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US 6,805,798 B2Granted
Environmental remediation method and apparatus
OwnerWilliam B. Kerfootinventor
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Abstract
This invention relates to remediation systems, and more particularly to remediation systems for water, soil, and sediment bodies using thin-layer coated microbubbles.
Claims28
A remediation process comprising:
- generating microbubbles comprising a gas, coated with a thin layer of liquid compounds suitable for promoting chemical degradation of organic compounds and generation of microbubbles comprising a gas, coated with a thin layer of liquid compounds suitable for promoting biological degradation of organic compounds, wherein the microbubbles are coated by directing a gas through a liquid and two layers of microporous material, wherein the liquid and a packing material is sandwiched between the layers of microporous material, resulting in the coated microbubbles.
A remediation process comprising:
- generating microbubbles comprising a gas, coated with a thin layer of liquid compounds suitable for promoting chemical degradation of organic compounds wherein the microbubble is coated by introducing a liquid as an aerosol to a gas, which mixture is forced through a microporous material, resulting in the coated microbubble, and contacting the coated microbubble with the area to be remediated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.