Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
CA 02355946 2001-06-15
Translation
VJO 00/35815 PCT/UA99/00020
METHOD FOR THE IODINATION OF WATER AND IBE~ERAGES
Technical Field
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.
Background 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 F1/50,1/28., 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 212I4, 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
CA 02355946 2004-06-30
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 obj ect is attained by the method for the iodination of water and
beverages, which method
comprises a step of a pretreatment 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.
According to the present invention then, there is provided a method for the
iodination of water
and beverages comprising the steps of passing water or a beverage through a
prefilter; and
iodinating the water or beverage in an iodinating means wherein one or more
artificial or
natural iodine concentrates containing copper are added into said iodinating
means until the
iodine concentration in said water or beverage is 50-2,500 ~g/dm3, and the
concentration of
copper therein is 1,000 ~g/dm3 at most.
Best Mode for Carrvin~ Out the Invention
Exam 1p a 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 ~,m open
spaces. The
temperature of the drinking water was maintained at 17°C throughout the
tests, the total
CA 02355946 2004-06-30
mineralization was 0.3 mg/dm3. The inlet for iodine concentrates was connected
to a metering
device ( 10 L volume), which was filled with the "Ukrainian Iodinated -
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
a 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
p.g/dm3 iodine.
While iodinating drinking water by the use of the "Ukrainian Iodinated -
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.
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 ~.g/dm3
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 l, 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
Iodinated - Concentrate" mineral water having a concentration of iodine 7
mg/dm was fed to
the measuring apparatus. As a result, an iodinated wild-rose beverage having a
concentration
of iodine 2,500 pg/dm~ was produced.
Industrial ap~plicability
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.
