from 10 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably from 12 to 18 carbon atoms, an alkylaryl or arylalkyl group containing a similar number of carbon atoms with a benzene ring being treated as equivalent to about 2 carbon atoms, and similar structures interrupted by amido or either linkages; each R is an alkyl group containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and R 2 is an alkylene group containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms .
- cationic surfactants which may be used include quaternary ammonium compounds and salts thereof, including quaternary ammonium compounds which also have germicidal activity and which may be characterized by the general structural formula:
- R 1# R 2 , R 3 and R 4 is a hydrophobic, aliphatic, aryl aliphatic or aliphatic aryl group containing from 6 to 26 carbon atoms, and the entire cationic portion of the molecule has a molecular weight of at least 165.
- the hydrophobic groups may be long-chain alkyl, long-chain alkoxy aryl, long-chain alkyl aryl, halogen-substituted long-chain alkyl aryl, long-chain alkyl phenoxy alkyl or aryl alkyl .
- the remaining groups on the nitrogen atoms, other than the hydrophobic radicals, are generally hydrocarbon groups usually containing a total of no more than 12 carbon atoms.
- the radicals R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 may be straight chain or may be branched, but are preferably straight chain, and may include one or more amide or ester linkages.
- the radical X may be any salt-forming anionic radical.
- quaternary ammonium salts within the above description include the alkyl ammonium halides such as cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide, alkyl aryl ammonium halides such as octadecyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium bromide, and N-alkyl pyridinium halides such as N-cetyl pyridinium bromide.
- alkyl ammonium halides such as cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide
- alkyl aryl ammonium halides such as octadecyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium bromide
- N-alkyl pyridinium halides such as N-cetyl pyridinium bromide.
- Other suitable types of quaternary ammonium salts include those in which the molecule contains either amide or ester linkages, such as octyl phenoxy ethoxy ethyl dimethyl benzyl
- Preferred quaternary ammonium compounds which act as germicides and which are useful in the present invention include those which have the structural formula:
- R 2 and R 3 are the same or different C 8 -C 12 alkyl , or R 2 is C 12 -C ⁇ e alkyl , C 8 -C 18 alkylethoxy, C 8 -C 18 alkyl- phenolethoxy and R 2 is benzyl , and X is a halide, for example chloride , bromide or iodide , or methosulphate .
- the alkyl groups R 2 and R 3 may be straight chain or branched, but are preferably substantially linear.
- a mixture of two or more surfactants may be used.
- Other known surfactants not particularly described above may also be used.
- Such surfactants are described in McCutcheon's Detergents and Emulsifiers, North American Edition, 1982; Kirk-Othmer, Encyclopaedia of Chemical Technology, 3rd Ed., Vol. 22, pp 346-387.
- the cleaning agent used in a machine washing method contains a builder.
- Suitable builders include water soluble inorganic salt builders, preferably sodium salts, such as sodium polyphosphates, e.g. sodium tripolyphosphate and sodium pyrophosphate, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sesquicarbonate, sodium silicate, sodium disilicate, sodium metasilicate and sodium borate.
- water insoluble builders may also be useful, including the ion exchanging zeolites, such as " Zeolite 4A. Organic builders may also be employed.
- suitable organic builders are polyacetal carboxylates, as described in US-B-4725455, and water soluble salts of lower hydroxycarboxylic acids, such as sodium citrate and sodium gluconate.
- a builder may not be necessary as the container may fulfil the main requirement of a builder, in removing calcium ions.
- a method of cleaning in accordance with the invention may be a manual method, for example using a hand-cloth or mop, and an open vessel, for example a bucket or bowl.
- the cleaning method could be a method of cleaning a hard surface, for example a window, a tiled surface, shower screen, dirty tableware and kitchenware, a sanitaryware article, for example a lavatory, wash basin or sink, a car (which we regard as a "household article" within the terms of this invention) or a kitchen worktop.
- the household article could also be a textile article. This could be as described above and could also be a carpet .
- the cleaning method for a carpet could be purely manual, or manual but assisted by an electrical cleaning device.
- the cleaning agent is preferably dissolved in water prior to the start of cleaning.
- the cleaning agent may comprise a surfactant, for example an anionic surfactant and/or a non-ionic surfactant, as described above .
- compositions used in any cleaning method of the invention may optionally include one or more conventional additives known to be useful in cleaning compositions including viscosity modification agents, fragrances (natural or synthetically produced) , foaming or foam- control agents, solvents, fillers, scale inhibitors, colouring agents, bleaching agents, and, particulartly in the case of compositions for fabric washing, anti- nucleating agents, fabric conditioning agents, enzymes, hydrotropes and dye anti-redeposition agents.
- a germicidal agent may be incorporated as an optional ingredient into the cleaning agents used in the invention. Examples are phenolic group containing compounds such as o-phenyl- phenol, o-benzyl [p-chlorophenol] and 4-tertamylphenol .
- cationic surfactants mentioned above themselves have germicidal properties .
- a container containing a sequestrant may act as a water softener, promoting improved cleaning, within a vessel containing water, for example a bucket, jug, sink, toilet cistern or ware-washing machine.
- a vessel containing water for example a bucket, jug, sink, toilet cistern or ware-washing machine.
- any cleaning agent present in the water can work more effectively, and/or the vessel is soiled or scaled less, whether by soap scum or by encrustations or by watermarks ("spotting") left when droplets on a surface evaporate .
- the container may be used in the water used for cleaning windows or for washing a car, to soften the wash water and reduce "spotting" .
- a container containing a sequestrant may be disposed in a clothes washing machine throughout the wash and rinse cycles, for example by being placed in the machine's drum with laundry to be washed.
- a container containing a sequestrant may be disposed in the rinse portion of the loading drawer of a clothes washing machine, such that rinse water flowing through the loading drawer and into the machine is rendered lower in calcium ion concentration.
- a sequestrant serving as a calcium-binding modifying agent, could comprise polymeric bodies, for example of ion exchange resin. Suitable forms include beads and fibres. Examples include polyacrylic acid and algins .
- a sequestrant could alternatively be an inorganic material, for example a granular zeolite which is retained by the container. Algins may be found in and isolated from various organisms, in particular from algae belonging to the order Phaeophyceae and soil bacteria such as A ⁇ otojbacter vinelandii and Azoto acter crococcum and from several strains of Pseudomonas bacteria.
- Common algal sources of algins include Laminaria digi tata, Ecklonia maxima, Macrocystis pyrifera, Lessonia nigrescens , Ascophyllum nodosum, Laminaria japonica, Durvillea antartica, Durvillea potatorum and, especially, Laminaria hyperborea .
- Alginic acid is a linear hetero-polysaccharide comprising units of ⁇ -D-mannuronic acid and ⁇ -L-guluronic acid.
- Alginic acid may comprise homopolymeric sequences of mannuronic acid, homopolymeric sequences of guluronic acid, and mixed sequences of mannuronic acid and guluronic acid units.
- Use of alginic acid itself is contemplated in the present invention.
- Salts of alginic acid used in the method of the present invention may include alkali metal salts, for example sodium and potassium salts, and ammonium and alkanolamine salts.
- Alkali metal salts are of particular interest .
- algins as used herein includes alginic acid and salts of alginic acid, irrespective of the relative proportion of mannuronic and guluronic units, and is intended to include glycolated or alkoxylated derivatives, especially those derivatised with propylene glycol .
- preferred compounds are not alkoxylated or glycolated.
- Guluronic acid-rich alginic acid and guluronic acid-rich salts of alginic acid are of particular interest.
- Preferred compounds have at least 50%, more preferably 55-99%, most preferably 60-80% of guluronic units (by weight) , the balance being mannuronic units. For guidance on production of algins very high in guluronic units the reader is referred to WO 98/51710.
- the polymeric bodies may, if not inherently sequestrant, be processed in any of a number of ways. Sequestrant side chains may be grafted onto the bodies, for example using the well-known techniques of radiation grafting or chemical grafting. Radiation grafting is described in WO 94/12545. Chemical grafting is described in GB 2086954A. Alternatively for certain side chains the polymeric bodies may be fabricated (for example melt spun) already bearing the sequestrant side-chains, as described in EP 486934A. In yet other embodiments polymeric bodies not bearing sequestrant side chains may be coated with material which has the side chains. The polymeric bodies may, in effect, be regarded as carrying the side chains by mechanical adhesion. Alternatively they may attach by cross-linking, as described in EP 992283A.
- sequestrant side chains are any side-chains which can be carried by polymeric bodies, and which are able to bind calcium (and preferably other) ions, and whose effectiveness in doing that is not substantially diminished by a cleaning agent.
- Suitable calcium-binding side-chains include residues of acids, for example of acrylic or methacrylic acid, or carboxylic acids, or of sulphonic acids, or of phosphonic acids. Residues of organic acids are preferred. Particularly preferred are residues of methacrylic or, especially, acrylic acid.
- Alternative calcium-binding side chains of polymeric bodies may include amino groups, quaternary ammonium salt groups and iminodicarboxyl groups -N ⁇ (CH 2 ) n COOH ⁇ 2 , where n is 1 or 2.
- Suitable calcium-binding side chains of polymeric bodies may include acyl groups as described in EP 984095A. These have the formula
- X represents a residue in which one carboxyl group is eliminated from a monocarboxylic acid or dicarboxylic acid
- V represents hydrogen or a carboxyl group
- M represents hydrogen
- R 1 represents a residue in which one hydrogen is eliminated from a carbon chain in an alkylene group
- R 2 represents a direct bond or an alkylene group
- Y 1 and Y 2 are the same or different and each represents hydrogen, a carboxyl group, an amino group, a hydroxy group or a thiol group
- n is an integer of 1 to 4
- ' represents hydrogen or -R 3 -R 4 -Y 3
- R 3 represents a residue in which one hydrogen is eliminated from a carbon chain in an alkylene group
- R 4 represents a direct bond or an alkylene group
- Y 3 and Y 4 are the same or different and each represents hydrogen, a carboxyl group, an amino group, a hydroxy group or a thiol group
- Z represents hydrogen or has the same meaning as that of M.
- Such side chains are preferably carried by polymeric fibres selected from polyolefins, poly(haloolefins) , pol (vinylalcohol) , polyesters, polyamides, polyacrylics, protein fibres and cellulosic fibres (for example cotton, viscose and rayon) .
- Polyolefins are especially preferred, particularly polyethylene and polypropylene.
- a preferred process is one using irradiation, in an inert atmosphere, with immediate delivery to irradiated bodies of acrylic acid.
- the radiation is electron beam or gamma radiation, to a total dose of 10- 300 kGy, preferably 20-100 kGy.
- the acrylic acid is preferably of concentration 20-80 vol %, in water, and the temperature at which the acrylic acid is supplied to the irradiated polymeric bodies is preferably an elevated temperature, for example 30-80 °C.
- the base polymeric bodies are polyethylene, polypropylene or cellulosic fibres. In principle, however, any type of insoluble, calcium- binding material can be used.
- the calcium-binding modifying agent is also able to bind magnesium ions .
- the calcium-binding modifying agent is substantially without means to capture anionic species in the water.
- the container including modifying agent (s) therein, is substantially without means to capture anionic species in the water.
- the method of the invention is suitably carried out at a temperature in the range 5 to 100 °C, especially 10 to 60°C, most preferably 20 to 60°C.
- the container is able to move freely within the water used in the method.
- the container is immersed in the water substantially throughout the method.
- it is preferably not in the form of a filter or like body, retained in a fixed orientation, or mounted on a frame (except in the third aspect of the invention, defined hereinafter) .
- the container could be a rigid body with microporous openings present throughout its enclosing wall (which term we use to denote a container with one or several facets) . It may be spherical or ovoid or cubic or cuboid, or any other convenient shape. It could comprise a rigid body, not necessarily with microporous openings throughout its wall, but having one or more windows of a microporous material, set into its wall.
- a bag by which we include a sachet or pouch
- having a perforate outer wall for example of a woven, knitted or preferably non-woven material, of textile or paper.
- the wall of a bag comprises sheets of material, each sheet comprising a ply of two or more layers.
- the wall comprises a sheet with a ply of three or more layers, such that any insoluble modifying agent inside the bag must follow a tortuous pathway if it were to exit the bag through the wall .
- the wall of a bag may conveniently consist of two sheets secured together about their periphery, with the modifying agent therebetween.
- the modifying agent could comprise a further sheet or sheets.
- the securement may be by means of adhesive or, preferably, heat sealing. When the securement is by heat sealing the sheets may comprise a thermoplastic to facilitate this.
- Conventional materials used in tea bag manufacture may be suitable, and the techniques used in making tea bags can be applied to make flexible containers useful in this invention. Such techniques are described in WO 98/36128 and EP 380127A.
- the container could be discarded after use, or it could be regenerated, for example using sodium chloride to effect ion exchange, and re-used.
- a dye could be employed to give a colour change, on exhaustion of the modifying agent inside the container.
- the modifying agent within the container could comprise a catalytic material, for example able to degrade soils and/or microorganisms.
- a container may contain more then one type of modifying agent, and/or a modifying agent having a dual function, for example to capture calcium ions and release a beneficial species.
- the container could contain a soluble solid material or a dispersible solid material which can pass through the walls of the bag when immersed in water.
- a soluble or dispersible solid material could be, for example, any of the materials mentioned above as being possible components of compositions with which the container can be used; but particularly includes a cleaning surfactant.
- the wall of the container may itself act as a further means for modifying the water, for example by having the capability of capturing undesired species in the water and/or releasing beneficial species.
- the wall material could be of a textile material with ion- capturing and/or ion-releasing properties, for example as described above.
- a container having an enclosing wall and containing a substantially water-insoluble modifying agent able to bind calcium ions, and a water-soluble or water- dispersible modifying agent comprising a cleaning surfactant, the wall being permeable to water and to the cleaning surfactant dissolved or dispersed therein but impermeable to the substantially water-insoluble modifying agent .
- a method of providing improved cleaning in a clothes washing machine wherein a container containing a substantially water-insoluble sequestrant having a wall permeable to water and to metal ions therein but impermeable to the sequestrant is located in the loading drawer of the machine such that inflowing rinse water flows through the container, thereby effecting the softening of rinse water entering the machine .
- Preferably water entering the machine and which is not rinse water does not flow through the container.
- the container used in the third aspect may be a rigid body which is shaped to locate snugly in the tray such that the inflowing rinse water is compelled to flow through it.
- it may be a flexible body, for example a bag, which packs into the flow pathway for the rinse water such that the rinse water is compelled to flow through it.
- a container having a rigid enclosing wall and containing a substantially water-insoluble calcium ion sequestrant, the wall being permeable to water and to species dissolved therein but impermeable to the sequestrant, wherein the container is adapted to be located in the loading drawer of a clothes washing machine such that inflowing rinse water flows through it .
- the sequestrant and the container having a rigid wall may be as described above.
- the rigid wall is adapted to be located in the loading drawer by mean of firmly interengaging parts as between the container and the loading drawer, for example parts providing snap-fit securement and/or otherwise requiring mechanical force to separate them.
- Chopped polyethylene fibres of 20 mm length were placed in a plastic bag, purged with nitrogen and sealed.
- the bag was irradiated with 10 MeV electrons from a linear accelerator. The total radiation dose was 30 kGy.
- the fibres were removed from the bag and immersed without delay in a nitrogen-purged aqueous solution containing 40 vol % acrylic acid for 45 minutes at 62 °C.
- the grafted fibres were extracted with water overnight .
- the grafted fibres were placed between two sheets of non-woven polyethylene, which was heat sealed to enclose the grafted fibres.
- the bag was placed in the drum of a washing machine, with the clothes, at the start of a washing cycle. It was removed, with the clothes, at the end of the cycle, having provided water softening throughout the cycle, to assist the washing process.
- PROTANAL F 20 was placed in between two 5 x 5 cm sheets of extruded polyester film SN 42 available from Smith S Nephew, York, UK, and which were heat sealed to enclose the algin.
- PROTANAL LF 20 is a granular food grade sodium alginate available from FMC Biopolymer.
- the pouch was placed in 1 litre of hard tap water (90 mg/1 Ca 2+ approx. ) .
- Samples Control BRITA (Trade Mark) water filter ion exchange material, used to purify drinking water.
- BRITA Trade Mark
- Alginate PROTANAL LF20 Alginic acid: PROTACID F120
- Sample test jars were rinsed with deionised water prior to sample storage.
- PROTANAL LF20 Draw 1 litre tap water and leave on bench for temperature to reach 21 °C.
- Filter 250 mis into a labelled glass jar through a
- Whatman No. 4 filter (label 2.a.i.l). Discard and retain a second 250 mis in the jar.
- AAS Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
- ICPAES Inductively Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
- the bags were made by heat sealing together 7 cm x 7 cm sheets of the papers, with PROTACID F120 (lg) between them.
- the filled bags were placed in containers containing the same hard water (1 litre) and stirred for 30 minutes. The water was then observed by eye, and the condition recorded, as noted in the following table.
- a heat sealed laminate comprised a middle calcium sequestrant layer between two outer layers, the latter forming a container for the sequestrant layer.
- composition of each outer layer :
- Polyacrylate fibres are made by copolymerising acrylic acid, sodium acrylate, methacrylic acid and hydroxypropylmethacrylic acid in an aqueous premix. Polymerisation is initiated by ammonium persulphate. The resulting cross-linked polymer is extruded into a hot air stream into fibres. These fibres are then incorporated with other fibres into a non-woven cloth. In this example the cloth was 145g/m 2 sheet weight, of:
- This non-woven cloth was retained within a layer of 30g/m 2 spunbonded polypropylene laminated onto both sides to give a three layer flat-form container.
- the containers described in Examples 5 and 6 were used in washing machine testing in order to assess calcium carbonate encrustation on the heating element.
- the washing machine employed was a CANDY 80 PLUS (trade mark) . Each washing load was 3.5 kg. A 60°C programme was selected. The water hardness was 172 mg/1 Ca 2+ .
- the detergent employed was 168g DASH ESSENTIAL (trade mark) , a commercial washing powder available in supermarkets in Italy, having the following composition (by weight) :
- anionic surfactant 11.7% zeolite 18.9% sodium silicate 2.7% sodium citrate 3.5% sodium carbonate 25.9% sodium percarbonate 11.5%
- All containers were approximately 625cm 2 in area and a fresh container was used for each wash cycle.
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