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| 20080230493 | OIL FILTER DRAIN TOOL - The invention is a handheld device for puncturing oil filters and thus allowing more retained oil to drain from used filters. An oil filter has several internal chambers filled with oil which do not drain by gravity from the filter unless the sidewall of the filter is punches. The device of the invention punches the sidewall of the filters, and provides a rack for draining the oil filters. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080251471 | WET (PLASTIC) AND DRY CONCRETE RECLAMATION/DISPOSAL DEVICE - A device and method for residual concrete collection for disposal or reclamation of same, wherein a bag is formed, generally prismatic in structure, with an opening in the top. Suspension straps serve to attach the bag and support it below the outflow of concrete mixing or delivery equipment such that concrete and/or water will flow into the device, wherein water will subsequently pass therethrough. The device and collected concrete can then be moved and/or stored for disposal or reclamation of the concrete. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080257837 | Oil/Water Separator One Truck Cleaning with Clean Water Return - A process for decontamination and separation of a contaminated fluid including a first agent, a second agent, and a third agent may include the steps of directing the contaminated fluid to a first tank, substantially separating first agent in a first layer, a second agent in a second layer and a third agent in a third layer in a first tank, generating a vacuum and removing the first agent and the second agent by the vacuum, placing the first agent and the second agent in a second tank, generating a vacuum and removing the first agent and the second agent by the vacuum and placing the first and second agents in a second tank, removing the third agent by a vacuum and placing the third agent in a third tank, separating the first agent and the second agent based upon the gravities of the first and second agents, removing the second agent from the second tank and placing the second agent in the first tank based upon and until the first agent is detected. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080290050 | Device, Kit to Filter Bone Marrow Aspirate - The present invention refers to a filtering device for bone marrow aspirate, a kit comprising said filtering device, a method to obtain a biocompatible material enriched with progenitor cells, the material per se obtained from said method and to the use of said material for bone treatment, both in humans and animals. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090032476 | Cover system and method for making the same for use with a twin channel clarifier tank - A cover system for a clarifier tank having a combined effluent and influent trough separated by a dividing wall. The cover system includes a mounting bracket attached to an inboard wall of the influent trough and at least one openable cover panel attached to the mounting bracket. An opposite support bracket is located on the dividing wall between the influent and the effluent troughs, where the cover panel covers the effluent channel and is openable for cleaning of the effluent channel. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090065449 | Fluid Separation System - A system for separating a mixture of two fluids of different specific gravities comprising:
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| 20090127213 | Agitating device and method for sewage treatment - The invention relates to an agitating device, in which a hyperboloid agitating body ( | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090152213 | SEPARATING SAND FROM FLUIDS PRODUCED BY A WELL - A settling system may be used to separate and/or remove solid particles, such as sand, from fluids produced by wells. The container of the settling system may be cleaned without need for manned-entry. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090314725 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING A TARGET FLUID SUBMERGED IN A HIGHER DENSITY CARRIER FLUID - Apparatus and method for collecting a target fluid submerged in a carrier fluid when the specific gravity of the target fluid is lower than the specific gravity of the carrier fluid and the target fluid is essentially immiscible with the carrier fluid. The apparatus includes a funnel, a system effective for achieving submersion of a majority of the slant height of the funnel within the carrier fluid, and a pump in fluid communication with the interior volume of the funnel proximate the smaller end of the funnel for pumping fluid collected at the smaller end of the funnel. The method involves positioning a funnel between the submerged target fluid and the upper surface of the carrier fluid so as to catch and direct an upward flow of the target fluid towards the smaller end of the funnel before the target fluid reaches the upper surface of the carrier fluid. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100006517 | Gravity Separator, and a Method for Separating a Mixture Containing Water, Oil, and Gas - A gravity separator comprises a vessel within which a mixture containing water, oil, and gas can separate under gravity to form vertically discrete oil and water layers and a gas phase. An inlet duct communicates with a vessel entrance for the mixture containing water, oil, and gas. The inlet duct of the gravity separator comprises injector means injecting a gaseous medium in a volume in the range of 0.01-1.9 Sm | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100224576 | Method and Composition for Sorbing Toxic Substances - Toxic substances such as heavy metals are extracted from a medium using a sorbent composition. The sorbent composition is derived by sulfidation of red mud, which contains hydrated ferric oxides derived from the Bayer processing of bauxite ores. Exemplary sulfidizing compounds are H | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110042328 | CONTINUOUS SLUDGE DECANT SYSTEM - A continuous sludge decant system and associated methods are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment an apparatus for decanting sludge includes: a decant vessel configured to receive sludge influent, to contain the sludge to be heated and decanted, and to discharge the sludge and a decanted liquid from the sludge, and a heating/directional grid disposed within an interior of the decant vessel and around which the sludge is circulated, mixed, and stirred, the heating/directional grid comprising a plurality of heating coils and configured to circulate heat from a heat source through the decant vessel to decant the sludge. The vessel and the heating/directional grid are configured to contain, heat, mix, and decant the sludge without shearing the sludge. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110068064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL MATERIALS ON THE BASIS OF THEIR DENSITY - Systems and methods for separating particles of pharmaceutically active materials, based on differences in density. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110073551 | FILTER MODULES FOR IMPROVED MEDIA UTILIZATION AND USE IN GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HOUSING - Filter modules for use in a water dispenser, carafe, or other gravity-flow water filtration and dispensing unit are self-supporting, rigid and porous, and are adapted in size and shape to substantially fill a generally-cylindrical housing. The filter modules are molded forms of high-porosity compositions, so that they are consistent in performance and “non-dusting” compared to the unpredictable arrangements, positions, and performance of loose activated carbon particles. Filter modules may include activated carbon, zeolitic, resins, metal-scavengers, and/or other water filtration/treatment media granules/powders, for example, bound into a solid profile form by thermoplastic and/or other polymeric binders. Low melt index, or very low melt index, binders are preferred to maximize exposure of the activated carbon surface area. Thin walls of media surround the preferred single core/bore of each module, to preferably form generally D-shaped or triangular modules, wherein multiple modules of the same shape may be attached side-by-side to a housing plate/member, to substantially fill the housing, with the modules close together but spaced to allow water flow between and all around the modules. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110079563 | IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDWELLS - The invention provides several improvements in feedwells, one of which being a feedwell ( | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110100931 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING FEED CONCENTRATION IN A SEDIMENTATION VESSEL - A feed system is used in a sedimentation vessel. The feed system includes an inlet for receiving a quantity of feed slurry and an outlet for delivering the feed slurry to a separation zone within the sedimentation vessel. The feed slurry includes a mixture of solids and liquids that are to be separated in a separation zone within the sedimentation vessel. An airlift pump is used to cycle at least a portion of either the separated solids or the separated liquids from the separation zone and return it to the feed system. This returned portion mixes with the feed slurry and may operate to dilute the feed slurry to a concentration for optimal separation. Additionally, feed conditioning chemicals may be mixed into the feed slurry prior to or after the mixing of the feed slurry with the returned portion of the separated products. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110168648 | GASIFICATION APPARATUS WITH CONTINUOUS SOLIDS DISCHARGE - A process for the discharge of slag and ash from a gasification reactor is disclosed. These solids are directed from the gasification reactor into a water bath housed with the gasification reactor in a pressure vessel. There are at least two lock hoppers underneath the water bath which are fed with a stream of water/solids via a pipe and a flow divider element, it being possible to supply the lock hoppers individually and in a controlled manner with a stream of water/solids via shut-off devices. The filling is performed in a manner that encourages the sett-ling process by withdrawing a stream of liquid from the lock hopper being filled, the filling time being controlled so as to prevent the solids settling above the valves and lock hoppers. Also disclosed is an apparatus with at least two lock hoppers underneath the water bath of a gasification reactor, there being, in an advantageous embodiment, a flow divider element and shut-off devices between the water bath and the lock hoppers. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110174747 | PROCESS FOR SELECTIVE SEPARATION AND FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS INCREASE IN PURITY, OF SPENT, FRAGMENTED, ORGANIC MATERIALS BY MEANS OF AQUEOUS MEDIA HAVING CHOSEN DENSITIES - Process for the selective separation, and for the simultaneous increase in purity, of two spent, fragmented, synthetic organic materials having different densities, mixed together or mixed with various contaminating materials to be eliminated, by means of dense aqueous media, each aqueous medium of which has a chosen density “ds” as threshold for separating said organic materials and contaminants, characterized in that the process comprises: a) a step of separating the mixture into two streams, a supernatant stream (a1) and a settled stream (a2); b) a step of separating the components of the supernatant stream (a1), by eliminating the supernatant fraction and collecting the settled fraction formed from the fragments of the first recyclable spent synthetic organic material; c) a step of separating the components of the settled stream (a2) by collecting the supernatant fraction and eliminating the settled fraction; and d) a step of separating the components of the supernatant stream by eliminating the supernatant fraction and collecting the settled fraction formed from the fragments of the second recyclable spent synthetic organic material. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110186528 | GRIT REMOVING DEVICE, GRIT REMOVING SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR THE SAME - The present invention relates to a grit chamber, wherein the chamber body of the grit chamber is in the shape of a hollow cylinder with a cone-shaped bottom; a grit channel is installed below the center of the cone-shaped bottom; a grit removing device is installed in the grit channel; a wall mixer, a plurality of vertical mixers and a spiral grit remover are installed in the chamber body; the wall mixer is installed on the wall of the hollow cylinder; the spiral grit remover is installed in the center of the cylinder, and is provided with a grit-removing blade for removing the grit on the cone-shaped bottom; and the vertical mixers are installed at the position close to the cone-shaped bottom and are vertical to the wall. The invention also provides a grit removing system containing a grit chamber and a grit removing method. With the vertical mixers and the wall mixer, the grit removing device is capable of efficiently and completely sinking the grit in the dung of domestic animals into water bottom so as to completely separate the grit from the dung of domestic animals. In the process of material transportation, the feathers contained in the dung of domestic animals pass through a cutting and filtering device so that the feathers become fermentation material. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110198303 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTURBING NETWORKED PULP - The present invention provides a method ( | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110204002 | Method and Device for Separation of a Loose Mixture in a Fluid Medium - Method of separation of loose mixture in fluid medium consists in the gravity feed of particles, aerodynamic monotonically increasing effect on them at acute angle to the vertical line by the cascade of slot jets and the outlet of separated fractions into separate collectors. Before aerodynamic effect on loose mixture particles each jet is transferred to developed turbulence mode by their vertical expansion jets until jets are merged with each other with faulty or close to it form of jet formation and the appearance of at least two circulation zones different in size in each inter-jet space of all contiguous jets. The device for separation contains the bunker with vibrating chute mounted underneath the jet generator, the flat nozzles located one under another at acute angle to the vertical line, the height of cross sections of which, step and angle of installation increase top-down. The generator is connected with the source of air supply under pressure, and is covered by the side walls, and grade collectors. Each nozzle is equipped with rectangular rigid wall adjoined to its top across full width of the nozzle. The size of the rigid wall width makes at least three dimensions of cross-sectional height of the nozzle contiguity, and the ratio of installation step of nozzles to the height of cross section of the upper nozzle in relation to it is not less than four. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110204003 | METHOD FOR CLEANING A WATER ENVIRONMENT OF SLUDGE AND A DEVICE FOR CLEANING A WATER ENVIRONMENT OF SLUDGE, IN PARTICULAR AN AQUARIUM, MINIATURE DECORATIVE POND, OR OCEANARIUM - A device and method for cleaning a water environment of sludge, comprising a chamber connected to a supply channel and a driving module. A supply channel ( | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110259836 | Material Separator - A material separator removes material such as sand from a fluid utilizing an inclined housing having a fluid flow inlet in a lower portion of the housing. Higher density material descends by gravity to a lower wall of the inclined housing and continues to travel down the lower wall portion to a lower section of the housing where it is removed. The remaining fluid which may contain a liquid and a gas is removed from the housing via an outlet at the upper portion of the housing. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110278239 | Apparatus and method for removing impurities from water or wastewater - A filter or clarification system for removing impurities from a liquid to be treated, i.e., influent. The system preferably includes a chamber for receiving a liquid to be treated. The chamber has a settling plate assembly including a plurality of inclined liquid passageways through which the liquid to be treated is directed to remove impurities from the liquid to be treated. An efficiency enhancement unit is operably associated with the settling assembly to improve the filtration efficiency of the settling assembly. Preferably, the efficiency enhancement unit includes a vibrator for imparting a vibration force to at least a portion of the settling assembly to improve the filtration efficiency of the settling assembly. Preferably, the vibrator acts to prevent impurities from collecting on one or more settling members in the settling assembly. The settling members can be settling plates or settling tubes. In the preferred form, the vibrator is operated during substantially the entire filtration cycle. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110284482 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR SEPARATING OFF SOLID PARTICLES FROM A WATER PHASE - The invention relates to a process for separating off solid particles, in particular coke particles, from a water phase by means of gravity in a plant for generating hydrocarbons by cracking a hydrocarbonaceous feed, and also to a device for carrying out the process. In contrast to the prior art, the water phase is taken off predominantly from a point above the column bottom B via the outlet A. The first gravity separator | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110297626 | ECONOMICAL FAT, OIL, AND GREASE WASTE REMOVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - An economical fat, oil and grease removal assembly and method includes a container having a bottom, a top, a sidewall, an inlet and an outlet. The outlet is spaced above the bottom and below the top to define a static water level for liquid in the container. The container includes at least one baffle extending downwardly to a level below the static water level. The container further includes a port at an elevation such that F.O.G. floating on water in the container can flow from the container out through the port when the liquid level in the container is raised above the static water level. The assembly further includes an inlet bridge, an outlet bridge and a storage tank arranged to accept F.O.G. that is flowed out of the container. A hub on the storage tank interfaces the container with the storage tank. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110309040 | SEPARATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS - A wash separator ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120111806 | PULSED SLUDGE BED SETTLING METHOD AND DEVICE - The invention relates to a pulsed sludge bed settling method for treating all types of liquid, in particular water, and which uses at least one powder or grain reactant, according to which: the liquid and the reactant(s) for the treatment are contained in a tank ( | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120125868 | METHOD OF SEPARATING TWO DISPERSED-PHASE IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS - Method of separating two dispersed-phase immiscible liquids. The two liquids are fed into a gravity separator where both liquids are separated by decantation. A first phase consisting of a first liquid is obtained at the bottom of the separator, a second phase consisting of the second liquid is obtained at the tap of the separator, a third phase containing the two dispersed-phase immiscible liquids and a fourth phase containing the two immiscible liquids in a dense bed are obtained. Physico-chemical properties of the liquids and of the dispersed phase are measured, and a physical separation model is defined. This model is defined considering that the separator works under stationary conditions, using a matter conservation balance for the first fluid within the dense bed, while taking account of a first phenomenon of coalescence between water drops within the third phase, and of a second phenomenon of coalescence between water drops of the fourth phase and the first phase. This model is then used to optimize implementation of the separation. Application to the separation of petroleum effluents for example. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120145653 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPERATING A FEED MATERIAL CONTAINING IMMISCIBLE PHASES OF DIFFERENT DENSITIES - An apparatus and method for separating a feed such as bitumen froth feed are provided. The apparatus comprises a vessel having a top, side walls, and a base. An inlet delivers feed to the vessel interior whereby settling of the feed establishes a heavier phase zone in the vicinity of the base and a lighter phase zone above an interface with the heavier phase zone. The height/diameter ratio of the vessel, the dimensions and position of the inlet and the fluid properties of the feed are selected to allow a feed velocity of the feed discharging from the inlet into the interior to dissipate in the lighter phase zone as the discharged feed entrains lighter phases above the interface and spreads across the vessel interior such that the lighter phases of the feed separate up to an overflow outlet and the heavier phases separate down to an underflow outlet. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120168389 | Device for Turbulence Reduction - Apparatus is disclosed for substantially reducing the momentum, velocity, or both of a first liquid that is flowing into a second liquid. The device allows one to substantially reduce or even eliminate large-scale turbulent eddies that could otherwise be produced by liquid flowing into or within a vessel, for example in a clarifier. Suitably-sized and positioned plates and baffles induce changes of flow direction in a limited volume. By the time the fluid leaves this volume, the fluid velocity is low, and turbulence is nearly or entirely eliminated. Several of the devices may be placed at different inputs within a single clarifier, and thus increase efficiency further. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20130032549 | PRODUCTION FLUID SOLID TRAP - A convenient, cost effective and efficient solid separation apparatus and method of removing solid material from production fluid is disclosed. The solids separation apparatus includes a fluid inlet pipe; a fluid outlet pipe; a vessel that is a fluid velocity driven solid settlement inducement structure and/or a fluid vector driven solid settlement inducement structure; at least one solid discharge opening within the vessel longitudinally spaced between the fluid inlet pipe and the fluid outlet pipe; and, a tank disposed below the vessel with at least one solid entry opening communicated with the at least one solid discharge opening. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130037494 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING SOLID IMPURITIES FROM A FLUID - The disclosed method and apparatus separates solid impurities from a fluid containing solid impurities. The method and apparatus allow the introduction of influent comprising a fluid containing solid impurities into a plurality of channels and allowing at least a portion of the solid impurities initially present in the influent to settle on upward-facing surfaces of a plurality of plates forming the channels or slide down the upward-facing surfaces, while permitting fluid, which has been depleted of at least a portion of solid impurities, to flow upward toward the top edges of the plurality of plates. The influent is introduced into the plurality of channels in a manner that inhibits a disrupting or disturbing of the solid impurities, which have separated from the influent. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130043197 | Tangential Flow Particle Separator and Method Therefor - A particle separating apparatus for fluids containing particulate material, treatment system for treating effluent from a processing plant, and a method of separating particles from fluid. A treatment vessel has an inlet for injecting fluid containing particulate material, and a plurality of outlets for separately discharging separated supernatant on the one hand, and separated particles on the other hand, from the fluid. An outer annular treatment region receives fluid injected tangentially into said treatment vessel from the inlet and directs the fluid into a transverse, laminar flow within the vessel about a central axis. An inner particle separating region communicates with the outer treatment region but is separated therefrom by a baffle to permit ingress of the injected fluid gradually from the transverse flow in a radially converging manner that maintains the laminar flow for fluid. The fluid eventually reposes centrally of the treatment vessel for optimum residency in the inner particle separating region. The baffle mitigates the effects of the angular fluid motion in the outer annular treatment region on fluid within the inner separating region. A lower particle collection region communicates with both the lower portion of the outer treatment region and said inner particle separating region for receiving separated particles from the fluid having a higher specific gravity. An upper supernatant separating region communicates with the top of the inner particle separating region for egressing supernatant from the fluid for extraction. The baffle has a recess opening from the depending thereof behind the inlet and spanning a sector of approximately 90°. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130056427 | MULTI-PHASE FLOW SEPARATION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A multi-phase flow separation apparatus has a tank with at least one inlet and at least one outlet, and an enclosure within the tank. The at least one inlet communicates an input flow into the enclosure. The enclosure has a sidewall defining an open bottom and at least one flow opening below the height of the inlet of the tank. The at least one outlet of the tank is outside the enclosure and above the at least one flow opening of the enclosure. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130087514 | LIQUID SEPARATOR INCLUDING VENTURI DEVICE - First and second liquids are separated from mixtures thereof in a holding tank that holds quantities of the two liquids after they have been separated and a quantity of the mixture that has not been separated. A first transfer conduit receives a pressurized mixture of the first and second liquids which is discharged into the holding tank. A venturi passageway is located in the first transfer conduit. A liquid conductor has an entry opening positioned so that at least a portion of the entry opening is located within the quantity of the mixture that is held in the holding tank and an exit opening that is in fluid communication with the venturi passageway. The increase in the velocity of the pressurized mixture flowing through the venturi passageway and the accompanying reduced pressure causes the mixture held in the holding tank to flow through the liquid conductor into the venturi passageway. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130112630 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEPARATING COMPONENTS OF A SUSPENSION USING A SECONDARY LIQUID - Methods and systems for separating component materials of a suspension are disclosed. In one aspect, a suspension suspected of containing a target material and a secondary fluid are added to a tube. The secondary fluid has a greater density than the suspension, is immiscible in the suspension fluid and is inert with respect to the suspension materials. A float is added to the tube, and the tube, float, suspension and secondary fluid are centrifuged together, with the secondary fluid to occupy the bottom of the tube. The float has a density less than the density of the secondary fluid which enables the float to be suspended within the axially layered materials of the suspension. As a result, the float expands the axial length of the layer containing the target material between the outer surface of the float and the inner surface of the tube. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130140249 | FEED DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR A SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION VESSEL - A method of delivering feed, for example a paraffinic solvent treated bitumen froth, to a separation vessel, for example a froth separation unit (FSU). The feed is delivered from one or more inlets into the side of a series of parallel plates that form a series of channels which may be either vertical or inclined at an intermediate angle. This feed inlet flow conditioning system is characterized by a Channel Reynolds number of less than 3000. Such inlet flow conditioning is particularly useful where the feed has particles with a bi-modal size distribution to be separated from an overflow stream. The low Reynolds number combined with the influence of the walls serves to mitigate the upward flux of the smaller particles, for example mineral solids, by trapping the smaller particles within a matrix of larger particles, for example precipitated asphaltene aggregates. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130153518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIQUID-LIQUID SEPARATION - The present invention provides a mixer-settler extraction circuit for separating liquids from each other. The mixer-settler extraction circuit includes a flow distributor. The flow distributor comprises a slat assembly which directs the incoming liquid into the settling portion of the mixer-settler extraction circuit. The slats of the slat assembly may be spaced apart from each other at varying distances. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130256243 | OPEN-CHANNEL FEED DILUTION SYSTEM FOR A THICKENER OR SETTLING TANK - An open-channel infeed conduit of a feed dilution system of a thickener/clarifier settling tank is provided with orifices between its upstream inlet end and its outlet end. The orifices are positioned proximate to and in fluid communication with the clarified liquid phase in the tank to draw clarified liquid from the tank into the conduit responsive to or by virtue of momentum transfer between the flow of the liquid slurry feed stream in the conduit and the clarified liquid in the tank. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20140054246 | Apparatus And Method For Separating And Concentrating Fluids Containing Multiple Components - A buoy or float can be positioned within a separation container to assist in a physical separation of components of a whole material positioned in the separation container. The buoy can be positioned within the container to move from between and separation a first end and a second end of the container substantially unaffected by a portion of the whole material, including a clotted portion thereof. A first port can be provided near the first end of the container for introduction of the whole material and a second port can be provided near the second end of the container for removal of at least a portion of a separated material. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140110359 | PHASE SPLITTER - A phase splitter ( | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140151310 | Water Treatment Apparatus and Method of Use - Apparatus for treating water has a container having a clarification zone, a water entry arrangement for flowing water into the clarification zone, and skimmer elements mounted to the container for partial immersion in the water in the clarification zone. Each skimmer element has a transfer channel for transferring a flow of clarified water from a layer of the water to a predetermined depth in the clarification zone and to direct the received clarified water to a water exit arrangement. A height adjustment mechanism is used for differentially adjusting the heights of the skimmer elements and their transfer channels relative to the container so as to compensate for the clarifier being installed on sloping ground. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140183145 | Oil Spill Recovery System and Method - An oil spill cleanup system has a vessel, a separator within the vessel for separating oil and water, a pump for pumping an oil/water mixture into the separator, and one or more probes and submersibles having hoses connected to the pump, for collecting the oil/water mixture. The separator has two or more adjacent tanks, for containing the oil/water mixture. Gravity separates the oil from water in the first tank and the water is evacuated from the bottom, while the oil overflows in the second tank, having an increased oil concentration, and so on, until the pure oil is evacuated. A mobile oil platform is also disclosed, having a subsea well connected to a hose, the hose carrying oil to a vessel, wherein the vessel receives the oil and is exchangeable with an empty vessel when full. When the vessel drops the hose, floats maintain the location thereof. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140284284 | Apparatus to dispense immiscible liquid from an inverted bottle - A device, an improvement upon a funnel, to enable immiscible liquids to be dispensed from an inverted bottle to augment a new, in-situ method to extract chemicals from water directly within sampling containers. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140284285 | Separation Method for Immiscible Fluids - A wash separator comprises a vessel containing a first fluid and a second fluid whereby the second fluid has a different density from the first fluid. The first fluid ( | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140299558 | WATER DECANTING BARREL - Processes and apparatus for rapidly and efficiently removing liquid from a catalyst slurry comprising catalyst particles. A decanting barrel for dewatering the catalyst slurry may comprise a barrel body having a perforated portion, a reservoir in fluid communication with the perforated portion, and an evacuation conduit in fluid communication with the reservoir. In a process for removing the liquid from the catalyst slurry, the decanting barrel may be disposed in a container, the catalyst slurry may be added to the container, the liquid may be transferred from the catalyst slurry to the reservoir via the perforated portion of the barrel body, and the liquid may be removed from the reservoir via the evacuation conduit. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140311993 | Apparatus and method for separating a liquid from other substances - An apparatus for separating a liquid from other substances comprises a first chamber, a second chamber, an inlet connected to the first chamber, an outlet connected to the second chamber, a bypass conduit passing from the inlet, through the first chamber, and into the second chamber, and a passage between the first and second chambers and configured to allow the liquid to flow from the first chamber to the second chamber, the passage located below the bypass conduit, wherein the bypass conduit comprises a first orifice located within the first chamber and a second orifice located in the second chamber. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140326683 | COALESCERS AND METHODS FOR SEPARATING LIQUIDS IN AN IMMISCIBLE MIXTURE - Coalescers for coalescing and methods for separating a discontinuous phase liquid, e.g., water, in an immiscible mixture of the discontinuous phase liquid and a continuous phase liquid, e.g., oil. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20150108073 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING SOLID IMPURITIES FROM A FLUID - The disclosed method and apparatus separates solid impurities from a fluid containing solid impurities. The method and apparatus allow the introduction of influent comprising a fluid containing solid impurities into a plurality of channels and allowing at least a portion of the solid impurities initially present in the influent to settle on upward-facing surfaces of a plurality of plates forming the channels or slide down the upward-facing surfaces, while permitting fluid, which has been depleted of at least a portion of solid impurities, to flow upward toward the top edges of the plurality of plates. The influent is introduced into the plurality of channels in a manner that inhibits a disrupting or disturbing of the solid impurities, which have separated from the influent. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150298028 | SETTLING TANK AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - In a settling tank of the invention, treated water has good quality and whose operation is stable over a long period. A settling tank includes a tank body having a circular-cylindrical shape whose axial direction corresponds to the vertical direction, a distributor provided in a lower part (near the bottom) of the tank body, an outlet provided in a middle part or a part slightly above the middle part of a side face of the tank body, a receiving tank communicating with the tank body via the outlet, a stirring device provided in the tank body, a trough for extracting treated water provided in an upper part of the tank body, a sludge discharge port through which concentrated sludge is extracted from a lower part of the receiving tank, and so forth. A stirring member is provided below the distributor. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150343328 | Inclined Tubular Separator for Separating Oil Well Substances - The present invention relates to a tubular oil separator providing separation of respective fluid components mixed in fluids from oil wells, wherein the tubular oil separator A is arranged to mitigate problems related to turbulence and possible non-Newtonian fluid behaviors of fluid components mixed in the fluids from the oil wells in the oil separator. The invention further relates to a method of operating a separator. Moreover the invention relates to a system of multiple separators. Inventive aspects of the separator comprises an elongated outer, closed tubular section and an elongated, inner tubular section, which is closed in one end and open in another end, —where the inner tubular section is arranged inside the outer tubular section, —and where oil well substances are introduced into the open end of the inner tubular section via a tube feed section passing through the outer tubular section and into the inner tubular section, —and where the inner tubular section comprises multiple, elongated and parallel slots arranged in a longitudinal direction of the inner tubular section in a circumferential manner, —where the inclination of the separator facilitates separation of the oil well substances into lower density substances and higher density substances, —where the lower density substances by buoyancy drift upward through the slots and exit via an upper outlet in the outer tubular section and higher density substances sink downward through the slots and by gravitation exit via a lower outlet in the outer tubular section. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150343331 | ENHANCED VORTEX FLUID TREATMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS-CONTAINING LIQUIDS - A settling tank apparatus for removing solids from a solids-containing fluid, having a vertical cylindrical portion and a bottom portion having a downwardly-extending substantially torispherical, ellipsoidal, hemispherical or frusto-conical shaped curved interior surface. A jetting fluid source is provided in a lower region of the tank, preferably in the bottom of the tank, which directs a jetting fluid in a tangential direction in a plane substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of the tank, to enhance rotational swirling of a created vortex in the bottom of tank when solids are drained therefrom, to thereby reduce deposition and build up of settled solids on the curved interior of the bottom of the tank. A system incorporating a plurality of tanks of such design and a method for removing solids from a solids-containing fluid using a tank of such design, is further disclosed. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150375140 | Hydrostatic Oil Treatment System - A hydrocarbon emulsion treatment system includes a treatment tank having a gas vent for operating the treatment tank near atmospheric pressure. The treatment tank separates water and oil in the emulsion for discharge to separate water and oil tanks respectively. According to a preferred embodiment, the treatment tank and the oil tank are supported on a common frame including an integral secondary containment structure providing secondary containment to both the treatment tank and the oil tank. The treatment tank is supported at greater elevation than the oil tank to allow the flow of oil from the treatment tank to the oil tank primarily under force of gravity. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160097173 | ASH MANAGEMENT TRENCH - The present invention is directed to an ash management trench, the system comprising: a first section comprising at least one flow control structure; and a second section comprising a stilling basin, the second section coupled to the first section. | 04-07-2016 |
