Borate-Carbon Composite for Water Remediation
Official patent title
Particulate nanocomposite material
Arabic title: مادة مركبة نانوية جسيمية
Invention
Invention
Problem
Environmental-remediation materials need controlled phase composition, particle morphology, and scalable preparation, yet multiphase powders can agglomerate or vary between batches.
Why it matters
A reproducible particulate material could support adsorption and photocatalysis research, but the source must first be reconciled because its abstract and remaining sections identify different compositions.
Approach
The summary, drawings, and claims describe a carbon/CaB2O4/Mg2B2O5/Zn3B2O6 particulate nanocomposite made by chelation, polyol gel formation, drying, and calcination. The abstract instead lists carbon, nickel, nickel oxide, calcium borate, and magnesium borate, creating a material-identity conflict.
Who may benefit
Potential beneficiaries include environmental-material laboratories, adsorbent and photocatalyst developers, borate-ceramic researchers, nanomaterial producers, and patent-review teams resolving source inconsistencies.
Potential value
Most sections provide a defined gel-to-calcination route and particle characterization for a multiphase borate-carbon powder with proposed dual remediation uses.
Background
Background
Multiphase nanomaterials can combine adsorption, optical, and structural behavior, but phase uniformity and particle dispersion are difficult to reproduce. The publication proposes a chelation and polyol-gel route and identifies contaminant immobilization and light-assisted organic-pollutant degradation as uses. However, the abstract describes a nickel-containing composition, while the summary, drawings, and claims describe calcium, magnesium, and zinc borate phases with carbon. Because this internal conflict affects material identity, any technical or commercial interpretation requires checking the authoritative patent text and prosecution record.
Technology overview
Technology overview
Following the claims, aqueous magnesium, calcium, and zinc salts plus boric acid receive a chelating agent and a polyol to form a gel. Heating at 200–400 °C creates dry powder, followed by calcination at 500–800 °C. XRD, EDX, SEM, and HRTEM describe CaB2O4, Mg2B2O5, Zn3B2O6, and carbon, crystallite size, and agglomerated morphology. No quantitative contaminant-removal or photodegradation result is supplied, and the abstract composition remains contradictory.
Potential applications
Potential applications
- Candidate immobilization of inorganic contaminants in water.
- Candidate light-assisted degradation of organic pollutants.
- Multiphase borate-carbon materials research.
- Particle and phase-control studies for environmental nanomaterials.
Evidence-supported advantages
Evidence-supported advantages
- The claims specify an aqueous gel-based preparation route.
- Crystallite-size and particle-morphology ranges are described.
- XRD, EDX, SEM, and HRTEM characterization are referenced.
- Both adsorption and irradiation-assisted uses are contemplated.
Development stage
Development stage
Laboratory synthesis and materials characterization are described, but material identity is internally inconsistent and remediation performance is not established.
Commercial opportunity
Commercial opportunity
Commercial evaluation should pause until the composition conflict is resolved. Thereafter, independent adsorption and photodegradation tests, selectivity, kinetics, mineralization, leaching, regeneration, real-water studies, scale-up reproducibility, energy and precursor costs, powder recovery, and environmental safety would be required. No application performance is established in the supplied evidence.
Patent classifications
Patent classifications
WIPO IPC
- C01B35/12Non-metallic elements; compounds thereof
- B82Y30/00Specific uses or applications of nanostructures; measurement or analysis of nanostructures; manufacture or treatment of nanostructures
CPC
- B82Y30/00Specific uses or applications of nanostructures; measurement or analysis of nanostructures; manufacture or treatment of nanostructures
- C01B35/126Non-metallic elements; compounds thereof
- C01B35/127Non-metallic elements; compounds thereof
- C02F1/281Treatment of water, wastewater, sewage or sludge
- C02F1/288Treatment of water, wastewater, sewage or sludge
- C02F1/30Treatment of water, wastewater, sewage or sludge
- C01P2002/01Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C01P2002/60Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C01P2002/76Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C01P2002/85Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C01P2004/03Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C01P2004/04Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C01P2004/32Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C01P2004/50Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C01P2004/82Indexing scheme for structural and physical aspects of solid inorganic compounds
- C02F2101/10Treatment of water, wastewater, sewage or sludge
Inventors
Inventors
- First inventorEhab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed
Keywords
Keywords
- particulate nanocomposite
- calcium borate
- magnesium borate
- zinc borate
- polyol gel
- contaminant immobilization
- photodegradation
- source inconsistency
Patent document and drawings
Patent document and drawings
The patent publication is mapped to this record. Patent drawings remain within that publication; no separately cleared public media package has been supplied.