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US 2025/0043181 A1Published application
Fibrous soil amendment to promote agricultural crop or plant growth
AssigneeOwens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
InventorDavid H. Wolf
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Abstract
Systems for and methods of using glass fibers as a soil-based additive to enhance crop and plant growth are disclosed. By replacing a volumetric portion of the soil with the fibers, the plant-available water (PAW) of the amended soil is increased.
Claims19
A soil amendment comprising a plurality of discrete fibers, wherein the fibers have an average fiber diameter in the range of about 1 μm to about 5 μm;
- wherein the soil amendment has a density in the range of about 240.28 kg/m3 to about 720.83 kg/m3;
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- wherein the soil amendment is operable to increase the plant-available water level of the soil by at least about 30% when the soil amendment replaces about 15% by volume of the soil.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.