Abstract: The subject invention relates to method and apparatus for controlling or manipulating a body of crude, refined, or used petroleum as, for example: in the herding and recovery of an oil spill in a body of water; in temporarily stopping a leak in an oil tanker caused by a cracked hull; in recovering oil inadvertently spilled on a beach front; in plugging an oil casing pipe to control an oil fire at sea on a drilling platform; in effecting preliminary refinement of oil at the oil rig site; in transporting oil from the Arctic or Antarctic region without resorting to complicated and costly apparatus; and in many other applications. The method basically comprises exposing a body of crude, refined, or used petroleum mass either to a transient atmosphere or environment of a freezing, sub-freezing, or cryogenics temperature, or contacting the petroleum with a substance or mechanism exhibiting freezing, sub-freezing, or cryogenics temperatures.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to method and apparatus for controlling or manipulating a body of crude, refined, or used petroleum as, for example: in the herding and recovery of an oil spill in a body of water; in temporarily stopping a leak in an oil tanker caused by a cracked hull; in recovering oil inadvertantly spilled on a beach front; in plugging an oil casing pipe to control an oil fire at sea on a drilling platform; in effecting preliminary refinement of oil at the oil rig site; in transporting oil from the Arctic or Antarctic region without resorting to complicated and costly apparatus; and in many other applications. The method basically comprises exposing a body of crude, refined, or used petroleum mass either to a transient atmosphere or environment of a freezing, sub-freezing, or cryogenics temperature, or contacting the petroleum with a substance or mechanism exhibiting freezing, sub-freezing, or cryogenics temperatures.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to method and apparatus for controlling or manipulating a body of crude, refined, or used petroleum as, for example: in the herding and recovery of an oil spill in a body of water; in temporarily stopping a leak in an oil tanker caused by a cracked hull; in recovering oil inadvertantly spilled on a beach front; in plugging an oil casing pipe to control an oil fire at sea on a drilling platform; in effecting preliminary refinement of oil at the oil rig site; in transporting oil from the Arctic or Antarctic region without resorting to complicated and costly apparatus; and in many other applications. The method basically comprises exposing a body of crude, refined, or used petroleum mass either to a transient atmosphere or environment of a freezing, sub-freezing, or cryogenics temperature, or contacting the petroleum with a substance or mechanism exhibiting freezing, sub-freezing, or cryogenics temperatures.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cryogenic flash freezing of confined water in a rock formation with concomitant fracturing of the rock formation utilizes an anchoring device comprising gripping means actuatable responsive to release of pressurized gas effected by opening a valve responsive to the firing of an explosive charge in combination wih an elongated container for a cryogenic liquid so that the anchoring device may be positioned with said container depending therefrom in a hole in the rock formation and so that cryogenic liquid so held in position may be forcefully discharged from the container upon opening a valve responsive to the firing of an explosive charge for injection into water confined in the hole or in a cavity or crevice in the surrounding rock formation, the location of water to be flash frozen, if desired, being accomplished by a plug adapted to be fixed in place at different positions and to retain water thereon when fixed in place.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cryogenic flash freezing of confined water in a rock formation with concomitant fracturing of the rock formation utilizes an anchoring device comprising gripping means actuatable responsive to release of pressurized gas effected by opening a valve responsive to the firing of an explosive charge in combination with an elongated container for a cryogenic liquid so that the anchoring device may be positioned with said container depending therefrom in a hole in the rock formation and so that cryogenic liquid so held in position may be forcefully discharged from the container upon opening a valve responsive to the firing of an explosive charge for injection into water confined in the hole or in a cavity or crevice in the surrounding rock formation, the location of water to be flash frozen, if desired, being accomplished by a plug adapted to be fixed in place at different positions and to retain water thereon when fixed in place.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for purifying industrial waste gases, and during the process of purifying the waste gases, a solution of polluted water is obtained which is subsequently passed through additional associated apparatus in order to recover comparatively pure water. The apparatus includes an in-line condenser for reducing the temperature of the industrial waste gases prior to being conducted to a waste gas purifier. The solid particulate matter of the industrial waste gases are collected in suitable disposal containers, while the liquid waste from the gas purifier is conducted to a liquid collection means from which the liquid waste is passed through a thermal energy generator for producing super-heated steam that is subsequently conducted to a condensing box for recovering comparatively pure water.