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US 2018/0002881 A1Published application
Device and method for dispersing oil on water
AssigneeSinvent AS
InventorsStein Erik SORSTROM, Trond NORDTUG
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Abstract
A device and method for dispersing oil on water comprises a rig structure for being mounted in a vessel, the rig structure including a front transverse structure with at least one nozzle for flushing with pressurized water supplied from a pressure facility located on the vessel.
Claims12
A device for dispersing oil on water, comprising:
- a rig structure for being mounted in a vessel, the rig structure including a front transverse structure with nozzles for flushing with pressurized water supplied from a pressure facility located on the vessel,
- wherein a direction and a distance of the nozzles to a surface of the water as well as pressure of the pressurized water are adjustable, the number of nozzles being chosen so that a larger number of narrow jet nozzles having a first pressure are used for larger distances from the surface of the water, and a smaller number of wider jet nozzles having a second pressure that is lower than the first pressure are used for smaller distances from the surface of the water, whereby dispersed oil droplets within a micron-size range are obtained such that the dispersed oil droplets can be mixed into the water by forward motion of the vessel.
The device of claim 7,
- wherein additives are provided directly from the additive storage tank into the pressurized water for the nozzles.
A method of dispersing oil on water, comprising:
- mounting a rig structure in a vessel, wherein the rig structure includes a front transverse structure with nozzles for flushing with pressurized water supplied from a pressure facility located on the vessel, adjusting a direction and a distance of the nozzles to the a surface of the water as well as pressure of the pressurized water, and
- selecting the number of nozzles so that a larger number of narrow jet nozzles having a first pressure are used for larger distances from the surface of the water and a smaller number of wider jet nozzles having a second pressure that is lower than the first pressure are used for smaller distances from the surface of the water, and
- obtaining dispersed oil droplets within a micron-size range such that the dispersed oil droplets are mixed into the water by forward motion of the vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.