Method of treating paper forming wire surface

1. A method for inhibiting resinous and sticky substances from filling or forming deposits on or within papermaking forming wire, by applying to said wire an effective inhibiting amount of composition comprising at least one cationic agent, wherein the at least one cationic agent is selected from the group consisting of

(a) cationic polyureas, wherein the cationic polyureas comprises bis(2-chloroethyl) ether-1,3-bis(3-(dimethylamino)propyl)urea copolymer and has a molecular weight in the range of from 1000 to 100,000,

(b) hydrophobically modified cationic polymers,

(c) alkylammonium or/and alkylimidazolium salts, and

optionally, further comprising at least a non-ionic amphiphilic polymer; and wherein the composition is sprayed on paper forming wire through at least an aqueous low and/or high pressure cleaning or lubrication shower on the machine side and/or sheet side of the wire at a concentration in said shower water from about 1 ppm to 10000 ppm and at a rate of about 0.01 to about 0.20 gallon shower water per minute per inch width of wire.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the cationic polyureas have a general structure:

[—NR 3 —CO—NR 3 -A-] f

wherein R 3 is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, or substituted heteroaryl, and A is cationic repeating unit possessing one or more cationic charge when measure at a pH of 4 to 10.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the hydrophobically modified cationic polymers are hydrophobically modified poly(aminoamide)s comprising randomly distributed units of formula (I):

wherein W is a moiety selected from the group consisting of moieties of formulae (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), and (VIII):

wherein R 1 and R 2 , identically or differently, are a straight chain or branched aliphatic or olefinic or aromatic group having up to 22 carbon atoms and up to 4 double bonds, preferably having between 4 and 16 carbon atom; Y is a straight chain or branched aliphatic or olefinic group having up to 10 carbon atoms and up to 2 double bonds, and p and m are integers in the range of from 2 to 10; the number of randomly distributed units of formula (I) in the hydrophobically modified cationic polymer is in the range of from 5 to 10,000.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the alkylammonium salts have the general formula

wherein each R4 is independently selected from the group consisting of polyethylene oxide groups, polypropylene oxide groups, alkyl groups having between about 1 and 22 carbon atoms, aryl groups, aralkyl groups, and 2-hydroxyethyl, at least one of said R4 groups being an alkyl group having at least about 8 carbon atoms and preferably an n-alkyl group having between about 12 and 16 carbon atoms; and wherein x − is an anion.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the alkylimidazolium salts have the general formula

wherein R 5 is a C15-C21 acyclic aliphatic group, R 6 and R 7 are, identically or separately, a hydrogen, an alkyl or a hydroxyalkyl group and x − is an anion.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the optional non-ionic amphiphilic polymer is selected from the group consisting of (i) hydrophobically modified poly[ethylene glycols], (ii) hydrophobically modified cellulose ethers, (iii) copolymers of vinyl alcohol and vinyl alkonate, (iv) polyoxyalkylene block copolymers; and (v) hydrophilically modified polydimethylsiloxanes.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein the hydrophobically modified poly[ethylene glycol] composition comprising the formula:

(R 8 —) c —O—[—CH 2 —CH 2 —O—] n —(—R 9 ) d —Z

wherein R 8 and R 9 are a hydrophobic moiety, or blocks of hydrophobic moieties of c and d repeat units, covalently bonded to poly[ethylene glycol]; n is 2 to 1200; cis 1 to 10; d is 0 to 10; Z is only present when d=0 and is hydrogen; the sum of c and d is greater than or equal to 2.

8. The method according to claim 6 wherein the vinyl alcohol polymer containing hydrophobic groups is derived from polyvinyl acetate which has been 70-99% hydrolyzed and has the weight average molecular weight from about 2,000 to 200,000.

9. The method according to claim 6 wherein the hydrophobically modified cellulose ether is hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose (HMHEC) which has hydrophobes between 10 and 24 carbon atoms in length.

10. The method according to claim 6 wherein the hydrophobically modified cellulose ether is hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose (HMHEC) which has a degree of polymerization of about 75 to 1800 prior to hydrophobic modification.

11. The method according to claim 6 wherein the polyoxyalkylene block copolymers comprise repeating units ethylene oxide (EO) and propylene oxide (PO) and are triblock copolymers having the structure EO-PO-EO or PO-EO-PO, wherein the EO/PO mole ratio ranges from about 90:10 to 10:90 and the weight average molecular weight ranges from about 1000 to 20000.

12. The method according to claim 6 wherein the hydrophilically modified polydimethylsiloxanes are the polydimethylsiloxanes (PDMS) grafted with ethylene oxide (EO) and propylene oxide (PO) polyester, wherein the EO/PO mole ratio is in the range between 10/90 and 90/10 and the molecular weight in the range from about 2000 to 100,000.

13. The method according to claim 1 wherein the composition has a ratio of cationic agents to non-ionic amphiphilic polymers in the range of from 5:95 to 95:5 by dry weight.