Harvesting hydrocarbons and water from methane hydrate deposits and shale seams

A method of extracting evaporated hydrocarbons from Methane hydrate deposits using a primary shaft drilling, and as the extraction continues, auxiliary narrow drillings to enable continued evaporated hydrocarbon extraction comprising the steps of:

• a. drilling narrow auxiliary holes and applying a pulsed application of Liquid Nitrogen through a spaced hole sieve making Nitrogen droplets that evaporate rapidly as they drop down the hole releasing Nitrogen gas into the extraction zone freezing to brittle the periphery of the extraction zone allowing vibration to fracture the material and maintaining an ice seal around the extraction zone.
• b. as it heats up, the hydrocarbons evaporated are carried to the main drilling in the gaseous Nitrogen flow and as the ring of these units freezes it keeps the ground water from entering the active extraction zone.
• c. forcing the Nitrogen gas to seep into the seam by feeding the pneumatic hammer drill or other air requiring digger to use compressed Nitrogen gas rather than compressed air, which will keep the Oxygen level low in the extraction zone further preventing explosions and fire.
• d. sealing the drillings with sleeves to retain opening and prevent water and gases from contaminating the extraction zones using a gas impervious sleeve.
• e. increasing the sequence of rings of holes, keeping the furthest hole ring for the application of the Liquid Nitrogen provides the carrier gas to the extraction zone extreme distances so the hydrocarbons evaporated are carried to the main drilling in the gaseous Nitrogen flow and as the ring of these units freezes making an ice wall periphery keeping ground water from entering the active extraction zone, and applying a heating unit to the holes where earlier the Liquid Nitrogen was applied.
• f. regulating the temperature of the narrow drilling heaters to the desired temperature, as that of the highest temperature of the highest carbon count molecules of the fraction of hydrocarbons desired to be extracted.

A method of separating the hydrocarbon fractions in a condensing system comprised by the steps of:

• a. initiating the infusion of Nitrogen gas by evaporating Liquid Nitrogen in a condenser which feeds directly into two or more pipes delivering Nitrogen gas, one air activated sound source per Nitrogen pipe;
• b. running the Nitrogen pipes over the evaporated hydrocarbon/Nitrogen extraction pipe in an insulated packet including the Nitrogen pipes and the extraction pipe with radiator plates to transfer the thermal temperature between the cold pipes of Nitrogen gas and hot gas of the extraction pipe;
• c. segmenting the extraction pipe by placing draining pipes with traps in sections of the extraction pipe to drain out condensed liquids and allow their flow into a collecting vessel;
• d. accommodating both hydrocarbon fractions which are liquids at normal temperatures and hydrocarbon fractions which are gaseous at normal temperatures;
• e. enabling collection of the rare gases, Hydrogen, Helium and Neon, by allowing their rising into a tube and capturing them in an inverted container which allows by their containment in mylar balloons for storage and movement to market and final separation, one from another;
• f. separating the light gasoline from water in the collection cylinder with a float with holes to keep the separation from turmoil in the solution when adding condensed liquid mix;
• g. further removing contaminants from the water by slow freezing so the crystal structure of the freezing water eliminates other materials;
• h. feeding the exhaust Nitrogen gas into a Nitrogen liquefier for use in this extraction process;
• i. feeding the exhaust Nitrogen gas into a gas compressor to be used in the pneumatic drilling process so the extraction zone is Nitrogen saturated even before extraction begins;
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• j. feeding the natural gases to fuel power generators to produce electricity;
• k. feeding the collected Oxygen and Argon to this plant to fully oxygenate the burned fuels;
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• l. apply the gas scrubber system to remove contaminants and use the condensed water to water the plants and the emerging Carbon dioxide to provide the carbon compounds for photosynthesis.

A method of fuel extraction which will not:

• a. impact the environment in emissions or major degradation of the landscape or seascape,
• b. emit any gases, even the Nitrogen in full configuration,
• c. use external water resources or contaminate the ocean,
• but will supply:
• a. separated fuel fractions from fuel resources as shale and Methane hydrate,
• b. fresh, distilled water,
• c. semi-isolated rare gases
• d. on-site fueled electric power, and, in full configuration,
• e. its own Liquid Nitrogen requirements from exhaust Nitrogen gas from system.

A method of pollution extraction which allows

• a. Freezing the soil, rock layers and aquifer components at pollution locations
• b. Heating of the center of the frozen ground and water to release the pollutants
• c. Nitrogen carriage of the pollutants from the soil to the extracting tube.
• d. Condensing the material with specific zones in the condenser to isolate the various types of pollutants.
• e. Collecting the pollutants separately in vessels providing measurement of the amount of each chemical.
• f. Determining from the data of amounts extracted for each chemical the portion of expected material anticipated from projected pollution levels.
• g. Defining the completion of pollution extraction by observing when freeze zones are expanded and heated volume expanded further and no additional pollutant is pulled from the extraction zone indicating no further expansion is needed, thus ending the extraction effort for that chemical at that specific location.