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7166221 Oil digesting microbe-plastic foam system  
This invention is a system and method for bioremediation of hydrocarbon and organic pollution in fresh and salt water. Hydrocarbon and organic pollution digesting microbes are placed in a floating...
7153423 Wastewater treatment  
Offshore facilities, systems, and methods for treating wastewater have been developed. An offshore wastewater treatment facility include wastewater treatment components (for preliminary treatment,...
7138055 Water pollution prevention and remediation apparatus  
A fluid pollution prevention system for preventing the discharge of hazardous waste from a bilge of a marine vessel, and removal of the same from the bilge. The system includes an absorber for...
6726837 Portable bilge water filter apparatus  
A casing having an inlet positioned below the bilge water discharge outlet of a boat or ship aligns a generally U-configured pipe vertically, in which first and second open ends of the pipe are...
6712957 Stationary bilge water filter apparatus  
A casing having an inlet which receives oil-based contaminated bilge water is mounted on a boat or ship in aligning a generally U-configured pipe vertically, in which first and second open ends of...
6673241 Self-floating cover system for a body of water  
The present invention is directed to a foldable, self-floating cover system for a body of water. This invention is also directed to a method of using this cover on a body of water, and particularly...
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...
6332737 Waterway pollution control apparatus  
A portable pollution control apparatus designed to span a creek or other small waterway. The apparatus includes an adjustable length boom which extends across the creek; an elongated,...
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...
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...
6221243 Device for removing hydrocarbons from storm water  
A hydrocarbon capturing device includes a retainer that is inserted into the end of an outlet pipe in a storm sewer catch basin. The retainer includes a ring that expands under a bias against the...
6146529 Device for absorbing oil from water  
Human hair is formed into a generally planar layer. The layer may comprise a center scrim to which the human hair is attached. The device is buoyant when saturated with oil and water. The device is...
6103123 Aeration device and method for creating and maintaining facultative lagoon  
A facultative lagoon, an airlift aerator for such a lagoon, and a method of operating such a lagoon. The aerator includes a U-shaped body with a down flow leg and an airlift leg and a float. The...
6099723 Catchbasin systems for filtering hydrocarbon spills  
A water- and oil-porous sack contains a hydrophobic, compliant, oil-absorbent, copolymer material arranged in a number of bodies that (a) are generally cylindrical, (b) are porous, (c) have at...
6063274 Self leveling skimmer  
A self-leveling skimmer attached to a boat is designed to remove a top surface layer of liquid while maintaining a constant position relative to the surface of the liquid layer. While maintaining a...
6017452 Oil retention barrier with anti-splashing means  
5968354 Apparatus for recovering oil-based liquid  
An apparatus for recovering an oil-based liquid from a body of liquid including the oil-based liquid. The apparatus includes a pair of cooperating rollers defining a nip therebetween, an endless...
5961823 Oil coagulant products and methods of use therefor  
Oil coagulant compositions, and methods of using such compositions to coagulate the oil that has been spilled on water are prepared from a thermal reaction utilizing an oil component selected from...
5948266 Hand manipulable skimmer system for removing an oil sheen from the surface of a body of water  
A portable liquid surface skimmer efficiently removes small spills of petroleum derivatives from the surface of water, and is useful, for example, on thin sheen spills of oil or gasoline, in...
5922205 Suppression of the formation of colloidal suspensions between tanked fuel oil and sea water  
Pretreated tubular members, preferably in the form of hollow fiber segments, and a method for suppressing the formation of a colloid of fuel oil in sea water or visa versa in a ballast/fuel oil...
5902664 Adjustable skimmer belt  
An improved adjustable skimmer belt having a belt of two layers at least one of which has an outer surface of non-absorbent oleophilic-oriented hydrophobic loop-type fibers, vertical and horizontal...
5885451 Oil spill containment and recovery apparatus  
An apparatus and method is disclosed for containment and recovery of water-insoluble liquids, e.g., oil, floating on water. The apparatus and method involves using a fibrous material coated or...
5830281 Method for controlling and containing a liquid on a hard surface  
A method for using a heretofore industrial waste material for the utilitarian purpose of controlling and containing a liquid on a hard surface. The method includes the steps of accumulating an...
5779392 Systems for containing and collecting oil spills  
A method for capturing ecologically harmful substances in the nature of hydrocarbons from the surface of a body of water or from the ground adjacent a landfill or waste dump or from a shoreline of...
5730868 Reusable spill containment apparatus  
The instant invention is a reusable housing for placement of petroleum absorbent polypropylene material within a chamber for placement in the bilge area of a boat. The polypropylene material is...
5688074 Oil barrier  
In order to control oil accidents and to prevent the oil film drifting on the water from spreading, an oil adsorber 1 is provided, in particular shaped as a barrier 2. This barrier 2 is designed in...
5679247 Boom netting material for contamination containment  
A spill retention boom is formed of a tubular mesh with an integral rib and filled with an absorbent material.
5676839 Floatable oil and debris collection device  
A device is provided in swimming pools, hot tubs, spas or the like for absorbing body and suntan oils, as well as capturing hair, dead insects and other debris commonly found in such systems. The...
5643449 Apparatus for lifting oil-based liquid  
An apparatus for recovering oil-based liquid from a body of liquid including a first layer of the oil-based liquid and a second layer of a second liquid having an interface with the first layer is...
5591333 Modular shoreline oil spill barrier assembly  
A barrier assembly is provided for protecting shorelines and structures adjacent shorelines from damage attributable to oil spills. The barrier assembly includes a flexible sheet material that is...
5531890 Oil separation and disposal systems  
Oil-separation and recovery from marine oil spills is carried out by a system which includes a containment boom, a weir and/or foil type skimmer, a separator unit and a second, fire proof...
5468536 Sorbent articles  
A microfibrous sorbent article is provided. The microfibrous sorbent article comprises an elongate boom having a substantially oval cross-section. The boom is formed of multiple adjacent...
5466379 Method of removing oil and oil like environmental contaminants from water of ground surfaces  
Oil and oil products are adsorbed with a three-dimensional lattice structure formed by coating individual glass fibers, assembling them and drying them at a temperature of about 150° C. so that...
5453191 Device for containing and absorbing oil spills on water  
Human hair is present within a porous casing. Oil floating on water enters the porous casing whereupon the oil is absorbed by the human hair. Flotational material is mixed with the human hair or...
5451325 Method for the removal of oil from oil spills  
Relatively thin flexible sheets of oleophilic, hydrophobic substrates, such as polyethylene film, are used as the basis for sorbent media in novel methods for defending against oil spills....
5429741 Sludge conditioning  
Methods are described for treating sludge, e.g. biological and/or chemical sludge, with processed cellulose material combined with another material, e.g. a surface active agent, a detergent, a...
5423985 Modular element for absorbing oily substances from surfaces of water bodies and purification system using such elements  
A module for removing polluting agents from the surface of the sea consists of absorbent polyolefinic fibres enclosed inside a permeable sheath having a short-length bundle configuration with a...
5403478 Oil-based fluid absorbent article  
An oil-based article absorbs oil-based fluid on a surface. The article is made of a cloth and a flotation material encased in the cloth to assist in the absorption of oil-based fluid and the...
5387341 Disk-type oil collector  
The present invention relates to an improved disk-type oil collector which is provided with at least one alignment of oleophile disks. Each oleophile disk of the at least one alignment of oleophile...
5380431 Oil recovery system  
An apparatus for recovering oil spilled upon a body of water. Oil accumulators (10) having numerous open-ended cells (20) entrain spilled oil upon the surfaces (24, 26, 32) of the cells (20) when...
5378371 Method of removing oil from water and apparatus therefor  
An oil skimmer of the endless belt type is disclosed. The unit has an adjustment for adjusting the location of the axis of head pulley rotation and a floating tail pulley to assure accurate...
5360654 Sorbent articles  
A microfibrous sorbent article is provided. The microfibrous sorbent article comprises an elongate boom having a substantially oval cross-section. The boom is formed of multiple adjacent...
5360548 Process for absorbing organic polluting products  
Process for the removal of organic pollutants prevalent on a liquid or solid surface by sprinkling a polymer chosen from polybicyclo(2.2.1.) heptene-2 and polymethyl-5-bicyclo(2.2.1) heptene-2. The...
5348661 Oil absorption method and apparatus utilizing a replaceable bladder  
A method of removing hazardous fluid waste material from a body of water by exposing a carrier (10) containing a porous bladder (20) filled with sorbent material to the waste and then removing said...
5346625 Flammable neutralizing system and packet  
A system for neutralizing petroleum products leaked into an enclosed portion of a fuel transfer system such as a sump. The system comprises the use of a water insoluble container having a quantity...
5322388 Toxic waste monitoring and collection device  
A device for monitoring and collecting toxic wastes in underground reservoirs, with no moving parts, is disclosed herein. A pollutant/water separator is supported interior to an outer chamber for...
5284048 Liquid hydrocarbon skimmer systems and methods of monitoring leaks in hazardous liquid tanks  
A floatable liquid hydrocarbon skimmer system for monitoring possible leaks in hazardous liquid tanks incorporates a vertically disposed tubular housing having an upper end with passages to admit...
5271691 Oil absorption apparatus using kenaf fiber and core portions  
An oil cleanup method and apparatus uses processed kenaf that is processed using a cutter to preliminarily cut the kenaf stalks into short pieces or billets. These billets are threshed to separate...
5262048 Apparatus to recover petroleum from slicks and spills  
This invention comprises an apparatus and a method of using it to recover petroleum from a spill or the like floating, for example, on a body of water. Powder particles which have a strong affinity...
5259958 Hydrocarbon extractor  
A hydrocarbon extractor, intended to be disposed above a tank (10) containing a mixture of a liquid and a liquid hydrocarbon, comprises a belt (16) made of an oleophilic material which is adapted...
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