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TOMSK, May 21 – RIA Tomsk. Reagent
for safe ammonia absorption from water was developed by scientists of
Engineering Chemical Technological Сenter of Tomsk State University (ECTC TSU); as the
director of ECTC Alexey Knyazev told RIA Tomsk, it was ordered for live fish
transportation, reagent will be useful for professional aquariums maintenance
and industrial fish farming.
"For about two years we together with TSU Laboratory for Organic
Synthesis worked on a reagent of BAG (a bisulphite adduct of glyoxal) for the
safe absorption of ammonia from water. And now we can say that the technology
was successfully tested and transferred for production to our key industrial
partner – Novochem company", – Knyazev reported.
He said that the work on technology began after the appeal of a business
partner – a company for the transportation of live fish:
"When transporting in containers, there is a problem: fish waste
products (mainly ammonia) accumulate and can poison live cargo. Special
ammonia-fixing conditioners are used to disinfect water. They are made only
abroad, but after 2014 they increased sharply in price, therefore business
addressed to us as to the engineers-chemists, capable to create technology from
scratch".
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Knyazev emphasized that the resulting reagent is more effective than the
American equivalent by about 10%, and at a price – twice cheaper. A container
with a volume of 2 cubic meters will require only 100 grams of product, a
volume of 20 "cubes" – 1 kilogram. Also, the reagent can be used to
disinfect water in professional aquariums and artificial reservoirs for fish
farming.
Innovative development will be available not only for the company that
initiated scientific research, but also for the entire market. "We plan to
reach the production volume of the reagent 5-10 tons per year", – Knyazev
added.