Disabler and storage system for hazardous substances
OwnerJoshua Oghenogieme Osime, Blessing Akhesome Eshiemomohinventors
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Abstract
This invention is geared at attacking the scourge of explosive fires, burns, environmental pollution, or other such hazards associated with the use, transport, and storage of fuels and other hazardous substances, before they occur, including the explosion hazard present in many automotive rear-end collisions. This is achieved by swiftly reacting a “disabler” or “neutralizer” with the hazardous substance, voluntarily or by automation, on the occurrence of predetermined events that position the hazardous substance to threaten a greater than desired risk of harm. According to one of the preferred embodiments of this invention, the formation of combustion vapors in the ullage of fuel tanks is altogether prevented.
Claims15
A process of stripping an inflammable or hazardous material of its inflammability or hazardous abilities when one or more trigger events occur including a vehicular crash or collision, comprising the steps of
- (a) providing a container or tank for said inflammable or hazardous material, said container or tank being expansible for providing sufficient extra capacity to accommodate volume changes when a disabler is emptied into it;
- (b) providing a container or tank for said disabler predetermined to be able to interact chemically and interfere with and alter said inflammable or hazardous material such that the latter is substantially and appreciably stripped of its inflammability or hazardous abilities;
- (c) providing a means of speedily transporting said disabler from its container or tank into said container or tank of said inflammable or hazardous material including use of pumps and pressurized storage;
- (d) providing a means of rapidly interacting said disabler with said inflammable or hazardous material;
- (e) providing at least manual or automated means of identifying the occurrence of said trigger events;
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- whereby said inflammable or hazardous material, whether within or without its tank, is disabled and substantially and appreciably stripped of its inflammability or hazardous abilities, which abilities are otherwise manifestable on the occurrence of said trigger events.
An apparatus for stripping an inflammable or hazardous material of its inflammability or hazardous abilities when one or more trigger events occur, including a vehicular crash or collision, comprising
- (a) a tank for said inflammable or hazardous material being expansible for providing sufficient extra capacity to accommodate volume changes when a disabler is emptied into it;
- (b) a tank for said disabler predetermined to be able to chemically interact and interfere with and alter said inflammable or hazardous material such that the latter is substantially and appreciably stripped of its inflammability or hazardous abilities;
- (c) fluid one-way connections from said disabler tank to said inflammable or hazardous material tank;
- (d) means of and sensors for detecting the occurrence of said trigger events;
- (e) means of rapidly emptying the disabler tank into said inflammable or hazardous material tank on the occurrence of said trigger events;
- (f) means of rapidly interacting said disabler with said inflammable or hazardous material;
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- whereby said inflammable or hazardous material is disabled and substantially and appreciably stripped of its inflammability or hazardous abilities, which abilities are otherwise manifestable on the occurrence of said trigger events.
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