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US 12,716,042 B2Granted
Liquid enzyme composition with sulfite scavenger
AssigneeNovozymes A/S
InventorsAsbjoern Toftgaard Pedersen, Erik Hellstrand
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Abstract
The invention provides liquid enzyme compositions comprising a sulfite scavenger or a sulfite radical scavenger, useful in multi-compartment unit dose detergent products.
Claims21
A multi-compartment water-soluble unit dose detergent article, comprising:
- (a) a first compartment consisting of the liquid enzyme composition, and
- (b) a second compartment comprising a salt of sulfite, bisulfite or metabisulfite, and one or more detergent ingredients selected from surfactants, builders, dye transfer inhibiting agents, dispersants, anti-redeposition agents, suds suppressors, hueing dyes, aesthetic dyes, opacifiers, perfumes, structurants, hydrotropes, pigments and mixtures thereof;
- wherein the first and second compartments are adjacent, and each is surrounded by water-soluble film;
- wherein the liquid enzyme composition comprises:
- 0.01-25% w/w of active enzyme protein, and
- 0.05-30% w/w of a sulfite scavenger or 0.05-30% w/w of a sulfite radical scavenger;
- wherein the sulfite scavenger is a compound having a redox potential of 0.1-0.6V vs SHE, or is an aldehyde or ketone forming covalent bonds with sulfite, bisulfite or metabisulfite;
- and
- wherein the sulfite radical scavenger can react with the sulfur trioxide radical anion and undergo one electron reduction.
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