Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Sandhya Chandrikaprasad Mishra

Pushpito Kumar Ghosh

Vadakke Puthoor Mohandas

Mahesh Ramniklal Gandhi

Rahul Jasvantrai Sanghavi

Sumesh Chandra Upadhyay

Sreekumaran Thampy

Imran Pancha

Vinod Kumar Shahi

Babulal Surabhai Makwana

Ruma Pal

Divesh Narayan Srivastava

Ramkrishna Sen

Shantibhai Amritlal Chauhan

Ajoykumar Murlidhar Bhatt

The present invention relates to natural crude salt formulations arid their cost-effective preparation. In particular, the invention discloses the fractionation of seawater into three fractions which can thereafter be suitably combined to reconstitute seawater in its pristine form for its various applications such as growth of marine microbes, flora and fauna in a marine environment, especially where such environments have to be created in locations far removed from the sea and/or where there is a requirement to modify the composition of seawater to better its performance. The fractions can also be blended appropriately to exclude the major constituent, namely sodium chloride, and thereby be useful for mineralization/re-mineralization of waters which are deficient in mineral nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, sulphate and bicarbonate including rain water and desalinated waters obtained through thermal/RO desalination. The invention can be practiced most cost-effectively in solar salt works operated on sea brine.

Process for the preparation of natural salt formulations for seawater substitution, mineral fortification

This invention relates to new use of marine cyanobacteria and deposited with ATCC having accession numbers ATCC PTA-4602 and 4603 for the removal of calcium ions from sea-brine and sub-soil brine having a density range 10 to 25.5&deg; Be&prime;, by culturing the cyanobacteria, inoculating the cyanobacteria culture to raw brine of 10 to 25.5&deg; Be&prime;, filtering the resultant mixture to obtain a brine having less calcium, and to separate the cyanobacteria which can be reused if desired.

Process for the removal of calcium ions from the brine by marine cyanobacteria

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Sandhya Chandrikaprasad Mishra