GB2362880A

GB2362880A - Method for the iodination of water and beverages

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Publication number: GB2362880A
Application number: GB0117309A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Vasily Nikolaevich Melnichenko; Anatoly Petrovich Yaroschuk
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1998-12-16
Filing date: 1999-09-14
Publication date: 2001-12-05
Anticipated expiration: 2019-09-14
Also published as: ES2196986A1; AU753387B2; ES2196986B1; LT4752B; SE0102138D0; PL348874A1; GB2362880B; UA32044A; SE0102138L; LV12616B; UA32044C2; DE19983827T1; IL143744A0; MXPA01006242A; GB0117309D0; JP2002532081A; LT2000054A; LV12616A; CN1329577A; BR9916261A

Abstract

The present invention relates to the treatment of water and beverages using iodine and may be used in the iodination of beverages prepared from drinkable water as well as in the production of mineral waters having a corresponding iodine content. To this end, the method involves previously processing the drinkable water (removing mechanical additives), mixing said water with one or more iodinated concentrates and finally filtering the solution before pouring it into a container for sale. The method for the iodination of water and beverages uses an iodine-enrichment device into which one or more natural or artificial iodinated concentrates are fed until the iodine concentration in the end product falls in a range of between 50 and 2500 g/dm<SP>3</SP>, while the copper concentration does not exceed 1000 g/dm<SP>3</SP>. This simple technique enables the method to be used on a large scale for the iodination of mineral waters and for the production of various beverages, and also enables the use of natural or artificial iodinated concentrates or mixtures thereof.

Description

2362880

Technical Field

Translation PCT/UA99/00020 METHOD FOR THE IODINATION OF WATER AND BEVERAGES The present invention relates to the treatment of water and beverages with iodine and may be used in the iodination of beverages prepared from drinking water as well as in the production of mineral water with predetermined concentrations of iodine.

Backwound Art Known in the art is a method for the treatment of water by passing the same through halogen containing bactericidal means such as fibers made from compounds containing ammonium and pyridine groups and anions of chlorine, bromine, or iodine, as well as woven or non-woven fabric made from such fibers (RU 2038324, C02 FI/50,1/28, issued 08.12.93).

The problem with the above method consists in that water and beverages treated by this method are practically lacking in residual iodine to thus prove deficient in supplying consumers of drinking water and beverages with this vital chemical element. Iodine deficiency in the human body has been shown to cause cretinism, deaf-dumbness, infertility, premature births as well as to drastically reduce human endurance.

A method bearing closely on the invention both in essence and the result is the one for the iodination of drinking water by filtration thereof through the iodine-containing filtering element (UA 21214, issued 1997).

The prior art method comprises the following steps: preliminary treatment of drinking water, its filtration through a layer of iodine-containing material, then purification with adsorbents of that portion of water that has been treated, and mixing this water with water, which has not been passed through the adsorption filter.

The above method has been open to the objection that no other useful chemical elements can be simultaneously added to water and beverages, addition, if desired, of specific amounts of iodine 2 to a beverage is replete with difficulties. The method proved to be inapplicable in the production of natural and artificial iodine concentrates. Disclosure of Invention

This invention has for its object the provision of a method for the iodination of water and beverages, wherein a mother liquor (concentrate) of a natural or an artificial iodine concentrate is mixed with drinking water to thereby allow simultaneous addition of iodine and other valuable chemical elements from the concentrate to water and beverages.

Such method is useful for the production of drinking water and beverages with lasting quality characteristics in respect of some desirable chemical elements.

This object is attained by the method for the iodination of water and beverages, which method comprises a step of a pretreatment of drinking water (removal of mechanical impurities), a step of mixing the water with one or more iodine concentrates, and the final filtration of the end product prior to bottling thereof Best Mode for C@Mdniz Out the Invention Exgmple 1. Water and beverages were treated in a measuring apparatus (100 L volume) equipped with a mixer and having upper inlets for drinking water and for an iodine concentrate, and a lower outlet for the end product. Prior to feeding to the measuring apparatus, drinking water was filtered through a prefilter of 0.5 tm open spaces. The temperature of the drinking water was maintained at 17'C throughout the tests, the total mineralization was 0.3 mg/dm 3. The inlet for iodine concentrates was connected to a metering device (10 L volume), which was filled with the "Ukrainian lodinated - Concentrate" mineral water having iodine content of 3.0 mg/dM3. The measuring apparatus was filled with the filtered drinking water (50 L volume). Thereafter, the mixer was actuated, and 1. 66 L of the drinking water and the "Ukrainian Iodinated Concentrate" mineral water were simultaneously fed into the apparatus. The measuring apparatus was filled until the 100 L volume mark was reached. As a result, iodinated table water for sale was produced, having 50 tg/dM3 iodine.

While iodinating drinking water by the use of the "Ukrainian lodinated Concentrate" mineral water, the microelements contained in the mineral water, in this case magnesium being of prime importance, are added to produce the end product.

3 Example 2, The method of the invention was carried out as in Example 1, except for the metering device being filled with 8 L of the "Ukrainian Iodinated - Concentrate" mineral water with a concentration of iodine 7 mg/L and 2 L of a water solution of a copper salt having a concentration of copper 30 mg/dM3. The process for iodination of drinking water was carried out as described above, while 10 L of the mixture was fed into the measuring apparatus. As a result, the iodinated table water with a concentration of iodine 560 tg/dm 3 and rich in copper was produced, whereby biological activity of iodine was increased.

Example 3. The method of the invention was carried out as in Example 1, except for drinking water replaced by a wild-rose infusion. The process of iodination of the wild-rose infusion was carried out as described above, and 35.71 L (almost four times as much) of the "Ukrainian lodinated Concentrate" mineral water having a concentration of iodine 7 mg/dm 3 was fed to the measuring apparatus. As a result, an iodinated wil d-rose beverage having a concentration of iodine 2,500 gg/dm3 was produced.

industrial @pplicabiliiy This simple process provides for the method of the invention to be used on a large scale for the iodination of mineral water as well as for the production of various beverages, and enables the use of natural and artificial concentrates or mixtures thereof.

Claims

1. Method for the iodination of water and beverages, which method comprises a step of passing water or a beverage through a prefilter and a step of iodinating the water or beverage in an iodinating means, and characterized in that one or more artificial or natural iodine concentrates are added into the iodinating means in the process of iodinating water or a beverage until iodine concentration in the end product is ftom 50 f1g/dM3 to 2,500 gg/CIM3.

2. Method of claim 1, characterized in that one of artificial or natural iodine concentrates contains copper and is added in the process of iodinating until copper concentration in the end product is 1,000 tg/dM3 at most.