Fresh water supply and delivery via flexible floating containers
OwnerWilliam J. Kommersinventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The method of providing fresh water to a delivery point or points associated with land, that includes providing on a seagoing vessel a desalination plant, and providing a fresh water container configured for transport in a sea water body, the container characterized as bodily expandable and collapsible; operating the plant to provide fresh water for discharge into the container adjacent the vessel, and allowing container responsive bodily expansion, transporting the container on the sea water body, directionally away from the vessel and to a location or locations for fresh water delivery from the container to a delivery point or points, and discharging fresh water from the container to a point, in conjunction with at least partial bodily collapse of the container.
Claims17
The method of providing fresh water to a delivery point or points associated with land, that includes
- a) providing on a seagoing vessel a desalination plant,
- b) providing a fresh water container configured for transport in a sea water body, said container characterized as bodily expandable and collapsible,
- c) operating said plant to provide fresh water for discharge into the container adjacent the vessel, and allowing container responsive bodily expansion,
- d) transporting said container on the sea water body, directionally away from the vessel and to a location or locations for fresh water delivery from the container to said delivery point or points,
- e) and discharging fresh water from the container to said point, in conjunction with at least partial bodily collapse of the container.
The method of providing fresh water to a delivery point associated with land, that includes
- a) providing a desalination plant at an offshore location,
- b) providing a fresh water container configured for transport in a sea water body, said container characterized as bodily expandable and collapsible,
- c) operating said plant to provide fresh water for discharge into the container adjacent said location, and allowing container responsive bodily expansion,
- d) transporting said container on the sea water body, directionally away from that location and to another location or locations for fresh water delivery from the container to said delivery point,
- e) and discharging fresh water from the container to said point, in conjunction with at least partial bodily collapse of the container.
A system for providing fresh water to a delivery point associated with land, that comprises
- a) a desalination plant on a seagoing vessel,
- b) a fresh water container configured for transport in a sea water body, said container characterized as bodily expandable and collapsible,
- c) said plant operating to provide fresh water for discharge into the container adjacent said location, and allowing container responsive bodily expansion,
- d) said container on the sea water body, configured to be transportable directionally away from that location and to another location or locations for fresh water delivery from the container to said delivery point,
- e) means for receiving from the containers at said point, in conjunction with at least partial bodily collapse of the container.
A system for providing fresh water to a delivery point associated with land, that comprises
- a) a desalination plant at an offshore location,
- b) a fresh water container configured for transport in a sea water body, said container characterized as bodily expandable and collapsible,
- c) said plant operating to provide fresh water for discharge into the container adjacent said location, and allowing container responsive bodily expansion,
- d) said container configured to be transportable on the sea water body, directionally away from that location and to another location for fresh water delivery from the container to said delivery point,
- e) means for receiving fresh water from the container at said point, in conjunction with at least partial bodily collapse of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.