Abstract: A drinking water dispensing device may include a housing and a replaceable, drinking water supply bottle carried by the housing. The drinking water dispensing device may also include a drinking water pump carried by the housing and coupled to the replaceable, drinking water supply bottle for providing a drinking water supply stream having a first pressure, and a water-cooling device carried by the housing for cooling drinking water from the drinking water pump. The drinking water dispensing device may also include an oxygen nanobubble generator carried by the housing and coupled downstream from the water-cooling device. A solid-state oxygen concentrator may be carried by the housing for supplying an oxygen stream to the oxygen nanobubble generator at a second pressure higher than the first pressure. The drinking water dispensing device may also include a drinking water dispensing outlet carried by the housing and coupled downstream from the oxygen nanobubble generator.

Abstract: A drinking water dispensing device may include a housing, and a water-cooling device carried by the housing for cooling drinking water from a drinking water supply stream having a first pressure. The drinking water dispensing device may also include an oxygen nanobubble generator carried by the housing and coupled downstream from the water-cooling device, and a solid-state oxygen concentrator carried by the housing for supplying an oxygen stream to the oxygen nanobubble generator at a second pressure higher than the first pressure. The drinking water dispensing device may also include a drinking water dispensing outlet carried by the housing and coupled downstream from the oxygen nanobubble generator.

Abstract: An irrigation water treatment device may include a housing and an oxygen nanobubble generator carried by the housing and coupled downstream from an irrigation water supply for an irrigation area and having a first pressure. The irrigation water treatment device may include a solid-state oxygen concentrator carried by the housing and supplying an oxygen stream to the oxygen nanobubble generator at a second pressure higher than the first pressure. The irrigation water treatment device may also include a biological additive device carried by the housing for the irrigation water, and an irrigation water outlet carried by the housing and coupled downstream from the oxygen nanobubble generator.

Abstract: A treatment device for a liquid may include an air compressor configured to generate compressed air. The treatment device may also include an oxygen concentrator configured to separate nitrogen and oxygen from the compressed air. The treatment device may also include a nitrogen injector coupled downstream from the oxygen concentrator and configured to inject the nitrogen into the liquid and an oxygen nanobubble generator coupled downstream from the oxygen concentrator and configured to generate oxygen nanobubbles within the liquid.

Abstract: A treatment device for a liquid may include an air compressor configured to generate compressed air and an air dryer coupled downstream from the air compressor. The treatment device may also include an oxygen concentrator coupled downstream from the air dryer and configured to separate nitrogen and oxygen from the compressed dry air and output the nitrogen to the air dryer. The treatment device may also include an oxygen nanobubble generator coupled downstream from the oxygen concentrator and configured to generate oxygen nanobubbles within the liquid.

Abstract: A concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) system may include a CAFO drinking water source and an oxygen nanobubble device. The oxygen nanobubble device may include an air compressor configured to generate compressed air and an air dryer coupled downstream from the air compressor. The oxygen nanobubble device also includes an oxygen concentrator coupled downstream from the air dryer and a CAFO drinking water pump coupled to the CAFO drinking water source. The CAFO system also includes an oxygen nanobubble generator coupled downstream from the CAFO drinking water pump and coupled to the oxygen concentrator to generate oxygen nanobubbles within the CAFO drinking water.

Abstract: An oxygen nanobubble system may include a liquid source for liquid to be treated with oxygen nanobubbles. The system may also include a field portable oxygen nanobubble device including a portable housing, an air compressor carried by the portable housing and configured to generate compressed air, an air dryer carried by the portable housing and coupled downstream from the air compressor, an oxygen concentrator carried by the portable housing and coupled downstream from the air dryer, and a liquid pump carried by the portable housing and configured to pump liquid from the liquid source. The field portable oxygen nanobubble device may also include an oxygen nanobubble generator carried by the portable housing and coupled downstream from the liquid pump and to the oxygen concentrator to generate oxygen nanobubbles within the liquid.

Abstract: An antenna assembly may be positioned within a wellbore in a subterranean formation. The antenna assembly includes a tubular antenna element to be positioned within the wellbore, and an RF coaxial transmission line to be positioned within the tubular antenna element. The RF coaxial transmission line includes a series of coaxial sections coupled together in end-to-end relation, each coaxial section including an inner conductor, an outer conductor surrounding the inner conductor, and a dielectric therebetween. Each of the outer conductors has opposing threaded ends defining overlapping mechanical threaded joints with adjacent outer conductors.

Abstract: A system for heating a hydrocarbon resource in a subterranean formation having a wellbore extending therein may include a radio frequency (RF) source, and a casing within the wellbore including electrically conductive pipes with a dielectric heel isolator coupled between adjacent electrically conductive pipes. Electrically conductive pipes from among the plurality thereof and downstream from the dielectric heel isolator define an RF antenna. The system may further include an RF transmission line extending within the casing and coupled between the RF source and RF antenna, a seal between the RF transmission line and adjacent portions of the casing adjacent the dielectric heel isolator to define an internal choke fluid chamber upstream of the seal, and an electrically conductive choke fluid contained within the internal choke fluid chamber.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon resource recovery system is for hydrocarbon recovery in a subterranean formation. The hydrocarbon resource recovery system may include an RF antenna within the subterranean formation for hydrocarbon resource recovery, an RF source aboveground, a coaxial RF transmission line coupled between the RF antenna and the RF source and having an aboveground portion, a dielectric fluid pressure source, and pressure members joined together in end-to-end relation to define a pressure housing coupled to the dielectric fluid pressure source and surrounding the aboveground portion of the coaxial RF transmission line. The pressure members may include a straight tubular pressure member, and an elbow pressure member coupled thereto.

Abstract: A system for heating a hydrocarbon resource in a subterranean formation having a wellbore extending therein may include a radio frequency (RF) source, and a casing within the wellbore including electrically conductive pipes with a dielectric heel isolator coupled between adjacent electrically conductive pipes. Electrically conductive pipes from among the plurality thereof and downstream from the dielectric heel isolator define an RF antenna. The system may further include an RF transmission line extending within the casing and coupled between the RF source and RF antenna, a seal between the RF transmission line and adjacent portions of the casing adjacent the dielectric heel isolator to define an internal choke fluid chamber upstream of the seal, and an electrically conductive choke fluid contained within the internal choke fluid chamber.

Abstract: A method of producing hydrocarbon resources from a subterranean formation may include heating the subterranean formation with at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna located in an upper well within the subterranean formation. The method may further include producing hydrocarbon resources from a lower well within the heated subterranean formation and vertically beneath the upper well to create a void within the subterranean formation, and injecting a solvent into the void within the heated subterranean formation from the lower well.

Abstract: A method of producing hydrocarbon resources from a subterranean formation may include heating the subterranean formation with at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna located in an upper well within the subterranean formation. The method may further include producing hydrocarbon resources from a lower well within the heated subterranean formation and vertically beneath the upper well to create a void within the subterranean formation, and injecting a solvent into the void within the heated subterranean formation from the lower well.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon resource recovery system may include an RF source, and an RF antenna assembly coupled to the RF source and within a wellbore in a subterranean formation for hydrocarbon resource recovery. The RF antenna assembly may include first and second tubular conductors, a dielectric isolator, and first and second electrical contact sleeves respectively coupled between the first and second tubular conductors and the dielectric isolator so that the first and second tubular conductors define a dipole antenna. The RF antenna assembly may include a thermal expansion accommodation device configured to provide a sliding arrangement between the second tubular conductor and the second electrical contact sleeve when a compressive force therebetween exceeds a threshold.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon resource recovery system may include an RF source, and an RF antenna assembly coupled to the RF source and within a wellbore in a subterranean formation for hydrocarbon resource recovery. The RF antenna assembly may include first and second tubular conductors, a dielectric isolator coupled between the first and second tubular conductors, an RF transmission line having an inner conductor and an outer conductor extending within the first tubular conductor, the outer conductor being coupled to the first tubular conductor, and a feed structure coupled to the second tubular conductor. The inner conductor may have a distal end being slidable within the outer conductor and cooperating with the feed structure to define a latching arrangement having a latching threshold lower than an unlatching threshold.

Abstract: A method is for hydrocarbon resource recovery. The method may include positioning an RF antenna assembly within a wellbore in a subterranean formation, the RF antenna assembly having first and second tubular conductors and a dielectric isolator defining a dipole antenna, and a dielectric coating surrounding the dielectric isolator and extending along a predetermined portion of the first and second tubular conductors. The method may include operating an RF source coupled to the RF antenna assembly during a start-up phase to desiccate water adjacent the RF antenna assembly, and operating the RF source coupled to the RF antenna assembly during a sustainment phase to recover hydrocarbons from the subterranean formation.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon resource recovery system may include an RF source, and an RF antenna assembly coupled to the RF source and within a wellbore in a subterranean formation for hydrocarbon resource recovery. The RF antenna assembly may include first and second tubular conductors, a dielectric isolator coupled between the first and second tubular conductors, an RF transmission line having an inner conductor and an outer conductor extending within the first tubular conductor, the outer conductor being coupled to the first tubular conductor, and a feed structure coupled to the second tubular conductor. The inner conductor may have a distal end being slidable within the outer conductor and cooperating with the feed structure to define a latching arrangement having a latching threshold lower than an unlatching threshold.

Abstract: A method is for hydrocarbon resource recovery. The method may include positioning an RF antenna assembly within a wellbore in a subterranean formation, the RF antenna assembly having first and second tubular conductors and a dielectric isolator defining a dipole antenna, and a dielectric coating surrounding the dielectric isolator and extending along a predetermined portion of the first and second tubular conductors. The method may include operating an RF source coupled to the RF antenna assembly during a start-up phase to desiccate water adjacent the RF antenna assembly, and operating the RF source coupled to the RF antenna assembly during a sustainment phase to recover hydrocarbons from the subterranean formation.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon resource recovery system may include an RF source, and an RF antenna assembly coupled to the RF source and within a wellbore in a subterranean formation for hydrocarbon resource recovery. The RF antenna assembly may include first and second tubular conductors, a dielectric isolator, and first and second electrical contact sleeves respectively coupled between the first and second tubular conductors and the dielectric isolator so that the first and second tubular conductors define a dipole antenna. The RF antenna assembly may include a thermal expansion accommodation device configured to provide a sliding arrangement between the second tubular conductor and the second electrical contact sleeve when a compressive force therebetween exceeds a threshold.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon resource recovery system is for hydrocarbon recovery in a subterranean formation. The hydrocarbon resource recovery system may include an RF antenna within the subterranean formation for hydrocarbon resource recovery, an RF source aboveground, a coaxial RF transmission line coupled between the RF antenna and the RF source and having an aboveground portion, a dielectric fluid pressure source, and pressure members joined together in end-to-end relation to define a pressure housing coupled to the dielectric fluid pressure source and surrounding the aboveground portion of the coaxial RF transmission line. The pressure members may include a straight tubular pressure member, and an elbow pressure member coupled thereto.