Separating one liquid from another
AssigneesStar Offshore Services Limited, Oil Mop (U.K.) Limited
InventorsGeorge H. Rolls, Andrew J. Beveridge, Ronald T. Challener, William Stuart
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Abstract
Apparatus for, and method of, removing oil 33 from oil-contaminated water which is operable in heavy seas and which does not require more than one self-propelled craft for its efficient operation is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a collapsible net 31 which floats on the water and adsorbs oil in preference to water, and means to reciprocate the net between a floating disposition and a storage disposition, through desorbing means 36 to remove oil from the net.
Claims12
Apparatus for removing oil from an oil-contaminated surface of a body of water comprising:
- a collapsible net;
- drive means at an oil collection station to advance the net in an advance movement from a storage disposition at an oil collection station at which the net is gathered to a floating disposition on the surface of the body of water in which the net is spread out to adsorb oil from the water, to withdraw the net from the floating disposition to the storage disposition in a return movement opposite to the advance movement during which the net is passed through desorbing means at the oil collection station to remove oil from the net and to subject the net repeatedly to the same advance and return movements between the storage disposition and the floating disposition for further adsorption of oil onto and removal of oil from the net and biasing means to spread out the net on the water in the floating disposition of the net.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.