William Kreysler & Associates, Inc.

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Ocean Genetics, Inc.

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William Kreysler

Benjamin R Roberts

Edward J Marcus

Kurt M Jordan

Mark Luzaich

Richard Koosa

David Colombo

Moldable fire resistant composites and processes for making moldable fire resistant composites are herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, a moldable fire resistant composite includes a first composite layer comprising an intumescent resin and a heat-dissipating component adhered to a second composite layer comprising a halogenated resin and a reinforcing structure.

Moldable fire resistant composites

A prefabricated service bay typically constructed of fiberglass has a tank-like profile with an access opening for providing access to the underside of a vehicle. The prefabricated service bay is placed within an excavated hole within a vehicle service stall. The tank has a rounded section normal to the longitudinal axis of the bay. Drainage fill, such as pea gravel, is used between the bottom portion of the excavation and the bottom portion of the tank. A concrete cap is poured and cured over the top portion of the tank adjacent the opening. This poured and cured concrete serendipitously forms paired tracks for rolling placement of the wheels of a vehicle being serviced and additionally serves to key and maintain the service bay within the ground. Provision is made to provide a central standing area--preferably in the form of a raised platform--in the center bottom portion of the tank. Entrance and exit to the bay is provided through an end passageway with optional side staircase entry. Required accessories for material storage and the capture of fluids can be integrally built into the interior of the prefabricated unit. When installed, the service bay forms the required outer tank lining of a regulation required double lining system for oil storage underground.

Underground service bay for vehicles and process for constructing same

A pump driven by air only is disclosed for providing simultaneous aeration and flow at right angles to the rising air. The pump produces in a shallow tank particle-suspending turbulence which is particularly useful for growth of marine organisms in a sun-exposed tank confined shallow brine solution. The pump is preferably installed in a rectangular tank divided by a baffle between the two tank side walls. The baffle extends parallel to the major axes of the rectangle and stops short of both tank end walls. The fluid is pumped around this baffle in an oval flow pattern. On the shallow bottom of the tank on both sides of the baffle, there is a repeating foil shaped bottom with a manifold for discharging air. The foils of the bottom are generated at right angles to the baffle and oriented from leading edge to trailing edge in the direction of intended fluid rotation around the baffle in the tank. Air is pumped and discharged from the manifold in a rising curtain. As the curtain of air rises, it is entrains a rising wall of water. At the surface, the entrained wall of water circulates into divided flows overlying and normal to the manifolds; one flow is a translational pumping flow passing over the leading edge of the foil and the other is a conventional back eddy.

Method and means of aeration-powered water flow using foil-shaped contour

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Glen Ellen, CA, United States of America

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