Abstract: The invention relates to an agglomerate containing at least one of the following water-soluble or water-dispersible materials as a bonding base polymer: carboxylized and/or alkoxylized starch, cellulose ether and fully synthetic vinyl polymers and/or polyacrylates. The agglomerate is characterized in that it contains a blasting agent which produces a high swelling pressure, but, advantageously, does not gel. The agglomerate can have a regular geometric form or not. Its weight should be between 0.5 and 500 g. The agglomerate is used in particular in the production of lump-free paste.

Abstract: A process for the production of pourable and free-flowing granular detergent composition components containing an active substance at least partly liquid at room temperature and a fine-particle carrier material for that active substance wherein the carrier material has a mean particle size of 3 &mgr;m to 0.5 mm by dropping the carrier material onto a rotating disk where it is radially accelerated by vanes arranged on the upper surface of said disk, and applying the liquid active substance to a stream of the carrier particles through an annular die formed by the outer edge of the rotating disk and a stator surrounding the disk.

Abstract: A tablet composition containing 2% to 100% by weight of amorphous crystalline or partly crystalline layer-form sodium silicates corresponding to the formula Na.sub.2 Si.sub.x --O.sub.2x+1.yH.sub.2 O wherein x is a number of 1.9 to 4 and y is a number of 0 to 20, with the proviso that the tablet composition only contains water in a quantity such that the maximum theoretical water-binding capacity of the components of the composition is not exceeded.

Abstract: The invention relates to sodium silicates with a modulus (molar ratio of SiO.sub.2 to Na.sub.2 O) of 1.3 to 4 in the form of a fine-particle solid in shard-like form or compounds containing these silicates with the ability to reduce incrustation when used as a builder component in detergents. These useful materials are distinguished in particular by the fact that they are in the form of an X-ray amorphous overdried material (primary drying product) with water contents below 15% by weight and apparent densities of the non-compacted solid granules of 500 g/l or lower which has been produced by drying of a water-containing sodium silicate preparation using a hot gas phase as the drying medium and/or by heating of a spray-dried sodium silicate with water contents of at least 15% by weight at temperatures of 120.degree.to 450.degree. C., if necessary accompanied or followed by the application of forces to produce the shard-like structure.

Abstract: Scouring powders containing abrasives and an alkyl glycoside having a degree of oligomerization of from 1.2. to 1.4. These scouring powders are low foaming in the presence of water.

Abstract: A process for the production of pourable foam inhibitor granules comprising forming an aqueous solution of a mixture of an alkali metal carboxymethyl cellulose and a nonionic cellulose ether and maintaining the aqueous solution at slightly elevated temperature until the viscosity is at least 60% of the viscosity obtained by complete swelling of the solution, adding a water insoluble foam inhibitor and a phosphate-free mixture of at least two of an alkali metal silicate, an alkali metal carbonate and an alkali metal sulfate into the aqueous mixture which is then spray-dried to form the pourable foam inhibitor granules.The invention also relates to the pourable foam inhibitor granules produced by the above process.

Abstract: A phosphate-reduced, granular free-flowing detergent containing (a) from 5 to 40% nonionic surfactant, (b) from 3 to 20% anionic surfactant, (c) from 15 to 50% zeolite, (d) from 0.5 to 15% homopolymeric or copolymeric carboxylic acid or alkali metal salts thereof and (e) from 10 to 72.5% detergent constituents which are stable under spray-drying conditions, with the proviso that the detergent comprises a mixture of two powder components (A) and (B) in a weight ratio of from 1:5 to 3:1, component (A) containing from 50 to 100% of constituent (a), from 80 to 100% of constituent (c) and from 50 to 100% of constituent (d). Component (A) has an average particle size of from 0.4 to 0.8 mm and a powder density of from 500 to 800 g/l. Component (B) contains from 80 to 100% of constituent (b) and 100% of constituent (e), has a powder density of from 300 to 500 g/l and differs in its particle size distribution by at most 50% from the particle size distribution of component (A).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a granular adsorbent having a high uptake capacity for liquid ingredients of detergents and cleaning preparations, comprising(a) 60 to 80 wt. % of a cation-exchanging, synthetic aluminosilicate selected from the group consisting of zeolite A, zeolite X and mixtures thereof, said aluminosilicate containing water of hydration;(b) 0.05 to 5 wt. % of sodium silicate having a Na.sub.2 O to SiO.sub.2 mol ratio within the range of about 1:2 to about 1:3.5;(c) 3 to 15 wt. % of a homopolymer of a monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and maleic acid; or a copolymer made by polymerizing a mixture containing at least one of said monomers, and(d) 8 to 18 wt. % of water removable at a temperature of about 145.degree. C.The adsorbent may optionally include up to 5 wt. % of a nonionic surfactant. The adsorbent has an average particle size within the range of about 0.2 to 1.2 mm, and a bulk density in the range of about 400 to 700 g/l.

Abstract: A detergent having improved detergency particularly with respect to greasy soil comprising (a) a mixture of water-insoluble nonionic surfactants, (b) a water-soluble anionic surfactant of the sulfonate or sulfate type, (c) a detergent builder and (d) other standard detergent ingredients. The nonionic surfactant comprises a mixture of (i) an ethoxylated C.sub.16 -C.sub.18 alcohol with 4 to 6 glycolether groups, (ii) an ethoxylated C.sub.10 -C.sub.14 alcohol with 4 to 6 glycolether groups and (iii) an ethoxylated C.sub.10 -C.sub.18 alkylamine with 1 to 3 glycolether groups. The nonionic surfactant is adsorbed on a granular carrier material which is soluble or dispersible in water. The weight ratio of constituent (i) to constituent (ii) to constituent (iii) is within the range of 1:2(2-6):(0.8-2.5) and the weight ratio of the nonionic surfactant to the anionic surfactant is within the range of 4:1 to 4:3.

Abstract: A free-flowing washing powder of low specific gravity (powder density 300 to 500 g/l) and containing large quantities of nonionic surfactants is produced by spray-drying an aqueous suspension containing on the spray-dried basis (A) from 15 to 30% by weight of nonionic tensides, (B) from 8 to 18% by weight of sodium silicate, (C) from 25 to 55% by weight of finely crystalline zeolite, (D) from 0 to 25% by weight of sodium tripolyphosphate, (E) no more than 3% by weight of soap and synthetic anionic tensides, and from 35 to 50% by weight of water. The suspension, which has a temperature of from 75.degree. C. to 90.degree. C., is sprayed through nozzles into a drying zone under a pressure of from 35 to 100 bar. The drying gas flowing in countercurrent has an entry temperature of from 160.degree. C. to 240.degree. C. and an exit temperature of from 80.degree. C. to 95.degree. C. The spray-dried product contains from 9 to 16% by weight of water which is removable at a drying temperature of 130.degree. C.

Abstract: Foam regulators particularly suitable for use in surfactant-containing compositions, comprising a mixture of paraffin hydrocarbons and hydrophobic silica, preferably admixed with a carrier.

Abstract: This invention relates to a granular, free-flowing detergent component which dissolves rapidly in water and which has a powder density of from 550 to 900 g/l, consisting of synthetic, essentially nonionic surfactants, inorganic supports, other organic washing aids, and water bound by adsorption and in hydrate form. The detergent component is produced by spray-drying, and more than 50% by weight thereof consists of droplet-like to rodlet-like particles having an average diameter of from about 0.02 to 1.5 mm, an average length of from about 0.1 to 5 mm, and a ratio of average diameter to average length of from about 1:1.2 to 1:10, optionally coated with a finely divided water-soluble or water-dispersible solid material as a fluidity improving agent.

Abstract: A spray-dried, high-sudsing detergent granulate is disclosed having a bulk density of not more than 450 gm/l and a high content of anionic tensides, which is characterized by a granule structure resistant to mechanical and climatic influences. The detergent granulate contains a tenside component of alkylbenzene sulfonates and, possibly, fatty alcohol sulfates, a builder component of sodium tripolyphosphate, finely crystalline sodium aluminosilicate (zeolite NaA) and sodium silicate. For the preparation, an aqueous slurry is sprayed in spray-drying equipment. The obtained spray-dried product has a porous granule structure with a mean granule size of 0.4 to 0.8 mm. The bulk density is preferably in the range from 250 to 400 gm/l.

Abstract: C.sub.8 -C.sub.40 Alcohols, or C.sub.8 -.sub.C 40 alcohol containing one or more hydroxyl groups and onto which up to 20 moles of ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide can be added per mole of alcohol, when added to aqueous industrial anionic surfactant concentrates, particularly concentrates of .alpha.-sulfofatty acid esters containing at least 50% by weight of the sodium salt of .alpha.-sulfofatty acid ester, significantly improve the rheological behavior thereof. The alcohols are added in quantities of from about 1 to about 15% by weight, based on the quantity of surfactant, whereupon the viscosity of the surfactant concentrate becomes at most 10,000 mPas at 70.degree. C.

Abstract: Process for reducing the viscosity of aqueous concentrates of anionic surfactants by adding thereto a small quantity of a compound containing polyglycol ether groups; and the aqueous concentrates prepared thereby.