Abstract: A method of improving the properties of urea granulates, more especially the caking tendency, the dust formation and the foaming tendency in aqueous media, by the addition of an additive to the urea, wherein the additive comprises a carboxylic acid compound with the general formula XY—(Z)—COOH, in which Z is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon with 1-25 carbon atoms and X and Y are selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom or a polar organic functional group, and in that the additive is added as a solution in a polar solvent to the urea granulates, which are subsequently dried.

Abstract: A composition and processes for the reduction of the tendency to baking, moisture absorption and/or dust formation of a granulate being susceptible therefore, such as fertilizers, minerals, ores, as well as to obtain stable coloring dispersions, density control of cokes and the reduction of foam in industrial processes, wherein synthetic polymers of fatty alkyl compounds, especially fatty acid esters and fatty-alcohols, fatty amines, fatty amides and fatty ethers, or distillation residues of the original monomers themselves, can be used, are disclosed. The distillation residues are preferably derived from the bottom fraction, obtained by distillation of the fraction being suitable as biodiesel during the biodiesel production process.