Description
PROCESS FOR PREPARING A FUNCTIONAL SALT FROM DEEP-SEA WATER
Technical Field
[1] The present invention relates to a process for preparing a functional salt from the deepsea water.
Background Art
[2] It has been known that sea water contains about 2.8% salt component. Generally, the salt consists of NaCl as a main component and other miscellaneous minerals sich as Ca, Mg and K ions etc
[3] Deep ocean water is located at below 200m from sea surface where does not occur photosynthesis and therefore, has a lot of characteristics sich as abundant inorganic minerals sich as Zn, Se, Mn besides essential minerals i.e., Mg, Ca, K, Na, which can endow human or animal body with immune enhancing activity; high purity without contamination with various external polluting factors, for example, air, chemicals, pathogenic bacteria and so on; maturing activity by dint of abundant enzymes; physical stability; and radical scavenging activity etc (Japanese Patent No. 1995-34728).
[4] Therefore, there have been lots of reports on the development of deep ocean water due to above-described favorable advantages till now.
[5] for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 2001-198575 discloses alkali rediction water prepared from the anode part where deep sea water is poured to electrolyte dissolution apparatus dissecting into cathode part collecting strong acidic oxidizing water and anode part by the action of above lOOOmV of Oxidation- Reduction Voltage. The alkali reduction water has been reported to have treating activity of various gastrointestinal diseases sich as intestinal abnormal fermentation, chronic diarrhea, indigestion, hyperchylia, etc, and strong acidic oxidization water reported to be used as a disinfectant of medical devices and a food additive due to its bactericidal activity.
[6] Japanese Patent Publication No. 2580428 discloses a health beverage for the prevention of various present human disease such as diabetes, allergic disease and cardiac infarction, and the preparation thereof which consists of concentrating deep sea water with heating, cooling and removing formed crystal fraction, and concentrating remaining filtrate to the extent to be less than 1/1000 of initial volume to obtain health beverage.
[7] Japanese Patent Publication No. 1993-219921 and 1985-255729 disclose a nutrient water comprising desalted deep ocean water, vitamins and health mineral water; Japanese Patent Publication No. 1998-150960 discloses a health beverage containing desalted sea water obtained by using reverse osmotic apparatus respectively, in any of above cited literatures, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
[8] However, all the materials disclosed in above described references relate to desalted deep ocean water having a possibility of pollution drawn up from the Fujiyama Bay in Japan and furthermore, there have been no suggestion or disclosure on deep ocean like water drawn up from the seashore region of Korean peninsula.
[9] Accordingly, present inventors endeavored to develop functional salt prepared from deep ocean like water drawn up from the seashore region of Korean peninsula designated as Bando Deep Ocean Water (BDW) herein, and finally found an effective preparation method to obtain a functional salt which contains lots of healthful minerals and has no risk of pollution, and finally have accomplished present invention.
Disclosure
[10] Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a functional salt which contains lots of healthful minerals and has no fear for pollution together with various medicinal effects.
[11] In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a process for preparing a functional salt from Bando Deep Ocean Water (BDW).
[12] Specifically, in a preferred embodiment, there is provided a process for preparing a functional salt comprising the steps consisting of subjecting Bando Deep Ocean Water (BDW) to filtration and drying the filtrate in the sun to obtain purposed functional salt.
[13] In another embodiment, there is provided a process for preparing a functional salt comprising the steps consisting of subjecting Bando Deep Ocean Water (BDW) to filtration and drying the filtrate with spray-drying method to obtain purposed functional salt.
[14] In the other embodiment, there is provided a process for preparing a functional salt comprising the steps consisting of subjecting Bando Deep Ocean Water (BDW) to filtration, heating the concentrate to be salted out, recovering and drying the salt to obtain purposed functional salt.
[15] The term 'Bando Deep Ocean Water' as used herein, means the water drawn up from the underground at the depth ranging from 700 to 1000 m located at Korean seashore region, preferably, West or South seashore region, more preferably, at hot spring region of Paltan-myeon, Hwaseong-si, or Incheon-si, Kyonggi province, or at
Dadae-dong, Saha-gu, Busan-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, and it is fundamentally different with deep sea water in that BDW is a reserved sea water in land which sea water has been flooded and permeated through the soil since several thousand years while deep sea water is flowing one under the sea surface having a risk of pollution and further BDW is characterized in containing not only inorganic components sich as Na, Ca, Mg and K but also lots of rare metal ions derived from a deposit in the land such as Se, Fe, Mn, Sr and Zn, whereas deep sea water does not contains those rare metal ions.
[16] Above described functional salt of BDW may be prepared by the following procedures, which are merely exemplary and in no way limit the invention.
[17] In an embodiment of the present invention, for example, BDW-1 drawn up from the underground at the depth ranging from 700 to 1000 m located at Korean seashore region is subject to filtrating with ceramic filter having a pore size ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 μ m, preferably, 0.2 to 0.3 μ m to purify; drying the filtrate in order that the salt concentration of the filtrate is to be in the range ranging from 17 ° to 25 ° Be, preferably, from 18 ° to 23 ° Be determined at the base of Baume's degree (salt % concentration) at 20 °C using Baume's hydrometer; storing in water tank for a certain period to transfer to crystallizing region; drying in the air for the period ranging from 24 to 48 hours; dehydrating by centrifuger to remove remaining water; and drying with heat dryer (screw tunnel) at above 200 °C to obtain the functional salt of the present invention.
[18] In another embodiment of the present invention, for example, BDW-1 drawn up from the underground at the depth ranging from 700 to 1000 m located at Korean seashore region is subject to filtrating with ceramic filter having a pore size ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 μ m, preferably, 0.2 to 0.3 μ m to purify; heating to be concentrated at the temperature ranging from 85 to 95 °C for 7 to 8 hours resulting in salting out; recovering extracted salt; drying in the air; dehydrating by centrifuger to remove remaining water; and drying with heat dryer (screw tunnel) at above 200 °C to obtain the functional salt of the present invention.
[19] In the other embodiment of the present invention, for example, BDW-1 drawn up from the underground at the depth ranging from 700 to 1000 m located at Korean seashore region is subject to filtrating with ceramic filter having a pore size ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 μ m, preferably, 0.2 to 0.3 μ m to purify; heating with spray-dryer at 1 20 °C to obtain the functional salt having 0.1% of water content of the present invention.
[20] Therefore, present invention also provides the functional salt prepared by the
processes as described above. [21] Since the functional salt is derived from BDW, it has no risk of pollution and has superior effect in preserving essential minerals and other miscellaneous ions, which is very heathful to human or animals.
Best Mode [22] The following Examples and Experimental Examples are intended to further illustrate the present invention without limiting its scope. [23] Example 1 : Preparation of functional salt from BDW (1)
[24] 20 kg of Bando Deep Ocean Water was drawn up from the underground in the depth of 800 m located at Dadae-dong, Saha-gu, Busan-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, it was subjected to filtration with to 0.3 μ m of ceramic filter and the filtrate was dried in the air for three weeks in order that the salt concentration of the filtrate is 22 ° Be, determined at the base of Baume's degree (salt % concentration) at 20 °C using Baume's hydrometer. The concentrates was stored in water tank to transfer to crystallizing region and dried in the air for 24 hours. The dried salt was further subjected to dehydration by centrifuger to remove remaining water and finally dried with heat dryer (screw tunnel) at above 200 °C to obtain 620g of a functional salt designated as hot salt herein. [25] Example 2 : Preparation of functional salt from BDW (2)
[26] 20 kg of Bando Deep Ocean Water was drawn up from the underground at the depth at 800 m located at Dukwoo-ri, Paltan^nyeon, Hwasung-si, Kyonggi Province, South Korea. It was subjected to filtration with to 0.3 μ m of ceramic filter and the filtrate was heated to be concentrated at 90 °C for 7 to 8 hours resulting in salting out and the extracted salt was recovered to dry in the air. The dried salt was further subjected to dehydration by centrifuger to remove remaining water and finally dried with heat dryer (screw tunnel) at above 200 °C to obtain 60 lg of a functional salt designated as hot salt herein. [27] Example 3 : Preparation of functional salt from BDW (3)
[28] 20 kg of Bando Deep Ocean Water was drawn up from the underground at the depth at 800 m located at Dukwoo-ri, Paltan^nyeon, Hwasung-si, Kyonggi Province, South Korea. It was subjected to filtration with to 0.3 μ m of ceramic filter and the filtrate was heated with a spray-dryer at 120 °C to obtain 620g of a functional salt designated as hot salt herein. [29] Example 4 : Characterization and component analysis of BDW
[30] Comparison with the characteristics of BDW and Japanese Deep Ocean Water
[31] T able 1 shows distinct characteristics of BDW comparing with conventional Deep Ocean Water obtained in Japan and disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No 2002-4598.
[32] As can be seen in Table 1, BDW has fundamentally different characteristics from conventional Japanese Deep Ocean Water in the aspect of Existing depth, mean temperature, degree of hardness and Mean pH.
[33] Table 1. Characteristic of BDW and Japanese Deep Ocean Water [34]
[35] Elementary Analysis of BDW-1 [36] To determine the consisting component of BDW-1 and Deep Ocean Water ( Japan ), the elementary analysis of BDW-1 and Deep Ocean Water ( Japan ) was performed at KTRICI (Korea Testing and Research Institute for Chemical Industry) located at Seoul in Korea by conventional analysis method disclosed in APHA (revised Ed, 1998) and the result thus obtained is shown in Table 2.
[37] Table 2. Result of Elemental analysis [38]
[39] As can be seen in Table 2, the amount of several minerals such as Fe, Mn, Zn etc in BDW-1 was mich more abundant ranging 10 to 10000 fold than those of Deep Ocean Water (Japan) and particularly, The amount of Ca ion in BDW-1 was more abundant than that of Mg being different from Deep Ocean Water (Japan), which shows the consisting ingredients in BDW-1 are fundamentally different from those of Deep Ocean Water (Japan).
Industrial Applicability
[40] The functional salt prepared by the process of the present invention has no risk of pollution and has superior effect in preserving essential minerals and other miscellaneous ions therefore, it is very useful to human health.