Oil containment booms

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1981-04-01

1983-09-13

Blix, Trygve M.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Fluid control, treatment, or containment

Floatable matter containment

114267, 441 30, E02B 1504

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044038887

ABSTRACT:
The invention concerns the design of an oil containment boom suitable particularly for stowage on a reel. The boom in its inflated condition, is of "T" section having double buoyancy chambers and a central skirt member. The boom utilizes a tension wire in its lower skirt region and an air pressurizing hose in its upper skirt above the buoyancy chambers. The geometry of the panels making up the chambers is arranged, together with the joints, to give a substantially flat deflated form. The air pressurizing hose and the tension wire are of comparable diameter each being of larger diameter than the maximum thickness of the deflated boom whereby undesirable folding and puckering of the boom material when wound up is accommodated in the lateral space between the hose and the wire.

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patent: 3641770 (1972-02-01), Fitzgerald
patent: 3859796 (1975-01-01), Benson
patent: 4140424 (1979-02-01), Bretherick

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