METHOD FOR PURIFYING BEE WAX FROM ANTIBIOTICS, PESTICIDES AND HEAVY METALS Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC A01K59/06 C11B11/00 

FIELD: technological processes.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to methods for purifying bee wax from antibiotics, pesticides and heavy metals using chemical reagents, sorbents and water. Method of purifying bee wax from antibiotics, pesticides and heavy metals involves purification from heavy metal salts, clarification, sterilization, purification from antibiotics and pesticides. Wax is cleaned in one step in stages. Bee wax is purified at temperature 80°C. Cleaning of heavy metal salts is carried out using tartaric acid in ratio of tartaric acid to beeswax - 1:100. Sterilization and clarification is carried out with the help of hydrogen peroxide in ratio of hydrogen peroxide to beeswax in amount of 1:5 in the presence of sodium bicarbonate in ratio of sodium bicarbonate to beeswax - 1:100. Antibiotics and pesticides are purified using NaX synthetic zeolite in ratio of synthetic zeolite NaX to bee wax - 10:1.

EFFECT: invention simplifies the bee wax purification process, increases efficiency of the process, reduces power consumption, reduces labor input of the method and, as a result, considerably lowers the cost of the whole process.

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