Thermal protective device for tabular icebergs

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1978-09-21

1980-10-28

Corbin, David H.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Fluid control, treatment, or containment

405 28, 405 61, 405211, E02B 100

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042304180

ABSTRACT:
A device (4) for thermally protecting the side of a tabular iceberg (1) produces a vertical layer of calm water (7) between itself and the vertical side wall of the tabular iceberg. This thermal protective device is suspended from a mechanical protective device, which may comprise a wall of floating towers (5). The protective device comprises panels (8) of woven or non-woven material parallel to the vertical side wall of the tabular iceberg, each of said panels having a width greater than its height, being suspended from a horizontal cable (10) passing through a top hem of the panel and being stretched taut by ballast (9).

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patent: 4102134 (1978-07-01), Margen
Match, Oct. 30, 1976.
Ocean Industry of Mar. 1973, pp. 28-29.

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