FR2460710A1 - Absorbent prodn. contg. vegetable prod., pref. of coral family - used to absorb liquid and semi-liquid wastes - Google Patents

Abstract

The pref. prod. contains algae esp. Lithothamium Calcareum and/or Maerl. The prod. may be entirely Lithothamium Calcareum and/or Maerl and/or Coral or contain absorbing minerals, degreasing chemical salts or other additives such as insecticides, disinfectants, deodorants, perfumes etc. It is used to absorb liquid and semi-liquid waste such as oils, effluents, domestic animal excreta etc. It is superior to sawdust in that it is more absorbant, non-inflammable, has a high density and does not carry microorganisms. Also it has cleansing deodorising, anti-parasite, disinfectants, anti-skid, and insecticidal properties. It is non-toxic and biodegradable.

Description

There are currently several types of absorbent products intended for cleaning, hygiene and safety, and applied to floors, soiled surfaces, etc.

The best known of these are mineral salts, some synthetic complexes, and especially the common sawdust.

However, the present invention relates to a new ABSORBENT technical product giving remarkable results and drawn for this from the plant, organic and marine kingdom.

The best known of the absorbent products, sawdust, has many drawbacks, among which there is flammability,
the presence of germs and pathogenic microorganisms,
a large storage volume,
relatively ineffective absorption,
no interesting seeonjary function.

It is good to point out here on this subject - that French legislation is currently taking measures - to prohibit the use of sawdust in industry and in particular at the level of factories and food businesses.

The main reason mentioned is that the wood used, and very often imported and exotic wood, is used as a vehicle for parasites and pathogenic micro-organisms, which is communicated to the personnel handling sawdust directly, and to consumers. , that is to say to humans and animals, indirectly through food.

It therefore seems urgent to update replacement absorbent products with all the desirable health and safety qualities. This is an inherent part of the object of the present invention.

Indeed, the applicant has discovered that IO) The seaweed called LITHOTEANE (Lithothamnium Calcaréum, ethymologically: stone branch), which develops on the coasts of the United States of America and on its deep seabed and which proliferates in France in the Glenan Archipelago, islands nine miles south-east of Loctudy and whose names are Bananec, Drenet,
Loc'h, Penfret, Saint-Nicolas, etc ...

As well as: 20) the seaweed called Maerl, or Marl in old Nordic word, which means marl in English.

The Normans pronounce it Mahdi.

The MABRL actually designates the fossilized waste of Lithothamnium Calcaréum rejected near the coasts by staying in the bays in the form of small pieces of coral and mixed with sand and various debris of marine shells and it is found on the coasts of the United States, in particular on the Californian coast, as well as in Wandering in the bay of Saint-Brieue (coasts of the North) and near the coasts of Saint-Malo (Ile and Vilaine) and more generally throughout North Brittany.

And that 30) Corals, sort of polypiers with white, red, blue or black limestone support. In general, corals are understood to mean all coelenterates whose limestone polypiers form in certain seas, immense reefs which have contributed in previous times to establishing limestone deposits of considerable importance. The Pacific atolls, most of the lower soles of Micronesia and Polynesia, are of coral origin.

Coral is fished by means of kinds of dredges which are dragged to a shallow depth along the coasts of Sicily and North Africa.

Mention may be made, without limitation, of the following corals
Whip-shaped horned coral, Ellisella. Fire-shaped coral, Millepora alcizornis; Millepores are hydro-coral reefs that form a calcareous skeleton 20 cm high.

Coral-flower, Eusmilia fastigiata. Acropora coral. Echinopora coral. Porous coral, Convex porites. Star coral Montastrea annularis. Embossed coral, Favia fragum, Horned coral, Iciligorgia schrammi. Sarcophyton sprawling polyp coral. Soft coral, with skeleton of limestone rods, Dendronephthya. Hydrozosire with limestone skeleton: Stylaster elegans. Porous corals: Porites.

Horned coral of the genus Lophogorgia. Red horned coral with long polyps with soft coral tentacles. Coral Tubastrea. Green or brown calcareous algae, coral or / and coralliferous, or / and coralligenous.

Present, (Lithothamne, Maerl and certain corals) the particularity of being able to be used a) after miero-spraying, as absorbent powder.

b) after crushing and granulation, as absorbent granules.

c) after amalgamation in the form of paving stones, slabs, for example
or poured like we would do with concrete, like
absorbent support. (e.g. floors, bench tops and work surfaces
To absorb
I.- oils from machines, engines, cutting, etc ...

2.- waste, chemical and / or organic effluents from factories
manufacturing, processing, packaging, etc.

3.- industrial and water treatment plants, etc.

4.- water, chemical substances or not, toxic or not,
heavy petroleum, petroleum refined products,
gasoline, gas oil, kerosene, and all fuels
flammable and / or polluting liquids, etc.

5.- sewers and industrial and household discharges and collec
activities, at sea or in the river, etc ...

6.- cesspools, public and private toilets, etc.

7.- urine, excrement, manure pits, liquid manure and litter
from cash crops, laboratories (animal
ries), amenities (zoo and parks), and domestic.

8.- soil on cement floor, clay or on
gratings or gratings or dump reject mats
of the same farms as in 7. Those of slaughterhouses.

9.- by spreading on or as a raw material for litter
of domestic animals. (example: cat litter,
public urinals for dogs, etc.)
The first experiments gave extremely satisfactory results for all kinds of absorption of liquids and semi-liquid fluids. During these experiments the following qualities could be highlighted
A.- The product is absolutely ININFLAlSMABIM, which is a first-rate security element, especially if you have to store large quantities.

B.- The product is APARASITE, that is to say that it therefore does not contain pafsites, organisms and microorganisms of pathogenic nature, which is also of prime importance for the safeguard of public health .

C.- produced at a HIGH DENSITY: (+) I, 32; therefore storage volumes are reduced.

D.- The product is VERY ABSORBENT. It appears that this cleanliness is due to the porosity of the substances used. Thus, with regard to LITHOTHARG and MERL, the pores are of the order of I / IOth of a micron (I / IOth of a millimeter) and are themselves connected by twisting channels of 2 / I00 of a micron in diameter, WHAT GIVES A CONSIDERABLE ACTIVE SURFACE FOR A
CM2 OF ABSORBENT PRODUCT.

E.- your product is SANITIZING: thanks to its surface effect and its composition, in particular LITHOTHAMNE and MAERL, spread for example on organic waste, blocks excess nitrogen and thus limits or stops the release of ammonia gas .

This also prevents the formation of a harmful aerosol generally loaded with microbes, bacilli and viruses.

F.- The product is AIR FRESHENER / Unpleasant odors being combated at the base by surfactant absorption, stopping pathogenic microbial development and putrid fermentations.

G.- By development of its constituents the product, and more particularly the powder of this product, is INbECTICIDE
I) by contact: a certain number of crawling insects (insecticide action) such as fleas, bedbugs, lice, etc.

2) by ionization and phytoncid effect: removes a certain number of flying insects (insect repellent action), such as flies, mosquitoes, etc ...

H.- The product is ANTIPARASITE / in particular LITHOTHAMNE and MASSA by the magnesium which they contain, has an antiparasitic power (aphids). It is effective against certain cryptogamic parasites.

I.- your product is DISINFECTANT and ANTISEPTIC / in particular LI? HO? HAMNE and MAERL by their constituents. main, the
CaCO3 and MgO3 are responsible for an interesting bactericidal and bacteriostatic disinfecting action.

J.- the product is ANTI-DRAPANT: widespread on the ground, the product which is the subject of the present invention demonstrates non-slip qualities which are very interesting for safety.

K.- The product is BIO-DEGRADABIZ / in particular LITHOTHAMNE and
MAERL with a carbon solubility rate of at least 78%.

L.- The product is ATOXIC and INOTOUS TOTAIE. Even if swallowed by humans and animals, LITHOTHA i and MAEXL, by their constituents, could represent. excellent food condiments for animals.

This safety characteristic will make the use of the product which is the subject of the present invention prefer to substances of the cresyl type, removed from coal tar, and which cause skin and eye irritations, as well as irritations in the pathways. respiratory and this, for humans, for animals and especially. birds.

Obviously the results obtained for each of the properties listed above will have to be adjusted according to the origin of the product.

Thus, for corals, there are several commercial varieties: dead or rotten coral, composed of roots of the polyp covered with stony deposits or brozoans; the black coral, which, having fallen from the rock into the mud, has been modified by sulfurous emanations; living coral; joining pieces as they come from fishing; white coral, very rare, differing from the previous one only in color; each variety is also appreciated by its color (blood).

As for the difference existing between LITHOTHAMNE (fished alive) and MARRL (fossil), and although both are chlorophyllous algae from the family of corallines or corallinaceae, MAERD and yet more loaded with less noble materials than those of tITHOTHAMNE . This is how we find more sand, silica, various organic materials, shell debris.

The ABSORBENT product which is the subject of the present invention can be used in powder, grains, granules, blocks, amalgamated, poured, etc.

The proportion of ABSORBENT, Lithothamne and / or MARS, and / or Corals product in the absorbent product can vary within wide limits. The product could even be composed entirely of Lithothamne or / and Maerl or / and corals. your other components can be any, for example absorbent mineral salts, degreasing chemical salts, etc.

The product according to the invention can also be complexed with various synergizing substances. By way of nonlimiting examples, I will cite: natural and synthetic insecticides, chemical or natural bactericidal and bacteriostatic disinfectants, various plant powders, brown or green algae, natural or synthetic anti-parasitics, natural deodorants such as essential oils and their constituents, absolutes, concretes, alcoholates, etc.

and chemical flavors, etc.

The product can be made up of uniform or different particle sizes. I1 can be spread by all kinds of manual, mechanical or motorized means.

It can be spread - preventively spread.

- applied to waters, oils, products, soil, waste
and nuisances to be treated.

- compressed alone or amalgamated or bound with other substances
to form an absorbent support.

- complexed with other products to form a new body.

- complexed or not but who would have been subjected to a trans
training by chemical, physical, or physical treatment
chemical. (nonlimiting examples: granulometry,
micronization, amalgamation, oxidation, reduction, amorphy
sation, solubilization, hydration, anydratation, sulfation
calcination, etc.).

- complexed or not and generally as we could find it
for sale as fertilizer, soil conditioner and fertilizer
foliar.

- fully or partially reconstituted.

Claims (9)

Claims I. ABSORBENT product characterized by the fact that it contains a vegetable product and preferably in an organic state. 2. ABSORBENT product according to claim I, characterized in that the vegetable and preferably organic product which it contains is of marine origin and preferably of the family of corallines or coralli; naceous, to any other coral. 3. ABSORBENT product according to claims I and 2, characterized in that the plant, organic and marine product of the family of oorallineae or corallinaceae which it contains is a seaweed, preferably a chlorophyllous and calc-magnesian algae. 4. ABSORBENT product according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the plant, organic, marine, chlorophyllous and calcium-magnesian product which it contains comes from LITHO? HAMNIUM CALCAREUM and / or MERL algae. 5. ABSORBENT product according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the product which it contains and which comes from marine algae LITHOTHAXNIUM CALCA REUN and / or 1dAERL has an extremely porous structure which GIVES IT AN ACTIVE ABSORPTION SURFACE CONSIDERABLE BY CM2. 6. ABSORBENT product according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the marine algae LITHOTHAMNIUM CALCAREUM and / or MABRE constitute it partially or totally. 7. ABSORBENT product according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it contains algae LITHOTHA1KNIUM and / or IvIA3RL reduced to powder, -or crushed, or granulated, or compressed, or amalgamated or more of these presentations combined . 8. ABSORBENT product according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it contains LITHOTHAMNIUM and / or SU3RS algae having undergone before or after reduction to powder, crushing, granulometry or amalgamation a physical or chemical treatment, or an addition or an entrenchment intended to modify its natural characteristics. 9.- ABSORBENT product according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it contains marine algae Lithothamnium Calcareum and / or Maerl, synergized or not with insecticides, disinfectants, deodorants, etc.