MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647123423 A) filed by Mitsui Kinzoku Company, Limited on October 15, 2026, for Apparatus And Method For Producing Gel.
Inventors include Kobayashi Yutaka; and Kogawa Takahiro.
The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.
Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gel production apparatus and gel production method capable of industrially producing a homogeneous gel. A gel production apparatus (1) comprises a sol production unit (10), a gel production unit (40), a sol supply pipe (20) that supplies sol produced by the sol production unit (10) to the gel production unit (40), and a temperature control unit (30) that controls the temperature of the sol flowing through the sol supply pipe (20). The sol production unit (10) produces sol having a temperature T1 from a mixture containing a silica precursor, a catalyst, and a macropore-forming agent. The gel production unit (40) produces a gel by controlling the temperature of the sol supplied by the sol supply pipe (20) to be a gelation temperature T2. The temperature control unit (30) controls the temperature of the sol flowing through the sol supply pipe (20) to be a temperature T3 that is higher than the temperature T1 and lower than the gelation temperature T2.
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