ABSORBER COMPOSITION FOR ETHYLENE CONTROL

摘要

With a special application for the control of ethylene gas in fruit and vegetable ripening processes, consisting of a diatomite and potassium permanganate mixture, which is first mixed dry until producing a uniform product, and subsequently mixed with water, the diatomite participating at ratios comprised between 80 and 90%, and the potassium permanganate at a ratio comprised between 1 and 50%, such that the former constitutes a highly absorbent substrate for the latter, which permits increasing the amount of the latter and, accordingly, also increasing the activity of the composition. Said composition can optionally contain calcium chloride at a ratio comprised between 1 and 15% in order to improve the effect or increase of water retention of the composition.