Patent Application
20230406785
The disclosed concept relates generally to fertilizer preparation processes and fertilizers therefor. The disclosed concept also relates to fertilizer compositions.
The invention of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has played a major role in increasing crop yields. With the help of various chemical fertilizers, crop yields per unit area have been greatly increased. Furthermore, fertilizers also make the solving of hunger and food shortage possible. However, the excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides have brought extremely serious consequences to human beings. Today's agricultural industry is a world full of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and hormones. When fertilizers and pesticides enter the soil, only roughly one-third is absorbed by crops. Of the remaining two-thirds, one-third enters the atmosphere, and one-third remains in the soil, where it mixes with groundwater.
Fertilizer and pesticide residues enter the human body through the atmosphere, water, soil and food, and eventually cause various chronic or acute diseases. In recent years, there are more and more cancer patients around us, and many families are suffering from cancer. Moreover, there are three million pesticide poisoning victims worldwide every year. In China, for example, the number of people directly poisoned by pesticide and chemical fertilizer contaminated food reaches 200,000 every year, accounting for roughly one-third of the food poisoning cases each year in China.
As it does not appear that fertilizers and pesticides will be abandoned anytime soon, there is thus a need for a solution to reduce their usage, and to help crops thrive while posing minimal, if any, risk to human health.
Furthermore, at present there are many fertilizers with silicon as a main nutrient element. However, the effective ingredients in these fertilizers are low and cannot be directly absorbed by plants, or the amount that can be effectively absorbed is low, so they cannot meet the plants' demand for nutrients and do not produce the best effect. Accordingly, there is room for improvement in today's fertilizer preparation processes and fertilizers therefor.
The above-mentioned and other features and advantages of this disclosure, and the manner of attaining them, will become more apparent and the disclosure itself will be better understood by reference to the following descriptions of embodiments of the disclosure taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
A process for preparing fertilizer and a fertilizer made by the process are provided. The process comprises combining a titanium composition and a silicon composition to yield a mixture, removing heavy metals from the mixture, controlling conductivity of a quantity of water to below a predetermined amount, adding other materials to the mixture in a predetermined ratio, adding oxygen to the mixture, vibrating the mixture to minimize sticking, irradiating the mixture, and mixing the mixture with a high speed pump.
A fertilizer composition comprises 15-20% by weight nanoscale silicon dioxide, 3.5-4.5% by weight nanoscale titanium dioxide, 15-20% by weight small molecule silicone solution, 50-55% by weight small molecule water, 1-5% by weight phosphoric acid, and 0.5-1% by weight nano-silver atomic state components.
The following description is provided to enable those skilled in the art to make and use the described embodiments contemplated for carrying out the concept. Various modifications, equivalents, variations, and alternatives, however, will remain readily apparent to those skilled in the art. Any and all such modifications, variations, equivalents, and alternatives are intended to fall within the spirit and scope of the present concept.
As employed herein, the term “nanoscale” shall mean having a particle size controlled to between 30-100 nanometers.
As employed herein, the phrase “small molecule” shall mean molecules having a molecular weight of less than 500 Daltons.
As employed herein, the phrase “nano-silver atomic state components” shall mean silver having a particle size of 30-100 nanometers.
As employed herein, the phrase “pure oxygen” shall mean that in a vacuum state, only oxygen will be injected into a mixture.
In accordance with the disclosed concept, a novel process of making a fertilizer, and fertilizer made by the process, for use by farmers, local individuals, and the like, are provided. The fertilizer yielded by the instant process promotes root growth at the seedling period in plants. It may be used as a seed treatment, wherein it significantly improves the growth of the root system of seedlings of rice, wheat, corn, beans, tobacco, vegetables and other crops. Furthermore, the inventors have discovered that the fresh weight of a root system increased by 20% compared with a control, dry weight increased by 15%, and the seedlings grew relatively strong/deep roots and relatively thriving leaves.
Other advantages associated with the instant fertilizer include alleviating pesticide damage, pest and disease prevention, blocking heavy metals, and providing for improved nutrient absorption. More specifically, timely use of the instant fertilizer may also regulate nutrient transport, supplement nutrition, alleviate damage by pesticides, and accelerate plant recovery due to insecticide/herbicide damage. The instant fertilizer may also silicify plant surface cells, enhance plants' resistance to prevent numerous diseases and drive soft-bodied pests away, which needs little or no pesticides, thereby saving costs.
Regarding heavy metals, the silicon element of the instant fertilizer can form silicic acid compounds with heavy metals to reduce their activity and toxicity. Moreover, the silicon element affects the inter-root redox power to reduce the activity of heavy metals, and the also affects the PH value in the soil to impact the plants' absorption of heavy metals. It further alters the form of heavy metals in the soil to inhibit plants' absorption. Additionally, the deposit of the silicon element in the above-ground part of the plants prevent the movement of heavy metals to the above-ground parts. The silicon element may also affect the secretions of plants' root system, thereby increasing complexation and adsorption of heavy metals. It may also inhibit the transport of heavy metals, such as cadmium and arsenic, by controlling stem and leaf distribution, activity of transport protein, and competing transport channels in the plants and achieve precise blockage of heavy metals in plants.
Finally, regarding absorption, the effective absorption rate of certain elements of the instant fertilizer, such as silicon and titanium, can reach 98%, and there has not been shown to be any adverse side effects on plant growth, or fertilizer or pesticide damage found.
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Fertilizer preparation process 2 further includes the step 200 of removing heavy metals from the mixture. This may be done in order to purify the mixture, thereby allowing for better nutrient delivery to plants. Specifically, silicon dioxide is typically always mixed with other materials. By removing heavy metals, e.g., at least 99.9% of all components from the mixture other than the titanium and silicon compositions, a cleaner solution may ultimately be utilized in the fertilizer.
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After steps 100-300 have been performed, the fertilizer is mixed. More specifically, other materials are added to the mixture at step 400 in a predetermined ratio, as will be discussed below. These other materials added to the mixture may include a small molecule liquid silicone solution, small molecule water, phosphoric acid, and nano-silver atomic state components. Furthermore, one example ratio of the materials being mixed at step 400 includes nanoscale silicon dioxide, 3.5-4.5% nanoscale titanium dioxide, 15-20% small molecule silicone solution, 50-55% small molecule water, 1-5% phosphoric acid, and 0.5-1% nano-silver atomic state components. The nanoscale silicon dioxide may, in one example embodiment, comprise 16.5-18.5% by weight of the fertilizer composition, and the nanoscale titanium dioxide may comprise 3.75-4.25% by weight of the fertilizer composition. Additionally, the small molecule silicone solution may comprise 16.5-18.5% by weight of the fertilizer composition, the small molecule water may comprise 51.5-53.5% by weight of the fertilizer composition, and the nano-silver atomic state components may comprise 0.65-0.85% by weight of the fertilizer composition. The inventors have discovered that the aforementioned ratio of fertilizer subcomponents advantageously promotes the effect of plant nutritional growth, improves crop yields and quality. Once the predetermined ratio of constituent components has been provided for, step 500 of process 2 calls for adding oxygen to the mixture. In one example embodiment, the oxygen added is pure oxygen. Oxygenating the mixture in this manner allows future plant growth to be better stimulated.
Next, at step 600, the mixture is vibrated in order to minimize sticking between constituent components, at step 700 the mixture is irradiated, at step 800 the mixture is mixed with a high speed pump, thereby naturally oxygenating the mixture, and at step 900 a final step may include filling the mixed fertilizer into containers for use by customers, labelling, and/or storage. Additionally, step 700 may optionally include applying a yellow light cycle irradiation catalyst to the mixture. Doing this allows the titanium dioxide to act as a liquid catalyst, which allows for a transfer of light energy into chemical energy, thereby improving the ability of the organic materials to grow. Furthermore, this advantageously improves the ability of silicon and titanium constituent components to mix, as it is known that these two components otherwise have greater difficulty mixing with one another. Regarding vibrating, step 600 may include ultrasonically vibrating molecules with a molecular weight of 1,000 Daltons or less. The inventors have discovered that vibrating these molecules ultrasonically advantageously separates materials into a relatively nice fine grain so that they don't stick.
The fertilizer produced by process 2 has been shown to promote growth at the nutritional phase, wherein it not only has the dual role of promoting cell division and cell elongation, but also can improve the chlorophyll content of leaves, enhance photosynthesis, increase the accumulation of photosynthetic assimilation products. In this manner, the fertilizer advantageously promotes the effect of plant nutritional growth and improves crop yields and quality. Moreover, the instant fertilizer also promotes fruiting at the reproductive period. That is, it can improve the germination rate of pollen and promote the elongation of pollen tubes, which is conducive to plant fertilization. It can also improve the fruit set rate and fruit maturity rate. In the product maturity period, the number and the weight of grains increases, the size of the melons and fruits become even, and quality of the products are improved. Further yet, after entering the plant, the instant fertilizer not only strengthens photosynthesis and promotes growth and development, but also stimulates certain protective enzyme activities in the plant, which can greatly reduce the harmful substances produced in the plant due to the adverse living conditions (e.g., damage to normal functions by malondialdehyde).
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Additionally, while this disclosure has been described as having exemplary methods, the present disclosure can be further modified within the spirit and scope of this disclosure. This application is therefore intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure using its general principles. Further, this application is intended to cover such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice in the art to which this disclosure pertains and which fall within the limits of the appended claims.
