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WO2006003434A1
WO2006003434A1 PCT/GB2005/002618 GB2005002618W WO2006003434A1 WO 2006003434 A1 WO2006003434 A1 WO 2006003434A1 GB 2005002618 W GB2005002618 W GB 2005002618W WO 2006003434 A1 WO2006003434 A1 WO 2006003434A1
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Thomas Enkel
Mladen Nedic
Judith Preuschen
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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
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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
    • C11D17/00—Detergent materials or soaps characterised by their shape or physical properties
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  • the invention concerns a particulate comprising methyl glycine diacetic acid and a coating with a coating material which exhib ⁇ its a pH of greater than or equal to 7 in an aqueous medium.
  • Household detergents are used widely in many applications in ⁇ cluding laundry care and for hard-surface cleaning such as in an automatic dishwasher.
  • the detergents are commonly available in many product formats including liquids, powders and solids.
  • a common household detergent is usually made up of a number of different components.
  • One component that is typically present in a laundry / automatic dishwasher deter ⁇ gent is a builder.
  • the builder is used as a chelating agent to aid the removal / capture of metal ions in solution.
  • deposits of metal ion based sediments such as limescale
  • the cleaning process is en ⁇ hanced (certain stains incorporate a metal ion component, e.g. such as tea stains which comprise a calcium / tannin complex) .
  • citrate a polyfunctional carboxylic acid
  • the activity of citrate as a builder is not as high as that of phosphate. This is particularly noticeable at higher washing temperatures, such as those experienced in an automatic dishwasher (>50°C) .
  • MGDA whilst an extremely capable chelating agent has associated disadvantages connected with its inherent hygroscopicity.
  • MGDA is only commonly available in liquid form. If used in solid form as a powder MGDA leads to excessive caking of the powder formulation brought on by massive uptake of water. Simi ⁇ larly any other larger solid forms suffer from poor physical and chemical stability caused by water uptake.
  • MGDA particles have been coated with a polycarboxylate (as described in DE-A-19937345) to prevent excessive water uptake.
  • a polycarboxylate as described in DE-A-19937345
  • the use of the polycarboxylate polymer a polymer which is usually acidic in nature, reduced the pH of the MGDA containing formulation / wash liquors containing same to an unacceptable level for cer ⁇ tain uses (e.g. such as automatic dishwashing) .
  • the further processing of the polycarboxylate coated MGDA particles has been hindered due to the high hardness of the polycarboxylate coating.
  • a detergent composition comprising an MGDA containing particulate material wherein the particulate is at least par ⁇ tially coated with a coating of a water soluble / dispersible material having a melting point of less than 100 0 C, wherein the coating material exhibits a pH of greater than or equal to 7 in an aqueous medium.
  • MGDA is not limited solely to MGDA per se but also refers to compounds having formula (a) :
  • R is H or C 1 - I2 alkyl.
  • M is H or an alkali metal (such as Li, Na, K, Rb) ; each M may be the same or different .
  • the coating is non-acidic, the coating of the MGDA containing particulate does not limit the particulate from use in any par ⁇ ticular detergent applications : the coated MGDA particulate can still be used in automatic dishwasher detergent formulations.
  • the hygroscopicity problems associated with MGDA have been found to be addressed.
  • the MGDA can be incorporated into a detergent formulation for use as a builder without leading to the issues caused by water uptake.
  • de ⁇ tergent products made using these particulates have been found to exhibit excellent storage stability and, for powders, good pourability / flowability after prolonged storage.
  • the water soluble / dispersible coating material has a melting point of less than 80 0 C. (Generally the melting point is higher than room temperature to ensure the integrity of the coating) . With such a melting point it has been found that the coated MGDA particulates can be readily processed into, for ex ⁇ ample, larger detergent bodies (e.g. such as tablets) without causing excessive abrasion to the processing equipment.
  • the weight ratio of the water soluble / dispersible coating material to the MGDA is in the range of 3:1 (i.e. 75wt% water soluble / dispersible coating material and 25wt% MGDA) to 1:19 (i.e. 5wt% water soluble / dispersible coating material and 95wt% MGDA) .
  • Suitable types of water soluble / dispersible coating material include water soluble / dispersible polymers and surfactants.
  • the surfac ⁇ tant is nonionic.
  • nonionic surfactants include alkoxylated, (especially ethoxylated) alcohols with preferably 8 to 18 carbon atoms and on the average 1 to 12 mole ethylene oxide (EO) per mole of alcohol .
  • Ethoxylated alcohols with linear alkyl chains, e.g. from alcohols of native origin with 12 to 18 carbon atoms, e.g. from cocoa, palm, tallow, or oleic oils, with on average 2 to 8 EO per mole alcohol are pre ⁇ ferred.
  • the preferred ethoxylated alcohols include, for example, Ci 2 - I4 alcohols with 3 EO, 4 EO or 7 EO, C 9 -n alcohols with 7 EO, C 13 - I5 alcohols with 3 EO, 5 EO, 7 EO or 8 EO, Ci 2 - I8 al ⁇ cohols with 3 EO, 5 EO or 7 EO and mixtures thereof, such as mixtures of Ci 2 - I4 alcohols with 3 EO and Ci 2 - I4 alcohols with 7 EO.
  • the indicated ethoxylation degree represents statistic average values, which can be a whole or fractional number.
  • Fatty alcohols with more than 12 EO may be used as a nonionic surfactant.
  • examples include tallow fat alcohols with 14 EO, 25 EO, 30 EO or 40 EO.
  • Nonionic surfactant compounds which contain ethylene oxide (EO) and propylene oxide (PO) groups are suitable for use in the pre ⁇ sent invention.
  • Block copolymers with EO / PO blocks, EO-PO co ⁇ polymers and mixed EO and PO copolymers may be used.
  • alkyl glycosides of the general formula RO(G) x , in which R is a primary or methyl-branched alkyl chain, with preferably 8 to 22 and more preferably 12 to 18 carbon atoms and where G is a carbohydrate with 5 or 6 carbon atoms, preferably glucose.
  • the oligomerisation degree x which indicates the dis ⁇ tribution of mono glycosides and oligo glycosides, is preferably between 1 and 10 and most preferably between 1.2 to 1.4.
  • a further group of preferred nonionic surfactants are alkoxy- lated (preferably ethoxylated) fatty acid alkyl esters, particu ⁇ larly with 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain, especially fatty acid methyl esters.
  • amine oxides for example N-tallow-N, N-dihydroxy- ethylaminoxide, and the fatty acid alkonalamide equivalents thereof can be suitable.
  • nonionic surfactants are polyhydroxy fatty acid amides of the formula (I) :
  • (D, in which RC O is an aliphatic acyl radical with 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R 1 is hydrogen, an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms and (Z) is a linear or branched polyhydroxy alkyl chain with 3 to 10 carbon atoms and 3 to 10 hydroxyl groups.
  • Compounds of the formula (II) also belong to the group of the polyhydroxy fatty acid amides.
  • R is a linear or branched alkyl / alkenyl group with 7 to 12 carbon atoms
  • R 2 is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl residue or an aryl residue with 2 to 8 carbon atoms
  • R 3 is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group or an aryl group or an oxy-alkyl residue with 1 to 8 carbon atoms, with C 1-4 alkyl or phenyl groups being preferred
  • (Z) is a linear polyhy- droxyalkyl group, the alkyl chain of which is substituted with at least two hydroxyl groups, or alternatively alkoxylated, preferably ethoxylated or propxoylated.
  • a preferred example of a suitable nonionic surfactant which meet the melting point parameters above is an ethoxylated mono- hydroxy-alkanol or alkyl phenol with 6 to 20 carbon atoms with preferably at least 12 mole, particularly preferentially at least 15 mole, in particular at least 20 mole, ethylene oxide per mole alcohol / alkyl phenol .
  • a particularly preferred non- ionic surfactant is a straight-chain fatty alcohol with 16 to 20 carbon atoms with at least 12 mole, preferably at least 15 mole and in particular at least 20 mole, ethylene oxide per mole al ⁇ cohol .
  • propoxylated nonionic surfactants include mono-hydroxy-alkanoIs / alkyl phenols with polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer units.
  • the al ⁇ cohol and / or alkyl phenol part of such nonionic surfactants preferably comprises more than 30 wt%, particularly more than 50 wt% and most preferably more than 70 wt% of the molecular mass of the molecule.
  • a further preferred nonionic surfactant is of the formula (III) :
  • R 4 is a linear or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon group with 4 to 18 carbon atoms or mixtures thereof
  • R 5 is a linear or branched hydrocarbon group with 2 to 26 carbon atoms or mixtures thereof
  • x has a value of from 0.5 to 1.5 and y has a value of at least 15.
  • a yet further preferred non-ionic surfactant is of the formula (IV) :
  • R 6 and R 7 are linear / branched, saturated / unsatu ⁇ rated, aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon groups with 1 to 30 carbon atoms
  • R 8 is hydrogen or methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, i- propyl, n-butyl, 2-butyl or 2-methyl-2-butyl
  • z is from 1 to 30
  • k and j are from 1 to 12, preferably from 1 to 5.
  • each R 8 may be the same or different.
  • R 8 is most particularly preferential hydrogen, methyl or ethyl . Most preferred values for z lie within the range of 1 to 20, e.g. from 6 to 15.
  • R 6 and R 7 preferably have 6 to 22 carbon atoms, with 8 to 18 carbon atoms being particularly preferred.
  • R s , R 7 and R 8 are as in Formula (IV) and z is from 1 to 30, par ⁇ ticularly from 1 to 20 and most particularly from 6 to 18. Es ⁇ pecially preferred are surfactants where R 6 and .R 7 have up to 14 carbon atoms, R 8 is hydrogen and z is from 6 to 15.
  • surfactants include those surfactants based on a C 16 - I8 fatty alcohol with an average ethoxylation de ⁇ gree of 25 (e.g. such as Lutensol AT25 (BASF) and Volpo CS25 - (Croda) ) .
  • Preferred examples of polymers include polyvinyl al ⁇ cohol derivatives, polyvinylpyrolidone (PVP) , polyalkylene gly ⁇ col and derivatives thereof.
  • these compounds are commonly used as binding agents for de ⁇ tergent bodies, such as tablets, these compounds can also be used to provide this secondary function (plus the surfactant function for the surfactant coating materials) as well as ensur ⁇ ing the low water uptake of the MGDA.
  • the coating material is polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 500 to 30000, more preferably 1000 to 5000 and most preferably 1200 to 2000.
  • Preferred examples of polyethylene glycol include 1500 and 20000.
  • the MGDA particulate may further incorporate auxiliary materi ⁇ als, like usual detergent additives or fillers
  • the particulate is preferably formed in a process comprising mixing an MGDA solution with a solution of the coating material followed by drying this solution.
  • the MGDA and the coating material may be mixed together before being sol- vated.
  • Preferred examples of solvents include water, alcohol (e.g. ethanol) , and admixtures thereof.
  • a preferred drying process involves spray drying of MGDA solution with the coating material .
  • the detergent composition may comprise a powder, a non-aqueous gel, a compressed particulate body, an injection moulded body or an extruded body.
  • the composition may further incorporate aux ⁇ iliary materials, like usual detergent additives or fillers, e.g. one or more of the following agents; bleach, corrosion in ⁇ hibition agent, fragrance, co-builder, surfactant, binding agent, dye, acidity modifying agent, dispersion aid, enzyme, or preservative.
  • the composition is preferably for use in an automatic washing process e.g. such as in a automatic dishwasher / automatic clothes washer.
  • a detergent composi ⁇ tion comprising a MGDA containing particulate material wherein the particulate is at least partially coated with a coating of a water soluble / dispersible material, wherein the coating mate ⁇ rial exhibits a pH of greater than or equal to 7 in an aqueous medium, in an automatic dishwashing process or laundry- process.
  • MGDA particulate having a partial coating of PEG 1500 were prepared according to the table below. These particulates were added to a powder detergent formulation such that the particulates comprised 50wt% of the formulation.
  • pH was found to be above 10.
  • the pH of these formulations is suitable for incorporation into an automatic washing detergents, such as an automatic dishwashing detergent.

Abstract

A detergent composition comprises an MGDA containing particulate material. The MGDA particulate is at least partially coated with a coating of a water soluble / dispersible material having a melting point of less than 100 °C. The coating material exhib­its a pH of greater than or equal to 7 in an aqueous medium.

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PARTICULATE
The invention concerns a particulate comprising methyl glycine diacetic acid and a coating with a coating material which exhib¬ its a pH of greater than or equal to 7 in an aqueous medium.
Household detergents are used widely in many applications in¬ cluding laundry care and for hard-surface cleaning such as in an automatic dishwasher. The detergents are commonly available in many product formats including liquids, powders and solids.
It is recognised that a common household detergent is usually made up of a number of different components. One component that is typically present in a laundry / automatic dishwasher deter¬ gent is a builder.
The builder is used as a chelating agent to aid the removal / capture of metal ions in solution. With their use deposits of metal ion based sediments (such as limescale) within automatic washing machines are reduced and the cleaning process is en¬ hanced (certain stains incorporate a metal ion component, e.g. such as tea stains which comprise a calcium / tannin complex) .
In the past and up until recently builders based upon phosphate have been used. These have the advantage of being inexpensive, compatible with other detergent components (both in solid and liquid detergent formulations) and washing machines, and widely available. However, one problem with the use of phosphate based builders is that of environmental pollution: excess phosphates in water courses are connected with detrimental environmental effects such as eutrification and excess algal growth, leading to other issues such as a reduction in fish populations. Consequently the use of phosphates has been legislated against in certain jurisdictions and is being legislated against in further jurisdictions.
Thus there is a need for alternative builders / chelating agents.
One possible alternative is to use a salt of a polyfunctional carboxylic acid such as citrate. However, whilst salts such as citrate are more environmentally acceptable, the activity of citrate as a builder is not as high as that of phosphate. This is particularly noticeable at higher washing temperatures, such as those experienced in an automatic dishwasher (>50°C) .
Other builders based on aminocarboxylates have been considered, such as MGDA.
MGDA, whilst an extremely capable chelating agent has associated disadvantages connected with its inherent hygroscopicity. As a result MGDA is only commonly available in liquid form. If used in solid form as a powder MGDA leads to excessive caking of the powder formulation brought on by massive uptake of water. Simi¬ larly any other larger solid forms suffer from poor physical and chemical stability caused by water uptake.
Coating of MGDA particles has been attempted to address this is¬ sue. MGDA particles have been coated with a polycarboxylate (as described in DE-A-19937345) to prevent excessive water uptake. However, it has been found that whilst the use of this polymer has been able to address the hygroscopicity issue, the use of the polycarboxylate polymer, a polymer which is usually acidic in nature, reduced the pH of the MGDA containing formulation / wash liquors containing same to an unacceptable level for cer¬ tain uses (e.g. such as automatic dishwashing) . Additionally the further processing of the polycarboxylate coated MGDA particles has been hindered due to the high hardness of the polycarboxylate coating.
It is an object of the present invention to obviate / mitigate the problems outlined above.
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a detergent composition comprising an MGDA containing particulate material wherein the particulate is at least par¬ tially coated with a coating of a water soluble / dispersible material having a melting point of less than 1000C, wherein the coating material exhibits a pH of greater than or equal to 7 in an aqueous medium.
It will be appreciated that the term MGDA is not limited solely to MGDA per se but also refers to compounds having formula (a) :
MOOC-CHR-N(CH2COOM) 2 (a)
wherein R is H or C1-I2 alkyl.
M is H or an alkali metal (such as Li, Na, K, Rb) ; each M may be the same or different .
As the coating is non-acidic, the coating of the MGDA containing particulate does not limit the particulate from use in any par¬ ticular detergent applications : the coated MGDA particulate can still be used in automatic dishwasher detergent formulations.
With the use of a coating the hygroscopicity problems associated with MGDA have been found to be addressed. Thus the MGDA can be incorporated into a detergent formulation for use as a builder without leading to the issues caused by water uptake. Thus de¬ tergent products made using these particulates have been found to exhibit excellent storage stability and, for powders, good pourability / flowability after prolonged storage.
Preferably the water soluble / dispersible coating material has a melting point of less than 800C. (Generally the melting point is higher than room temperature to ensure the integrity of the coating) . With such a melting point it has been found that the coated MGDA particulates can be readily processed into, for ex¬ ample, larger detergent bodies (e.g. such as tablets) without causing excessive abrasion to the processing equipment.
Generally the weight ratio of the water soluble / dispersible coating material to the MGDA is in the range of 3:1 (i.e. 75wt% water soluble / dispersible coating material and 25wt% MGDA) to 1:19 (i.e. 5wt% water soluble / dispersible coating material and 95wt% MGDA) .
Suitable types of water soluble / dispersible coating material include water soluble / dispersible polymers and surfactants.
Where a surfactant is present it is preferred that the surfac¬ tant is nonionic. Preferred examples of nonionic surfactants include alkoxylated, (especially ethoxylated) alcohols with preferably 8 to 18 carbon atoms and on the average 1 to 12 mole ethylene oxide (EO) per mole of alcohol . Ethoxylated alcohols with linear alkyl chains, e.g. from alcohols of native origin with 12 to 18 carbon atoms, e.g. from cocoa, palm, tallow, or oleic oils, with on average 2 to 8 EO per mole alcohol are pre¬ ferred. Thus the preferred ethoxylated alcohols include, for example, Ci2-I4 alcohols with 3 EO, 4 EO or 7 EO, C9-n alcohols with 7 EO, C13-I5 alcohols with 3 EO, 5 EO, 7 EO or 8 EO, Ci2-I8 al¬ cohols with 3 EO, 5 EO or 7 EO and mixtures thereof, such as mixtures of Ci2-I4 alcohols with 3 EO and Ci2-I4 alcohols with 7 EO. It will be appreciated that the indicated ethoxylation degree represents statistic average values, which can be a whole or fractional number.
Fatty alcohols with more than 12 EO may be used as a nonionic surfactant. Examples include tallow fat alcohols with 14 EO, 25 EO, 30 EO or 40 EO.
Nonionic surfactant compounds, which contain ethylene oxide (EO) and propylene oxide (PO) groups are suitable for use in the pre¬ sent invention. Block copolymers with EO / PO blocks, EO-PO co¬ polymers and mixed EO and PO copolymers may be used.
Also suitable are alkyl glycosides of the general formula RO(G)x, in which R is a primary or methyl-branched alkyl chain, with preferably 8 to 22 and more preferably 12 to 18 carbon atoms and where G is a carbohydrate with 5 or 6 carbon atoms, preferably glucose. The oligomerisation degree x, which indicates the dis¬ tribution of mono glycosides and oligo glycosides, is preferably between 1 and 10 and most preferably between 1.2 to 1.4.
A further group of preferred nonionic surfactants are alkoxy- lated (preferably ethoxylated) fatty acid alkyl esters, particu¬ larly with 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain, especially fatty acid methyl esters.
Also amine oxides, for example N-tallow-N, N-dihydroxy- ethylaminoxide, and the fatty acid alkonalamide equivalents thereof can be suitable.
Further suitable nonionic surfactants are polyhydroxy fatty acid amides of the formula (I) :
Figure imgf000006_0001
(D, in which RC=O is an aliphatic acyl radical with 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R1 is hydrogen, an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group with 1 to 4 carbon atoms and (Z) is a linear or branched polyhydroxy alkyl chain with 3 to 10 carbon atoms and 3 to 10 hydroxyl groups.
Compounds of the formula (II) also belong to the group of the polyhydroxy fatty acid amides.
Figure imgf000007_0001
in which R is a linear or branched alkyl / alkenyl group with 7 to 12 carbon atoms, R2 is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl residue or an aryl residue with 2 to 8 carbon atoms and R3 is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group or an aryl group or an oxy-alkyl residue with 1 to 8 carbon atoms, with C1-4 alkyl or phenyl groups being preferred and (Z) is a linear polyhy- droxyalkyl group, the alkyl chain of which is substituted with at least two hydroxyl groups, or alternatively alkoxylated, preferably ethoxylated or propxoylated.
A preferred example of a suitable nonionic surfactant which meet the melting point parameters above is an ethoxylated mono- hydroxy-alkanol or alkyl phenol with 6 to 20 carbon atoms with preferably at least 12 mole, particularly preferentially at least 15 mole, in particular at least 20 mole, ethylene oxide per mole alcohol / alkyl phenol . A particularly preferred non- ionic surfactant is a straight-chain fatty alcohol with 16 to 20 carbon atoms with at least 12 mole, preferably at least 15 mole and in particular at least 20 mole, ethylene oxide per mole al¬ cohol . Preferred examples of propoxylated nonionic surfactants include mono-hydroxy-alkanoIs / alkyl phenols with polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer units. The al¬ cohol and / or alkyl phenol part of such nonionic surfactants preferably comprises more than 30 wt%, particularly more than 50 wt% and most preferably more than 70 wt% of the molecular mass of the molecule.
A further preferred nonionic surfactant is of the formula (III) :
R4O[CH2CH(CH3)O]X[CH2CH2O]7[CH2CH(OH)R5 (III) ,
in which R4 is a linear or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon group with 4 to 18 carbon atoms or mixtures thereof, R5 is a linear or branched hydrocarbon group with 2 to 26 carbon atoms or mixtures thereof, x has a value of from 0.5 to 1.5 and y has a value of at least 15.
A yet further preferred non-ionic surfactant is of the formula (IV) :
R6O [CH2CH(R8)0] z [CH2]kCH(OH) [CH2] jOR7 (IV) ,
in which R6 and R7 are linear / branched, saturated / unsatu¬ rated, aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon groups with 1 to 30 carbon atoms, R8 is hydrogen or methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, i- propyl, n-butyl, 2-butyl or 2-methyl-2-butyl, z is from 1 to 30, k and j are from 1 to 12, preferably from 1 to 5.
If z≥2 , each R8 may be the same or different. For example, if z is 3, R8 may be selected, in order to form ethylene oxide (R8 = H) or propylene oxide (R8 = CH3) units, which can be adjacent in varying order, for example (EO) (PO) (EO) , (EO) (EO) (PO) , (EO) (EO) (EO) , (PO) (EO) (PO) , (PO) (PO) (EO) and (PO) (PO) (PO) . R8 is most particularly preferential hydrogen, methyl or ethyl . Most preferred values for z lie within the range of 1 to 20, e.g. from 6 to 15. R6 and R7 preferably have 6 to 22 carbon atoms, with 8 to 18 carbon atoms being particularly preferred.
It is preferred that k = 1 and j = 1, so that formula (IV) be¬ comes formula (V) :
R6O [CH2CH(R8) ] ^CH2CH(OH) CH2OR7 (V) .
Rs, R7 and R8 are as in Formula (IV) and z is from 1 to 30, par¬ ticularly from 1 to 20 and most particularly from 6 to 18. Es¬ pecially preferred are surfactants where R6 and .R7 have up to 14 carbon atoms, R8 is hydrogen and z is from 6 to 15.
Most preferred examples of surfactants include those surfactants based on a C16-I8 fatty alcohol with an average ethoxylation de¬ gree of 25 (e.g. such as Lutensol AT25 (BASF) and Volpo CS25 - (Croda) ) . Preferred examples of polymers include polyvinyl al¬ cohol derivatives, polyvinylpyrolidone (PVP) , polyalkylene gly¬ col and derivatives thereof.
As these compounds are commonly used as binding agents for de¬ tergent bodies, such as tablets, these compounds can also be used to provide this secondary function (plus the surfactant function for the surfactant coating materials) as well as ensur¬ ing the low water uptake of the MGDA.
Furthermore these compounds have been found to be advantageous as processing aids in the formation of detergent bodies, e.g. in; injection moulding processes, extrusion processes, melt / pour or melt / press processes. Most preferably the coating material is polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 500 to 30000, more preferably 1000 to 5000 and most preferably 1200 to 2000. Preferred examples of polyethylene glycol include 1500 and 20000.
The MGDA particulate may further incorporate auxiliary materi¬ als, like usual detergent additives or fillers
The particulate is preferably formed in a process comprising mixing an MGDA solution with a solution of the coating material followed by drying this solution. Alternatively the MGDA and the coating material may be mixed together before being sol- vated. Preferred examples of solvents include water, alcohol (e.g. ethanol) , and admixtures thereof. A preferred drying process involves spray drying of MGDA solution with the coating material .
The detergent composition may comprise a powder, a non-aqueous gel, a compressed particulate body, an injection moulded body or an extruded body. The composition may further incorporate aux¬ iliary materials, like usual detergent additives or fillers, e.g. one or more of the following agents; bleach, corrosion in¬ hibition agent, fragrance, co-builder, surfactant, binding agent, dye, acidity modifying agent, dispersion aid, enzyme, or preservative.
The composition is preferably for use in an automatic washing process e.g. such as in a automatic dishwasher / automatic clothes washer. Thus according to a second aspect of the pre¬ sent invention there is provided the use of a detergent composi¬ tion comprising a MGDA containing particulate material wherein the particulate is at least partially coated with a coating of a water soluble / dispersible material, wherein the coating mate¬ rial exhibits a pH of greater than or equal to 7 in an aqueous medium, in an automatic dishwashing process or laundry- process.
The invention is now further described with reference to the following non-limiting Examples.
Example 1; Moisture Uptake Measurement
MGDA particulate having a partial coating of PEG 1500 (prepared by mixing) were prepared according to the table below. These particulates were added to a powder detergent formulation such that the particulates comprised 50wt% of the formulation.
The formulations were weighed and then stored under controlled conditions (see Table) and then re-weighed. The weight increase was then assessed. The results are shown in the Table below.
Figure imgf000011_0001
All of the MGDA particulates exhibit extremely low hygroscop- icity. Example 21 pH Measurement
The pH of the MGDA particulates in lwt% aqueous solution of Ex¬ ample 1 was measured with a conventional pH-Meter.
In each case the pH was found to be above 10. The pH of these formulations is suitable for incorporation into an automatic washing detergents, such as an automatic dishwashing detergent.
This compares favourable to MGDA particulates which are coated with a polycarboxylate such as Sokolan PA 30 which exhibit much lower pH (pH lower than 10) and for 50% coating a pH of lower than 8.

Claims

1. A detergent composition comprising an MGDA containing par¬ ticulate material wherein the particulate is at least partially coated with a coating of a water soluble / dispersible material having a melting point of less than 1000C, wherein the coating material exhibits a pH of greater than or equal to 7 in an aque¬ ous medium.
2. A composition according to claim 1, wherein the water soluble / dispersible coating material has a melting point of less than 800C.
3. A composition according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the weight ratio of the water soluble / dispersible coating material to the MGDA is in the range of 3:1 to 1:19.
4. A composition according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the water soluble / dispersible coating material comprises a water soluble / dispersible polymer and / or a surfactant .
5. A composition according to claim 4, wherein the surfactant is based on a Ci6-I8 fatty alcohol with an average ethoxylation de¬ gree of 25.
6. A composition according to claim 4, wherein the polymer com¬ prises a polyvinyl alcohol derivative, polyvinylpyrolidone
(PVP) , polyalkylene glycol and / or a derivative thereof.
7. A composition according to claim 4 or 6, wherein the coating material is polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 1500 or 20000.
8. A composition according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the particulate incorporates an auxiliary material.
9. A composition according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the composition comprise a powder, a non-aqueous gel, a com¬ pressed particulate body, an injection moulded body or an ex¬ truded body.
10. The use of a composition according to any one of claims 1 to 9 in an automatic dishwashing process or laundry process.
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