Hydraulic and earth engineering – Fluid control – treatment – or containment – Floatable matter containment
Patent
1991-08-21
1992-11-24
Corbin, David H.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Fluid control, treatment, or containment
Floatable matter containment
2102424, 210924, 405 72, E02B 1506
Patent
active
051658216
ABSTRACT:
A combined skirted oil-sorbing boom and oil-sorbing sweep has a buoyant inner core and an oil-sorbent outer core of a spirally wound sheet of polymeric, oleophilic, hydrophobic microfibers. Adhesively bonded to a sheet of the microfibers at the outer face of the outer core is an open-mesh netting of polymeric monofilaments that are fused at their crossings. The netting and the sheet to which it is adhered extend from the outer core to form a depending skirt which acts as a barrier to oil that is being sorbed by the microfibers. The buoyant inner core can be an open-cell foam that sorbs oil slowly, thus supplementing the oil-sorbing capability without significant loss of freeboard.
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Allen Alan A.
Cernohous Stanley P.
Fischer Edward M.
Corbin David H.
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.
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