Phosphate substitutes for alkaline machine detergents
AssigneeBudich International GmbH
InventorMeinrad BUDICH
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Abstract
The invention concerns a machine cleaner to clean kitchen appliances, comprising an alkaline system and a complexing component to bind metals or metallic cations, wherein the complexing component comprises a combination of at least one element from each of the following groups of complexing agents or complexing aids: methyl glycine diacetic acid or polyaspartic acid or salts thereof; polyepoxysuccinic acid or salts thereof; and gluconic acid or gluconates. The invention also concerns the use of a combination of different complexing agents or complexing aids in an alkaline machine cleaner as well as the use of a machine cleaner in accordance with the invention to clean kitchen appliances, in particular in the commercial kitchen sector.
Claims12
A machine cleaner to clean kitchen appliances, comprising an alkaline system and a complexing component to bind metals or metallic cations, wherein the complexing component comprises a combination of at least one element from each of the following groups of complexing agents or complexing aids:
- methyl glycine diacetic acid or polyaspartic acid or salts thereof,
- polyepoxysuccinic acid or salts thereof, and
- gluconic acid or gluconates.
Use of a combination of different complexing agents or complexing aids in an alkaline machine cleaner, wherein the combination comprises at least one element from each of the following groups of complexing agents or complexing aids:
- methyl glycine diacetic acid or polyaspartic acid or salts thereof,
- polyepoxysuccinic acid or salts thereof, and
- gluconic acid or gluconates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.