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WO/1998/034722A1
A dispersant formulation and process for dispersing oil spills on water, which formulation contains: (a) a sorbitan monoester of a C�10?-C�20? aliphatic monocarboxylic acid, (b) a polyoxyethylene adduct of a sorbitan monoester of a C...  
WO/1998/030303A1
A plurality of water- and oil-porous sacks (10) are partially filled with a number of generally tubular macroscopic bodies (300) of a polymer material that entraps oil, including preferably styrene-butadiene-styrene and ethylene propylen...  
WO/1998/017585A1
A hydrodynamic induction bow foil submersion plane skimmer (50) includes a pair of hull-like pontoons (52, 54) terminating in upper deck-like portions (56, 58). The pontoons (52, 54) terminate at narrowed bow portions (64, 66). The forwa...  
WO/1998/016690A1
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 to be collected is caused to flow from t...  
WO/1998/014404A1
This invention relates to a method for cleaning various surfaces such as water surfaces or dry land contaminated by crude oil or petroleum product spills, wherein said method comprises performing a treatment using a composite sorbant tha...  
WO/1998/011382A1
An oil or oil containing liquid absorbent mat comprising an absorbent layer (12) and a base consisting of an impervious sealing layer (14). The absorbent layer (12) is made of a low inflammable, highy absorbant and permanently retaining ...  
WO/1998/010146A1
Absorption means of sawdust or fuel pellets that has been freed from its terpene content and thereafter treated with a teflon wax so that the sawdust particles receive a coating of this. The sawdust treated in this way gets the property ...  
WO/1998/009023A1
The invention concerns a device (1) for keeping ice-free at least given areas of a body of water, in particular a garden pond, preventing it from becoming iced-over. In order to keep labour and costs to a minimum, the device (1) comprise...  
WO/1998/003734A1
A process and an installation for capturing and recovering polluting substances that generally float on the water surface, in particular petrol products, are described. A plurality of foraminous, floating recipients (12) in gondola form ...  
WO/1998/002259A1
The present invention relates to a method that comprises introducing into a zone to be cleaned a solution of micro-organisms capable of oxidising crude oil. Electrodes and more precisely an anode and a cathode are introduced into the cle...  
WO/1998/002258A1
The present invention relates to means for eliminating crude oil or petroleum products pollution in soil, rocks, sludge or other objects in the environment having a capillary and porous structure. The method comprises introducing into th...  
WO/1997/044279A1
A plurality of water and oil porous sacks (10) are partially filled with a number of generally toroidal bodies of a polymer material that entraps oil, and includes mesh fragments scattered throughout the bodies. Each sack is sewn with a ...  
WO/1997/041025A1
It has a gull wing hull, with rounded bow and stern, and between its bottom (69) and its deck (68) there is injected a compact mass of closed cell polyurethane foam. The boat comprises two frames (3e, 3b) actuated by hydraulic cylinders ...  
WO/1997/039194A1
The object of the invention is a system for removing oil from the surface of water, comprising a rotating gripping element (4) fitted in a casing (2) through which water polluted by oil flows, and a means (6) for removing the material co...  
WO/1997/032087A1
A device is intended to separate a surface layer (4) of a liquid (2) by means of a separating member (5) which is arranged to be kept submerged in the liquid at an operating position. The separating member (5) comprises a first inlet mem...  
WO/1997/030821A1
The present invention relates to a device for cleaning fluids such as cutting fluids, washing fluids or other fluids, from e.g. oil leaks, such as lubricants or other impurities. The invention is characterized in that it comprises a floa...  
WO/1997/020110A2
The invention relates to environmental protection and can be used for removing crude oil and oil products from the surface of water. The device for removing oil products from the water surface comprises at least one porous elastic jacket...  
WO/1997/019229A1
By this method we use the cargo pumps and the cargo lines at the manifold where we connect the flexible hoses to the EDUCTOR and with it we skim the oil-polluted sea water into the cargo tanks. With the mooring wires we keep the OIL BOOM...  
WO/1997/015732A1
A skimmer for recovering spilled oil. The skimmer is attached to the propelling vessel by a biaxial mount, which has a shaft (14) perpendicular to the center line and horizontal to the water line. The main frame of the skimmer (1) is hin...  
WO/1997/010388A1
A non-contact floating containment or repelling device (10) used to gather, contain or repel a material (14) such as oil that has been spilled on the surface of a body of water (W). This device (10) consists of a plurality of paddlewheel...  
WO/1997/007883A1
The invention relates to a sorption medium comprising largely whole, dried sphagnum plants for clearing pollutants consisting of hydrophobic compounds, such as oil, together with processes for producing, and uses, of the sorption medium.  
WO/1997/007298A1
A substantially clog-free skimmer (2, 40, 80) is described for location in a body of contaminated water, the skimmer is provided as the inlet for an oil/water separator which separator does not form part of the present invention. The ski...  
WO/1997/007292A1
In a method for recovering a floatable surface layer from a body of water, particularly a surface layer comprising a buoyant pollutant, such as oil, a collection compartment (A) having a skiming weir (K) at its top is provided in the bod...  
WO/1997/007291A1
A method of packing booms is described, where a boom (1) is packed in accordion-like folds in a boom bag (2) in the form of a foldable sheet material, whereupon the boom bag (2) is packed in accodion-like folds or rolled up around a drum...  
WO/1997/001680A1
A floating debris collection device (1) comprising flotation members (2) which define a channel (19) into which water and floating debris can flow at a first end (21) towards a second end (22), first and second closure means (7, 8) for t...  
WO/1997/001004A1
An oil retention barrier (1) over which oil cannot splash over when the barrier is hauled in consists of several floating partial cells (8, 15, 16) and several smaller partial cells (7, 21) that are submerged in water, arranged and joine...  
WO/1996/039360A1
An apparatus and method for separating oil from water in an oil/water mixture. An oil/water mixture conduit (344) receives the oil/water mixture and a moveable oil affinity layer therein (337) contacts the oil/water mixture. The affinity...  
WO/1996/037663A1
A containment boom (10) includes a plurality of self-inflatable units (12) each having a plurality of chambers (26) connected end to end. Each chamber (26) has an air valve (28) at each end thereof. A water repellent and airtight coverin...  
WO/1996/031662A1
A floating skimmer (3) which takes up the surface layer of a liquid medium in which it is floating has floats (12) and an outflow to discharge the medium taken up. In order to provide a simply constructed, automatically operating skimmer...  
WO/1996/027645A1
An apparatus for degrading hydrocarbons having a flexible containment means, a quantity of absorbent medium contained within the containment means, the absorbent medium inherently having, or being pre-treated to confer oleophilic and hyd...  
WO/1996/027711A1
The invention relates to a device of a valve mechanism for self-expanding booms. The mechanism is preferably a mechanical expansion device that folds out the boom so that air flows into the boom to fill the boom. When the boom is folded,...  
WO/1996/025726A1
An oil spill detection system to detect and track oil spills and transmit data to a remote monitoring center (20) comprising a buoyant detection platform (10) including at least one detection sensor (36, 38) to detect the presence of hyd...  
WO/1996/018675A1
An absorbent agriculture residue product and method of making the product. Preferably the agriculture residue material is reduced in size, adhesive added, consolidated to form panels or other shapes and heated to cure the adhesive. Prefe...  
WO/1996/013638A1
A quick assembly device for pollutant barriers made of a flexible pipe (2) to be partially filled with liquids and partially filled with gas consists of a system with mainly two components. The first component is a flexible pipe (2) fold...  
WO/1996/009441A1
The present invention relates to an arrangement (1) for a floating body (2) consisting of containers (3-3E) made from a flexible material positioned laterally in relation to one another and capable of being filled with air (L) or other g...  
WO/1996/006002A1
A spill containment system for vessels comprises a curtain (10a) capable of extending continuously around the entire vessel (2) and having a vertical dimension sufficient to extend from a height above the waterline to a depth below the w...  
WO/1996/003211A1
An improved absorbent composite mat (18) comprising at least one layer of a nonwoven natural-fiber laminar web (10) attached to a nonwoven synthetic fibrous laminar web (12) is disclosed. At least one surface of the composite mat is impr...  
WO/1996/002602A1
The invention relates to an adsorption and binding agent, especially for oils, fuels like diesel fuel, petrol and benzole, and varnishes, paints, organic solvents and all liquid chemicals, in which a distinction must be made between two ...  
WO/1996/001926A1
A remotely disconnectable floating containment boom (100) includes male (122) and female (112) portions of a connector, and a release element (130, 216) which holds the male and female portions together when they are operatively engaged....  
WO/1996/000119A1
There is disclosed a system for separating oil and other immiscible contaminants from a liquid body containing the contaminants such as a water body. The system includes the use of a plurality of microporous hollow fibers (16, 18) which ...  
WO/1995/032154A1
This invention provides apparatus for use in the separation of a floating contaminant from a body of liquid which comprises a substantially rectangular planar sheet (1) having on each of two opposed edges an upstanding wall member (2), s...  
WO/1995/030798A1
An apparatus for recovering floating materials, comprising a compartment (22) with a sill (20) for receiving the material to be recovered and a system for emptying said compartment, said sill (20) forming or comprising at least one clean...  
WO/1995/030156A1
An apparatus for detecting a connection between adjacent vertical panels having a first contact element (122) positioned adjacent a bottom of one of the panels, a second contact element (128) positioned adjacent a bottom of an adjacent p...  
WO/1995/028528A1
This invention relates to an apparatus for drawing up and winding up booms, preferably so-called self-expanding booms, provided with an upper floating body portion and a lower skirt portion, which comprises a plate arranged on a platform...  
WO/1995/023041A1
The invention concerns a method of absorbing organic pollutants (1) such as oil, tar or phenols in soil (12), rubble or solid-waste dumps, floating on and/or suspended in water or in a reservoir-type waste dump, the pollutants including ...  
WO/1995/021301A1
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 partially submerged in an area where oil ...  
WO/1995/019842A1
Oil-absorbing article comprising an outer coating of primarily wool felt surrounding a core of primarily fine-grained, dried pine bark.  
WO/1995/018891A1
The proposed method of recovering petroleum products from the Earth's surface and an associated device provide improved petroleum product recovery. The method involves raising the level of the product which is to be recovered in the inta...  
WO/1995/018267A1
The invention relates to a boom which includes an elongated air-inflatable buoyant body (1) made from a fabric material, a curtain (2) which depends from the lower edge of the buoyant body, and an automatic air-filling and air-emptying v...  
WO/1995/015417A1
The invention concerns a method and a device for separation and collection of substances floating in water by making use of a relative motion between the water containing the substances and a collection container having trapping means as...  

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