Contamination inhibitor composition

Abstract

To provide a contamination inhibitor composition capable of effectively inhibiting pitch contamination on a dry part. The present invention is a contamination inhibitor composition 1 which is imparted to a dry part D of a paper-making machine, and comprising a film forming agent and a gelling agent, wherein the film forming agent is an emulsion consisting of water, a modified silicone and an emulsifier and the gelling agent is a compound represented by the following formula (1): ##STR00001##
[in the formula (1), R.sup.1 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group or a hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 each independently represents a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group, R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group, m is an integer of 1 to 5, and n is an integer of 0 to 5.].

Claims

1. A contamination inhibitor composition which is imparted to a dry part of a paper-making machine, and comprising a film forming agent and a gelling agent, wherein said film forming agent is an emulsion consisting of water, a modified silicone and an emulsifier, said gelling agent is at least one selected from the group consisting of gluconic acid, malic acid and citric acid, and the emulsifier is at least one selected from the group consisting of a nonionic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, a cationic surfactant and an ampholytic surfactant, wherein said modified silicone is an amino-modified silicone having an amino group, a neutralizing agent for neutralizing the amino-modified silicone is further contained, and the neutralizing agent is acetic acid or lactic acid.

2. The contamination inhibitor composition according to claim 1, wherein said gelling agent is gluconic acid.

3. The contamination inhibitor composition according to claim 1, wherein a blending ratio is a ratio of a mass of the gelling agent to a mass of the modified silicone, and a range of said blending ratio is 0.01 to 2.

4. A contamination inhibitor composition which is imparted to a dry part of a paper-making machine, and comprising a film forming agent and a gelling agent, wherein said film forming agent is an emulsion consisting of water, a modified silicone and an emulsifier, said gelling agent is at least one selected from the group consisting of gluconic acid, malic acid and citric acid, and the emulsifier is at least one selected from the group consisting of a nonionic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, a cationic surfactant and an ampholytic surfactant, wherein said modified silicone is an amino-modified silicone having an amino group, a neutralizing agent for neutralizing the amino-modified silicone is further contained, and the neutralizing agent is acetic acid or lactic acid, wherein a blending ratio is a ratio of a mass of the gelling agent to a mass of the amino-modified silicone, and a range of said blending ratio is 0.01 to 0.02.

5. The contamination inhibitor composition according to claim 4, wherein said gelling agent is gluconic acid.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

(1) FIGS. 1(a) to (e) are explanation views for illustrating the action of the contamination inhibitor composition according to the present invention.

(2) FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing a dry part using the contamination inhibitor composition according to the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

(3) Suitable embodiments of the present invention will be illustrated in detail below while referring to drawings if necessary. Positional relations such as up and down and left and right are based on positional relations shown in drawings unless otherwise stated. The dimension ratio of drawings is not limited to the ratio shown.

(4) The contamination inhibitor composition according to the present invention can be imparted to a dry part of a paper-making machine to inhibit pitch contamination of the dry part.

(5) Such a dry part includes a cylinder, a canvas, a canvas roll, a calender roll, a breaker stack roll and the like.

(6) The contamination inhibitor composition comprises a film forming agent and a gelling agent.

(7) The film forming agent is an emulsion consisting of water, a modified silicone and an emulsifier. That is, the film forming agent is obtained by mixing a modified silicone and water and emulsifying the mixture with an emulsifier.

(8) Here, the modified silicone includes an amino-modified silicone, an epoxy-modified silicone, a polyether-modified silicone, an alkyl-modified silicone, a carboxyl-modified silicone, an epoxy.polyether-modified silicone and the like. These may be used each singly or some of them may be mixed.

(9) Of them, the modified silicone is more preferably an amino-modified silicone from the standpoint of general versatility.

(10) When the modified silicone is an amino-modified silicone, it is preferable that the contamination inhibitor composition further contains a neutralizing agent for neutralizing the amino-modified silicone since the contamination inhibitor composition is basic.

(11) In this case, polarity of the amino-modified silicone itself can be enhanced since the amino-modified silicone becomes a neutralized salt. By this, the composition is gelled infallibly by the gelling agent without separation of the amino-modified silicone from water.

(12) Here, the neutralizing agent is not particularly restricted, and includes acetic acid, malic acid, citric acid, lactic acid and the like.

(13) Of them, acetic acid or lactic acid is preferable as the neutralizing agent from the standpoint of safety and general versatility.

(14) When the neutralizing agent is acetic acid or lactic acid, it is also possible to form an intermolecular hydrogen bond to a carboxyl group or a hydroxyl group in the gelling agent described later since acetic acid or lactic acid has a carboxyl group or a hydroxyl group in the molecule, therefore, gelling can be further promoted.

(15) In the film forming agent, the emulsifier is not particularly restricted, and known nonionic surfactants, anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, ampholytic surfactants and the like are used.

(16) Of them, nonionic surfactants are preferable as the emulsifier.

(17) The nonionic surfactant includes polyoxyethylene alkyl ether, polyoxyethylene alkyl thioether, polyoxyethylene fatty acid ester, polyoxyethylene sorbitan mono fatty acid ester, glycerin mono fatty acid ester and the like. These may be used each singly or some of them may be mixed.

(18) Of them, polyoxyethylene alkyl ether is preferable, and further, polyoxyethylene decyl ether, polyoxyethylene undecyl ether, polyoxyethylene cetyl ether or polyoxyethylene stearyl ether is more preferable as the nonionic surfactant, from the standpoint of emulsification stability of the modified silicone.

(19) In the contamination inhibitor composition, the gelling agent is a compound represented by the following formula (1).

(20) ##STR00003##

(21) The formula (1) has a structure in which the main chain is composed of carbons having a number of repetition of in and carbons having a number of repetition of n in which a hydrogen atom, a carboxyl group, R.sup.1 (group) and R.sup.3 (group) are bonded to the carbons having a number of repetition of m and a hydrogen atom and R.sup.2 (group) are bonded to the carbons having a number of repetition of n.

(22) Here, groups R.sup.1 are each independent. Namely, when a plurality of R.sup.1 are contained in the molecule, adjacent R.sup.1 may be the same or different.

(23) R.sup.1 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group or a hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.

(24) The substituent of the hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent represented by R.sup.1 is not particularly restricted, and includes, for example, a halogen group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an imino group, a nitro group, an azo group, an oxo group, a carboxyl group, a phenyl group and the like.

(25) It is preferable that R.sup.1 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group, of them.

(26) When R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, an intermolecular hydrogen bond between molecules of the gelling agent is not disturbed since a hydrogen atom does not cause steric hindrance.

(27) When R.sup.1 is a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group, itself forms an intermolecular hydrogen bond to a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group of the other molecule.

(28) It is preferable that at least one of R.sup.1 is a hydroxyl group. In this case, an intermolecular hydrogen bond is formed easily, thus, gelling can be promoted.

(29) In the formula (1), the number m of repetition of carbon atoms bonding to R.sup.1 is an integer of 1 to 5.

(30) When the number m of repetition is over 5, there is a detect that if R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, hydrophobicity increases, and resultantly, the preservation stability of the contamination inhibitor composition lowers.

(31) In the formula (1), groups R.sup.2 are each independent. Namely, when a plurality of R.sup.2 are contained in the molecule, adjacent R.sup.2 may be the same or different.

(32) R.sup.2 each independently represents a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group.

(33) R.sup.2 is preferably a hydroxyl group, of them. In this case, an intermolecular hydrogen bond can be formed easily, thus, gelling can be more promoted.

(34) In the formula (1), the number n of repetition of carbon atoms bonding to R.sup.2 is an integer of 0 to 5.

(35) When the number n of repetition is over 5, gelling becomes excessive, and resultantly, there is a possibility that uniform imparting to a dry part is impossible.

(36) When n is 0, the gelling agent is a compound as represented by the following formula (2). In the formula (2), R.sup.1, R.sup.3 and m have the same definition as R.sup.1, R.sup.3 and m in the formula (1).

(37) ##STR00004##

(38) In the formula (1), the number n of repetition is preferably an integer of 1 to 5.

(39) When the number n of repetition is an integer of 1 to 5, gelling can be promoted. That is, an intermolecular hydrogen bond is formed easily since the gelling agent surely has R.sup.2 as a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group, and resultantly, gelling is also promoted.

(40) In the formula (1), R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group.

(41) It is preferable that R.sup.3 represents a hydroxyl group or a carboxyl group, of them. In this case, an intermolecular hydrogen bond is formed more easily, thus, gelling can be more promoted.

(42) In the gelling agent, it is preferable that the number of a hydroxyl group is larger than the number of a carboxyl group. In this case, acidity is not enhanced and the gelling agent easily forms an intermolecular hydrogen bond, thus, gelling can be still more promoted.

(43) Specifically, the number of a hydroxyl group is preferably 2 times or more, more preferably 2 to 5 times of the number of a carboxyl group. When over 5 times, an improvement in the effect is hard to be recognized.

(44) Specific examples of the gelling agent include, for example, organic acids such as gluconic acid, malic acid, citric acid, succinic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, valeric acid, caproic acid and the like. These may be used each singly or some of them may be mixed.

(45) Of them, at least one selected from the group consisting of gluconic acid, malic acid and citric acid is preferable and gluconic acid is further preferable, as the gelling agent. In this case, the contamination inhibitor composition can be gelled infallibly. Further, the contamination inhibitor composition is also excellent in preservation stability.

(46) In the contamination inhibitor composition, the blending rate of the gelling agent with respective to 10% by mass of a modified silicone is preferably 0.1% by mass to 20% by mass, more preferably 0.1% by mass to 5% by mass.

(47) When the blending rate of the gelling agent with respective to 10% by mass of a modified silicone is less than 0.1% by mass, there is a defect that gelling is not recognized as sufficient and the amount of the contamination inhibitor composition to be re-transferred becomes smaller, as compared with the case in which the blending rate of the gelling agent is within the above-described range, while when the blending rate of the gelling agent with respective to 10% by mass of a modified silicone is over 20% by mass, the contamination inhibitor composition is gelled depending on preservation conditions in some cases and preservation stability is not recognized as excellent, as compared with the case in which the blending rate of the gelling agent is within the above-described range.

(48) In the contamination inhibitor composition, additive such as a chelating agent, an antiseptic agent, a dispersing agent, a viscosity modifier, a solid lubricant agent, a lubricant agent, a dusting inhibitor, a releasing agent, an adhesive agent, a surface correcting agent, a cleaning agent, a paper strength enhancing agent, a sizing agent, a yield improver, a water repellent agent, an oil repellent agent, an antislip agent, a softening agent and the like may be contained.

(49) In the production method of the contamination inhibitor composition according to the present embodiment, first, a modified silicone and an emulsifier are added to water, and the mixture is processed into an emulsion by known methods such as a method using a vacuum emulsification and stirring apparatus, and the like.

(50) Then, the gelling agent is added to the emulsion, and if necessary, additives are added, and these are again stirred and mixed, thus, the contamination inhibitor composition is obtained.

(51) For such stirring and mixing, a hand mixer, a homogenizer and the like are suitably used. Materials may be dispersed by a disperser such as a sand mill, a bead mill, a ball mill and the like.

(52) As described above, the contamination inhibitor composition is obtained.

(53) Next, the action of the contamination inhibitor composition will be illustrated using an example in which the contamination inhibitor composition according to the present invention is imparted to a cylinder as a dry part.

(54) FIGS. 1(a) to (e) are explanation views for illustrating the action of the contamination inhibitor composition according to the present invention.

(55) As shown in FIG. 1(a), a contamination inhibitor composition 1 is imparted to a cylinder 10.

(56) In this situation, the cylinder 10 has high temperature since the cylinder is a dry part for drying a wet paper W. For this reason, the imparted contamination inhibitor composition 1 is heated to high temperature (about 65 C. or higher) and a part of water vaporizes and the composition is concentrated. Also a dry part other than the cylinder 10 is heated to high temperature by friction due to travel of a wet paper.

(57) Next, as shown in FIG. 1(b), when the cylinder 10 travels (revolve) and the contamination inhibitor composition 1 comes into contact with the wet paper W having temperature (about 30 to 40 C.) lower than the cylinder 10, the side of the contamination inhibitor composition 1 in contact with the wet paper W is cooled and gelled, to give a gelled product 1a.

(58) Then, as shown in FIG. 1(c), a part of the gelled product 1a composed of the contamination inhibitor composition 1 transfers to the wet paper W.

(59) Since the contamination inhibitor composition 1 is the gelled product 1a, the composition remains on the surface of the wet paper W, and penetration into the inside thereof is inhibited.

(60) On the cylinder 10, pitch contamination is inhibited, since the remaining contamination inhibitor composition 1 forms a film.

(61) Next, the wet paper W carrying the transferred gelled product 1a travels to the downstream side.

(62) As shown in FIG. 1(d), when the wet paper W carrying the transferred gelled product 1a comes into contact with a cylinder 11 at the downstream side, the gelled product 1a is heated by the cylinder 11 at the downstream side, and partially liquefied as shown in FIG. 1(e).

(63) By this, the contamination inhibitor composition 1 is re-transferred from the wet paper W to the cylinder 11 at the downstream side. Since the gelled product 1a is liquefied in sequence from the surface in contact with the cylinder 11 at the downstream side, all of it is not liquefied.

(64) By repetition of this operation, the contamination inhibitor composition 1 is re-transferred in turn to the dry part at the downstream side toward which the wet paper W is guided.

(65) With the contamination inhibitor composition 1 according to the present embodiment, as described above, the contamination inhibitor composition 1 transferred to the wet paper W is gelled to give a gelled product 1a, and flowability of the contamination inhibitor composition lowers, thus, penetration into the inside of the wet paper W can be inhibited.

(66) Further, for example, when the contamination inhibitor composition is imparted to a dry part at the most upstream side of travel of the wet paper W, a sufficient amount of the contamination inhibitor composition can be imparted not only to the dry part at the upstream side but also to the dry part at the downstream side.

(67) As a result, pitch contamination can be inhibited over a wide range of the dry part.

(68) Next, the use method of the contamination inhibitor composition at a dry part will be illustrated.

(69) FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing a dry part using the contamination inhibitor composition according to the present invention.

(70) As shown in FIG. 2, the contamination inhibitor composition is used on a dry part D.

(71) The dry part D has a wet paper W, a plurality of cylindrical cylinders D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7 and D8 (hereinafter, referred to as D1 to D8) for heating and drying the wet paper W, canvases K1, K2 for pressing the wet paper to the cylinders D1 to D8, canvas rolls KR for guiding the canvases K1, K2, breaker stack rolls B for mildly controlling the thickness and the smoothness of the dried wet paper W, and calender rolls C for controlling the thickness and the smoothness of the dried wet paper W.

(72) In the dry part D, the wet paper W is pressed and contacted to the surfaces of the revolving cylinders D1 to D8 by the canvases K1, K2. By this, the wet paper W adheres to the cylinders D1 to D8, and simultaneously, is heated and dried.

(73) Thereafter, the wet paper W is sandwiched between the breaker stack rolls B, then, the wet paper W is densified by the calender rolls C.

(74) In the use method of the contamination inhibitor composition, the contamination inhibitor composition is imparted to the cylinders D1 to D8 of the dry part D, the canvases K1, K2, the breaker stack rolls B and the calender rolls C, respectively, at the positions of arrows A, as shown in FIG. 2.

(75) The imparting method of the contamination inhibitor composition is not particularly restricted, and for example, a shower mode and an atomizing mode using a spray nozzle and the like are used.

(76) When the contamination inhibitor composition is imparted at the positions of arrows A, the apparatuses travel (revolve) to guide the wet paper, and the contamination inhibitor composition transfers to the wet paper as described above.

(77) The contamination inhibitor composition is conveyed by the wet paper, and re-transferred to a dry part at the downstream side toward which the wet paper is guided.

(78) By this, the contamination inhibitor composition is imparted totally to the apparatuses, and pitch contamination can be inhibited.

(79) In this condition, the spray amount of the contamination inhibitor composition is preferably 0.02 mg/m.sup.2 to 2.0 mg/m.sup.2 in terms of the non-volatile matter amount per passing area of the wet paper.

(80) When the spray amount is less than 0.02 mg/m.sup.2, the contamination inhibitor composition does not adhere sufficiently to the surfaces of the apparatuses and pitch contamination cannot be inhibited sufficiently in some cases, as compared with the case in which the spray amount is within the above-described range. In contrast, when the spray amount is over 2.0 mg/m.sup.2, the contamination inhibitor composition possibly causes contamination, as compared with the case in which the spray amount is within the above-described range.

(81) Suitable embodiments of the present invention have been explained above, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments.

(82) Though the contamination inhibitor composition according to the present embodiment is imparted to a dry par, it is also possible to apply the composition not only to a dry part but also to a press part and a reel part.

EXAMPLES

(83) The present invention will be illustrated more specifically based on examples and comparative example below, but the present invention is not limited to the following examples.

Example and Comparative Example

(84) Ten (10) parts by mass of an amino-modified silicone and a gelling agent having the blending rate shown in Table 1 below were mixed, to prepare samples A heated at 100 C.

(85) (Evaluation 1)

(86) A dried paper was placed on a stainless-steel plate heated at 40 C.

(87) Then, 10 L of the sample A was dropped from above the paper, and the time until the sample A penetrate into the paper was measured. Penetration or no-penetration was judged visually.

(88) The resultant results are shown in Table 1. Longer the time of penetration into the paper, the better the evaluation.

(89) TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Gelling Blending Penetration Modified silicone agent rate (%) time (s) Example 1 Amino-modified Gluconic 0.1 350 silicone acid Example 2 Amino-modified Gluconic 0.4 450 silicone acid Example 3 Amino-modified Gluconic 1 500 silicone acid Example 4 Amino-modified Gluconic 2 500 silicone acid Example 5 Amino-modified Gluconic 20 200 silicone acid Example 6 Amino-modified Gluconic 21 100 silicone acid Example 7 Amino-modified Citric acid 0.1 300 silicone Example 8 Amino-modified Citric acid 0.4 350 silicone Example 9 Amino-modified Citric acid 1 400 silicone Example 10 Amino-modified Citric acid 2 500 silicone Example 11 Amino-modified Citric acid 20 200 silicone Example 12 Amino-modified Citric acid 21 100 silicone Example 13 Amino-modified Malic acid 0.1 300 silicone Example 14 Amino-modified Malic acid 0.4 350 silicone Example 15 Amino-modified Malic acid 1 350 silicone Example 16 Amino-modified Malic acid 2 400 silicone Example 17 Amino-modified Malic acid 20 200 silicone Example 18 Amino-modified Malic acid 21 100 silicone Comparative Amino-modified None 0 90 Example 1 silicone
(Evaluation 2)

(90) To the respective samples A of Example 3 and Comparative Example 1 was added 90 parts by mass of water, to obtain samples B.

(91) The effect of the contamination inhibitor composition on an actual equipment was checked.

(92) Specifically, a paper-making machine was driven, and the samples B were imparted using a spray nozzle to the positions of arrows A on cylinders D1 to D8 shown in FIG. 2.

(93) Three hours after, extent of contamination of the cylinder D2, the cylinder D4 and the cylinder D6 was visually confirmed.

(94) The resultant results are shown in Table 2. In Table 2, denotes a condition of no pitch contamination and denotes a condition in which pitch contamination was recognized.

(95) TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Spray amount Cylinder Cylinder Cylinder (cc/min) D2 D4 D6 Example 3 6.9 10 Comparative 6.9 x x Example 1 10 x x

(96) According to the above-described results, it was found that the contamination inhibitor composition of the present invention containing a gelling agent is hard to penetrate into a paper as compared with conventional contamination inhibitor compositions containing no gelling agent.

(97) As a result of the test using an actual equipment, it was confirmed that the contamination inhibitor composition of the present invention can inhibit pitch contamination sufficiently also on a cylinder at the downstream side.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

(98) The contamination inhibitor composition of the present invention is imparted to a dry part in a paper-making machine. According to the contamination inhibitor composition of the present invention, yield in paper production can be extremely improved since pitch contamination on a dry part can be inhibited by the composition.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

(99) 1 . . . contamination inhibitor composition, 1a . . . gelled product, 10, 11 . . . cylinder, B . . . breaker stack roll, C . . . calender roll, D . . . dry part, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, D8 . . . cylinder, K1, K2 . . . canvas, KR . . . canvas roll, KR1 . . . out roll, W . . . wet paper