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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1996
Clyde W Wellen, Houston, TX (US);
Douglas K Stephens, Dickinson, TX (US);
Greg R Wellen, Houston, TX (US);
Agritec, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a rigid fine-celled foam composition and a method of producing it. The foam composition is nontoxic, environmentally friendly, has improved absorption/adsorption and retention of liquids, is not as hard as prior art foams, does not include polymerization by-products detrimental to flower and plant life, and is a foamed mixture of a caustic silicate solution derived from the caustic digestion of rice hull ash having diffused activated carbon particles from thermal pyrolysis of rice hulls rather than from commercial sodium silicate solutions. Valuable by-products of commodity grade are obtained including activated carbon and sodium fluoride.