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Apparatus for efficient packaging of charcoal briquettes
Title: Apparatus for efficient packaging of charcoal briquettes.Abstract: A handheld, packaged charcoal briquette assembly or apparatus for igniting within a charcoal grill is disclosed. The apparatus includes a shell having a base, a pair of trapezoidal sidewalls extending upward from a first pair of parallel perimeter edges of the base, and a pair of triangular sidewalls extending upward from a second pair of parallel perimeter edges the base. The sidewalls converge away from the base and toward a top surface or edge. The base, sidewalls, and top surface or edge combine to define an enclosed compartment. Charcoal briquettes are housed within the enclosed compartment. Igniting any outer surface of the assembly slowly burns the shell, and heat is transferred from the shell to the charcoal briquettes. ...
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Controlling charcoal rot with flutriafol
Controlling charcoal rot with flutriafolThis invention relates to the use of flutriafol for controlling or preventing pathogenic damage caused by the fungi Macrophomina phaseolina in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ that grow or grows at a later point in time. The use comprises applying a composition of flutriafol on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to the use of the compound flutriafol for protecting plants and plant propagation material from charcoal rot, which leads to higher yields, better grade, and improved harvest efficiency.
BACKGROUND
A severe threat to more than 500 cultivated and wild plants, for example alfalfa, peas, rice, maize, cucurbits, tomatoes, sorghum, soybean, peanuts, sunflower, cotton or corn, is a root disease commonly known as charcoal rot. The causative agent of charcoal rot is the fungus Macrophomina phaseolina. The fungus was first observed in 1926 in Sri Lanka, where it infected sunflowers. M. phaseolina is reported to be a soil, seed and stubble borne pathogen. However, it is primarily a root inhibiting fungus. M. phaseolina is widespread throughout tropical and subtropical countries, but the disease can also develop in temperate countries when hot dry conditions exist.
Seedling infections by charcoal rot results in a discoloration at the soil line. Seedlings may die if hot, dry conditions exist, or they may survive in wet weather with disease symptoms reappearing during hot dry weather when unfavourable environmental conditions stress the plant. In older plants, a light brown discoloration of internal tissue occurs and the plant turns yellow and mature very early. Below the epidermis, at the soil line, small black bodies appear, giving the tissue a grayish-black appearance. On dead plants whose diseased tissues are dry, the fungus produces numerous microsclerotia, which are tiny black fungal structures similar to charcoal dust. M. phaseolina survives and overwinters as small, black microsclerotia in the soil and infested plant debris. When growing roots of a susceptible plant contacts a microsclerotium in the soil, this resting state germinates, and the fungus grows over the surface of the root and penetrates between the epidermal cells into the root cortex. From there the fungus advances through the cortex and the inner bark into and up the root. The gradual destruction of the root system causes the seedlings to become stunted and chlorotic, and the plant dies as a result.
The ability to control charcoal rot is very limited. M. phaseolina can survive in the soil for at least two years. The best defence against this fungus is planting rotating crops which are not susceptible to charcoal rot. Also field management is very important such that a reduction or complete avoidance of drought stress to plants is assured. Other methods of defence are development of crop cultivars with resistant strains. However, this method has not been possible in several crops, such as sunflower. Previously, chemical control has not been successful due to high level of variation in the fungus, soil borne habitat, and good survival ability of the sclerotia.
A successful method for controlling the fungus M. phaseolina (charcoal rot) is therefore highly needed.
OF THE INVENTION
It has now surprisingly and unexpectedly been found that the fungicidal active compound flutriafol shows a remarkably prolonged effect in the control of charcoal rot disease on plants when applied in an effective amount on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof as part of a composition comprising flutriafol.
Accordingly, this invention relates to the use of flutriafol for controlling or preventing pathogenic damage caused by the fungi Macrophomina phaseolina in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ that grow or grows at a later point in time, by applying a composition comprising flutriafol on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
One aspect of the invention relates to the use of flutriafol for protecting a plant from charcoal rot disease (Macrophomina phaseolina). The use comprises applying a composition comprising an effective amount of flutriafol on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof.
A second aspect of the invention relates to a method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage caused by the fungi M. phaseolina in a plant propagation material, a plant, part of a plant and/or plant organ that grow or grows at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, plant organ, plant propagation material or a surrounding area thereof a composition comprising flutriafol.
Flutriafol, a well-known fungicidally active compound, is a member of the triazole group of fungicides. The IUPAC name of flutriafol is (RS)-2,4′-difluoro-α-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl)benzhydryl alcohol. The chemical structure of the compound is reproduced below:
Flutriafol is sold commercially as a fungicide by Cheminova under the trade names TOPGUARD&#, Impact&# and Vincit&#.
Flutriafol is systemic with long lasting residual activity and can therefore effectively be used to protect plants, at any point during the growth season, from the fungus M. phaseolina.
Without being bound by theory, flutriafol has a dual effect against charcoal rot due to both its persistence in the soil providing a zone of control around the seed, developing root and developing seedling by contact action with the fungi but also as the root develops flutriafol is efficiently taken up by the developing root system both protecting the roots and young developing seedling from infection. If the soil and temperature conditions are conducive, the first 3-4 weeks of the life of a plant is a critical time to prevent the disease from entering the plant. The flutriafol protective effect will endure throughout that critical period of infection from seedling to plant. In addition the systemicity will allow flutriafol to move further up the vascular system of the plant, potentially protecting it from any proliferation of disease in the growing stem. Flutriafol may also be applied as foliar application (e.g. sprayed directly on the foliage).
As used herein, a plant includes all known plants susceptible of being infected by charcoal rot and all known varieties, including genetically modified plants. The term “plant propagation material” is understood to denote all the generative parts of the plant, such as seeds, which can be used for the multiplication of the latter and vegetative plant materials such as cuttings and tubers (for example, potatoes). Accordingly, as used herein, part of a plant includes plant propagation material. There may be mentioned, e.g., the seeds (in the strict sense), roots, fruits, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, parts of plants. Germinated plants and young plants, which are to be transplanted after germination or after emergence from the soil, may also be mentioned. These young plants may be protected before/at transplantation by a total or partial treatment by immersion.
Parts of plant and plant organs that grow or grows at later point in time are any sections of a plant that develop from a plant propagation material, such as a seed.
Parts of plant, plant organs, and plants can also benefit from the protection achieved by the application of flutriafol onto the plant propagation material. In an embodiment, certain parts of a plant and certain plant organs that grow or grows at later point in time can also be considered as plant propagation material, which can themselves be applied (or treated) and consequently, the plant, further parts of the plant and further plant organs that develop from the treated parts of plant and treated plant organs can also benefit from the pathogenic and/or pest damage protection achieved by the application of flutriafol onto the certain parts of plant and certain plant organs. A plant seed includes all known plants seeds susceptible of being infected by charcoal rot and all known seed varieties/hybrids, including genetically modified seeds.
Using the flutriafol composition, it is possible to control charcoal rot that occur in plants, especially in cultivated plants and ornamentals, in horticulture and in forestry, or in parts of such plants such as fruit, blossoms, leaves, stems, tubers or roots, while in some cases parts of plants that grow or grows later can also be protected against the pathogenic fungus.
The flutriafol composition can be used with advantage for controlling charcoal rot in strawberries, sugar beets, pepper, ornamentals, hops, cereals, sweet corn, maize, grasses, sorghum, rice, Brassicas such as canola, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, rape, other Crucifers such as beets, radish, Cucurbitaceae such as squash, cucumber, marrows, Leguminosae such as mung beans, beans, lentils, peas, soybeans, groundnuts, chick peas, cowpea, lupin, clover, white clover, Solanaceae such as potatoes, tomatoes, paprika, bell pepper, chili, Citrus such as oranges, lemons, grapefruit, mandarins, Fibrous crops such as cotton, flax, Cane fruit such as raspberries, Asteraceae such as sunflower. Preferably, the plant is selected from the families of Brassicaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Leguminosae, Asteraceae, and Solanaceae and the crops sugar beets, cotton, pepper, tobacco and strawberry. Most preferably, the crops are selected among soybeans, sorghum, sunflower, corn, beans, cucurbits, strawberry, pepper, tomato, alfalfa, white clover, potato, cotton, tobacco, peanut, sugar beet, canola, mung bean, cowpea, chickpea, lentils and lupines.
The use of flutriafol as well as the application methods according to the invention for the protection of plants against charcoal rot include applying the flutriafol composition as foliar application or application in the soil in close proximity to the seed and roots of the plant. The use of flutriafol and the application methods according to the invention for the protection of plant propagation material against attack by charcoal rot are characterized in that, for example, the composition are applied in such a manner that it is applied in close spatial proximity to, or spatially together with, planting or sowing the plant propagation material at the site of planting or sowing. Application of the composition in close spatial proximity to the site of planting or sowing takes place preferably when planting or sowing the plant propagation material, by applying the compositions by soil application directly to the site where the plant propagation material has been planted or sown, for example preferably when sowing into the seed furrow, or to a closely delimited area around the site of planting or sowing the plant propagation material. In addition, flutriafol will create a zone of protection in the soil, which controls the fungus in the soil, but also the roots and stems, when contacted with the soil containing the composition, absorb the composition, and then distribute the composition throughout the plant through known means. Application of such compositions, which takes place spatially together with planting or applying the plant propagation material to the site of planting or sowing is to be understood as meaning that plant propagation material which has been pretreated with these compositions is planted or sown at the site of planting or sowing, it being possible, depending on the intended aims and prevailing circumstances, for the pretreatment of the plant propagation material to be affected for example by spraying, atomizing, dusting or scattering the compositions over the plant propagation material or brushing or pouring the compositions over the plant propagation material or, in the event of seed, in particular also by dressing the seed. When carrying out seed dressing, i.e. dry seed, wet seed-dressing, liquid seed-dressing or slurry dressing, flutriafol is added to the seed prior to sowing in a seed-dressing apparatus and the composition is distributed uniformly over the seed, for example by stirring the contents of the seed-dressing apparatus and/or by rotating and/or shaking the entire seed-dressing apparatus. Particular embodiments of such a seed-dressing treatment comprise, for example, immersing the seed in a liquid composition, coating the seed with a solid composition (seed coating) or by achieving penetration of the active ingredient into the seed by adding the composition to the water used for pre-soaking the seed (seed soaking). For a general discussion of techniques used to apply fungicides to seeds, see “Seed Treatment,” 2d ed., (1986), edited by K. A Jeffs (chapter 9), herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Preferred application methods are
(A) Seed treatment, wherein the seed is treated with the flutriafol composition prior
(B) Preemergence or postemergence application.
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Charcoal briquet having a grooved surfaceThe invention is constituted of a method for processing an organic phase substance, including: allowing an organic phase substance to coexist with a water phase, wherein the organic phase substance contains at least organic components originating from one or more selected from crude oil, bitumen, tar, residual fuel oil, petroleum residue, oil sands, tar-sand, asphaltene, fossil strata, cokes, oil-shale and coal, and contacting resultant of the above coexistence with...
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TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an effective processing method for separating and removing heavy element species such as vanadium (e.g., vanadium oxide, such as V2O5 and VO2 and other oxide complexes), nickel, and other transition metal ions, from organic phase substances originating from e.g., crude oil, bitumen, tar, asphaltene, oil sands, tar-sand, residual fuel oil, petroleum residue, fossil strata, cokes, oil-shale or coal so as to improve the quality of the organic phase substance used as a resource, and/or for collecting and concentrating constitutive heavy element species including oxidized heavy metals, ions, elemental metals, alloys or mixtures of these. These collected heavy element species are also utilized as resources.
Furthermore the present invention is also associated with effective process methods in order to separate and remove organic components of asphaltene included in crude oil, bitumen, tar, oil sands, tar-sand, residual fuel oil, petroleum residue.
BACKGROUND
It is important to effectively remove heavy element species in oil sands or bitumen or tar or crude oil for preventing catalysts from being damaged and inactivated or for preventing the bad efficiency in upgrading processes, in other words, hydrocracking or hydrodesulfurization or hydrodenitrogenation reaction performed in the oil-related industries from degrading.
Under unstable worldwide economic situation, in order to keep diversified supply routes for mine resources based on the fair trade system, it is also crucial to collect heavy element species as a mineral resource from bitumen or tar or crude oil or coal or oil-shale present in oilfield and oil mine, etc.
On the other hand, it is well known that an organic phase substance such as heavy oil, bitumen or tar or crude oil contains a vanadium oxide, as an organic porphin derivative, i.e., a kind of vanadium complex of a porphyrin derivative having a tetrapyrrole ligand (as to appearance of porphin or porphyrin derivatives in oil, see, for example, Non Patent Literatures 1 and 2). These are quite stable.
Depending on the circumstances, a technique for removing metal ions using hydrogen peroxide in supercritical water at a temperature as high as beyond 374° C. and a pressure as high as beyond 218 atm. has been filed by Hitachi (Patent Literature 1). It is reported that only organic acids react with vanadyl porphin at a high temperature over 120° C. to release presumably a vanadium oxide into a water phase (Non Patent Literature 3).
Chemicals mixed with organic acid or phosphoric acid were applied to the removal of vanadium complexes from heavy oil at the temperature over +100° C., combining the other compounds (Patent Literatures 2, 3). It should be noted that high electric fields were applied in the system in the case of Patent Literature 3. Strong acids and the other chemicals such as sulfuric acid and FeCl3 or SnCl4 were used for the removal of vanadium metal ions of oil residue at the temperature over +100° C. (Non Patent Literature 4).
These literatures and related inventions are applicable to removing and collecting heavy element species from an organic phase substance, such as crude oil, bitumen, tar,
however all these techniques require complicated operation procedures and huge energy, more specifically, heat, high pressure and high electric field. As a result, initial investments in plants and equipment and running cost have been increased. These techniques are not free from these drawbacks.
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[Patent Literature 1] Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
[Patent Literature 2] Chinese Patent Publication No.
[Patent Literature 3] Chinese Patent Publication No.
Non Patent Literature
[Non Patent Literature 1] M. C. Sheppard, J. S. Edwards, “Athabasca Oil Sands, From Laboratory to Production”; Part One, I Geoscience Publishing: Alberta, Canada (2005).
[Non Patent Literature 2] R. H. Fish, J. Komlenic, J., Anal. Chem. ), 510-517.
[Non Patent Literature 3] J. G. Reynolds, Prepr. Pap.-Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Fuel Chem. ), 79-80.
[Non Patent Literature 4] S. Abbas, Z. T. Maqsood, M. F. Ali, Petroleum Science and Technology, 70-1777.
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Technical Problem
In the circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a processing method for upgrading organic phase substances by removing heavy element species from the organic phase substance originating from resource substances in mild environmental conditions that do not require conventional high temperature, high pressure and high electric field, and further to provide a method for collecting removed heavy element species and a method for collecting other useful substances, further to provide heavy element species, refined organic phase substance produced by using these methods, further to provide an apparatus and plant employing these processing methods, and additionally to provide means for recycling substances used in the processing methods and the plant.
Solution to Problem
Firstly “words” used in this description are explained to prevent from confusing and misunderstanding.
The “organic phase substance” described in the invention refers to a substance present in a liquid phase including a syrupy substance or a substance present in a solid phase including powers, shots, lumps having an average diameter of less than 1 m, and small pieces, or a mixture of these at least constituted of an arbitral organic component. The organic phase substance sometimes accompanies with an inorganic substance and water other than organic components.
The “organic components” as a mixture directly means all kinds of resource substances selected from one or more selected from all kinds of crude oils, all kinds of bitumens, all kinds of tars including Orinoco tar or crop-, plant-converted tars, heavy oil, all kinds of oil sands, tar-sand, fossil strata containing porphyrin derivatives, cokes, oil-shale or coal stored in Canada, North Europe, USA, Mexico, South America including Brazil and Venezuela, Australia, Africa (Congo, Madagascar), Middle East, Russia, and Asia including southeast countries and China.
Furthermore, the “organic components” as a mixture refer to substances obtained by applying all processes such as heating or upgrading or conversion to these resource substances. More specifically, the “organic components” refer to tar or bitumen residue, asphaltene, heavy oil, residual fuel oil and petroleum residue obtained by processing, mixing with organic solvents or combining with other organic components originating from these resource materials.
Furthermore, the organic phase substance described in this invention sometimes accompanies a water phase in the range from a low-level concentration (about ppt) to a high level concentration (in terms of volume percent) twice as high as the low level concentration, based on weight or volume of the organic phase substance, and possibly contains one or more of all types of inorganic substances such as sand, soil, mud, tailing and the like. The organic phase substance sometimes contains organic components as heavy as beyond an average molecular weight of 750.
The “water phase” described in this specification refers to a liquid at least constituted of hydrogen oxide, i.e., water, which originates from a solution resulting from warm water injected to soften oil sands and tar, a solution resulting from a river or lake or pond including tailing pond or sea water of an actual industrial land or soil soaked in water, containing an alkali metal chloride and/or an alkali earth metal chloride or an arbitral aqueous solution prepared from underground water or city water.
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