Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Klaus Adrian

Gunter Rosch

Thomas Martini

Siegfried Billenstein

Otto Smerz

Oxidative desizing agent consisting substantially of from 5 to 20 weight % of sodium or ammonium persulfate or potassium, sodium, ammonium or calcium peroxodiphosphate, from 20 to 50 weight % of one or more surfactants selected from the group of C.sub.8 -C.sub.20 -sec.-alkanesulfonates, C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 -alkylphenol-oxethylates having 6 to 12 ethylene oxide moieties, or C.sub.10 -C.sub.18 -fatty alcohol-oxethylates having 3 to 8 ethylene oxide moieties, and water in the amount remaining to give 100%. The advantage of this desizing agent resides in the fact that a substantially smaller amount of persulfate is required than for desizing with persulfate alone. Moreover, this desizing agent is liquid and thus easy to be dosed.

Liquid oxidative desizing agent and process for oxidative desizing

A process for the bleaching of cellulose in an alkaline peroxide bleaching bath in the presence of a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is C.sub.6 -C.sub.22 -alkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.22 -alkenyl or C.sub.6 -C.sub.22 -alkylaryl, n is a number of from 5 to 50, and X is ethylene or propylene; the ether chain (X-O).sub.n consisting entirely of ethoxy units or contains n/5 isopropoxy units at most.

Use of alkylpolyglycol-tert.-butyl ether as bleaching auxiliary and

Novel oxidative desizing agent consisting essentially of from 10 to 80, preferably 50 to 80% by weight of a surfactant and from 20 to 90, preferably 20 to 50% by weight of potassium persulfate. This desizing agent may optionally also contain from 5 to 25% by weight of a solubilizer with a simultaneous reduction of the surfactant and persulfate portions.

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Klaus Adrian