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7384548 |
Manually controlled skimming of industrial oil contaminants
The present invention provides a method for removing an oil contaminant from a surface of an aqueous solution, comprising manually controlling a surface skimmer from a remote location to remove a...
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7368054 |
Apparatus to separate oil and debris from an aqueous fluid
A separator to separate oil and debris from an aqueous fluid includes a container with a cover, the top portion of which includes a control panel access door. The separator draws an aqueous fluid...
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7357860 |
Skimmer system
A skimmer system composed of a base and a slidable float assembly. The base has a base chamber defined by a sidewall, an endwall, and a conduit having an intake communicating with the base chamber....
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7326354 |
Active barrier for polluted waters and method for its installation
The invention relates to an active barrier ( 1 ) and a method for its use. The active barrier ( 1 ) is used to contain and to collect polluting material floating over bodies of water, such as...
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7303688 |
Oil skimmer and method of operating same
A skimmer used to remove both heavy and light oil from a body of water or for the removal of either light or heavy oil and a method of operation of the skimmer. The heavier oil is removed from a...
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7297259 |
Oil spill collection device
A device for cleaning up oil spills attachable to a ship for cleaning up crude, has a pair of arms coupleable to a side of a hull of the ship at a water line level, each of the arms having a casing...
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7296694 |
Tower-type grease removal apparatus for commercial grease trap assemblies
A grease skimming and removal apparatus for use with grease trap settling tank apparatus provides a vertically elongated, vertically extending tower housing on the top wall of a grease trap tank...
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7273548 |
Fluid filter
A fluid filter, which is adapted for separating a less dense fluid floating on a high dense fluid, includes at least a fluid filtering arrangement including a floating wing adapted for floating on...
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7182860 |
Oil collecting apparatus and a method for collecting oil or the like
An oil collecting apparatus ( 1 ) and a method for collecting oil or the like comprises a frame ( 5 ) designed to form a restricted space with the surface of water or ice (VL), and a discharge...
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7163637 |
Apparatus and process for taking up particles from a water surface
The invention relates to an apparatus and a process for taking up particles, in particular particles of oil, algae or dirt, from a water surface ( 2 ). A hull structure ( 1 ) is moved over the...
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7112279 |
Arrangement and method for collecting oil
The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for collecting oil from water in open water and/or winter conditions, whereby a vessel's hull and oil collecting equipment are utilized as an...
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7008139 |
Oil boom and use thereof
A boom ( 1 A) is described, especially for containing oil spills and/or other similar pollution at sea, in rivers or on water surfaces, comprising an elongate body consisting of an element having...
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6962659 |
Contaminant skimming device
An oil skimmer for removing oil floating on surfaces of bodies of water. The oil skimmer includes a support frame, respective drive pulley and guide pulleys rotatably mounted to the support frame...
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6905611 |
Device for separating a surface layer of a liquid
The invention refers to a device for separating a surface layer of a liquid by a container submerged in the liquid. The container includes a bottom, a wall member, connected to the bottom and...
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6905597 |
Device for recovering oil from an oil-slick on a stretch of water
A device for recovering oil from an oil-slick on a stretch of water is supported on the water by at least one first floating body and is provided with an inlet that is open facing the oil-slick and...
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6881335 |
Apparatus and system for the containment of oil spills
An apparatus or system for containing oil and the like floating on the surface of a body of water, comprising a relatively elongate channel defined by two side-defining faces that diverge from one...
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6793807 |
Liquid pollutant skimming system
A system for skimming oil and other pollutants from the surface of a body of water. Each skimmer has a frame supporting and housing pumps, sensors, computers, and piping for separating the...
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6743358 |
Apparatus for collecting material floating on a body of water
A skimmer apparatus for collecting material, particularly oil, floating on the surface of a body of water, comprises collecting vessel with a collection compartment. The collection compartment...
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6712958 |
Method and apparatus for recovery of a slick floating on the surface of a liquid
Method and apparatus for recovery of the product forming a slick floating on the surface of the water such as an oil slick. The apparatus comprises a recovery head formed by an enclosure having in...
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6709587 |
Method and device for collecting a floating liquid
A collection device ( 10 ) or a recovery device ( 13 ) made up of several interconnected collection devices is usable in a method for collecting a floating liquid, e.g., oil, from the surface of a...
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6663772 |
Oil skimming apparatus
A system for recovering oil spilled on a body of water includes a buoyant containment boom of sufficient length to surround at least a portion of the spilled oil, the boom having a plurality of...
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6627090 |
Submersion drum skimmer
An apparatus for collecting oil from a surface of a water body comprising a drum, the drum rotatably mounted on a vessel such that a lower portion of the drum is positioned below a waterline of the...
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6592765 |
Method and device for collecting oil mixed with ice blocks
A method and a device for separating oil from ice. In the method, ice is pressed under the water along an inclined surface formed by a bar screen ( 3 ) or a grating. The oil is separated from the...
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6592753 |
Oil recovery system
An oil recovery system, designed to recover oil from oil-contaminated water of a river, lake or sea due to a difference in specific gravity of the liquids. The system includes a 4-stage separation...
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6540925 |
Oil recovery method and oil recovery apparatus
An apparatus for recovering oil has a bucket for skimming and collecting water and oil floating on the surface of the water. The bucket has a base plate having apertures for draining water...
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6517726 |
Contaminant slick dispersal apparatus and methods
Method and apparatus for depositing a chemical over a body of water. In one embodiment the invention includes collecting and concentrating a floating contaminant between two floating booms pulled...
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6488841 |
Adjustable skimmer with pivot arms
A skimming apparatus which skims a two-component liquid from the surface of a liquid mixture in a tank includes a pump which pumps the skimmed liquid to a coalescer for separating and collecting a...
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6471862 |
Oil skimming apparatus
An oil skimming apparatus for collecting oil from a surface of a water body is provided comprising a floatable hull, a hollow non-floating cylinder rotatably mounted adjacent a bow of the hull, and...
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6471854 |
Liquid contaminant separating system
A liquid contaminant separation system that includes a liquid surface skimmer having an interior with a wall perimeter sealed by a vertically sliding float. The float has a tubular body with slots...
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6458282 |
Method and apparatus for separating floating pollutants
Method and apparatus for cleaning an open surface of a body liquid, especially for recovering oil spills or other floating pollutants. A surface portion of the water carrying pollutants is caused...
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6436289 |
Vertical membrane storage system and method of storing liquids using the same
A vertical membrane storage system including a flexible membrane housing having an upper enclosed portion capable of storing a fluid and a lower open portion for receiving the fluid is disclosed....
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6423214 |
Device for decanting supernatant
A wastewater treatment tank with influent gates ( 24 ) and pre-react zone with an outwardly flared lower portion. Influent passes over influent gates ( 24 ), which introduce turbulence, causing...
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6372134 |
Cleaning device for removing oil
A cleaning device ( 1 ), which is attached to a collecting device comprising a body and wheels ( 3 ) in which device a V-shaped brush ( 2 ) secured to a belt ( 7 ) moves in a groove, whereby the...
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6363873 |
Ship for recovering floating petroleum products and mobile installation using such recovery ships
A subject of the invention is a ship ( 20 ) for recovering petroleum products floating at the surface of the sea, characterized in that it comprises an open front part equipped with a rotary...
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6358409 |
Oil skimmer
An apparatus for skimming a layer of oil from an aqueous surface which includes a body portion having a horizontal opening. There is a collection tube secured to the opening and a suction tube...
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6341920 |
System for collecting oil on water
A system for collecting oil on water comprises an oil boom ( 1 ) and a floating collection container ( 2 ), which is connected to an opening ( 4 ) in the boom by a pumping hose ( 3 ). The pumping...
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6328888 |
Skimmer
A skimmer for operating in a water environment provides a conveyor with transverse apertures and a sloping upwardly travelling lower flight in a trough shaped guide, for a lower extent and, over an...
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6322694 |
Machine coolant management system
An apparatus for removing floating and subsurface contaminants from a machine tool coolant bath is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a floating skimmer for collecting floating contaminants from...
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6312596 |
Absorbent bag
A bag, particularly adapted for absorbing hydrocarbons dispersed in smaller quantities of water, has a ball-like shaped body formed from oleophobic netting materials. The bag body includes a...
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6287460 |
Device for continuously skimming off a top layer
In an apparatus for continually skimming off a top layer of a body of liquid, the apparatus having a self-adjusting collecting container with two opposite sidewalls, a rear wall, and a bottom...
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6277287 |
Self leveling suction skimming device
A suction skimmer with a vertically adjustable inlet for removing preferred upper portions of a liquid from a fluid body under substantially laminar flow conditions and which is self leveling in...
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6274046 |
Method and apparatus for collecting matter floating on a body of water
To collect oil or other matter floating on the surface of a body of water a collection vessel (11) having a collection compartment (A) is immersed in the water. A surface layer carrying the matter...
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6269763 |
Autonomous marine vehicle
An autonomous marine vehicle is disclosed, the vehicle comprising a rigid hull having an interior and a periphery, a deck joining the rigid hull at the periphery; and a rigid mast pivotally...
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6261451 |
Oil slick removal/recovery apparatus
An apparatus (15) mounted to a boat structure (17) for skimming a layer (65) of oil in an oil slick (26) deposited on water (29) and by which the boat structure (17) freely sinks or rises during...
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6251286 |
Accumulating automatic skimmer
A floating skimmer is used for automatically removing oil and other floating matter from the surface of liquid surrounding the skimmer, preferably in a basin or sump. Floats around the periphery...
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6221256 |
Portable apparatus for preventing diffusion and landing of outflow oil
A transportable apparatus for preventing the spreading and coming ashore of spilled oil that is easily transportable to a sea area where spilled oil is spread and that can perform the operation of...
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6190570 |
Method of removing, collecting, and treating substances floating on water surface and apparatus for removing, collecting, and treating the substances
In floating substance removing, collecting and treating method and apparatus capable of securely separating and collecting floating substances floating on a water surface without adversely...
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6174436 |
Irrigation type oil skimmer and method for skimming oil
An oil skimmer has a lower hull capable of floating and submerging and capable of discharging sea water through an opening to thicken a layer of oil. An oil drawing device in the form of a water...
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6159361 |
Oil-reclaiming bouyant apparatus
An oil separating buoyant surface vessel for separating oil from surface water level from a large body of oil-contaminated water and for economically reclaiming this oil The vessel comprises a pair...
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6126824 |
Scum removal system for liquid treatment tank
A scum removal system for a sewage treatment or clarification tank having a feedwell or skimmer flight includes a scum trough disposed within the settling tank. A floating weir is disposed...
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