Patents by Inventor Todd William Kirk

Todd William Kirk 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).

  • Publication number: 20240076203
    Abstract: An apparatus for covering a water container having an open top and treating a source water therein. The apparatus has one or more dividing walls mountable to an interior space of the water container for partitioning it into multiple water-treatment zones, and a cover mountable to at least a portion of the open top of the water container above the one or more dividing walls. Each dividing wall has or forms one or more openings for directing the source water from one water-treatment zone to the next. The cover has one or more vaulted cover sections each defining a gas chamber above the dividing walls. Each cover section has a condensation surface in the corresponding gas chamber for condensing a steam evaporated from the source water to clean water, and at least one water-collection channel coupled to at least one side of the condensation surface for collecting the condensed clean water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Todd William KIRK, Daniel WHITNEY, Asir THAMBIRAJA, Roger GEORGE, Abheek BANERJEE
  • Publication number: 20220062797
    Abstract: A filtering apparatus has a volume-changeable filtering chamber having one or more flexible enclosing walls and receiving therein a compressible porous filtering medium, a fluid inlet coupled to the filtering chamber for introducing an input fluid stream with impurities into the filtering chamber, a fluid outlet coupled to the filtering chamber for discharging a filtered fluid stream from the filtering chamber, and a volume-changing structure coupled to or in association with the filtering chamber, adapted to permit increasing or decreasing of the volume of the filtering chamber so as to compress or decompress the compressible porous filtering medium therein so as to correspondingly adjust the pore size of the compressible porous filtering medium in said filtering chamber. A method for flushing a compressible filter media, and a method of variably adjusting the amount of filtering, is further disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Todd William KIRK
  • Patent number: 10888801
    Abstract: A separation tank for separating a contaminant from a multiple-phase fluid stream has a vessel formed by a top wall, a bottom wall, and a sidewall. The vessel has a plurality of nested and fluidly connected chambers therein. A fluid inlet is in fluid communication with the outermost chamber of the vessel for introducing the multiple-phase fluid stream thereinto. A fluid outlet is in fluid communication with the innermost chamber of the vessel for discharging a contaminant-removed fluid stream out of the vessel. At least one chamber of the vessel has one or more gas inlets at a lower portion thereof for injecting gas bubbles into the chamber for facilitating contaminant removal. In operation, the fluid stream travels from the fluid inlet through the plurality of chambers to the fluid outlet along an elongated helical spiral flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney
  • Patent number: 10377641
    Abstract: A gas flotation tank is provided that includes a series of adjacent chambers which impart a rotational current therein. Each chamber is separated from a skim oil trough by a skimming weir. Each chamber comprises an alternating fluid communication device between adjacent chambers allowing fluid communication between adjacent chambers in the form of a communication port in the dividing wall between adjacent chambers and a chamber outlet in conjunction with a perforated plate and the outlet is positioned in fluid communication with the final chamber. An optional coalescing media may be positioned in or proximate the communication port to absorb or coalesce contaminants as they pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Exterran Water Solutions ULC
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney, Douglas Walker Lee
  • Patent number: 10376818
    Abstract: A nozzle is disclosed for use within a filter for inputting a jetting stream into the filter media to clean the filter media. The nozzle comprises an inlet for communication with a jetting stream source, and a plurality of plates stacked parallel and abutting one another. The plurality of plates comprises at least a top plate and a bottom plate, one of the plates having an aperture through the center thereof for receiving the jetting stream, wherein between adjacent plates at least one space is provided extending from the outside edge of the plates to the interior of plates and in fluid communication with the aperture for channeling the jetting stream radially outward from and substantially parallel with the longitudinal plane of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: EXTERRAN WATER SOLUTIONS ULC
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney, Douglas Walker Lee
  • Publication number: 20190091607
    Abstract: A separation tank for separating a contaminant from a multiple-phase fluid stream has a vessel formed by a top wall, a bottom wall, and a sidewall. The vessel has a plurality of nested and fluidly connected chambers therein. A fluid inlet is in fluid communication with the outermost chamber of the vessel for introducing the multiple-phase fluid stream thereinto. A fluid outlet is in fluid communication with the innermost chamber of the vessel for discharging a contaminant-removed fluid stream out of the vessel. At least one chamber of the vessel has one or more gas inlets at a lower portion thereof for injecting gas bubbles into the chamber for facilitating contaminant removal. In operation, the fluid stream travels from the fluid inlet through the plurality of chambers to the fluid outlet along an elongated helical spiral flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Todd William KIRK, Daniel Clifford WHITNEY
  • Publication number: 20180126301
    Abstract: A nozzle is disclosed for use within a filter for inputting a jetting stream into the filter media to clean the filter media. The nozzle comprises an inlet for communication with a jetting stream source, and a plurality of plates stacked parallel and abutting one another. The plurality of plates comprises at least a top plate and a bottom plate, one of the plates having an aperture through the center thereof for receiving the jetting stream, wherein between adjacent plates at least one space is provided extending from the outside edge of the plates to the interior of plates and in fluid communication with the aperture for channeling the jetting stream radially outward from and substantially parallel with the longitudinal plane of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Todd William KIRK, Daniel Clifford WHITNEY, Douglas Walker LEE
  • Publication number: 20180127288
    Abstract: A gas flotation tank is provided that includes a series of adjacent chambers which impart a rotational current therein. Each chamber is separated from a skim oil trough by a skimming weir. Each chamber comprises an alternating fluid communication device between adjacent chambers allowing fluid communication between adjacent chambers in the form of a communication port in the dividing wall between adjacent chambers and a chamber outlet in conjunction with a perforated plate and the outlet is positioned in fluid communication with the final chamber. An optional coalescing media may be positioned in or proximate the communication port to absorb or coalesce contaminants as they pass therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Todd William KIRK, Daniel Clifford WHITNEY, Douglas Walker LEE
  • Patent number: 9943784
    Abstract: A nozzle is disclosed for use within a filter for inputting a jetting stream into the filter media to clean the filter media. The nozzle comprises an inlet for communication with a jetting stream source, and a plurality of plates stacked parallel and abutting one another. The plurality of plates comprises at least a top plate and a bottom plate, one of the plates having an aperture through the center thereof for receiving the jetting stream, wherein between adjacent plates at least one space is provided extending from the outside edge of the plates to the interior of plates and in fluid communication with the aperture for channelling the jetting stream radially outward from and substantially parallel with the longitudinal plane of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Exterran Water Solutions ULC
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney, Douglas Walker Lee
  • Patent number: 9890059
    Abstract: A gas flotation tank is provided that includes a series of adjacent chambers which impart a rotational current therein. Each chamber is separated from a skim oil trough by a skimming weir. Each chamber comprises an alternating fluid communication device between adjacent chambers allowing fluid communication between adjacent chambers in the form of a communication port in the dividing wall between adjacent chambers and a chamber outlet in conjunction with a perforated plate and the outlet is positioned in fluid communication with the final chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Exterran Water Solutions ULC
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney, Douglas Walker Lee
  • Patent number: 9878268
    Abstract: A separation tank for separating a contaminant from a contaminated fluid. A series of juxtaposed interconnected chambers having a series of baffles therein provide a revolving flow of fluid in each chamber to maximize distance for which contaminants travel to separate from the fluid. The interconnected chambers may be juxtaposed in end-to-end relation or in side-by-each configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: EXTERRAN WATER SOLUTIONS ULC
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney, Douglas Walker Lee
  • Publication number: 20160339362
    Abstract: A nozzle is disclosed for use within a filter for inputting a jetting stream into the filter media to clean the filter media. The nozzle comprises an inlet for communication with a jetting stream source, and a plurality of plates stacked parallel and abutting one another. The plurality of plates comprises at least a top plate and a bottom plate, one of the plates having an aperture through the center thereof for receiving the jetting stream, wherein between adjacent plates at least one space is provided extending from the outside edge of the plates to the interior of plates and in fluid communication with the aperture for channelling the jetting stream radially outward from and substantially parallel with the longitudinal plane of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Exterran Water Solutions ULC
    Inventors: Todd William KIRK, Daniel Clifford WHITNEY, Douglas Walker LEE
  • Patent number: 9409796
    Abstract: A gas flotation tank is provided that includes a series of adjacent chambers which impart a rotational current therein. Each chamber is separated from a skim oil trough by a skimming weir. Each chamber comprises an alternating fluid communication device between adjacent chambers allowing fluid communication between adjacent chambers in the form of a communication port in the dividing wall between adjacent chambers and a chamber outlet in conjunction with a perforated plate and the outlet is positioned in fluid communication with the final chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Exterran Water Solutions ULC
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney, Douglas Walker Lee
  • Publication number: 20160214033
    Abstract: A gas flotation tank is provided that includes a series of adjacent chambers which impart a rotational current therein. Each chamber is separated from a skim oil trough by a skimming weir. Each chamber comprises an alternating fluid communication device between adjacent chambers allowing fluid communication between adjacent chambers in the form of a communication port in the dividing wall between adjacent chambers and a chamber outlet in conjunction with a perforated plate and the outlet is positioned in fluid communication with the final chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Exterran Water Solutions ULC
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney, Douglas Walker Lee
  • Publication number: 20160038855
    Abstract: A separation tank for separating a contaminant from a contaminated fluid. A series of juxtaposed interconnected chambers having a series of baffles therein provide a revolving flow of fluid in each chamber to maximize distance for which contaminants travel to separate from the fluid. The interconnected chambers may be juxtaposed in end-to-end relation or in side-by-each configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Todd William KIRK, Daniel Clifford WHITNEY, Douglas Walker LEE
  • Publication number: 20150053600
    Abstract: A gas flotation tank is provided that includes a series of adjacent chambers which impart a rotational current therein. Each chamber is separated from a skim oil trough by a skimming weir. Each chamber comprises an alternating fluid communication device between adjacent chambers allowing fluid communication between adjacent chambers in the form of a communication port in the dividing wall between adjacent chambers and a chamber outlet in conjunction with a perforated plate and the outlet is positioned in fluid communication with the final chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: EXTERRAN WATER SOLUTIONS ULC
    Inventors: Todd William Kirk, Daniel Clifford Whitney, Douglas Walker Lee