Patents Assigned to FLEX-FEB ApS
  • Patent number: 12617498
    Abstract: Environmental barge with belt skimmer for spill response to oil pollution at sea. The environmental barge consists of an upper part with pontoons and a lower part with a bottom with an integrated hydrophilic filter. The environmental barge is designed so that at least four environmental barges can be stacked inside and on top of each other. Oil-mixed water is guided to the belt skimmer, which carries it up into the environmental barge, where the gravitational principle means that the oil pushes the water through the hydrophilic filter and back into the sea as the barge is filled with oil. The environmental barge can thus be completely filled with oil without increasing the draft. The environmental barge footprint is identical to a standard 20-foot container, and it has container corner castings, allowing significant spill response capacity to be quickly transported and deployed in areas where no other spill response capacity is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: FLEX-FEB ApS
    Inventors: Jens Walther, Erik Schmidt