Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Process of utilizing an enzyme or micro-organism to destroy... – Destruction of hazardous or toxic waste
Patent
1981-10-12
1984-04-10
Lander, Ferris H.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Process of utilizing an enzyme or micro-organism to destroy...
Destruction of hazardous or toxic waste
426583, 106DIG1, 71DIG2, 71 11, C07G 1700
Patent
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044422156
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BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a method for preparing an element-rich composition for use as supplement in biological and physiological systems.
The supplying of minerals to human beings and animals is desirable because the intensive utilization of the cultivated areas results in the soil being depleted. The plants growing on this soil become gradually poor in trace elements which are taken up by the plants, but which are not added by the fertilization. This depletion of the soil may result in a lack of certain minerals in the plants cultivated in the soil, and thereby also through the food chain, in the animals consuming the plants and in the human beings who partly consume the plants directly and partly consume the animals.
Thus, the usual process for the preparation of mineral compositions containing a large number of mineral salts comprises reacting each mineral, e.g. in the form of an oxide, with a suitable acid and, after isolation of the individual mineral salts, mixing them to form the end composition. This process is very time-consuming and costly.
Fly ash from power stations using, as fuel, hard coal in pulverized form, contains, like the fuel from which it has been formed, a very rich spectrum of elements, including a very high number of trace elements. Furthermore, the spectrum of elements present in the fuel and, hence, although modified by the combustion at about 1000.degree. C., present in the fly ash, must necessarily reflect and be correlated with the spectrum of elements in the plants which, hundreds of millions of years before our time, constituted the main origin of the fossil fuel.
The terms "rich in elements" and "element-rich" are intended to designate a content of a large number of elements, and in particular, a broad spectrum of trace elements. The term "mineral" is intended to designate a material of inorganic origin containing a number of elements.
It is known that the supplying of elements and especially trace elements to human beings and animals may conveniently be performed in the form of mixtures of mineral compounds which are readily dissociable in the organism. It is especially suitable to administer compounds in which the anion is readily convertible in the organism, e.g. citrates, tartrates, ascorbates, lactates, acetates, propionates, gluconates, chlorides, sulphates, carbonates or phosphates.
It is known that many minerals are absorbed only as chelates or as complexes. Once chelated or complexed they may move into the intestinal cell. In the field of nutrition natural chelates and complexes such as chelates and complexes with amino acids and/or proteins and/or polypeptides play a major role in the mineral metabolism. The key to absorption is the substance with which the minerals are chelated or complexed.
According to a paper presented at International College of Applied Nutrition Los Angeles, Calif., Apr. 26, 1974, e.g. Rubin (Rubin, M., "Chelation and Iron Metabolism", Proc. AFMA Nutrition Council, November, 1967) has found that neither iron citrate nor iron fructose are as effective as some other iron chelates in placental diffusion of iron to the fetus.
According to the present invention, it is now possible to prepare an element-rich supplement composition in an extremely simple manner from very cheap waste products.
The present invention relates to a method for preparing an element-rich composition for use as supplement in biological and physiological systems, comprising subjecting fly ash as defined above to the influence of reactants capable of dissolving a plurality of the components of the fly ash into a biologically assimilable form selected from chelates, complexes and lactic acid salts and obtaining the biologically assimilable form of the fly ash, and an element-rich composition prepared according to this method, the use of said element-rich composition as source of elements for animal and human consumption and in processes in which one or more elements, including trace elements, are essential such as fermentation, and in biological processes.
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REFERENCES:
patent: 4313753 (1982-02-01), Segawa et al.
Boisen Henrik
Vognsen Anders M.
Lander Ferris H.
Vognsen Anders Marius
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