Patents by Inventor Arlo Wade Fast

Arlo Wade Fast has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Hypolimnion oxygenation
    Patent number: 3956124
    Abstract: The hypolimnion of thermally stratified water bodies is oxygenated by withdrawing water therefrom at rate of 10-200 percent of the hypolimnion volume per month, pressurizing the withdrawn water to superatmospheric pressure below 125 psig, injecting at least 80 percent oxygen gas at rate of 5-300 lbs. O.sub.2 per million pounds withdrawn water but less than a rate to result in O.sub.2 supersaturation at the remixing point, returning the mixture through conduit means and remixing same at rate to produce specified frictional head loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Arlo Wade Fast, William Edward Grunert, John Joseph Pietruszewski