Rapeseed Treatment with Intercalation Complexes for Feed Safety

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for reducing the antinutritive effects of glucosinolates in rapeseed or rape products, such as chemical soaking and heat treatments, are costly and can exceed safe copper concentration limits in animal feed, necessitating a more economical and safe approach.

Innovation Solution

Treatment of rapeseed or rape products with an intercalation complex of elements from main group 2 or 3 (Al, Ca, Mg) combined with anions and polymers, which chemically converts glucosinolates, reducing their pathogenic absorption and enhancing nutritional value.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If chemical soaking or heat treatment is used to reduce glucosinolate content, then the antinutritive effects are decreased, but the treatment cost increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveantinutritive effects of glucosinolatesVSAvoidtreatment cost

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs copper salts as a low-cost, readily available chemical agent to reduce glucosinolate content. The copper-based treatment is significantly cheaper than conventional chemical soaking methods while achieving effective reduction of antinutritive factors in rapeseed products.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes the parameter of copper concentration to control the reduction of glucosinolate content. By adjusting copper salt concentration and treatment conditions, the method achieves effective glucosinolate reduction while maintaining cost-effectiveness and avoiding excessive treatment costs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Object-affected harmful factors

If copper supplements are added to reduce antinutritive effects, then the nutritional value is improved, but the copper concentration may exceed safe limits for animal feed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveantinutritive effectsVSAvoidsafety of copper concentration in animal feed

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the potentially harmful excess copper into a beneficial treatment by using controlled copper salt application during processing. The copper is used at levels that effectively reduce glucosinolates during treatment but are subsequently reduced to safe levels in the final feed product, transforming a potential safety risk into an effective processing tool.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Solution Approach 2:

The copper treatment is applied as a preliminary processing step before feed formulation. This allows glucosinolates to be reduced during processing, and then copper levels can be controlled and adjusted in subsequent steps to ensure final copper concentrations remain within safe limits for animal consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Quantity of substance

If rapeseed products with high glucosinolate content are used in animal feed, then the feed cost is reduced, but the animal health is adversely affected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverapeseed product usage in feedVSAvoidgoitrogenic effects and animal health

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent selectively removes or reduces the harmful glucosinolate components from rapeseed products through copper-based treatment during processing. This allows the beneficial nutritional components of rapeseed to be retained while extracting or degrading the antinutritive glucosinolates that cause goitrogenic effects and health problems in animals.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This method effectively decreases the antinutritive effects of glucosinolates without costly chemical or heat treatments, allowing for safer and more economical use of rapeseed products in animal feed, potentially replacing expensive soy products.

Implementation Method 1

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectChemical conversion: Chemical Bonding

Data Source

PatentEP2520176B1Method for increasing the nutritional value of rapeseed and rape products with decreased oil content

Publication Date: 2019.02.20 ROP REPCE OLAJ PELLET

AI summary

The invention relates to a method for treating rapeseed or a rape product remaining after the partial or complete recovery of the oil content of rapeseed, which method comprise the step of contacting the rapeseed or the rape product or its mixture formed with one or more other feeds, with an intercalation complex of an element belonging to the main group 2 or 3 of the periodic table formed with an anion and one or more polymers. The invention also relates to a rapeseed or a rape product which can be produced by the above method, as well as to the mixture thereof with one or more other feeds, and to the use thereof.