Liquid admixture composition

1. An aqueous composition comprising:

a copolymeric dispersing agent having a copolymer;

an antifoaming agent;

a surfactant; and

water,

wherein the copolymer of the copolymeric dispersing agent consists of two monomer components wherein component a 1 ) is an olefinie unsaturated monocarhoxylic acid comonomer or an ester or a salt thereof or an olefinic unsaturated sulfuric acid compound or a salt thereof, and component a 2 ) is a comonomer of the formula (I)

wherein R 1 is

and wherein in R 2 is H or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, R 3 is a non-substituted or substituted aryl group, and

R 4 is H or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 5 to 8 carbon atoms, a substituted aryl group having from 6 to 14 carbon atoms or a compound selected from the group

wherein R 5 and R 7 are independently an alkyl, aryl, aralkyl or alkaryl group and R 6 is an alkylidene, arylidene, aralkylidene or alkaryiidene group and p is 0, 1, 2 or 3, m and n are independently 2, 3, 4 or 5, x and y are independently an integer from 1 to 350, and z is 0 to 200.

2. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein the copolymeric dispersing agent is 10.0 to 60.0% by weight based on the total weight of aqueous composition; the amount of the antifoaming agent is 0.01 to 10.0% by weight based on the total weight of aqueous composition, the amount of the surfactant is 0.01 to 10.0% by weight based on the total weight of aqueous composition, and the remainder is water.

3. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein the amount of the copolymeric dispersing agent is 20.0 to 50.0% by weight, the amount of the antifoaming agent is 0.01 to 5.0% by weight, the amount of the surfactant is 0.01 to 5.0% by weight, and the rest is water, whereby any of the given amounts are based on the total weight of the aqueous composition.

4. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein the antifoaming agent and the surfactant are independently present in an amount of from 0.05 to 10.0% by weight related to the copolymer dispersing agent.

5. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein the copolymer of the copolymeric dispersing agent has a 1 ) a carbon-containing backbone to which are attached groups that function as calcium-sulfate compound-anchoring members by forming ionic bonds with calcium ions of the calcium sulfate compound, and a 2 ) oxyalkylene groups.

6. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein R 2 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

7. The aqueous composition according to claim 6 , wherein R 3 is phenyl.

8. The aqueous composition according to claim 5 , wherein comonomer a 1 ) comprises a member selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, crotonic acid, isocrotonic acid, maleic acid, fumaric acid, citraconic acid, itaconic acid, (meth)allylsulfonic acid and vinylsulfonic acid, or a salts, alkyl esters or hydroxyalkyl esters thereof, or a mixture thereof.

9. The aqueous composition according to claim 5 , wherein copolymeric dispersing agent comprises from 30 to 99 mol % of the comonomer component a 1 ) and from 70 to 1 mol of the ether component a 2 ).

10. The aqueous composition according to claim 5 , wherein the amount of the comonomer component a 1 ) is from 40 to 95 mol % and the amount of the comonomer component a 2 ) is from 60 to 5 mol %.

11. The aquegus composition according to claim 5 , wherein the comonomer component a 1 ) is an acrylic acid or a salt thereof and the ether component a 2 ) with p is 0 or 1 represents a vinyl or allyl group and additionally contains a polyether.

12. The aqueous composition according to claim 6 , wherein the dispersing agent a) comprises additional structural groups in copolymerized form.

13. The aqueous composition according to claim 12 , wherein the additional structural group is at least one of a styrene, acrylamide, or a hydrophobic compound.

14. The aqueous composition according to claim 13 , wherein the additional structural group is at least one member selected from the group consisting of an ester structural unit, a polypropylene oxide unit, a polypropylene oxide/polyethylene oxide unit, a polybuthylene oxide-polyoxyethylene unit and a polystyrene oxide-polyethylene oxide unit.

15. The aqueous composition according to claim 12 , wherein the additional structural group is contained in amounts up to 5 mol %.

16. The aqueous composition according to claim 12 , wherein the additional structural group is contained in amounts from 0.05 to 3.0 mol %.

17. The aqueous composition according to claim 12 , wherein the additional structural group is contained in amounts from 0.1 to 1.0 mol %.

18. The aqueous composition according to claim 6 , wherein formula (I) represents a vinyl or allyl group containing polyether.

19. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein the dispersing agent a) is provided as a powder.

20. The aqueous composition according to claim 19 , wherein the powder has been produced by spray drying.

21. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein the antifoaming agent is selected from the group consisting of a mineral oil, a vegetable oil, a silicon oil, a silicon containing emulsion, a fatty acid and a fatty acid ester, an organic modified polysiloxane, a borate ester, an alkoxylate, a polyoxialkylene copolymer, an acetylenic diol haying defoaming properties and a phosphoric ester having the formula P(O)(O—R 8 ) 3−x (O—R 9 ) x wherein P represents phosphorus, O represents oxygen and R 8 and R 9 are independently a C 2 -C 20 alkyl or an aryl group and x=0, 1, 2.

22. The aqueous composition according to claim 21 , wherein said antifoaming agent b) comprises at least one of tri-alkylphosphate, a polyoxypropylene copolymer or a glycerol alcoholate.

23. The cape composition according to claim 22 , wherein the antifoaming agent is triiso-butylphosphate.

24. The aqueous composition according to claim 22 , wherein said antifoaming agent comprises a mixture of a tri-alkylphosphate and a polyoxypropylene copolymer.

25. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein said surfactant is selected from the group consisting of a ethylene oxide/propylene oxide (EO/PO) block copolymer, a styrene/maleic acid copolymer, a fatty alcohol alkoxylate, an alcohol ethoxylate R 10 -(EO)—H wherein R 10 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 25 carbon atoms, an acetylenic diol, a monoalkylpoiyalkylene, an ethoxylated nonylphenol, an alkylsulfate, an alkylethersulfate, an alkylethersulfonate or an alkylethercarboxylate

26. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein said surfactant comprises an alcohol haying a polyalkylene group having a carbon chain length of from 2 to 20 carbon atoms.

27. The aqueous composition according to claim 26 , wherein said polyalkylene group has a carbon chain length of 3 to 12 carbon atoms.

28. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , wherein the antifoaming agent is in the aqueous composition in at least one of free form or is attached to the coplymeric dispersing agent.

29. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , formed by a process comprising the steps of combining the dispersing agent with the surfactant as a stabilizing agent in dilution water and adding the antifoaming agent to the aqueous solution containing of the stabilized combination of the coplymeric dispersing agent and the surfactant.

30. The aqueous composition according claim 1 , formed by a process comprising the steps of combining the antifoaming agent with the surfactant as a stabilizing agent in dilution water and adding the copolymeric dispersing agent to the aqueous solution containing of the combination of the antifoaming agent and the surfactant or alternatively, adding the aqueous solution containing the combination of the antifoaming agent and the surfactant to the copolymeric dispersing agent.

31. The aqueous composition according to claim 1 , formed by a process comprising the steps of adding the surfactant to an aqueous solution containing the copolymeric dispersing agent and the antifoaming agent.

32. The aqueous composition according to claim 29 , which is a physical blend.