Rotating containment and repelling boom and method for confining

Details Rotating containment and repelling boom and method for confining Rotating containment and repelling boom and method for confining

1995-09-15

1997-09-16

Graysay, Tamara L.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Fluid control, treatment, or containment

Floatable matter containment

2102423, 210923, E02B 1504, B01D 4300

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056673370

ABSTRACT:
A non-contact floating containment or repelling device used to gather, contain or repel a material such as oil that has been spilled on the surface of a body of water. This device consists of a plurality of paddlewheels serially connected along a shaft secured between distant vessels. This shaft is rotated, thereby rotating the paddlewheels which churn the water, thus repelling the spilled material away from the device and toward a central region. By this arrangement, the device itself never becomes contaminated by the spilled material and is sprayed with the churning water, and therefore, should a fire break out, damage to the device is unlikely.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4432874 (1984-02-01), Lundin
patent: 5346329 (1994-09-01), Goans et al.
patent: 5374133 (1994-12-01), Lazes et al.

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