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WO/1995/012036A1
An improved boom for use in containing oil spills and the like on water comprises a floatation tube (10), an upper chain pocket (11), a skirt (13), and a lower chain pocket (14). The skirt (13) may be made to sink by placing a chain in t...  
WO/1995/008470A1
The craft, especially the amphibious vehicle (1) according to the invention, is equipped with a grate (6) with the possibility of being introduced into the water for collecting in the water floating materials, and with at least one set o...  
WO/1995/008673A1
Apparatus for recovering fluid substances floating on a water surface, comprising multiple disks (9-12) which are arranged on at least one horizontal shaft (13, 14), are partially immersed in the water, and rotate at different speeds and...  
WO/1995/007240A1
A generally vertical tube (10) communicates at its lower end with a reservoir (12) containing the heavier of two liquids to be separated. A vacuum system (16) is used to create a lower pressure at the top of the tube than at the bottom. ...  
WO/1995/002733A1
An apparatus (10) for recovering a spill from the surface of a liquid comprises a collection unit (12) for collecting a mixture of the spill and the liquid, and a pumping unit (16) for delivering the mixture to a separation tank (32). Th...  
WO/1995/001308A1
An oil-based article (10) absorbs oil-based fluid (16) on a surface such as water (14). The article (10) is made of a cloth (30) or a cloth (30) and a flotation material (40). Preferably, the cloth (30) has a napped surface (32). The clo...  
WO/1994/029531A1
A floating modular system to support oil absorbent booms that provide continuous protection for enclosed or semi-enclosed water bodies from floating hydrocarbons. The invention refers to an anchored stable modular system, consisting of f...  
WO/1994/028254A1
An oil skimmer has a circular hopper (1) with a weir (2) at its upper end and an inwardly sloping inner wall (3). An aperture (4) at the bottom end of the hopper (1) feeds a pump (5) connected to a discharge hose (6). Floats (14, 15 and ...  
WO/1994/023815A1
The device collects and contains spilled or leaked liquid hydrocarbons by absorbing them. The absorbed material is solidified within the device into a rubber-like mass. The device will then float indefinitely, and is easily retrieved and...  
WO/1994/024374A1
An apparatus for removal of oil floating on the surface of a body of water comprises a rotatable cylinder (1), a scraper blade (2) and an oil collection trough (3) for collecting oil removed from the cylinder (1) as it rotates. The appar...  
WO/1994/021862A1
An improved boom for use in containing oil spills and the like on water comprises a flotation tube, an upper chain pocket, a skirt, and a lower chain pocket. The boom is strengthened by placing a chain, or wire rope if a stiff boom is re...  
WO/1994/020690A1
A hydraulic skimming device for treating and storing solid or liquid pollutants on the surface of a body of water (2). The device comprises at least one float (3) provided with a propulsion and steering system, and a flexible hose (4) li...  
WO/1994/020691A1
A floating skimmer device for recovering and removing layers of pollutants on the surface of a body of water. The device comprises an engine (2) and a pump (3) mounted on a float (4), a flexible tubular hose (8) for removing the pollutan...  
WO/1994/020692A1
A spill containment boom (5) is stored along a shoreline. Attached to one end of the deployable boom is a flotation device (3). The boom is deployed into the river or other moving waterway by a cable (1) to which the boom is attached via...  
WO/1994/019546A1
A float boom (10) for retaining a floatable material, such as hydrocarbons, floating upon a liquid surface. This float boom (10) consists of separate and sequentially arranged buoyancy chambers (12) having depending channels (16, 17) tha...  
WO/1994/018132A1
The strains of acinetobacter species (bicoccum) B-6445, arthrobacter species S-1212 and rhodococcus species S-1213 were deposited on 19 January 1993 with the All-Union Collection of Industrial Microorgansims of the All-Union Scientific R...  
WO/1994/017250A1
A device is disclosed for absorbing floating liquids such as oil, gazoline or the like, in particular on oil- or gazoline-polluted water surfaces. This oil sucking-off station (1) has a cylindrical oil collecting container (2) and a floa...  
WO/1994/017251A1
Device for collection of spillage and leakage, especially oil, from shipwrecks (11). A hood (13) is adapted to be situated over the wreck and is connected to a riser (18), extending to a level below the sea surface, from where the spilla...  
WO/1994/017249A1
In order to control oil accidents and to prevent the oil film drifting on the water from spreading, an oil adsorber (1) is provided, in particular shaped as a barrier (2). This barrier (2) is designed in two parts. Both cells (9, 10) are...  
WO/1994/013887A1
A system for deploying a cover over an oil spill, to collect the spilled oil, uses a plurality of gas propelled rockets (20) attached to lines (22) arranged around the periphery of the cover (24). Outward projection of the rockets (20) s...  
WO/1994/012385A1
A pollution control device for cleaning up a body of water, in particular near beaches. The device includes a system (1) for skimming off and storing pollutants floating on the water surface. Said device is a jet ski (2), said skimming a...  
WO/1994/011582A1
The present invention is related to a dam built of a flexible and inflatable material to be used to temporarily isolate sections of lakes, bays and even stream with low water flowrates. The flexible dam is constituted by guide pipe (1), ...  
WO/1994/010026A1
The invention relates to a device for recovering floating material from a liquid surface. The device includes at least one drum (11A, 11B) to be rotated, partly immersed in the liquid, about a substantially horizontal axis (12). The curv...  
WO/1994/008902A1
Disclosed herein is a process for separating a hydrophobic liquid from a substantially polar medium through the application of expanded graphite particles. Upon contacting the hydrophobic liquid floating agglomerates of expanded graphite...  
WO/1994/000642A1
This invention relates to a collection and separation apparatus for removing oil and the like from a water surface, the apparatus being provided with two gables, which are stationarily arranged on a shaft, which is rotably arranged in a ...  
WO/1993/025435A1
The disclosed system comprises a floating cage (1) provided, sideways of the cage (1) and with the use of appropriate frame elements (4, 5), with floats (6-6'), which are appropriate to set the cage assembly at a correct operational leve...  
WO/1993/024414A1
The water polluted with organic substances is brought into contact with means provided with an articulated surface. The adhering organic component is then removed. The water-contacting means have mutually spaced apart (i, h) needles (18)...  
WO/1993/021391A1
An oil boom has a longitudinal hose-shaped floating body (10) of cloth or fabric material, and a skirt (11), also of cloth or fabric material, extending from the floating body and equipped with sinkers (13). The floating body has interna...  
WO/1993/015833A1
An oil absorbent material having a rounded, spherical shape, consists of thermo-mechanical pulp or another high-yield pulp containing at least 2 % by weight, based on the weight of the wood, of the native, extractive components of the wo...  
WO/1993/011305A1
Device for deploying a plate or cap shaped barrier structure in a body of water, e.g. a covering element having a pyramidal shape for collection of oil spill, or deploying a covering element onto an object on the seabed. The covering mea...  
WO/1993/008263A1
A mobile waterborne bioreactor vessel and process utilize microorganisms to degrade spilled waste materials, for example, individual waste or spilled waste materials in oceans and waterways. When configured for collecting spilled waste m...  
WO/1993/008351A1
A mobile floating surface skimmer which consists of a frame into which are incorporated a vessel and a number of buoyancy and ballast elements. These elements are arranged so as not to significantly impede the flow of surface liquid and ...  
WO/1993/008337A1
The performance of mechanical skimmers for the removal of oil from water is improved through use of an oil-avid contacting member consisting of a mat of oleophilic fibers, the fiber surfaces coated with a film of a hydrocarbon soluble, n...  
WO/1993/008336A1
The present invention relates to an oil catcher or skimmer (1) for removing oil spillage (5) from a water surface (2), especially crude oil, comprising a drive mechanism (3a, 3b) for driving a web-like pick-up means (3) equipped with cat...  
WO/1993/007090A1
A method of removing hazardous fluid waste material from a body of water by exposing a carrier (10) containing a porous bladder (20) filled with sorbent material to the waste and then removing said carrier (10). The exposed bladder (20) ...  
WO/1993/006308A1
The present invention relates to a continuous floating boom, a method, a fabrication unit and a boat for making and setting in place such a boom. Said boom comprises a partially emerged portion (12) and an immersed portion (13) essential...  
WO/1993/006309A1
Arrangement for a boom for confining and collecting escaped oil or the like, having a supporting part and an adjacent shield part, in conjunction with which the supporting part consists of a collapsible hose-like casing divided into a nu...  
WO/1993/005237A1
A floating boom (1) has associated means (P_,_S_) for injecting one or more flows of fluid (gas and/or liquid) adjacent an external surface of the boom. Such a flow may be arranged to rise up the side of the boom, staying close to it owi...  
WO/1993/005238A1
An apparatus for removing and collecting oil spills. The apparatus comprises a forward profile (1) having a forward end that extends below the surface of the body of water and a deflector (2) to deliver water (42) and oil (41) to a colle...  
WO/1993/004236A1
A combined skirted oil-sorbing boom (10) and oil-sorbing sweep has a buoyant inner core (12) and an oil-sorbent outer core (20) of a spirally wound sheet (15) of polymeric, oleophilic, hydrophobic microfibers. Adhesively bonded to a shee...  
WO/1993/002256A2
An arrangement (10) for containing oil spillage comprises an inflatable boom (11) and suspended in the water therefrom an anti-pollution skirt (20) and/or a deformable tube (72), cables (21, 22) and a generally horizontal membrane (31) t...  
WO/1993/001083A1
An oil spill retrieval vessel (101) has an influent for collecting oil and sea water that forms an oil spill or slick. The vessel has an interior (110) that contains the skimmed oil and water and separates the oil within the vessel and u...  
WO/1993/000256A1
The object of the invention is to provide an on-board oil spill prevention and recovery system for an oil transporting vessel (1). The system includes a pillow storage container (11) which releasably houses a plurality of sorbent pillows...  
WO/1992/022711A1
This invention relates to an apparatus for booms, preferably so-called self-expanding booms, which comprises a plate arranged on a platform, which plate is rotatable by means of a motor unit, and which comprises a means for winding up th...  
WO/1992/021555A1
An oil spill containment collar system (10) for aquatic vessels. A deployable floatation collar (34) and apron (33) apparatus automatically surrounds the periphery of the vessel (8) to be contained. This continuous collar (34) only takes...  
WO/1992/021615A1
The invention relates to a method of and a ship for separating and gathering oil from water. For the separation the phase boundary of the oil and water is exposed to light radiation from within the water. The irradiated oil is gathered i...  
WO/1992/021420A1
A separator jet (10) to separate a first liquid (62) from a second liquid (64) upon which the first liquid (62) is floating. The separator jet (10) has a main body (12) with a base (14) and a top (16). There is an inlet nozzle (18) in th...  
WO/1992/020626A1
An oil and/or grease recovery system for use with waste water from a dishwater or the like includes a container (22) having an inlet (30) and an outlet (38). An endless belt (8) with a cooperating scraper (20) and trough (26) removes the...  
WO/1992/020572A1
A device for removing impurities from water comprises a V-shaped floating cassette (1) having a rear portion (2) with projecting legs (3). The device further includes a tube (4) which is connected to the rear portion (2) and opens at a h...  
WO/1992/020422A1
In the method described, the liquid having the higher adhesive power is contacted with fibres of non-absorbant material, the fibres removed from the liquid and most of the liquid adhering to the fibres removed from them, thus enabling th...  

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