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Farrell D Rowsell

James W Ayres

Oil spills on natural bodies of water can be cleaned up through the use of flocculation/microorganism compositions including amine-substituted clay flocculation agents and microorganisms including bacillus species, pseudomonas species, azobacter species and xanthomonas species.

Method for aiding microbial degradation of spilled oil

Oil spills on natural bodies of water are treated with amine-substituted water swelling clays. The organoclays are added to oil spills in an amount which herds oil into islands of oil separated by surfaces of water containing no oil. The clays can also be added to oil spills in an amount which produces quasisolid, buoyant organoclay/oil flocculate clumps which float in the water and which are amenable to collection from the surface of the water.

Method for herding and/or recovering spilled oil

An aqueous liquid or sludge waste is solidified by mixing it with a clay selected from the group consisting of sodium Montmorillonite, attapulgite, sepiolite, and mixtures thereof and a cementitious material coated with a fluid silicone polymer.

Method of preparing solidified and stabilized hazardous or radioactive

An improved method of disposing of radioactive or hazardous liquids comprises placing the liquids in a container and adding a sodium montmorillonite over intervals until the composition is substantially solid in the container.

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Farrell D Rowsell