Red Clay Processed Material for Anti-Corrosive and Virus Disinfecting Applications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for preparing red clay processed materials and alkali ionized water require high temperatures and long times, leading to high production costs and limitations in anti-corrosive and virus disinfecting activities due to the toxicity of synthetic antiseptics and instability of organic natural antiseptics.
Innovation Solution
A method involving mixing sodium hydroxide with red clay, heating the mixture at 1100 to 1300°C for 1 to 4 hours to create a liquid melt, cooling, and then pulverizing to produce a red clay processed material and alkali ionized water with anti-corrosive and virus disinfecting properties, reducing production costs and toxicity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional high temperature processing (1400-1700°C) is used to prepare red clay processed material, then the material achieves anti-corrosive and virus disinfecting activity, but production costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by reducing the processing temperature from the conventional 1400-1700°C range to 1100-1300°C, and shortening the processing time from conventional long duration to 1-4 hours. This modification of thermal parameters achieves the required anti-corrosive and virus disinfecting activity while significantly reducing energy consumption and production costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses composite materials by combining red clay with specific additives including sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, borax, and boric acid. This composite formulation enables the red clay to achieve the necessary reactivity and functional properties at lower temperatures (1100-1300°C) compared to pure red clay processing, thereby reducing production costs while maintaining reliability.
2Reliability
If conventional long duration processing is used to prepare red clay processed material, then the material achieves sufficient activity, but production time and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by optimizing both temperature and time parameters simultaneously. The processing temperature is reduced to 1100-1300°C while the processing time is shortened to 1-4 hours. This parameter optimization achieves the required material activity without the need for conventional long duration processing, thereby reducing production time and associated costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The composite material formulation with sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, borax, and boric acid enhances the reactivity of red clay, enabling sufficient virus disinfecting and anti-corrosive activity to be achieved within 1-4 hours at 1100-1300°C, rather than requiring conventional long duration processing.
3Reliability
If synthetic antiseptics are used for virus disinfecting, then disinfecting activity is achieved, but toxicity limits their use and application
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies this principle by using inorganic natural substances (red clay-based processed material) that can be applied and then discarded or neutralized without leaving toxic residues. The material provides effective virus disinfecting activity through physical and chemical mechanisms (adsorption, ion exchange) rather than through toxic synthetic antiseptic action, eliminating the toxicity limitation while maintaining disinfecting reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the chemical state of red clay through controlled thermal processing at 1100-1300°C with specific additives, converting it into a processed material with enhanced virus disinfecting properties. This parameter change creates a material that achieves disinfecting activity through inorganic mechanisms (adsorption, ion exchange) rather than toxic chemical action, resolving the toxicity issue while maintaining effectiveness.
4Stability of the object's composition
If organic natural antiseptics are used, then natural origin is achieved, but they decompose easily under various conditions reducing their stability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses inorganic natural substances (red clay-based processed material) that are stable under various conditions including temperature changes, UV exposure, and biological resistance. The material provides virus disinfecting activity through physical mechanisms (adsorption, ion exchange) rather than through organic chemical compounds that decompose easily, thereby achieving both natural origin and stability without compromising disinfecting reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The composite formulation combines red clay with inorganic additives (sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, borax, boric acid) that are stable under various environmental conditions. This inorganic composite material achieves virus disinfecting activity through stable physical and chemical mechanisms, overcoming the decomposition problem of organic natural antiseptics while maintaining natural origin and reliability.
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
The method significantly reduces production costs while achieving excellent anti-bacterial, anti-corrosive, and virus disinfecting activities, making the red clay processed material and alkali ionized water suitable for various applications without toxicity, including health-care, agriculture, and construction.
Implementation Method 1
The main component of red clay, i.e., pure SiO2 or a natural mineral containing abundant SiO2, is changed into a water-soluble silicate by reaction with an alkali substance at a high temperature of 1400° C. or more
Implementation Method 2
heating the mixed composition at 1100 to 1300° C. for 1 to 4 hours to melt the mixed composition, thereby obtaining a liquid melt
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AI summary
Provided is a method of preparing a red clay processed material using red clay and sodium hydroxide and a red clay processed material having anti-corrosive and virus disinfecting activity. Also, a method of preparing alkali ionized water having excellent anti-bacterial, virus disinfecting and anti-corrosive activity using the red clay processed material, alkali ionized water using the same, and a functional product including the same are provided. The red clay processed material and the method of preparing alkali ionized water using the same can reduce the reaction temperature and reaction time compared to a conventional process, thereby significantly reducing the production cost. The red clay processed material and the alkali ionized water have excellent anti-bacterial, anti-corrosive, and virus disinfecting activity and are not toxic, so they can be widely applied in various health-care and agricultural, livestock, and marine fields such as an agent for preventing viral infectious diseases, a food preservative, a natural agricultural pesticide or fertilizer, paint, feed, an eco-friendly construction material, a red tide/green tide inhibitor, a cosmetic additive, or an anti-corrosive agent.