Groundwater Patents (Class 210/170.07)
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Patent number: 12240145Abstract: An articulating composite surface covering mat and process of forming the mat are provided. The mat has multiple units having a regular, natural or irregular appearance, and each unit a flexible geogrid extending therethrough. A method of forming the mat includes forming the mat upside-down on a bottom surface of a bottom mold, placing the top mold over the bottom mold to form the mold assembly, locating a geogrid in the mold assembly, latching the mold assembly together with magnets, and adding the filler to the mold assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: RICCOBENE DESIGNS LLCInventors: Dominic T. Riccobene, Thomas S. Riccobene, Jr.
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Patent number: 12186787Abstract: Technologies are described for a process for in situ treatment of contaminated soil(s), water, waste, sludge, wastewater, sediment, other contaminated matrix, or combination thereof. The process comprises applying a reactive or treatment material and an adjunct to the contaminated matrix or in a flow path of the contaminant in the matrix. The adjunct is controllably released into the matrix and contributes to the treatment of the soil(s), water, waste, sludge, wastewater, sediment, other contaminated matrix, or combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Specialty Earth Sciences, LLCInventors: Lindsay Swearingen, Jason Swearingen
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Patent number: 12188196Abstract: A high flow capacity flexible earth drainage system and method for relieving and conveying pore water is disclosed. In some embodiments, the presently disclosed high flow capacity flexible earth drainage system and method provide an arrangement of high flow capacity flexible earth drains, wherein each flexible earth drain may include one or more flexible ridged panels, one or more single-sided flexible ridged panels, one or more two-sided flexible ridged panels, and/or one or more flexible zigzag panels arranged longitudinal within a geotextile filter fabric sleeve. Further, a method is provided of installing the high flow capacity flexible earth drains to form the presently disclosed high flow capacity flexible earth drainage system for relieving and conveying pore water.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: American Prefabricated Drain, LLCInventor: John E. Case
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Patent number: 12110775Abstract: A method and apparatus for gas and solids separation from down-hole fluids is disclosed, including particular structural means for forcing the de-gassing of the gaseous liquid, including means for changing the velocity of the gaseous liquid (speed changes on each exit from the tubes owing to the volume difference between the tubes and the chamber), means for changing the direction of the gaseous liquid (owing to the flow changing direction from exiting one set of tubes to travel to the opening to enter the next set of tubes), and means for changing the pressure of the gaseous liquid (owing perhaps in part to evolution of gas upon entering increased volume).Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: MODICUM, LLCInventor: Gary V. Marshall
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Patent number: 11975369Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for separating an amount of a substance from groundwater, comprising an elongate chamber (18) having an inlet (22) which is arranged in use to admit groundwater into the chamber near a lower first end (24). There is also a gas sparger (26) located near the first end (24) which admits gas into the chamber for inducing groundwater to flow from the first end (24) of the chamber toward a second end upper end, and for producing a froth layer (32) which rises above an interface with the groundwater including a concentrated amount of the substance. A suction hood (38) can be moved downward from the top of the chamber (18) into a position to collapse the froth layer (32) and to cause it to be removed from the well body (14). The suction hood (38) (acting as a froth depth regulation device) controls the amount of groundwater in the froth layer (32), which influences the concentration of the contaminant substance achieved in the froth layer (32).Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: OPEC Remediation Technologies Pty LimitedInventors: Steven Edward Phillips, Gregory Raymond Brickle, David John Burns
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Patent number: 11975989Abstract: An integrated method for clearance, collection and capture of internal pollutants and algae at the bottom of a lake include the following steps: selecting areas where the pollution level is high, and organic or inorganic particulate matter is prone to accumulation and carrying out trenching operations at the bottom of the lake to form a plurality of traps; and removing the sludge and algae inside the traps and clearing the sediment inside the traps, for subsequent internal pollution control when the surface-layer sludge on both sides of the traps almost fills up the traps. This method makes use of the hydrodynamic disturbances of waves formed by natural wind energy and lake currents to continuously transport sludge with a high pollution level and a small specific gravity and algae in the surface layer of the lake bottom, which are rich in organic debris, to artificially built traps.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY & LIMNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Weiping Hu, Yihui Zhang, Jiancai Deng, Weiwei Xu
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Patent number: 11840471Abstract: Disclosed is a method for enhancing the removal of a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) component from waste water using a cationic polymer (e.g., a cationic polymer flocculant or coagulant). The cationic polymer enables gas that is diffused through the waste water to carry at least a portion of the PFAS component to the surface of water, creating a foam that can then be removed.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Pavan Puttamraju, Kevin D. Torrens, Yun Yu
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Patent number: 11707026Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a smart irrigation system that includes a first sensor configured to monitor a moisture level at a location and a second sensor configured to monitor a contamination level within a fluid. The smart irrigation system also includes one or more processors configured to receive a first signal from the first sensor, receive a second signal from the second sensor, and route the fluid to the location in response to the first signal indicating that the moisture level is below a moisture threshold and the second signal indicating that the contamination level is below a contamination threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Gregory David Hansen, Andre Rene Buentello, Jose L. Romero, Jr., Nina Cooper, Galo M. Alava
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Patent number: 11685886Abstract: A method for filtering a gas includes delivering a gas into a compartment of a gas filter assembly; applying a partial vacuum to the gas filter assembly so that the partial vacuum assists in drawing the gas through a porous filter body of the gas filter assembly that is at least partially disposed within the compartment of the gas filter assembly; and regulating the application of the partial vacuum based on a pressure reading of the gas upstream or downstream of the gas filter assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Nephi D. Jones, Christopher D. Brau
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Patent number: 11603323Abstract: This publication relates to a method and a system for producing freshwater through a reverse osmosis process in a submerged membrane system requiring a differential pressure over the membrane system. The differential pressure is provided by introducing gas bubbles in the riser device (2) downstream the outlet (7) for fresh water in the riser device (2). The system comprises at least one submerged, reverse osmosis unit (1), with an inlet (4) for water and an outlet (7) for fresh water, a riser device (2) extending from the outlet (7) of the submerged membrane system to at, above or below sea level and a system for providing a low pressure side for the reverse osmosis process.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Inventors: Tor M. Stolpestad, Rolf Birger Bendiksen
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Patent number: 11598075Abstract: A recycling device (200) for recycling used water from at least one used water source (100, 101) is provided. The recycling device (200) comprises a first water tank (210) arranged to receive used water from the at least one water source (100), and sensor means (211) arranged to measure the water quality of used water in the first water tank (210). The recycling device (200) is characterized in that it comprises a second water tank (220) arranged to store used water within the recycling device (200), and a water pump (240) and one or more valves (231, 232, 233, 234, 235; 301). The pump (240) and one or more valves (231, 232, 233, 234, 235; 301) arranged in the recycling device (200) such that used water is able to be stored in the second water tank (220), or recycled out of the recycling device (200) from the first water tank (210) or from the second water tank (220), when the water quality of the used water is above a determined threshold level.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: MIMBLY ABInventors: Nicolas Maxant, Miguel Estruch Soler, Carl Emil Vestman, Roger Gustavsson
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Patent number: 11591765Abstract: A structure and method for three-dimensional restoration of slope soil in an abandoned ion-absorbed rare earth mining area, belonging to the field of ecological restoration technologies. The structure for three-dimensional restoration of slope soil in an abandoned ion-absorbed rare earth mining area provided by the present invention includes an ecological water-harvesting pond, ecological intercepting ditches, an improved soil layer laid on the surface of a to-be-restored slope region and a soil restoration ecological network disposed on the improved soil layer. The improved soil layer, the ecological water-harvesting pond and the ecological intercepting ditches are each provided with a combined plant synusia system.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Jiangxi Academy of Environmental SciencesInventors: Meng Zhang, Na Yao, Junwei Wu, Jiaqi Zhu, Binghao Wan, Min Zhou, Tao Wang, Bing Feng, Zugen Liu, Wangzhen Ni
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Patent number: 11591242Abstract: A system for decomposing a waste material in an unlined landfill including a landfill site having at least one waste disposal zone for receiving the waste material. The system also includes a remediation system configured for extracting a mixture of leachate and groundwater from groundwater within or adjacent to the landfill site and feeding the mixture into the at least one waste disposal zone along with air and other nutrients to enhance a rate of decay of the waste material within the at least one waste disposal zone.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Sustainable Solid Waste Strategies, LLCInventor: Mark P. Hudgins
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Patent number: 11565876Abstract: The present invention comprises a surface mount secondary containment system comprising prefabricated pieces that may be assembled to form a wall and adjoining corner with overlapping sections to capture leaks, spillage or the like from a primary liquid container member that may be constructed so that no ground damage and or penetration is done during construction and use.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Murray Services IncInventors: Steven Allen Murray, Caleb Crick
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Patent number: 11454114Abstract: Disclosed is a method for installing a groundwater monitoring well inside a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) trench including excavating a PRB trench, installing a trench side-wall support, positioning a monitoring well borehole, installing an outer installation casing for pre-burying the monitoring well, installing a monitoring well positioning bracket, installing a monitoring well casing, installing monitoring well filter packs and seal materials, filling the trench with PRB media and capping with a covering soil layer, removing the outer installation casing, removing the trench side-wall support, completing the monitoring well with a wellhead, and conducting well development.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Xin Song, Peng Jin, Changlong Wei, Kang Li, Zhiwen Tang, Heng Fu, Xing Chen
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Patent number: 11433321Abstract: Systems and methods for sulfur-compound removal from hydrocarbon liquids may include at least one tank defining a chamber with top and bottom ends, a gas inlet into the chamber, a gas outlet from the chamber, a fluid inlet into the chamber, and a fluid outlet from the chamber. A fluid circulation assembly creates a hydrocarbon liquid flow on a liquid path, and a gas circulation assembly circulates a gas flow along a gas path. The gas inlet and outlet and the fluid inlet and outlet of the tank may be arranged to create a crossflow and counterflow of the liquid and gas flows in the chamber of the tank such that sulfur-containing compounds are transferred from the liquid to the gas flow. A gas processor assembly may remove sulfur-containing compounds from the gas flow before recirculating the gas flow. The gas flow may be predominantly nitrogen (N2) gas.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Inventors: Sjoerd Hoogwater, Tom Wilson, Dan A. Johnson
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Patent number: 11414000Abstract: A self-leveling single axle dump truck is provided, the truck comprising a frame, a dump body pivotably mounted on the frame, and a propulsion and self-leveling system comprising a single axle supporting the frame at least during motion of the self-leveling single axle dump truck, the single axle comprising at least a first and a second wheel and at least a first electric traction motor for driving the first wheel and a second electric traction motor for driving the second wheel.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: LIEBHERR MINING EQUIPMENT NEWPORT NEWS CO.Inventors: Joshua Brown, Hunter Bates
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Patent number: 11358103Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for separating an amount of a substance from groundwater, comprising an elongate chamber (18) having an inlet (22) which is arranged in use to admit groundwater into the chamber near a lower first end (24). There is also a gas sparger (26) located near the first end (24) which admits gas into the chamber for inducing groundwater to flow from the first end (24) of the chamber toward a second end upper end, and for producing a froth layer (32) which rises above an interface with the groundwater including a concentrated amount of the substance. A suction hood (38) can be moved downward from the top of the chamber (18) into a position to collapse the froth layer (32) and to cause it to be removed from the well body (14). The suction hood (38) (acting as a froth depth regulation device) controls the amount of groundwater in the froth layer (32), which influences the concentration of the contaminant substance achieved in the froth layer (32).Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Inventors: Steven Edward Phillips, Gregory Raymond Brickle, David John Burns
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Patent number: 11180394Abstract: A method for treating chemicals below ground is provided. The system includes contacting the chemicals with a rhizosphere to maximize transpiration rate and minimize over-saturation of the rhizosphere. Also provided is a method for using contaminated groundwater as a sole source of irrigation. The method uses extracting the contaminated water and pumping the extracted water to an irrigation zone under the control of an autonomous irrigation system. Each zone includes some trees and the root system for each tree is modified to function as a treatment cell. The invention also provides a system for treating contaminated water, using a contaminated water source situated below ground surface. The system uses a pump for extracting contaminated water from the water source and prevents the contaminated water from directly contacting the atmosphere above the ground surface. Vegetation which defines an underground rhizosphere is adapted to directly receive the water.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCInventors: Y. Eugene Yan, Louis E. Martino, Lorraine M. LaFreniere
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Patent number: 11105099Abstract: A drainage component having a continuous, extruded mat having an upper face and a lower face. The mat includes a plurality of patterned three-dimensional structures, each structure spaced from all adjacent structures, and the plurality of patterned three-dimensional structures are provided in a plurality of linear rows or columns in a first direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignees: LOW & BONAR INC., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Lori C. Hascher, James E. Mathis, W Allan Wingfield, Wazir Nobbee, Rupa Kibbe
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Patent number: 11033941Abstract: The disclosure provides a soil-groundwater joint remediation device and a method. The soil-groundwater joint remediation device is disposed in an area to be remediated and includes an injection structure, an extraction structure, and a control structure. The injection structure is disposed in an injection well defined in the area to be remediated. The injection structure includes a hot air injection member, an oxidant injection member, and a micro-bubble injection member. The extraction structure is disposed in an injection well defined in the area to be remediated and spaced from the injection structure. The extraction structure includes a liquid phase extraction member and a gas phase extraction member. The control structure controls the liquid phase extraction member and the gas phase extraction member to perform an extraction operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYInventors: De-Yi Hou, Xiao-Yuan Cao, Guang-He Li, Xu Zhang, Fang Zhang
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Patent number: 10871431Abstract: A porous micromodel network to simulate formation flows includes a substrate, two or more porous micromodels formed on the substrate and a fluid inlet formed on the substrate. The first porous micromodel defines a first fluidic flow pathway and is representative of a first hydrocarbon-carrying formation. Flow through the first fluidic flow pathway is representative of flow through the first hydrocarbon-carrying formation. The second porous micromodel is fluidically isolated from the first porous micromodel. The second porous micromodel defines a second fluidic flow pathway different from the first fluidic flow pathway. The second porous micromodel is representative of a second hydrocarbon-carrying formation different from the first hydrocarbon-carrying formation. Flow through the second fluidic flow pathway is representative of flow through the second hydrocarbon-carrying formation.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Lyla Almaskeen, Amar Jaber M. Alshehri
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Patent number: 10597830Abstract: A drainage assembly is disclosed. The drainage assembly has a subgrade material having a bottom surface and at least one side surface that forms an angle with the bottom surface, a first layer of a first material disposed on the bottom surface and the at least one side surface, a passage disposed on or in the first layer, and a second layer of a second material disposed above the passage and the first layer. The first material is coarser than the second material. An angle of repose of the second material is equal to or steeper than the angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Inventor: Gerald Lynn Lemons
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Patent number: 10538440Abstract: A method of treating an organic contaminated material includes producing manganese oxide media in a first treatment system; and contacting the organic contaminated material with the manganese oxide media in a second treatment system. The manganese oxide media may be coated aggregate having a layer of manganese oxide. The manganese oxide media may be manganese oxide solids. The manganese oxide solids can be formed by removing at least a portion of the manganese oxide layer from the coated aggregate.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Hedin Environmental, Inc.Inventor: Robert S. Hedin
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Patent number: 10522274Abstract: The present invention provides a ferromagnetic metal nanowire dispersion having an excellent dispersibility, from which a ferromagnetic metal nanowire film having an excellent electrical conductivity can be made. The present invention relates to a ferromagnetic metal nanowire dispersion comprising a ferromagnetic metal nanowire and a polymer compound.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: UNITIKA LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Takeda, Hayami Onishi, Terumasa Yoshinaga
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Patent number: 10260212Abstract: A method for determining breakthrough time of anti-seepage liners in a landfill, includes (a) detecting a leachate sample of the landfill to determine the initial concentration C0 of pollutants, and monitoring the leachate head h of the landfill; (b) determining the pollution-causing concentration CA of the pollutants according to functional orientation of local groundwater of the landfill; (c) determining, related parameters of the anti-seepage liners including the thickness z of the anti-seepage liners, the permeability coefficient k of the liners, and the porosity n of the material of the liners, and determining the related parameters of pollutant migration including the effective diffusion coefficient Da* and the mechanical dispersion coefficient Dm of the pollutants in the anti-seepage liners, and the adsorption retardation factor Rd of the anti-seepage liners on the pollutants; and (d) calculating the breakthrough time t of the anti-seepage liners according to a formula, t = nR d ? z 2 (Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: HOHAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Wei Zhu, Shi Shu, Shengwei Wang, Haoqing Xu, Xihui Fan
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Patent number: 10060121Abstract: A building panel may be installed below a slab in the construction of buildings. The building panel supports the slab and also provides a ventilation layer that may be depressurized to eliminate or reduce infiltration of radon gas into the building. The ventilation layer may comprise channels which provide a two-dimensionally interconnected void. Ventilation panels which include collars for connecting to ventilation systems may be provided. The panels may be installed directly on compacted soil. The building panels may additionally provide sub-slab insulation and/or a capillary break for water drainage. In some embodiments the building panels are formed substantially entirely of thermal insulating material such as rigid polystyrene foam. In an example embodiment the panels are approximately 4 inches thick and have a grid of intersecting channels formed on an underside of the panels.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Terra Vent Systems Inc.Inventor: Randi Fox
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Patent number: 9975156Abstract: A system and method for remediation of polluted sites, implementing a combination of chemical and biological breakdown modes on the contaminating compounds. The system includes at least one reactor for production in situ of reagents required for the breakdown modes. The reactor includes at least three types of substantially independent electro-cells for production of Fenton reagents and dissolved oxygen. The method according to the invention includes utilizing at least one reactor which comprised of substantially independent electro-cells for producing reagents required for remediation of the polluted sites and a computerized controller loaded with data obtained from a site survey, measurements made by instruments and programmed sequence. The existing remediation techniques encounter in serious difficulties due to poor process control. Using the system according to the present invention allows control of the parameters and acceleration of the remediation process.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Inventor: Elie Elgressy
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Patent number: 9937537Abstract: A liquid treatment system includes: a filter casing including a structural wall, a first screen formed though the structural wall, and a second screen formed though the structural wall; and a liquid treatment cartridge configured for placement in the filter casing between the first and second screens. The liquid treatment cartridge includes a cartridge casing having an upper end and a lower end, and an inflatable seal surrounding the cartridge casing at an intermediary position between the upper end and lower end. A method of servicing a groundwater treatment installation includes: vertically displacing a liquid treatment cartridge within a filter casing having a structural wall, a first screen formed though the structural wall, and a second screen formed though the structural wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: AI-Remedial Sustems, LLCInventors: W. Joseph Alexander, Gregory W. Lucier
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Patent number: 9758409Abstract: Provided is a biological purifier, by which metal ions in untreated waste water containing the metal ions and sulfate ions can be removed in a low temperature environment with a water temperature of 15° C. or less for a long period of time. The biological purifier for untreated waste water containing metal ions and sulfate ions used for removing the metal ions from the untreated waste water by precipitating sulfides of the metal ions, the biological purifier includes chaff retaining sulfate-reducing bacteria; and an organic-containing material containing 5 mass % or more of crude protein.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National CorporationInventors: Takaya Hamai, Takuya Kodera, Hisatoshi Furuya
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Patent number: 9752312Abstract: A substantially cylindrical drainage unit for use when buried in soil as part of a wastewater leach field comprises a first plastic bead aggregate mass, optionally with a central perforated pipe, surrounded by a segmented-quilt exterior surface. Quilts are held in place around part or all of a drainage unit by straps, a circumscribing netting sleeve, or by being themselves in the form of tubular sleeves. Preferred rectangular quilt segments contain a second pebble aggregate that is smaller than the first aggregate. Quilts are fabricated by mating two horizontally-moving layers of geotextile and disposing the second aggregate into channels or cavities that are defined by seams that join the layers to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: INFILTRATOR WATER TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Paul R Holbrook, Roy E Moore, Jr.
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Patent number: 9499417Abstract: A water conditioning system that both softens and improves the smell of water by removing dissolved ferrous iron and hydrogen sulfide from the water includes: a water softening tank, a cation exchange media situated in the water softening tank, a brine tank, a programmable control valve which regulates flow through the system and the periodic rejuvenation of the cation exchange media using flow from the brine tank, a valve that assists in providing a flow of aerated, pressurized water to the system, and an adapter with a bottom portion and a flow control valve that control the volume of the gaseous pocket that is created in the top portion of the water softening tank.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Inventor: Scott R Handy
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Patent number: 9365993Abstract: A substantially cylindrical drainage unit for use when buried in soil as part of a wastewater leach field comprises a first plastic aggregate mass that is contained within netting, with an optional central perforated pipe. A segmented quilt comprises the exterior surface of the drainage unit which is in contact with soil. Pebble aggregate that is smaller in particle size than the first aggregate is contained with the cavities of the quilt segments. Quilts having different segment shapes and sizes are manufactured by specialized apparatus which creates rectilinear or serpentine seams.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: INFILTRATOR WATER TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Roy E. Moore, Jr., Paul R. Holbrook, Daniel Swistak
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Patent number: 9120034Abstract: A method of and a device for separating oil from water, or a lighter fluid floating on a heavier fluid or denser fluid. The device includes floating arms in V-shape formation that gather the fluids into a collecting channel which device thickens the layer of the lighter fluid to separate the lighter fluid using a drain where a self-adjusting float sits above the heavier fluid and below the lighter fluid. The lighter fluid is gravity discharged through a conduit into container to be later pumped out from the container or directly pumped from the drain.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Inventor: Stephen Richard Leventhal
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Patent number: 9120133Abstract: The present invention relates to an artificial aquifer for decreasing the contents of metals, metalloids, nitrate, nitrite, pesticides and organic micro contaminants in natural ground water or artificial infiltrated groundwater from surface water. The system comprising a basin of filling material creating a reaction zone, a feeding line, one or more satellite wells, at least one main well and a pumping well, whereby the feeding line is applied in the upper outer periphery of the basin and wherein the main well is connected to a pumping well via a bottom outflow provided with a regulating valve to maintain a given level of water in the aquifer. The invention further relates to a method for purifying water.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: United Waters International AGInventor: Willi Brunner
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Publication number: 20150108053Abstract: A water purification and storage system comprises a water storage container, a covering plate and an impermeable wall. The water storage container is formed by a plurality of tangentially connected polygonal water-filtering wells having well walls of a water-permeable structure, and an impermeable layer is arranged at the bottom of the well. At least one water-filtering well is a water output well. The covering plate is arranged at the upper portion of the water storage container, and comprises an impermeable covering plate arranged at the upper portion of the water output well and a water-permeable covering plates arranged at the upper portions of the remaining water-filtering wells. The impermeable wall is arranged around the water storage container. The system is suitable for the collection and purification of rain water. Also disclosed are a water-filtering well for use in the system, and a polygonal building block for the water-filtering well.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Shengyi Qin, Shengyuan Qin, Zhenbang Wang, Meijuan Chen, Mingyue Dou
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Patent number: 8968572Abstract: In a device and a process for purifying water which is contaminated with sulphate ions and heavy metal ions, the water is collected in a water reservoir and a substance having basic activity in water is fed to the water reservoir in such a manner that a precipitant having heavy metal ions is precipitated from the water, wherein at least a subquantity of water is taken off from the water reservoir and is separated into pure water which is substantially freed from sulphate ions and heavy metal ions and dirty water which is enriched with sulphate ions and heavy metal ions. The dirty water is at least in part recirculated to the water reservoir, as a result of which a concentration of sulphate ions in the water reservoir is achieved such that a precipitant having sulphate ions is precipitated from the water.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2008Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Michael Riebensahm
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Patent number: 8956532Abstract: The present device provides a system for recirculating water in a well to reduce unwanted odor and mineral deposits that develop from stagnated well water. The water recirculation system comprises a wellhead having a vent aperture and a spigot line, a water filter, a nozzle, and a vent adapter, which are coupled with a water pump and water tank to create a mist for recirculating water within the system. The nozzle is positioned to spray the well walls of the well with a mist to reduce material deposits that may otherwise develop. The system operates solely on the water pressure provided by the water pump and water tank.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Inventor: Jerry M. James, Jr.
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Publication number: 20150041409Abstract: Reactive treatment cells (RTCs) are described in combination with sediment capping systems as a means for environmental remediation. RTCs include an impermeable housing defining an interior, a permeable ceiling and floor typically including filtration materials such as geotextiles, and at least one interior compartment for treatment reagents. One RTC includes a gabion-like cage structure retaining a geomembrane-supported geosynthetic clay liner (GM-GCL) housing, while a second embodiment includes a hard, cylindrical shell as a replaceable reagent cartridge. RTCs may be employed in initial capping system installations or retrofitted into existing capping systems. RTCs may include optional baffles, flow restrictors, floating discs, sensor probes, and two or more serial reagent zones or compartments.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: AQUABLOK, LTD.Inventors: Dennis Gregory Grubb, John H. Hull
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Publication number: 20150021251Abstract: The present invention involves a persulfate-release material used in the filler of permeable reactive barrier (PRB). This material presents double-layered structure characteristic: inner- and outer-layers are consisted of persulfate, cement, sand and water with different mass ratio. Two different types of moulds are used for the regulation of the shape-of the two-layer structures, which guarantees the stability and reproducibility of its structures and properties. During the whole released process, the released rate become more uniform and stable by the use of this material. During the whole service period, the change of the released rate is very slow, and the service lifetime can be 1-10 years. This invention can both reduce the initial released rate and improve the later released rate, and thus the whole released rate can be more uniform, which can be an important method to promote the efficiency of the persulfate toward engineering application.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Beidou XI, Yonghai JIANG, Yu YANG, Mingxiao LI, Zhifei MA, Lieyu ZHANG, Min LI, Fangyi CHEN
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Patent number: 8894849Abstract: An improved upward flow constructed wetland cell for treatment of water contaminated with chlorinated aliphatics is disclosed. The improvements include adding ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms to the methane-oxidizing microorganisms already present in an oxygenated root zone and adding improved pore-water sample chambers for measuring the performance of the constructed wetland cell.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Michael Shelley, Abinash Agrawal, Ke Qin, Garrett Struckhoff, Carl Enfield, James Waldron, Christina Powell
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Patent number: 8892221Abstract: A system for resource usage optimization employs an automatically controlled sensor suite providing data to a computer system for the analysis of spatial relationships of the sensors and resources. A control module incorporates an interactive logic, in an exemplary embodiment of well-stream coupled dynamic or game theory engines, operating in conjunction with the spatial data processing algorithms, GIS in an exemplary embodiment, receives as an input an objective function set for the use of the resource and constraint sets which are then monitored by the sensor suite. Incoming data is compared to the constraint sets and upon impact to any of the elements of the objective function set, creates a report/alarm for action or to trigger a corrective action.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2010Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Groundswell Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mark Kram, Hugo Loaiciga
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Publication number: 20140291246Abstract: A water purification chamber is provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a purification chamber comprising a selective adsorbent activated carbon fiber fabric including one or more selective functional groups that bind arsenic.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Chemica Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Takuji Tsukamoto, Jason Trevor Gatlin
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Publication number: 20140262203Abstract: Described herein are systems for manipulating a flowable substance, comprising: a flowable substance; a heating means; a cooling means; and a composition comprising chemically inert particles coated with a stimuli-responsive material. Compositions and methods for using the compositions are also described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Lehigh UniversityInventors: Sibel Pamukcu, Yi Dong
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Publication number: 20140246366Abstract: A method of treating a site containing perfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs) is described. The method and apparatus treats the site with fine oxygen/ozone gas bubbles delivered with a hydroperoxide coating and solution which is activated by self-created temperature or applied temperature to raise the oxidation potential above 2.9 volts. Once begun, the reaction is often self-promulgating until the PFC is exhausted, if PFC concentrations are sufficiently elevated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: ThinkVillage-Kerfoot, LLCInventor: William B. Kerfoot
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Publication number: 20140231322Abstract: Soil treatment device for treating a contaminated soil and/or groundwater contained therein, comprising measuring means for measuring contamination of the soil, injecting means for injecting soil decontamination agents in the soil and a longitudinal soil penetration rod provided with a rod tip at an end of the soil penetration rod for moving the soil penetration rod into the soil, the outer surface of the soil penetration rod comprising a measuring section comprising at least one sensor of the measuring means for measuring contamination of the soil adjacent to the measuring section when moved into the soil and an injection section comprising at least one injection nozzle of the injecting means for injecting decontamination agent in the soil adjacent to the injection section, wherein the measuring section and the injection section are provided at longitudinally distinct locations of the soil penetration rod and in that the measuring section is closer to the rod tip than the injection section, characterized inType: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicants: EJLSKOV A/S, VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEKInventors: Leen Bastiaens, Ole Pilgaard Stubdrup
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Patent number: 8753507Abstract: An artificial oil lifting unit uses an endless olephilic absorbent belt, driven by a surface equipment and tensed by a down hole equipment placed in the well production casing. The said absorbent belt (1) is looped over a central pulley (2) from a driving and collecting module (C) and driven by a double toothed belt (4) looped over six pulleys from which five are free (6,7,8,9 and 10). One is a driving pulley (5) placed over an entry shaft (36), the double toothed belt (4) being looped also over the oil absorbent belt on the central pulley and tensed with two identical systems (I) with pulleys commanded from the exterior of the case (13).Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Inventor: Vasile Comsa
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Patent number: 8663368Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating a first fluid from a fluid mixture. In one embodiment water containing methane is passed through an agitation chamber with a plate at the chamber's proximal and distal ends. Both plates have orifices permitting the mixed fluid to pass into and out of the agitation chamber. In one embodiment, the mixed fluid rotates about its axis of flow through the agitation chamber. In one embodiment, the mixed fluid passes through a separation chamber having a plurality of baffles that promote separation of the methane from the methane/water mixture. In one embodiment, the separated methane is removed from the water in a collection chamber that facilitates gravity separation of the mixed fluids.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Inventors: Bret Hettinger Wolz, John Mayer Kaufman
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Patent number: 8628659Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for in-situ remediation of soil and groundwater having contaminants such as but not limited to organic compounds perhaps providing adsorption, chemical oxidation, and even biodegradation of contaminants with novel treatments such as but not limited to mixtures of granular activated carbon, calcium peroxide, sodium persulfate, and nitrate perhaps in various concentrations.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Inventor: Jesse Clinton Taylor, III
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Publication number: 20130316433Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for at least partially remediating soil and/or groundwater containing perfluroroalkyl compounds (PFCs). In some embodiments, the systems and methods utilize an oxidase such as laccase, optionally with one or more enzyme-catalyzed oxidative humification reaction (ECOHR) mediators. In some embodiments the method is an in situ method. Optionally, the oxidase can be immobilized on soil, sand, clay, and/or activated carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventor: QINGGUO HUANG