Alkaline Hard Surface Cleaner

Add ingredients in order shown and dissolve completely between each addition. 

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First of a family of alkoxylated linear alcohol carboxylic acid adduct sodium salts. These are low-foaming surfactants with moderately high caustic solubility. Their excellent sequestering ability makes them unique among surfactants and truly multifunctional in character. Applications include laundry detergents, tub and tile cleaners, metal cleaners and alkaline hard surface cleaners. These surfactants can eliminate or minimize the need for builders in a formulation. 

Meat Packaging Plant Cleaner Concentrate An Alkaline High Foaming Hypochlorite Hard Surface Cleaner with Improved Salt Tolerance... 

All-Purpoee Household Spray Cleaner Ready to Use Alkaline Hard Surface Spray Cleaner... 

Hard-Surface Cleaner Concentrate Alkaline All-Purpose Cleaner Concentrate... 

Non-Phosphate Household Hard-Surface Cleaner All-Purpose Alkaline Cleaner for Sponge or Spray Application... 

Charge the water and dissolve the builder salts under agitation. When dissolved, charge the remaining ingredients. Continue mixing for 9t least 15 minutes. NOTE This alkaline aluminum cleaner has shown excellent cleaning properties without chemical attack of the metal. This formulation may be cut 1 1 with water to prepare a mild hard-surface cleaner. 

A wide variety of snrfactants including anionic and nonionic are widely used as shown in Table 10.45. Bnilder salts, snch as phosphates, EDTA-Na4, soda ash, and citrates, are also used. Certain special ingredients snch as ammonia or pine oil are product specific and are widely nsed. Alkaline sonrces are added to the formnlations, and they are available from caustic alkali, alkanolamines, silicates, and phosphates. Many hard surface cleaners contain some solvents typically they are alcohol, glycol ethers, or abrasive materials are preferable. Calcium carbonate, laponite clay, silica (Si02), alnmina (Al Oj), and titania (Ti02) are widely used as abrasive agents. 

Importantly, stability and performance at acidic and alkaline pH extremes are a signature characteristic of these surfactants. Thus, for example, commercial amphoterics such as dihydroxyethyl alkyl glycinate are considered to be excellent thickeners for strongly alkaline oven as well as acid toilet bowl cleaners. Amine oxides enjoy similar properties. Resistance to both acids and bases make them suitable for use in products such as hypochlorite and phosphoric acid hard surface cleaners, hair dyes, corrosion inhibitors, and printing inks [4]. 

Likewise, thickened aqueous hypochlorite compositions rely on these surfactants to accomplish the same purpose at alkaline pH levels of 11 or higher [47]. Desired viscosity for such formulas may range from 150 to 3000 cP. This would not only permit easy dispensing, but provides good coating action necessary for cleaning toilet bowls, bathroom tiles, and shower walls [48]. Effective viscosity control is also necessary to suspend abrasives found in scouring cleansers. Finally, the choice of the particular amphoteric surfactant is an important factor in the preparation of low solvent hard surface cleaners [49-50]. 

Antifoam compounds for use in detergents can be found in many types of formulated products including dishwashing detergents and rinse aids, home laundry formulations, home laundry softeners, window cleaners, alkaline metal degreasers, hard-surface cleaners, acid cleaning of metals, bottle-cleaning formulations, and many others. 

Detergent base developed to solubilize high alkaline salt content floor cleaners and liquid hard surface cleaners. 

The members of this series are disulfonated alkylaryls, free acid or sodium salt. They demonstrate outstanding compatibility with caustic, acids, hypochlorite and various electrolytes. All are water soluble. They are used in alkaline and acid cleaners, liquid autodlsh products and various hard surface cleaners. They are also used for acid dye leveling and for emulsion polymerization. 

One of the most diverse consumer and industrial product categories is hard-surface cleaning. These products can contain from <1% surfactant, as found in glass cleaners, to > 70% surfactants, as found in some concentrated industrial cleaners. They can be highly acidic toilet bowl cleaners or highly alkaline floor wax strippers. Unlike dishwash and laundry products, surfactants may not be the majority of the composition. They are certainly key ingredients. While some work has been published on the use of SMEs in hard-surface cleaners, no references on use of sulfonated fatty acids in hard surface were found. 

Combining the SME performance data with the previously mentioned hydrotropic evaluations suggests they may be good choices as hydrotropes in hard-surface cleaners. The highly acidic and alkaline formulations will need to be avoided due to SME s tendency to hydrolyze in extreme conditions. Formulations that contain high amounts of surfactant where high foam is desirable are also good candidate formulations for SMEs. 

Uses Emulsifier, detergent, wetting agent, solubilizer for laundry prods., all purpose cleaners, textiles, hard surface cleaners, paints, pesticides, l l cleaners Features Compat. with anionic, amphoteric, cationic surfactants available in Kosher grade stable in aq. acidic and alkaline sol ns Regulatory FDA 21 CFR 180.1001 (c)(e), 182.99 Europe EINECS Canada DSL ... 

Uses Surfactant for aq. industrial and institulional degreasing and cleaning, hard surface cleaners including vehicles, engines Features Efficient as a degreaser under strong alkaline conditions Properties Liq. water-disp. R.T. 78% act. 

Uses Detergent, hydrotrope, lubricant used in low-foam aq. chain lubricants, mild acid cleaners, high electrolyte cleaners, high temp, pressure spray deaners, allpurpose cleaners, synthetic coolants, aq. cutting fluids, metal and hard surface cleaners, and mech. dishwashing solubilizer for nonlonics In high alkaline cleaners... 

Uses Vise, builder, detergent, surfactant in hard surface cleaners, wax strippers, degreasers, alkaline cleaners Features Rust inhibiting properties Properties Liq. acid value (typ.) 15 Mackamide 222 [McIntyre]... 

Uses Detergent for hard surface cleaners, laundry detergent liq., misc. cleaners Features Stable in strong acid, neutral and strong alkaline sol ns exc. compat. with anionic, nonionic, cationic surfactants... 

Uses Wetting agent, foam builder, detergent, and surfactant for carpet steam cleaners, tank soak compds., high alkaline and acid cleaners, rinse aids, metal cleaners, rust removers and hard surface cleaners Reguletory SARA 311/312 Immediate Hazard DSL listed Properties Cl. amber liq. si. acrid odor easily sol. in hot water, methanol, acetone sol. in cold water sp. gr. 1.20 dens. 1.2 g/enf b.p. 100 C pH 7.5 -10.0 (5% aq.) 50% act. 

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