Patent Profile
| Patent No: | AU2006201116 [Australia] | Application No: | AU20060201116 |
| Title: | A cost effective process for the preparation of solar salt having high purity and whiteness | ||
| Issue Date: | 10-11-2011 | File Date: | 17-03-2006 |
| Inventor(s): | Ghosh Pushpito Kumar; Hamidani Abdulhmid Usmanbhai; Sanghavi Rahul Jasvantrai; Susarla Sarma; Mukhopadhyay Indrajit; Krishna Venkata Rama; Mohandas Vadakke Puthoor | ||
| IPC Classification: | A23L27/40, C01D3/06 | ||
| Abstract: | The process of the invention deals with significant improvements in salt purity and whiteness brought about through treatment of brine with alum prior to charging into crystallizers for solar salt production. The improvements realized are partly on account of elimination of suspended impurities like gypsum and clayey matter in the brine, which may otherwise be carried along with the brine in the crystallizer and finally end up in the salt, and partly due to the improved crystal size and morphology that minimizes embedded impurities in the salt. Rain washing of the heaped salt has resulted in a salt with greatly reduced calcium and sulphate impurity levels hitherto not achieved in solar salt production. Alum treatment by the process of the invention requires no additional time or infrastructure and the cost of the treatment works out to < 3 U.S. cents per ton of salt.; The process can be implemented in any solar salt works. | ||
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