Corrosion-protection system for treating metal surfaces

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9890462-B2
Application number	US-201414492207-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2014
Priority date	Mar 23, 2012
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

The present invention relates to a corrosion-protection system suitable for producing aqueous metal treatment and metal processing fluids, particularly corrosion-protection, cleaning and cooling lubricant emulsions. The corrosion-protection system comprises carbonic and/or phosphonic acids, as well as at least one amine with at least one oxybis(alkylamine) unit. Such corrosion-protection systems effectively protect metal surfaces from corrosion and have a high level of water solubility, which is essential for formulating aqueous concentrates for metal treatment and metal processing fluids. The present invention further relates to an aqueous surface-active and corrosion-protecting preparation containing the corrosion protection system and an emulsifier system, as well as an oil-containing water-miscible emulsion concentrate, which supplies the ready-to-use corrosion-protection, cleaning and cooling lubricant emulsions by dilution with water.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A corrosion protection system for the manufacture of aqueous metal-treatment and metal-processing liquids, comprising
a) one or more acids selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acids, having a carbon chain and oxygen heteroatoms inserted into the carbon chain, that comprise between 6 and 26 atoms in the carbon-heteroatom chain, one or more aliphatic straight chain monophosphonic acids having at least 6 but no more than 12 carbon atoms and combinations thereof; and
b) at least one amine that comprises at least one oxybis(alkylamine) unit having tertiary amino groups, the alkyl chains of said unit being made up in each case of no more than 4 carbon atoms;
wherein the corrosion protection system has a molar ratio of total quantity of acid groups of component a) to oxybis(alkylamine) units of the at least one amine of component b) that is no greater than 5:1, but no less than 1:3.

2. The corrosion protection system according to claim 1 , wherein component b) comprises at least one amine of structural formula (1):

where m and n are natural integers in a range from 1 to 3; and
where
residues R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are selected mutually independently from branched or unbranched alkyl residues having no more than 8 carbon atoms and —((CH 2 ) x —O) y —R 5 , wherein x is a natural integer in the range from 1 to 3, y is a natural integer in the range from 1 to 6, and the residue R 5 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, or propyl.

3. The corrosion protection system according to claim 2 , wherein component b) comprises at least one amine of the structural formula (1) wherein the residues R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are selected mutually independently from branched or unbranched alkyl residues having no more than 8 carbon atoms, and in which the natural integers m and n are equal to 2.

4. The corrosion protection system according to claim 2 , wherein at least 50 wt. % of component b) is comprised of the at least one amine of structural formula (1), based on total proportion of amines of component b).

5. The corrosion protection system according to claim 4 , wherein at least 80 wt. % of component b) is comprised of the at least one amine of structural formula (1), based on total proportion of amines of component b).

6. The corrosion protection system according to claim 2 , wherein at least 50 wt. % of component b), based on total proportion of amines of component b), is comprised of the at least one amine of the structural formula (1) wherein the residues R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are selected mutually independently from branched or unbranched alkyl residues having no more than 8 carbon atoms, and in which the natural integers m and n are equal to 2.

7. The corrosion protection system according to claim 2 , wherein at least 80 wt. % of component b), based on total proportion of amines of component b), is comprised of the at least one amine of the structural formula (1) wherein the residues R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are selected mutually independently from branched or unbranched alkyl residues having no more than 8 carbon atoms, and in which the natural integers m and n are equal to 2.

8. The corrosion protection system according to claim 1 , further comprising one or more aliphatic branched or unbranched monocarboxylic acids.

9. The corrosion protection system according to claim 8 , wherein the aliphatic branched or unbranched monocarboxylic acids are selected from caprylic acid, ethylhexanoic acid, isononanoic acid, isodecanoic acid and mixtures thereof.

10. The corrosion protection system according to claim 1 , wherein the corrosion protection system has a molar ratio of total quantity of acid groups of component a) to oxybis(alkylamine) units of the at least one amine of component b) that is no greater than 2:1, but no less than 2:3.

11. A method of using a corrosion protection system comprising steps of:
a) providing a corrosion protection system according to claim 1
b) mixing the corrosion protection system with a liquid for metal treatment or metal processing selected from cleaning, corrosion-protection, and cooling-lubricant emulsions.

12. An aqueous surface-active and corrosion-protective preparation comprising, besides water:
i) corrosion protection system (I) in accordance with claim 1 ; wherein the corrosion protection system has a molar ratio of total quantity of acid groups of component a) to oxybis(alkylamine) units of the at least one amine of component b) that is no greater than 3:1, but no less than 1:3; and
ii) an emulsifier system (II) comprising:
a) component a) selected from the group consisting of ethoxylates/propoxylates of fatty alcohols, said fatty alcohols having 8 to 18 carbon atoms, having 2 to 6 ethylene oxide units and 4 to 8 propylene oxide units; and
b) component b) selected from the group consisting of fatty alcohols having 12 to 24 carbon atoms, fatty alcohol propoxylates having 12 to 24 carbon atoms in the alcohol and 1 to 3 propylene oxide units, distillation residuum of said fatty alcohols and mixtures thereof.

13. An oil-containing water-miscible emulsion concentrate comprising:
i) 2 to 20 wt. % of the corrosion protection system (I) in accordance with claim 1 , having a weight ratio of components a) to b) ranging from 1:0.2 to 0.3:1;
ii) 2 to 50 wt. % of an emulsifier system (II) comprising:
a. ethoxylates/propoxylates of fatty alcohols, said fatty alcohols having 8 to 18 carbon atoms, having 2 to 6 ethylene oxide units and 4 to 8 propylene oxide units; and
b. fatty alcohols having 12 to 24 carbon atoms, and/or fatty alcohol propoxylates having 12 to 24 carbon atoms in the alcohol and 0 to 3 propylene oxide units, and/or distillation residuum of said fatty alcohols;
wherein components c and d have a weight ratio from 1:0.3 to 0.3:1; and

iii) 5 to 50 wt. % of an oil component (III),
and optionally further adjuvants and active agents (IV), wherein amounts of I) to IV) add up to 60 to 95 wt. % of the concentrate, and any remaining weight proportion represents water.

14. The oil-containing water-miscible emulsion concentrate of claim 13 , wherein oil component (III) is selected from paraffinic mineral oil, naphthenic mineral oil, dialkyl ethers having 12 to 20 carbon atoms, and ester oils and combinations thereof.

15. An aqueous surface-active and corrosion-protective preparation comprising, besides water:
i) a corrosion protection system (I) comprising:
a) one or more acids selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acids, having a carboxyl group and a carbon chain with oxygen heteroatoms inserted into the carbon chain, that comprise between 6 and 26 atoms in the carbon-heteroatom chain; aliphatic straight chain monophosphonic acids having at least 6 but no more than 12 carbon atoms and combinations thereof; and
b) at least one amine that comprises at least one oxybis(alkylamine) unit having tertiary amino groups, the alkyl chains of said unit being made up in each case of no more than 4 carbon atoms;

wherein the corrosion protection system has a molar ratio of total quantity of acid groups of component a) to oxybis(alkylamine) units of the at least one amine of component b) that is no greater than 5:1, but no less than 1:3; and
ii) an emulsifier system (II) comprising:
c) ethoxylates/propoxylates of fatty alcohols, said fatty alcohols having 8 to 18 carbon atoms, having 2 to 6 ethylene oxide units and 4 to 8 propylene oxide units; and
d) one or more selected from the group consisting of fatty alcoho

Assignees

• Henkel Ag & Co Kgaa

Inventors

• Temme Andreas

Classifications

• C11D7/265

  Carboxylic acids or salts thereof · CPC title

• C10N2030/12

  Inhibition of corrosion, e.g. anti-rust agents or anti-corrosives · CPC title

• C10M2207/0406

  used as base material · CPC title

• C10M2215/042

  containing hydroxy groups; Alkoxylated derivatives thereof · CPC title

• C23G1/26

  using inhibitors · CPC title