Method of reducing corrosion using a warewashing composition

• US 8,021,493 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2008
• Issued: 09/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ecolab USA Incorporated (Ecolab, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Ecolab USA Incorporated (Ecolab, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bartelme, Michael J., Smith, Kim R., Olson, Keith E., Besse, Michael E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Douyon; Lorna M
• Application Number:
  US12/114,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20080274930A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• Field of Search: 134/25.2, 134/42, 510/221, 510/227
• US Class Current: 134/25.2
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2303/14 Maintenance of water treatment installations
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2303/22 Eliminating or preventing deposits, scale removal, scale prevention C02F1/042, C02F1/4602, C02F5/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 5/02 Softening water by precipitation of the hardness
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 5/06 using calcium compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 2111/14 Hard surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/044 Hydroxides or bases
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/046 Salts
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/10 Carbonates ; Bicarbonates
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 7/10 Salts
• CPC Class Codes: C23F 11/08 in other liquids
• CPC Class Codes: C23F 11/124 Carboxylic acids
• CPC Class Codes: C23F 11/18 using inorganic inhibitors
• CPC Class Codes: C23G 1/20 Other heavy metals
• CPC Class Codes: C23G 1/22 Light metals

Abstract

A warewashing composition includes a cleaning agent having a detersive amount of a surfactant, an alkaline source in an amount effective to provide a use composition having a pH of at least about 8 when the use composition is measured at a solids concentration of about 0.5 wt %, and a corrosion inhibitor in an amount sufficient for reducing corrosion of glass when the warewashing composition is combined with water of dilution at a dilution ratio of at least about 20:1 water of dilution to detergent composition o form a use composition. The corrosion inhibitor includes a salt of calcium, magnesium, or a mixture of calcium and magnesium. The salt has a water solubility of less than about 0.5 wt % in water at about 20° C. and atmospheric pressure so that the salt precipitates to form a protective layer on a substrate in contact with the use composition. A method of reducing corrosion using the warewashing composition is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method of reducing corrosion of an article during cleaning, the method comprising:

(a) diluting a warewashing composition with water at a dilution ratio of water to warewashing composition of at least about 20;

1 to form a use composition, wherein the warewashing composition comprises;

(i) a cleaning agent comprising a detersive amount of a surfactant;

(ii) an alkaline source in an amount effective to provide a use composition having a pH of at least about 8 when measured at a solids concentration of about 0.5 wt%; and

(iii) about 1 wt% to about 5 wt% of an unencapsulated corrosion inhibitor consisting of a mixture of a calcium salt and a magnesium salt, wherein the salt has a water solubility of less than about 0.5 wt% in water at about 20°

C. and atmospheric pressure;

and the corrosion inhibitor reduces the corrosion of glass; and

wherein the warewashing composition does not contain phosphorus-containing compounds; and

(b) contacting the article with the use composition in an automatic dishwashing machine, wherein the salt precipitates to form a protective layer on the article in contact with the use composition.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning agent constitutes about 0.05 wt% to about 15 wt% of the warewashing composition.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning agent comprises at least one of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, a cationic surfactant and a zwitterionic surfactant.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the warewashing composition further comprises about 1 wt% to about 60 wt% of a builder, wherein the builder comprises a non-phosphorous containing builder.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the alkaline source comprises at least one of an alkali metal carbonate and an alkali metal hydroxide.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the alkaline source comprises at least one of sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, sodium sesquicarbonate and potassium sesquicarbonate.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the alkaline source comprises at least one of sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the magnesium salt is selected from the group consisting of magnesium acetate, magnesium benzoate, magnesium bromide, magnesium bromate, magnesium chlorate, magnesium chloride, magnesium chromate, magnesium citrate, magnesium formate, magnesium hexafluorosilicate, magnesium iodate, magnesium iodide, magnesium lactate, magnesium molybdate, magnesium nitrate, magnesium perchlorate, magnesium phosphinate, magnesium salicylate, magnesium sulfate, magnesium sulfite, magnesium tartrate, magnesium thiosulfate, a hydrate thereof, and a mixture thereof.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the magnesium salt is selected from the group consisting of magnesium aluminate, magnesium borate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium carbonate hydroxide, magnesium ferrate, magnesium fluoride, magnesium hydroxide, magnesium mandelate, magnesium oxalate, magnesium oxide, magnesium phosphate, magnesium silicate, magnesium tungstate, a hydrate thereof, and a mixture thereof.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the calcium salt is selected from the group consisting of calcium acetate, calcium benzoate, calcium bromate, calcium bromide, calcium chlorate, calcium chloride, calcium chromate, calcium dihydrogen phosphate, calcium dithionate, calcium formate, calcium gluconate, calcium glycerophosphate, calcium hydrogen sulfide, calcium iodide, calcium lactate, calcium metasilicate, calcium nitrate, calcium nitrite, calcium pantothenate, calcium perchlorate, calcium permanganate, calcium phosphate, calcium phosphinate, calcium salicylate, calcium succinate, a hydrate thereof, and a mixture thereof.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the calcium salt is selected from the group consisting of calcium aluminate, calcium carbonate, calcium chromium (III) oxide, calcium citrate, calcium diphosphate, calcium disilicide, calcium fluoride, calcium hydrogen phosphate, calcium hydroxide, calcium iron oxide, calcium iodate, calcium laurate, calcium magnesium carbonate, calcium magnesium silicon oxide, calcium malonate, calcium metaborate, calcium metaphosphate, calcium molybdate, calcium oleate, calcium oxalate, calcium oxide, calcium palmitate, calcium phosphate, calcium silicate, calcium silicon oxide, calcium silicon titanium oxide, calcium stearate, calcium sulfate, calcium sulfide, calcium sulfite, calcium tartrate, calcium titanate, calcium tungstate, a hydrate thereof, and a mixture thereof.