Production of detergent compositions

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A DETERGENT POWDER HAVING AN ORGANIC CONTENT OF FROM 50-80 PERCENT, SAID ORGANIC CONTENT CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A SYNTHETIC ANIONIC, NONIONIC ZWITTERNIONIC OR AMPHOTERIC DETERGENT ACTIVE COMPOUND WHICH IS PRESENT IN AN AMOUNT OF FROM ABOUT 10-50 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL COMPOSITION, AN ORGANIC DETERGENCY BUILDER WHICH IS PRESENT BY WEIGHT IN AN AMOUNT OF FROM ABOUT 27 TO ABOUT PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF THE TOTAL COMPOSITION SAID BUILDER BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF A-SULPHONATED FATTY ACIDS, HIGHER ALKANE DISULFONES AND SULFINATE-SULFONATES SOAPS, SODIUM POLYACRYLIC, SODIUM POLYMALALEATE AND SODIUM COPOLYMETHYLENE MALEATE, OXIDIZED POLYSACCHARIDES, SODIUM OXYDIACETTE, SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYLOXYSUCCINATE, SODIUM NITROLTRIACETATE, THE WATER SOLUBLE SALTS OF DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS OF THE FORMULA R.CH(COOH)(CH2)N.COOH WHEN N IS 0 OR1 AND R IS A PRIMARY OR SECONDARY STRAIGHT CHAIN ALKYL OR ALKENYL GROUP CONTAINING FROM 10 TO 20 CARBON ATOMS AND MIXTURES THEREOF, WHICH PROCESS COMPRISES FROMING AN AQUEOUS SLURRY OF DETERGENT INGREDIENTS CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 20 TO ABOUT 40 PERCENT BY WEIGHT OF THE SLURRY OF WATER IN A PRESSURIZED VESSEL AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM ABOUT 125*C TO 180*C AND SUBSEQUENTLY SPARY-DRYING THE SLURRY IN A STREAM OF GAS AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM ABOUT 100*C TO ABOUT 250*C.